Miller55

What were you using before the True customs?

I took a break from playing from end of 2016-middle of 2019. Warrior had already stopped doing full custom, but Eagle was still doing it. At this point Eagle's custom options are fairly slim. The basic stuff of swapping cuffs or mixing designs from different models they can do, but the heavy customizations are not available anymore. I wear leather gloves or leather palms at the very least. At this point the only leather palms Eagle offers are Digital (not even sure if it's real Pittard's Digital) and Mustang, which is sueded. So the only option for leather palms is a custom repalm job, which goes for over 100 bucks. If I'm paying $250+ for gloves I'd like to get palms that I want. At this point I have 2 pairs of custom L29s (From before my 2016 break) and a pair of black H34s, so I'm probably ok for a long time, but I kinda want a new pair of tan H34s like i used to have. I was gonna settle for the Cali Tan portofino but they wont even do goatskin palms. I'll probably eventually do it and just get digital pro palms so I can rip through them quickly and justify a repalm in either goat or kangaroo. Anyway, my point was just that custom options have significantly decreased across the spectrum, although I'm not familiar with custom stick options.

This is the reality with most custom nowadays. I know with gloves the custom options are basically nill compared to what you used to get. Eagle and Warrior are a joke now. Most shops are very limited in custom work. Graf will still do very custom stuff, as will Bauer and CCM but you really have to know someone to get it done right.

Haha that's wild. Nexed put out a similar frame back in the day. I don't remember anyone having an issue stopping on them though

That's wild, they look huge. I assume you flop them...?

Dang those are some tall tongues. Look nice, looking forward to hearing about performance

Oh yeah, complete trash but there was so much hype.

I didn't bake the 7s, but they definitely felt more snug. I wear 9.5 Bauer Supreme D and I usually have to punch out the pinky toe are and forefoot, sometimes also the arch area. In the TF9s I could do 9 on my left (smaller) foot and 9.5 on my larger right foot. In the TF7s I needed a 9.5 even for my left foot, and the 9.5 TF7s were fine on my right as well. If I would have kept them I would have punched a bit in the forefoot of the right, but that's basically it.

The v formsssszz. Those were epic

Bittersweet but when one door closes another one opens. That would be great if you ran a shop in AZ though, you'd have one custy to start at least.

This should be for TF9 but not 7s ime

Preference. Try on a few different gloves and see what's more comfortable. Gloves aren't supposed to fit any way except how you like them. I knew a kid Scottie, one if the nastiest kids I ever played with. He used to use 15.5" Easton airs and he was like maybe 5'7" and probably could have worn 13" gloves (it wasn't a money thing either). Personally I prefer for that seam to come up onto my wrist, but in sure there are those who like it on the palm of their hand.

The issue I'd be more concerned about is if this tech actually proves itself. How many times have we all seen a new helmet design that's supposed to have new tech and it ends up being the same old thing with a more aerodynamic, space case look and some marketing mumbo jumbo. I for one am very sceptical of all of these things and would just rather use what I'm used to. Not interested in being a test dummy. Even when I went to the e700 it was after borrowing one from someone else for a bit and I don't think I paid more than 75 bucks for one.

Yeah they do feel like a different material, a more brittle plastic. I can see how those might crack easier. The glow in the dark ones are good though

The translucent green ones?

I hear. I dunno, I'm pretty happy with the e700, never tried on the 910, but the 3ds felt ok. If you have the money, by all means, but for me I'm happy with what works. With skates and sticks, I'll spend to try new stuff, for gloves, if I like them I will get them, but protective, of it fits i don't mess with it.

Gotta stay in the game. Hey, at least STX actually charges less for direct to consumer.

Seriously? I dunno man, I did fine with the 4500 for a long time. The biggest tech leap I made was from the 4500 to the e700 and I have a few of those stockpiled, but I could never see spending 450 on a helmet. Not because I don't think it's important but because I don't totally see how the performance is that much better to justify the price tag. My .02.

They learn how to actually fit...

It's a wood stick Nah jk, it's the old super tacks 2.0. it was the last stick I bought before I took a couple years off.

JR is great, but not on the west coast. Hockey X in Oakland was good (going back many years, but I had an emergency holder swap that they did on the fly and it was fine). I think also BAHR does inline mounts. That was to answer your question. However, regarding pricing, in my experience almost everyone is more expensive than the MSH pro shop, so if you're sending specifically on the WC to save on shipping, you're probably still going to pay more than sending to JR in Florida, and if your concern is turn around time, I had 3 pairs of skates done in 9-10 days total I believe, with shipping there and back being 4 days each, and I think they arrived by him on Friday afternoon and went out on Monday, so the turn around is basically however long shipping takes. Sorry for the hard sell, I just can't recommend the services enough, as someone whose first inline mount was done closer to 20 years ago with many in between.

I hear. Yeah the tf7 is ok. Not sure about revision frames but I hate their wheels. Anyway, back to topic

I definitely felt like they were less supportive than my 2s pros around the ankle. At the end of the day everything comes with a price and the Supremes, which are better for my lower ankle injury are probably awful for high ankle sprains so obviously nothing is perfect. Before this injury I would have loved the True cut as I definitely like the ankle flexion. I played once in skates that were too narrow in the heel so I didn't tie them tight and ended up rolling an ankle in them, basically rolled my foot out and landed with my foot under my butt. Crunched the bones on the top of my foot where the ankle tendons connect. ( Obviously as these things go it was the last play and the frames were slightly too short for the boot, plus I had shredded the rear wheel and so I had basically nothing behind me, leaned back expecting to have some wheel there, feet came out from under me, tried to catch myself and went down on my foot). In my Bauer's I feel pretty good, although they're not the most comfortable skate ever, but in the Trues I just felt like that area on the top of my foot and ankle was not as sturdy. It's not because if the fit as the slate for me fairly well, so I'm guessing it was the low cut, but either way it just made me a bit nervous.

Yeah wasn't thinking about covid since my sister and brother in law have actually been in NY for about the last 3 months anyway lol. Covina is definitely a trek from the west side, but the play there is definitely really good