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A lot of his curves look nice like that, seeming like softer E28s. I'm suspicious of his rocker though. It looks like it goes really high. Do you have some good shots of the blade face on his sticks?
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Also, from browsing KHL photos, VH was already really catching on there and True seems at least to be continuing that trend if not improving on it. -
Great! There's so much here 1: When do I know I've learned enough where I can start making the ridiculous statements? 2: Interesting! 3, 4: Highly doubtful.
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Is that weight too much on the ball of the foot really a thing? Skaters were fine wearing Grafs when they're just as low cut as Trues but usually also incorporated a flared upper cuff to allow full range of motion. If you go long enough back before that, skates were even lower cut and much less stiff than anything seen recently. If being on the balls of your feet were an issue, players would have constantly been injured in those skates and I'm pretty sure they weren't in fact injured more frequently due to their skates than players are today. How does the range of motion differ between the Trues and 1Xs?
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It should probably be a new thread: @Skate Mod's thesis is broader than just VH, Flare, etc.
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Both Flare and Scott Van Horne's work are based in university research. I'm trying to follow your logic, but I'm missing the connection.
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"Hobby type approach," what do you mean exactly?
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The Scott Van Horne boots have been in that neighborhood: MLX, VH, now True. Makos were rather long too: between 12-18 minutes or something IIRC. It's just a different layup/cure(?) recipe that allows for unlimited bakings as well. Pretty sure that's not possible with Bauer, CCM, etc. There just isn't a comparison between these and other lines in that regard.
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How strong are your lower legs? Are they getting put through harsher paces because it's a lower cut boot? (Is it lower cut than your Vapors? That would be my guess.)
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Is it muscle pain, from suddenly over-exerting a muscle group that is exposed to a new level of strain, or is it contact/rubbing pain from the top of the boot, à la Mako Bumps?
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Which part of your shins? Is it a muscle burning feeling or a rubbing on tendon or bone, etc.? Can you find an anatomical diagram that shows the part and pinpoint the spot?
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/3-Easton-PRO-NHL-Tapered-Sr-Replacemen-blades-LH-Pattern-in-descriptiption-/152044792858?hash=item2366936c1a:g:7DkAAOSw5ZBWH7b2
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What about the top eyelet that falls on its own line? That's strange to me. The stitching looks regular and orderly, that's for sure, and the 4+ pieces that made up the quarter externals on the latter day VHs seem much more streamlined in the three that take their place. The tendon guard looks a bit bulgy though (on player skates, not Sparks', obviously).
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Interesting alteration to the cut of the top of the boot: eyelets more in the old Easton recliner position compared to VH's normal 90's CCM Tacks upright L.
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What curves were you using / had you tried before that one?
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Cool. I was just curious if they're the same thickness and weight. The new ones look more like CCM's retail tongues, which seemed thinner than the previous VH tongues...it's hard to tell from just pictures though :)
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@AfftonDad , how do the tongues compare between your VH boots and the Trues?
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2017 Warrior Hockey Catalogue
flip12 replied to JR Boucicaut's topic in 2017 Product Catalogue Reviews
So excited to see blades coming back to life! Interested to see how the Alpha gloves feel. Hybrid Flex is the perfect cuff concept, simple as that. I'm already looking forward to the next iteration to follow after that. -
That looks odd...is it crooked, or is it just a trick of the camera angle?
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I won't argue there, it's definitely better than the graffitied boots of the big two, just that it's not as attractive as the previous skates in its ancestry. People seem to be warming up to them in person, and I haven't had a chance to see them other than in photos yet, but I've looked hard and the more I see, the more I'm convinced. What Bauer and CCM does works for selling skates, apparently. Both of them have skates that were gorgeous in my opinion: CCM's RBZs and Bauer's One90s and One95s. Both featured the materials of the skate with minimal flourishes, still just enough to make it interesting. Even in Bauer's Back In Black Nexus 1Ns and new Vapor 1Xs, I have to try and hold my stomach. Dégueulasses! Is the stitching fake? It could be it's holding together a sandwich of leather and other soft materials that are necessary layers over the shell; I'm not sure but I've been wondering if it helps keep those pieces together rather than being purely decorative. Of course they aren't stitched all the way through the boot: you'd be able to see it if they were. It's also plainly shown in the videos from their workshop that they're just gluing them on and then sewing them up at the edges of the boot. Again, not having seen the new boots in person I can't attest to finishing quality, but every Bauer, CCM, and Easton skate I've inspected in shops over the last few years has had at least a noticeable degree of the same issues: uneven stitching, sloppy glue peaking out beyond edges. People talk about the hand made MLX and VH as if they're unique offenders in that area, but the big-factory made boots I've seen are nothing better.
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The new True make looks more and more RoboCop 2014 to me. It's so scattered, like a bunch of individualized pieces obscuring a delightfully cohesive shell. I've been less bothered by the previously looks along the way to this, and this just seems like a leap backwards :/
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There's usually a fair amount of Crosby sticks on eBay. His old wood blades look flatter (another) but his recent sticks look to have more rocker, both on the heel and the toe. They're not extremely rockered blades, by any means, but they don't look flat. Curve on this one looks a helluva lot like a PM9.
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How different is it from a PM9 lie 4? I'd be curious to see them side by side. I've seen a side-by-side with the Crosby and Crosby 2 and one looked like the curve of a PM9 and the other just looked a little straighter.
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A: MakerBot B: Of course. It saves the shop time, so it should save the customers (some) money.
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For those turn-and-burn big shops too, where they offer a blanket 1/2" hollow or something and can do a tremendously terrible job depending on who's manning the wheel, a Sparx could be nothing but a drastic improvement in quality and consistency. I once had my skates sharpened at what was supposed to be a specialty shop at the edge of Minneapolis and my edges on one skate were like sine waves afterwards. If they're that busy, then get the juggling-multiple-machines act going previously mentioned by @stevebalchunas and you've got the possibility of offering a little more--a machine running your standard hollow and another one where you change out for a custom hollow; maybe you charge $1-$1.50 more for the employee intervention time to control which hollow is applied on the alternative machine, but suddenly you've still got consistency and quality with less training time required. I'm skeptical about a Sparx beating an engaged veteran sharpener, but I know well the rarity of finding true crafts(wo)men in any field. Curious, will the Pro version have longer lasting grinding wheels?
