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Any more video? I suspect it still has to do with your stance and dropping forward instead of down. Also, stick position seems to be a problem. If your stick is in the right place, a gap in your 5 hole shouldn't matter. In fact, you shouldn't be using the thigh rise of your pads to make saves in a stright on shot in a butterfly. You should be using your stick. Everything is tied in together. If your feet aren't wide enough apart and you aren't getting deep enough into your crouch, you won't be able to get your pads down. You need to have a deep bend. I find when I get lazy and don't get low enough, I have problems stopping shots on the ice. Have you thought about lessons or a camp?

Do the improvements to the 1X skate make it a significantly better version of its predecessor? Or are they more incremental (ie NXG to MX3)? I'm asking because I'm about to pull the trigger on a pair of MX3's (Vapor line is too narrow for me, even in EE width). But if the next version in the Supreme line will give the same evolutionary improvements as the 1X, I might consider waiting for that. Would that launch on the 18 month (Spring '16) with the sticks, or 24 month (Fall '16) life cycle? When will the SpeedPlates and LS4 steel be available standalone? Thanks!

Sucks for them if you show up in skates and pads and they expect you in net. No uppers, not mask. Tell them to take shots wearing that! I'm comfortable making passes in my gloves and skates. Adding pads is a whole different story. Things just aren't the same so you're essentially practicing something and getting muscle memory for something that will be different later. if you can reach it with your stick, use your stick. Even in the butterfly with a pad behind it. It's easier to control the puck with your stick than off your leg pad. That's what I thought. Unless you are making a desperation save on a rebound, tip, or backdoor play, you shouldn't really be extending your legs. If you are square to the puck at the proper depth, you should be able to cover the whole net by just dropping into a butterfly with your knees together. The problem with extending your legs is that you are then stuck in that position and can't move again without recovering, which takes time. Also extending pads out causes uncontrolled rebounds, further complicating being stuck with one leg out. It took me a long time to learn that. If you come 6 inches or a foot further out, you shouldn't have to extend legs to reach for low, away shots. It really makes things easier. I know the instinct is that if you are too far away from the net to stop a back door play. But I learned as a goaltender that I'd rather have a backdoor goal go in than get beat to a low corner because I wasn't far enough out. You can learn to recover to the back post, but you can't grow to reach that far puck. I've learned that controlling rebounds and staying "quiet" in the crease has been really important to my over all game. I see less second and thrid opportunities and I find my self out of position and scrambling less. That has led to better endurance because I'm not expending energy moving all over the crease.

If a puck was close enough to you to catch it along the ice, you should be using your stick on it, not a pad. Leg pads create rebounds. Sticks make it easier to direct the puck where you want it to go, even if that is in front of you for a cover. The best save you can make is the one you don't have to because you put the puck out of danger. I'm not sure what you mean by "kicking out". Are you talking about old school kick saves or driving a leg down and across to reach a low puck in the butterfly? Any more video of you playing? If you are/were falling off the landing gear when moving while down, it sounds like you are still dropping your but back and sitting down. When you do that it pulls your feet back and you knees away from the pad. It also causes problems closing the five hole beacuse your feet are back, not out. Keep your hips forward and drive your knees straight down and together, instead of moving your knees forwards and dropping your butt back. That will help with your issues. Practice by standing in your stance with both feet on the blueline. Drop into your butterfly. When you land, your knees should still be on the blue line. If they are in front of the line, you need to widen your feet in your stance and focus on dropping your knees down and together. Keep doing it, changing your feet and dropping technique until you are landing in the same spot.

wear your pads and goalie skates to practice stickhandling too. I can shoot ok without my pads on and my players skates, not as well with my full gear on. Once you wear the pads and goalie skates, everything is different. The balance is changed and the pads create more obstructed space.

Pads, pants, and skates for sure. Gloves and a stick probably would help also. Looking at the vid again, when you get your feet out a little wider, bring your knees in closer together and bend them more. When you drop it will be easier to drive your knees together and down, instead of forward. You can kind of see what I mean in this pic of Carey Price. See how his knees are much closer in relation to his feet? (he's moving so it's not his full stance) You can kind of see it in these pics of Henrik as well. Look at how close his legs are above his pads compared to his feet, and how deep his bend is. Yep. It drives the knees down and keeps the legs out. The newer technique is a little bend in the hips. It apparently improves agility and movement, and takes some stress off the hips and knees. I read about it in InGoal mag. Still not sitting though.

You problems aren't caused by flexibility, but rather technique. You are dropping forwards to the ice and sitting your hips down. When you do that, it pushes the pads back and your feet behind you. You should be dropping straight down - your feet should go more out than back. Drive your knees downwards into the ice, not forwards. You can help accomplish this by doing two things - get your feet out a little wider and deepen you knee bend more, and also keep your hips forwards when you drop .

I wear a Maltese combo and no dangler. It's the best thing out there. Skip the dangler, it doesn't do anything. The worst neck injury I got was when a shot shattered my dangler and it slightly cut my neck. GO Maltese, you'll be happy you did. Lightweight and super protective.

Nah it could be a whole host of problems causing it, usually realted to strapping being either too loose/thight somewhere. try them out. I didn't know the toe bridges on the S series were removable to put the slider in. She does make the thicker knee stacks. They're a standard item right on her website. I was never able to find a knee pad that wasn't too bulky. I wear the Bauer Pro pants with the attached knee protection that has worked well so far. It doesn't go into the knee lock so bulk isn't a factor. Sarah also makes a knee pad that people seem to like. There's a Maltese get one too that looks promising, but cost is prohibitive.

That's actually probably the reason the pads don't return to "zero". I found that too much slack in the toe ties (which the sliding bridges would give) caused the pad to not rotate back properly. Having her build you a thicker knee stack may give you a little more flexibility too.

Yeah, that is definitely as tight as you would want to go. When I had my Subzeros, I wore it at the point there was any resistance. It was enough to just curl the calf lock a little. One other thing I did was adjusted the strap so that it attached higher on the calf. So the two sides of the strap were not the same length. That helped with allowing my ankle more room to float.

That would help. I coach adults in a learn to play hockey clinic like you mentioned. All of the beginner goalies I have coached have done the same two things - strapped their pads too tight, and brought their knees forward (and incidentally their feet behind them) when they dropped which opens the 5 hole.

In my Subzeros, the Smart strap was only tight to the point that it held the pad in place. I could twist the pad back and forth on my leg without any restriction from the strap. It was not so tight as to hold the front of my shin up against the pad constantly, there was space there. When you say outward, what direction is that? NHL goalies with huge flared butterflys, like Lundqvist, point their toes towards the puck parallel to the ice, like this But a goalie with less flxibility and a more narrow butterfly, like Brodeur, will point his toes towards the puck but also down towards the ice so his heel is higher than his toes, like this That downwards point is what takes the pressure off your hips and knees. As far as opening your legs when you drop, you can fix that by thinking about it differently. When you drop into your butterfly, your hips should be in the exact same place they were when you were in your stance, just with your knees under you now. So in your stance, your knees should be more under you. When you drop down, drive your knees straight down under you, bringing them together as you do. They should move sideways in, not forward as you drop. While you drop, also keep your hips up and forward instead of dropping with your butt. That will help you keep your legs in and closed. As far as the pad returning to "zero", where are you putting the boot strap? is it through the hole at the back of the skate, like Brodeur's above, or is through the larger space in the middle? If it's through the heel, it may be too tight.

Cool. One thing to keep in mind with them. They are a stiffer, flat faced pad. You will have to make them looser than you think so they will rotate properly and not restrict your movements. Like almost floppy. There shouldn't be any firm tension in any of the straps, especially the toe ties or boot strap. I forget, do the S series have the Smart Strap? if they do, it should be loose-ish and the knee strap should only be tight enough to keep your knee in the landing gear when you go down. If not, the straps should get more loose as you go up the pad from the bottom. A big mistake new goalies make is strapping the pads too tight. Do your toes point downwards in the butterfly?

Interestingly, it might get better when you get into the pads. People with hip flexibility problems (like new adult goalies) can't get into a comfortable butterfly if their toes aren't pointing downwards. In a carpetfly, your knees and feet are at the same level and your toes point forwards. When you put on pads, the knee blocks inside will elevate your knee above your foot and create a downward angle and also allow you to point your toes down. All of that reduces the stress on your knees and hips, which will widen your butterfly and eliminate some of that discomfort.

Not sure what your budget is, but you can probably do better than the S series. The Gnetik 5.0 is an unbelievable pad for the money, it's far and away the best senior level set on the market. The Gnetik 2 is coming in October, which means that Gnetik 1's will go on clearance. If you want the flat faced pad like a Subzero, you can still find good deals on a Subzero 1, which is a pro level pad, for a price close to a S series. One other thing to keep in mind, Brian's pads tend to run big. They will not fit the same size as Bauer, RBK, or CCM, and would likely be a shorter size. How tall are you? What is your ATK? (ankle-to-knee measurement, measure the distance between your ankle bone and middle of your knee while sitting with your leg bent at 90*)

Thanks. I'm pretty sure XL would be too long for me too. But then again, I've seen the pro sales have L's that are just XL's with the tops cut off. Thant might work. Would you be willing to part with them? Are they the home or away socks?

Do you have any idea what they do with the leftover equipment after the sale? I've been trying to get my hands on pro stock return Edge socks in Caps colors. The guy who was supposed to grab them for me at the sale flaked out and didn't bother to tell me he wasn't going to be grabbing the stuff I asked for. I tried the pro shop at Kettler, but they have no idea. Anything you might know? Thanks

Is anyone going to the Caps sale on Saturday (6/14) at Kessler? So, I read the notice wrong. The Caps sale is Saturday July, 12th.

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