MLSman

Seems like an awful lot of extra work...with little to no added benefit, other than the bling factor. Skated on the Step steel yesterday, and yes they are a bit higher. Had to work a little harder due to the extra weight vs the Fusion steel. I could definitely feel the difference in weight...not significant...but noticeable. The advantage was that the edges were near perfect after a 2 hour intense pickup. Nicks and chips plagued my fusion steel and LS2 steel, thus the decision to switch to a better quality steel to reduce the frequency of sharpening. Over the last couple months I was averaging only 5-6 sessions, with edges so jacked up I had to ship them for another 90/50 treatment.

Real men wear pink. Thinking about finding pink socks and pink jersey to rock with Navy on Cancer awareness month. Working on that.

New hockey room. Split the new office in half for heating/cooling purposes. Second half now my new hockey room. 2 - S19s with tinted visors (Black and Navy) Assortment of Sox and RBK Edge practice jerseys...and MSH jerseys of course custom TO's with Graf 705 tongues (box to the middle bottom are my 2nd pair still spankin' new) UMaine 4-rolls ATL One95s CBL Vapor XXXX TBL Vapor XXX Ben Eager SE16s ATL Mike Ribiero Vapor XXX Dallas Jofa 9060 shins Selection of sticks...yes...two Mission Flyweight shafts MHP 520 Caps (Reebok) and TBL (CCM) RBK 8K elbows Old sets of One90 shins Tape and Ovechkin collectables

Switched a year ago...and will never look back. It sucks that no one locally has it...but rotating and shipping steel costs about the same as a sharpening...so no complaints. I do 90/75 in the winter and 90/50 in the spring-summer. The glide of the FBV is the largest advantage and it works.

What's wrong with mental masturbation? :) Sorry...I couldn't resist! But I agree with totally...simply put FBV works and is a major improvement over ROH.

Sick pickups...a red helmet and you got the ensemble locked up for a MSH skate!

Where did you happen to get those? I live near Syracuse and always looking for their stuff...love the CHI color scheme.

Thanks man. Iced them for two days...helped a bit. Left nut still black and blue...shit still hurts. Looked into the no-needle option, but there were no doctors remotely close to me, and traditional therapy seems to be the only one accepted by health insurance. I hope for future males looking towards permanent contraception that this changes and the no-needle capability becomes more widely accepted. I can deal with the black and blue...and the soreness. The traumatic memories of the needles, however, will linger for a long time. That should be outlawed as a form of torture.

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise: a vasectomy hurts like you wouldn't believe. I'm glad it's over. I can't describe what it's like to take a needle in each nut. Women will say "if we can bear children, you can deal with a needle". Fuck that. They have no idea how sensitive our nads are...watch a 2 year old tap a dad in the nuts with a plastic bat on America's Funniest Home Videos and see him drop to the floor like a 6 month old in the fetal position...now imagine having to take a needle in one nut... ...then know another one is coming. 8 hours later and my left nut is at least 2x its normal size. I have been sitting on an ice pack all day, and taking Codiene every 4 hours...guess that's a perk...a silver lining to one hell of a morning after Thanksgiving. Not saying that I am not glad I did it...no need to worry about having more babies...but if you decide to do it and you have the option...I vote sleepy time anesthesia. The memory of the needle makes me shiver. I have a very high tolerance for pain. Don't put yourself through that torture. Glad I have this place to rant...cause moving hurts like you wouldn't fuq'n believe.

Absolutely classic. MSH should do a halloween skate where everyone has to wear a costume in order to play. That would be a riot.

I will always remember Tony Curtis from "Some like it hot"...Marilyn Monroe was soooo HOT in that movie.

Nice! I used to be a big ol school grip liner fiend myself, but the new hydrophobic grip liner they are using in the TOs dry MUCH faster and are as good as the older grip liner with preventing slippage. My skates are usually dry in an hour, after using a small towel to dry the inside of the toecap. St Jerome turnaround was 3 weeks for my two pair...I am still amazed at how fast they showed up. Did you get the added minicel foam? The little extra padding goes a long way with comfort. I did go with the reflex tongue, and I like it...but time will tell if I decide to modify mine with the same traditional tongue. Been using mine for almost two months...fit like a glove after the first two skates and I never had to bake them. I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoy mine. Plan on putting new pics after two months in the long term review.

I see the point. It is not about depth. the 90/50 and the 100/50 are equal in terms of depth....just the length of the flat bottom is modified. In testing, you have seen no variance in the friction coefficient of having a longer blade angle vs a shorter blade angle? There has to be some, but because it is so minor it must be marginal at worst. The physics of this is the most interesting aspect to me. Keep up the good work...this is a true case of how trig and calculus is practically applied.

Wait...I thought it would. He complained about the inability to stop. Would that be affected with a ROH with more bite? Why would he want to go to a deeper bite if the bite angle affects stopping? His issue was not about glide...it was about difficulties stopping. You know your stuff for sure...just looking for clarification of why a deeper bite would be advantageous vs working towards less bite. I was always under the impression with a traditional ROH that the goal was to graduate to a shallower hollow. Is this different with the FBV?

Hey bud...you might actually want to do the opposite. As your skills increase, the goal is not to go to a deeper hollow...it would make more sense to go to a shallower hollow. Shallow increases glide. The key is to find balance with the ability to turn and cut with increased glide. The challenge is to graduate from a 90/75 to a 90/50.

Very nice...simple. I like the look of a single color on the Franchise. Tempted to do a pair of all black Hossa's with the CHI red replaced with MSH yellow...all tufftek with the carbon pinky.

Eventhough McPhee adamantly denies the deal.... Volchenkov would be a welcomed addition to the Caps to solidify the D. They need D men that actually know how to play D. This will be an interesting off season starting July 1 for defensemen.

Aw yeah...."it's got the crunch with punch"

Me too homes...those warriors look fantastic but to have a pair of CP92 Eagles in the 13 +1 fingers short cuff in classic MTLs....curses Eagle for killing the CP92!

Uh....yeah. Ask JR...it ain't pretty. 3 Macbook pros, a Quad core 8GB server running Windows 2008 R2, and a NetApp SAN at home. I got issues...but since that is my profession, that spending can be justified. My gear habit however....

No. The CCM U+ runs 1/2" smaller and at least a size wider than the X60. You would need the 8EA x60.

Anyone is the DC/VA area doing FBV yet? Kettler? Ashburn?