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Yay! Mild/moderate MCL tear last night! Puck battle in the corner, guy goes down, gets up pissed off, and cross checks me from behind awkwardly into the boards while I was battling his teammate. I bounce off the boards and go down with my foot under me. POP! No penalty because the ref didn't see it because he was "looking out for himself". Luckily it doesn't appear to be a grade 3, it hurts but I can still stand on it on one foot and bend it and there's no weakness . No pain anywhere except on the inside of the knee when bending, twisting, ot walking, so likely no other structures are damaged. Treatment is RICE until the pain goes away. If it's not marginally better by Friday, I'll go to a doc.

That's a common issue also. Typically, the guy paying for the whole team gets players well above the correct level because those players are good and won't pay to play. There's enough demand for them that they'll just find the best team that will let them play for free. The two players I mentioned that came from other teams left because of that. The problem with this is that because they didn't pay, they have no skin in the game, so they aren't committed and don't show up.

Surprise, surprise - the two teams in my league with all the players that don't beling will play in the Championship on Wednesday. One of the teams started the season 0-5, added 5 D2 players, and have now gone 9-0 since. The other is a new team that never belonged in this league, and went 11-3 with their losses coming early, going 9-1 to finish the season with the loss coming to the aforementioned team. The captain is a Johnny Tries Too Hard who thinks he's a good player (he isn't). He told everyone who would listen that he was starting a team of his friends and they would suck and he didn't care if they won a game at all. Then he proceeded to to "pay" for the entire team (you know what happens with guys like that) and loaded it with the highest level players we have (there's no D1 here), including stealing the best players from two other teams in the league. Unlike you, I have no faith that the league will do anything about it. For starters, as of the end of the season they still had an unpaid balance, which is why I put pay in quotes above. If you're going to allow a team to stay in the league when they haven't paid, I doubt you'll do anything about their talent level. Secondly, when we asked about the two teams with all the players that don't belong, the director said he was going to wait for the captain's meeting to see what they say. That was after telling a teammate from another league that he "f'in hates Wednesday nights because he keeps getting 3 page emails from captains". Well if you hate it that much, you probably wouldn't be taking a wait and see approach to resolving the problem. Last season, there were 5 teams and the difference between the first and last was 5 points. That indicates it was a really even league, especially since we finished first but picked up a ton of points because we didn't lose many games in regulation. In terms of straight win-loss record, I think one win separated all the teams. This season, the top team had double the points of the last. And the team that finished out of the playoffs last season is the one that added all the ringers in the middle of this season. It's clear what the issue is, but the director seems to be unwilling to fix it. What's worse is that it's just going to hurt the only league below us. Guys from this league that are too good for D6, but not good enough for the way D5 is shaping out, are going to play down, and make it tough for the beginner players that have no where else to go. And D6 is already too good to begin with, so this will make it even worse.

Does 2 or 3 shitty players mixed with a group of D2 guys make a D5 (with D6 being the lowest) team? Because that's what I have in my league.

Is there mention of a smaller sized (33/34") 1X locker bag in there?

Yes. Especially in IMAX. Fun fact: The character of Mr. Dawson was based on Charles Lightoller, the highest ranking officer to survive the Titanic sinking.

Have you done any testing about the longevity/durability of the edges with your Fire to a FBV to ROH? I find that my FBV doesn't seem to last as long. Using the math behind it, I'd suspect that's because the "fangs" are particularly thin on any FBV that starts with a 95 or 100. I had been using 100/50 but went to 95/75 to get a little bit stronger edge. So since the fangs are so thin, they wear out quickly. Since the Fire has a shorter "flat" and therefore thicker fangs, does the edge last longer? How does the Fire differ from FBV so that you can maintain the combinations of glide and bite when you have a shorter flat? How is it different than going to FBV 85/*, but having to go to a "1" depth, which would greatly sacrifice glide for bite?

No way! You'll be disappointed to hear that they are in the process of changing the roller rink over to ice. When you played they would have had just the roller rink, that they later converted to ice. Then they built another ice sheet and a smaller roller rink. It will be 3 ice sheets by sometime next year. I don't play roller anymore. But it's too bad because this is the only indoor roller hockey rink in all of southeast Florida.

Where down here have you been? It's the rink in Lake Worth - SkateZone.

It's pretty impressive. The two entrances of the rink are at the inner corner of the L-shaped building, so the turn in the parking lot is pretty wide in that area particularly if there is no one parked in the handicap spaces. It's not necessarily four abreast, but rather staggered head to tail from cars coming in from two directions.

If your teenage child can not carry their own hockey bag and walk all the way into the parking lot by themselves (even in the *gasp* rain), then you probably have failed as a parent. Every time we have the early game, right after the junior kids practice (which is even worse because these kids are good hockey players), You can't get around the parking lot because all the helicopter parents are double, triple, even quadruple parked at the entrance, and carrying the kids' gear to the car.

This is why I want one. Too bad they are way out of my price range.

Generally, rotating when you push is a sign of improper weight placement. Inability to do it from a standing position confirms it. Your weight should be over the push leg. That gives you a stronger push and less friction on the lead pad, meaning more and faster distance. When you push left to right, your weight is in the right place, over your left leg, and you can slide. When you're pushing right to left, your weight is still over the left pad. So you don't get good leverage, and the mechanics of it make you push backwards. Your weight on the lead pad creates a pivot and you just spin around it. From a standing position, it doesn't work because with your weight on the lead leg you can't push and drop at the same time. You'd just fall over. If you watch your videos, you can see that very often you drop onto your left knee regardless of the situation. It's just your natural instinct. That is likely contributing to your problem.

I can tell you exactly what happened on that goal. You got up on the wrong foot. You are to your right, puck goes to your left, meaning you have to go to your left. But you get up on your left foot, meaning you can only go to your right. Then you know you want to go to your left and start to push as you are still getting up, that's why you have that stumble - your left skate is perpendicular to the way you want to go, so the push tips you over it and you lose your balance. Then by the time you are up and stable, you're way late and off angle. So you just throw yourself over in desperation because you think the shot is coming. But it doesn't come right away and you're off angle for an easy goal. So it's a chain reaction of things happening quickly that were all caused by something as simple as using the wrong foot to get up. You always, always want to get to your feet using the leg opposite the direction you want to move.

I hate incompetent rink managers. Last night was the third time in the last 3 or 4 years that we had games cancelled because the ice was unplayable. It happens nearly every year at this time because there are camps all day and they run the ice literally down to the floor. There was sand coming through yesterday. The coaches don't care, they just want to push through all the sessions as quick as possible, and don't want to slow down for trivial things like, you know, proper ice maintenance. And the rink managers are so worried about making a couple hundred dollars that they won't cancel non-camp sessions, like private figure skating lessons or classes, to maintain the ice inbetween camp sessions. So the ice was heavily used all day, with no more than simple cuts every hour. Then they didn't tell everyone there an ice problem and adult league teams come and sit there while they tried to fix it. I showed up to my 10:30 game at 10:15 and they were still trying to decide if they were going to cancel the 9 pm game.

Thanks. We'll definetly give a good home to a dog that needs it eventually. This guy was a stray I picked up one day. I know that one will cross my path at a rescue or on the road sooner than later. My dad won't get another though. He still has one and is getting too old to handle 2 dogs. At least it'll be quiet and he'll be able to sleep.

I had to say goodbye to my dog last week. He had cancer in his leg that had spread to his lungs, and other areas. We've been fighting it for a year and a half now, but it got out of control. Eventually he stopped eating, and couldn't stand up anymore. It was time to let him go. I've now lost just about everything I have loved in my life to cancer - my mom, my grandma, my granddad, 3 dogs. I'm so tired of cancer taking things from me too soon. F cancer. And on top of that, we had to put my dad's dog, who I was very close to, to sleep on Tuesday. Not from cancer thankfully, though they think she had cancer in her lungs, but from kidney failure (that makes 2 dogs to kidney failure). 2 dogs in 6 days. And then my fridge stopped working Tuesday also. Not a good week for me.

I can see that. It takes getting used to looking down and kind of backward into your thighs. The thing is the "aerial angle" that I have mentioned. If for none of the mobility and stability components, being further forward over your knees actually has a geometric advantage to making saves. Because the puck almost always originates its travel from on the ice, you gain more coverage, and therefore a bigger advantage by being forward. You're actually taller and cover more net from the "eyes" of the puck. If you can get up and actually over the vertical angle the puck is taking, you become gigantic and make a lot more saves with much less movement. This is part of the new theory in goaltending called "head trajectory" that has helped Dubnyk become the goalie he is now. The idea is that you want to get your head behind and above the angle of the puck. By doing that, your body follows into the shot and you use your biggest part to make saves, and can track the puck in a straight line. In contrast, reaching out away from your body and turning your head to make a glove save, for example, greatly reduces your surface area and causes you to track the puck from your straight vision, to your peripheral, and back to your straight as you turn your head, which can cause blind spots or tracking issues.

LOL!!! As for your evaluation. I definitely think that getting your feet wider apart, and getting your knees bent/back straighter will help. Plus, they are all related in a way. You can't really bend your knees and keep your chest up if your feet are too close together. That would bring your center of gravity way too far backwards and make dropping to the ice just about the most awkward thing ever. The thing about the wider stance is that it naturally brings your torso forward. So when you drop, it's more over your knees and less over your feet. You want that wide feet but close knees kind of thing going on. That will give you a stable base that is in the best position to seal the ice and make down movements. Obviously there are body limitations that you have and can try to work on, even if it means small stretching with your feet apart and knees together while just sitting at your desk.

I'm confused, lol. My post was to rusty_black. Did it come as quoting you on your end (it's him on my end)?

Do you find yourself more confortable playing on the right side of the net than the left? From watching the video, I feel you are a completely different goalie when the puck is to your right. Your stance is better, it's deeper, wider, and more stable. You can post load on that side and also push off the post in a butterfly to the new angle. You also seem more reactive and active. On the other side of the net, you're standing up more, so you aren't getting your feet out and body forward. There's no post load, or down movements. And you seem to just be dropping and praying on any indication of a shot. What I see with your play starts with your ready stance. You're playing a very stand-up style, and I don't know if you mean to. I feel like I'm watching Darren Puppa! lol Get your feet wider apart, maybe even twice as far as they are now. Then bend your knees, bring them together a little, and get your chest up and forward. In other words, don't bend from your back. This will put you in a much more reactive and efficient position. Dropping to the ice will be faster, and it should help you close your 5 hole. You'll also be bigger in the net and have a better "aerial angle" to the puck. There's a lot to work on, but I feel that starting with widening and deepening your stance is the key to the other things. To get square to the puck, you can use reference points on the rink to divide the ice into zones. As the puck moves from one zone to the next, you just move reference points. Here is a good breakdown of how this works. One other thing, and maybe it's just a pet peeve of mine, but don't lean on the crossbar. It's terrible body language and i feel it causes a lack of focus and concentration. If you're concerned about the mental aspect of working with no goal support, leaning on the crossbar (especially as quickly and often as you do) is only going to hurt with that.

I don't know. I guess responses that you've posted to suggestions that have been put forth. Kind of a "I'm doing well doing things my way, I'm not going to change it". But again, it's the internet, so context is lost. I apologize if i offended you or took your responses the wrong way. That was definitely not my intention. I'd love to help. So here's the key point, I'm glad you said something. Because of the physics of the human body, when you drop your butt down and back, your knees and feet have to be in the same line because your toes have to point straight down. When you say you can't bring your knees together without bringing your feet together, it's because you are dropping your butt back. What you are actually doing is pulling your feet to touch behind you, dropping your butt almost to sitting on your feet, and spreading your knees. Also, loosen your pads. I don't know how tight they are, but loosen them anyway. Make it so they are held on only with whatever elastic there is. Your knees don't have to be touching. Mine don't. It would actually be difficult with pants, knee guards, and thigh rises in there. But you have to be pulling your legs together and keeping your butt forward rather than pulling your feet together. Having a knee stack that is higher than the rest of the pad also takes strain off joints. Maybe look into knee stacks. I coach the goalies at the adult clinic at my local rink. I have seen several with the same issues as you. They almost always come down to pads being too tight and pulling their feet behind and dropping their butt. Those things combined put way too much stress on their hips/knees/ankles and they all complain of lack of flexibility. Here's what to do to try and learn. Next ice you get, even if it's warmups before a game or pick up, or during a stoppage in the other end, drop to your knees. Spread them maybe 6-8" apart, and get your hips forward so you are sitting almost as tall as you can. Then push your feet apart as far as you can. You'll find that you can get them about parallel to your knees, so both 6-8" apart. It will be a very narrow butterfly. But again, it's significantly better and different than what you are doing now by tapping your heels together behind yourself and then sitting on them, and having your knees spread out. I get you don't quite see the difference by taking what we're saying and what you're actually doing. But there is one. Maybe get that GoPro back there se you can see it both ways and compare. The movement problems you are having is because of your weight distribution. The spinning in place when you push is the indicator of that. What's happening is that all of your weight is over your left knee. So, pushing to your right with your left foot works, because that is the proper technique and position. But you literally can't push with your right because your weight is still on your left knee. When you try to lift your leg to engage the blade, you can't because your leg doesn't really bend like that. To get the leg near perpendicular to the ice, you have to have the weight on that side, or at least over center. If it's over the wrong leg, you can't lift the leg up, so you can't engage the blade or get any push. If you do push, the weight over the lead leg causes too much friction and you just spin and grind into the ice. The good thing is that this can be fixed. But focus on your butterfly and getting your hips forward anweight up first. Your back hurts because you are essentially doing crunches every time you drop. You don't have great core strength and your back doesn't have any support. If you think about it, the way you drop and move is forcing your abs and back to tense to support all of your weight and keep it upright. That causes lower back pain if you don't have the strength. Seriously, it's like you're adding a pilates workout to playing goal. Every time you want to move or get up, especially if you have to do it quickly, you have to use your core to get to the position you should be in, then move. That's rough. Go sit on the floor on your knees with your feet touching behind you. Then sit back on your feet. Then lift up so your shoulders are up and your hips are forward. Then sit back down. Then up. Repeat. If you really want to make it fun, go from sitting to upright, then stand up. Repeat that. See how quickly you get tired and your back starts to hurt. Then do it omitting the sitting back and then back up step. You'll see the difference right away. Also contributing to this is that you aren't sticking your edges into the ice for support. It's something we've mentioned before, but you're still doing it, though not as badly. What's happening is that your feet are constatnly sliding on the ice. Your edges aren't engaged into the ice. Watch a video of yourself and see how your feet are just sliding when you are in your stance, especially when you have to make small adjustments like backing in or a player moving laterally. This is also causing you to have to use your core to keep your body upright. You can't use your legs because they aren't stable on the ice. Generally lower back pain is caused by a weak core and abs. You are making your core do wayyyyy too much work, and your back hates you for it. It may look stupid, but when the puck is in the other end, you'd have a little free time to work on small things, like dropping correctly or weight control. Getting open ice is hard, so use every little bit you can get. Another idea would be to use your schedule the best way you can. If it doesn't allow getting to more ice sessions, you can do what you can at home. If you're eating dinner or watching some tv before bed, do it sitting on your knees in the right butterfly position and work on pushing your feet out to increase flexibility. Throw on the pads and just practice dropping correctly or shifting your weight to the push side and lifting that leg on both sides. You don't have to get crazy, but just little repetitive movements like that will help. I know that I had all of these grand plans of going to the gym on a regular basis. But life gets in the way, and honestly I'm lazy. Getting changed and getting to the gym before it closes just doesn't happen by the time i get home and deal with dinner and what not. So I started just doing simple body weight exercizes while I'm watching tv or before bed - push ups, crunches, planks, and other things that I do during intermissions of the playoff games. It isn't ever going to make me look like the Hulk. But I have lost fat in my stomach and added strength and muscle in my core, abs, chest, arms, and back. I'm happy with what I've gained, and the idea that it's simple and can be done in my own time has kept me doing it, where if it was just going to the gym in time (or open ice sessions in yours) I probably wouldn't. And now I get to the gym to do harder work when I can. But I don't feel like I have to in order to actually do anything.

I'm going to say this as gently as possible. In no way am I trying to be mean or disrespectful, so please do not take it that way. I just want to be straight and honest, so hopefully it might help. My impression from your posts on here is of someone who thinks they are much better than they are and doesn't really want anyone else's help. I've stopped offering pointers or critques of your videos because of it. I thought you didn't want to hear them anymore. It may not be how you feel, the loss of context over the internet often causes misinterpretations. Maybe you do it subconsciously. Or maybe you're the kind of person who likes to figure things out on their own. Maybe a combination of these and other things. I can't be sure. You were recptive to the discussion of that puck you missed on the cover, so I know you still want to learn. You definitely have improved, so don;t think you haven't. Your skating and edges are better, as is your control and movements. You had a good understanding of angles to start with. However, when you start at the bottom, you only can go up (and that's a statement that applies to all of us who began playing goal, not that you sucked). You can make large improvements in a short period of time as you figure the big things out. But once that happens, you have to be willing to fix the smaller things to continue to improve. And that's where I think you've hit a snag. You got better quickly, so you felt that you should have kept getting better and haven't. Unfortunately, goalie is a position that relies on the small things. The struggles you are having now are because of the things you haven't improved since you started, mainly your edge control, butterfly, and movements/recoveries. I know you have limitations, and an injury. But I wonder how much is you using those as an excuse or a crutch. The things you need to improve are tough, and will mean a lot of adjustment. When you're improving well, you don't feel the need to worry about them. Now you might. You need to start with your butterfly. I know you have flexibility issues. But I don't believe your struggle is as much with that as you think. Your issue is with instincts and tendencies. Like Tim Tebow and his bad mechanics, when you're in the thick of things and acting instinctually, you revert to bad habits. The biggest problem is that you pull your heels together when you drop down. You drop forward on your knees, bring your feet behind you, and sit your butt back over your feet. This is problematic because it locks you in place on the ice. You can no longer move laterally or get back to your feet without big movements. To move, you essentially have to put yourself into the correct position first. Why not cut that step out?! This is also expending a tremendous amount of energy to do. You're working harder, and getting tired faster. Efficiency is the name of the game with goaltending. You want to make as little extra movement as possible. You really need to focus on pushing your hips forward when you drop, instead of sitting down. Push your hips forward and bring your knees together, not forward. This will bring your feet out and put you into a more mobile position. It may not be a very wide butterfly. Mine isn't either. Even if your feet are straight back and not out at all, that will put your hips and weight in a better position than having them touching behind you like they are now. If you feel tightness with this, loosen up all the straps on the pads. You need to learn to get into a position where your weight is forward over your knees and not back over your feet. That may take practice, strength and flexibility training, coaching, and most likely a combination of that. But once you start, those things will take care of themselves. And i promise you that you will see an improvement in your game. You've hit a wall. To get over it, you have to find the small handholds and work harder. We're here to help you if you're willing to listen.

Passau does custom c/as with different body and arm measurements. But they aren't cheap. Warrior also does hybrid configurations on retail units. You can buy a G2 chesty with different body and arm sizes. Look into those.

Do you go normal or Turco grip? I find it much easier to get leverage and power going Turco because you can wedge the stick in the notch on the bottom of the glove without having to close it all the way. The angle also has a lot to do with it. I had real problems playing the puck with my Gnetik gloves. The angle of the pocket and palm kinf of twisted the glove on the stick and didn't get good leverage. With my G3, I get excellent contact and can flex the stick much easier. The higher angle sets the stick in the notch well, and the ease of clsing the glove gives me a good grip.