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Are any of those upgrades a narrower heel or lower ankle area? Blink once for no, twice for yes. I'd consider getting a pair of them, but the wider heel and higher ankle compared to the Supreme line just doesn't work for me.

It's fun, and a lot of good instruction. I definitely learned a lot and became a better player from that camp. I've been to 3. And I'm well above a novice/intermediate player those camps are geared for. Fundamentals are still fundamentals, no matter what level you're at. Same thing with game strategy. Plus, I got a lot of little tips from the coaches that have helped a lot. If you want to go to Morristown, sign up early. It's their most popular camp and sells out fast because there's a group of regulars that go every year.

P28 requires a little more technical skill when shooting than the P88. But it is more closed than a P92/W03 despite how it would seem. So you can get off low shots, especially slappers, and passes if you release the puck before the toe pocket. The twist on a W03 starts so much closer to the heel that it's tough to keep things down, but sauce is easy. It's about the same lie as a P88, so it won't help your kid bring the puck closer to his body. My problem with the P28 as a defenseman is the toe is pretty tapered, and there's a good rocker to it. On loose or contested pucks, board battles, and things like poke checks or blade mirroring, I found that if my hands weren't exactly correct, the puck would slide under the toe and I wouldn't get clean contact or sometimes miss completely. But stickhandling, puck control, and shots/passes using wrist flicks were fantastic. Even as a defenseman, you're using those skills more often than the big clapper, so sometimes it does make sense to default to improving the skill you use 80% of the time rather than the one you use 20%. The W28 may be a good compromise because it will give him some gains in what you want, without having to alter his hand positioning or natural balance. Something to think about. A defenseman plays most of his game with the puck at a distance, both offensively and defensively. I get wanting your kid to bring the puck closer because it's better for stickhandling and shooting. But, imo, the ability to play the puck at a distance effectively is more important than those other two things, especially on the defensive side. If you raise the lie of the sitck while keeping it the same length, you'll raise the toe off the ice at full extension. That's a liability, especially if you're tapering the toe more too. It's like you're creating a weakness in the 80% to try to improve the 20%. I prefer the certainty of a less rockered and rounded blade that I can keep flat at my full reach, even if it means I lose something off my shot and puck handling.

Cramping in the instep, especially underneath, can also be caused by tying the skates too tight. Too much pressure on the top of the foot and cut off the blood flow and cause that cramping. Lace bite is another symptom there, and can be combined with the cramping, but isn't always. Try tying the skates looser, especially right over the top part of your foot. Another cause could be poor arch or heel support. Your foot is having to flex to maintain support and balance, so it's tiring out and cramping. You could try different insoles, like Superfeet. Also, cramping like that can be caused by too much extra space in the toe cap. You lift or curl your toes if the cap is too high and the result is fatigue and cramping. They sell little foam pads called Powerfoot (iirc) that stick to the top of your toe cap and fill the space, keeping your toes down and flat.

It is pricey. But it's also 13 hours of ice plus another 6-8 hours of off-ice video review and chalk talk. If you take all the instruction you're getting and combine it, you're talking $30-35/hr which is about what I'm paying per game down here. And that's not counting the personal jersey, socks, materials, and banquet meal, plus some beer and appetizers you receive. So it's really more like $25/hr which is pretty good for the level of instruction you get. The coaches have coached/played at a decent level (one used to be the HC of a D1 Big 10 women's team, another used to work for player development for Hockey Canada, among others) and there are enough of them that you do get some pretty personal attention. I'd like to see them knock off a day - 2 hours of ice and maybe $100. You'd still get plenty of instruction, but it wouldn't be as tiring (by Day 4, you're usually toast) or expensive, especially if you figure the extra night in a hotel.

Keep in mind that only a very small portion of the toe of the skate is that first radius. So 6' or even 8' may sound small and like you'd fall over, it's not the part of the skate you're typically balancing on. It's not the same as just getting a 6' or 8' or even 9' single radius. But with what you're looking for 0.5 is definitely the way to go. I have a Quad 1 and honestly I think the toe radius is too short (and I have 272 runners so it feels a little longer to me). I'll be getting a Quad 0.5 on my nest set of steel for sure. If I don't like it, I can always go to Quad 1. With how much steel they take off the toe, you couldn't go from Quad 1 to 0.5. There wouldn't be any blade left.

Warrior lists their lie as one lower than the other manufacturers. So the W88 is really a "lie 5". Bauer lists their P88 as a lie 6. It's not, it's a lie 5. It's a lower lie than the lie 6 P92, lie 5.5 P10, and about the same as the lie 5 P28, PM9, and CCM's P30. In reality, the W88 is a clone of the other P88 variants, with slight differences. Warrior's W03 is a Bauer P92/CCM P29 variant, which are both lie 6. Again, Warrior's lie numbering system comes in to play. With manufacturers reducing the number of curves available at retail, your choices are limited without going custom. Bauer and CCM are only going to give you 3 or 4 choices, with the P92/P29/W03 being the highest lie and the only one that high. P88/W88 and P28/W28 are both similar and lower. With Bauer, a P14 *might* work. It's a slightly higher lie than the P88, with less twist than the P92. The issue with it is that it's a very short blade which may not work for many players. True offers more choices if you can someone that carries them.

I'll cede to your expertise and research. I had just assumed that Quad 0.5 was inbetween Quad 0 and Quad 1. That's not the case (strange numbering on PS's part). With 0.5's larger front radius and more neutral pitch, I definitely agree that it's probably the best starting point.

Depending on your skate (well, steel) size and weight, plus skating style and position, you could probably start with a Quad 1 or even Quad 2 before going all the way to Quad .5. There is a LTR on people using different ProSharp profiles on here. You might want to check that out first.

Weekend Warriors Hockey Academy does a camp in Morristown every August. https://weekendwarriorshockey.com/morristown-2020/

He should have laid the guy out in beer league? 🙄

This. It's a 70 foot pass with a defender 5 feet away. As far as I know, the defenseman who made the pass can't change who he passes it to after he passes it. As soon as the puck leaves the stick, 25 should be stepping up to the player and going stick-on-puck. That will keep him from receiving it, tipping it, or skating by. He doesn't have to skate past to try to jump the pass and pick it up. He just has to get close enough to knock it away from the backwards guy. If he does that, then the play is dead there. The goal socrer was also moving laterally, so he wasn't going to catch a seam up the middle, he was going to have to go out wide. And he's moving so slow that 25 was able to get back in front of him without making one stride. 25's partner was also back, way back, so at most it's a 1v1. Backwards skating forward isn't moving so if he tips it by he won't catch up to the play before 25. The wing down in the zone is way late so he isn't getting by 25 either. It's not a 3on1, or 2on1, or any odd man rush. It's a situation where the worst case is a defenseman just has to turn around and skate back.

Well that sucks. I'm sure they'll get them back in at some point.

The Benn/P90T does have some openness to it though. It's a P28/Fisher with a beak toe, as if you combined Kucherov and O'Reilly's blades. edit: I just looked at that P01. It almost has a Drury like wedge to it. Or maybe a shorter version of a P10 (which would be great if they made.)

While I suppose that's better than not doing anything - a PT regimen to rehab a specific injury should really be administered by a trained PT under the guidance and recommendations of an Ortho or doctor that diagnosed the injury.

I'm hoping they bring it to the goalie skates as well.

Ok too bad. Thanks, guys.

Can anyone give a good comparison of the fit of a Super Tacks AS1/AS2 to a Supreme 1S/2S Pro, especially the width? I need new skates. Supremes fit me like a glove, it's like they designed the skate for me. I want the Ultra Sonics when they come out because of the one-ish piece boot, so I need to get something for the time being until then. Finding something used in my size (8EE) in Supreme is hard, but I found a pair of AS1's in 8D that already have a Tuuk holder on them (I already have Tuuk steel). Is there any chance that the Tacks will be wider than the Supremes and these skates would work? (or is there any chance 1S or 2S Pro skates fit wider than MX3s?) They might be a good stop gap if they'd fit. But I can't try them on, and I don't want to be the jerk that goes down to my rink to try stuff on with no intention of buying from them.

I've heard that you may get your perfect skate when the new line launches next year. Vapor features with a Supreme fit.

Under further inspection, they are definitely done. The entire outsole is separated from the boot on both skates. The steel definitely moves too. Maybe the damage to the boot was caused by the lack of rigidity and extra torsion in the steel. Oh well. I guess I need new skates now. Maybe I’ll think about switching to XS holders of Flare makes steel for them the next time I need a set.

That’s a 60-70 foot break out pass. #25 Was 6 feet away from the forward. That’s more than enough time to step up after the puck was passed. Plus he didn’t know where his partner was. He never looks back and it’s too far behind him to be in his peripheral. His guy is the one that receives the first pass. Let the partner take the other guy and come back hard to help out. You’re right, the weak side D isn’t providing any help at all. And #25 stops skating from about center ice. But other than the puck carrier, there are no players in the good ice. The guy who receives the first pass keeps himself outside the circles at a bad shooting angle and isn’t moving very fast. It wouldn’t be hard to come back into a lane from there. Plus given the puckcarrier’s handed was, that would be a really difficult pass once he pulled it wide. The high player is still 50 feet away - well above the circles by the time the forward commits to the corner drive. And he’s not skating that hard. You just can’t give up good ice to protect bad ice. Calling this a 3-2 is a stretch. By the time the 3rd guy was in the play, the puck carrier had already decided to keep it himself and go wide. You have to take that guy every time by pivoting and forcing, or at least trying to angle the guy to the outside. If he can get it back to a guy in a less dangerous position, you can come back to the space or just let your goalie have a shot from the boards 30 feet away. That should be an easy stop. You have to do your job and let everyone else do their job. I think using the “odd-man” rush is just an excuse for not skating and bad awareness from both defensemen.

Similarly, how much play is normal for any holder? Forget a vice or clamp, if I push with my fingers the steel in my Edge moves slightly. There is definitely a little play. Is that normal? Are the issues we're talking about more severe than that? Obviously they can be, but is any flex in the steel enough to create a loss of acceleration, edge control, and efficiency? Unfortunately I don't have any skates with an older holder lying around to test against. I'm asking because I have noticed a marked decrese in my acceleration and efficiency. A large part is my skates, I believe. They're MX3's that I got new and have seen a lot of use. The foam and liner inside is pretty worn and flat, and rubbed through in some spots. So, my foot is slipping a little bit. I can also feel flexion in the joint between the toe cap and quarter meaning that joint, the rivets, and/or the outsole is compromised. SO I'm wondering if the play in the steel is also included in this. Overall, the skates are feeling sloppy and not as precise as they once did.

It's not really setting up the machine. I used the calibration tools for that. It's like using a square to check for level of edges so you can make fine tuning adjustments to the jig if needed. Even with the tool, the carriage can still be off a little bit. So the square is more to make sure something isn't horribly incorrect.

I'm also going to say that this is a pretty good breakout for a beer league. The defender wins a puck battle in the corner. His partner gives good support and comes behind the net to stop the wrap. The strong side wing hits the hash. And the other two forwards redirect and loop back when the puck switches sides. They also do a good job of moving across the zone rather than vertically. Then there's a pretty good timing play with that kick pass. Most of the time, that puck is wrapped hard and a forward or D keeps it in the zone. Or the other two forwards would have kept skating away from the play and the seam pass would have been broken up by #25. Or the guy that eventually scored would have skated straight up the boards and been nowhere near the other guy for that pass so he wouldn't have gotten the puck. #25 also does a good job of staying active and not glued on the blue line in the offensive zone and identifies the first option to close the gap.

Yep- both #25 and, especially, #3 do a poor job of understanding gap at the offensive blue line. I even made screen shots. Before the pass is received, #25 is closer to the player than the puck is, but he lets the guy receive it clean and make another clean pass. At the same time, #3 is nowhere near his guy since he didn't identify him at the offensive blue line, and then skated away from him. If either of them makes the right read, this goal doesn't happen. It's interesting to see how a guy that was in the right position to start let things fall apart so quickly by not moving his feet. Then deep in the zone, the forward gets even with #25. When a forward gets even, the defender has to turn towards him and skate to hold the angle. #25 doesn't. He doesn't move his feet at all, loses inside positioning, and then weakly reaches at the guy as he blows by. #3 should probably be mosr in the middle of the ice because he's not really covering anything out there. He's not in the passing or shooting lane and is too far away for a block attempt with his stick. He needs to be in a position to either break up a pass or block a shot by being in a lane. Maybe if he was there, #25 would have been a little more aggressive, but that's doubtful given the way the play unfolded and the lack of skating. The reality is that the guy that scored this goal skated from the circle down in his own zone to the front of the other team's net without a player ever challenging him or really coming within 10 feet of him until the very last second. And he did it without another scoring threat keeping the defense away.