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I don’t know if i’m on the extreme side. I havent really though of it, because there is a few Sr players on the club that also use 41mm. What profile they’re on, i don’t know but after speaking to other coaches from other U13 teams on education days and so on, it seems as if we (our club) use shallower hollows than most other clubs on U13 level here. Most seem to be on somwhere around 20-25mm on their U13 players.

Iv’e been on much shallower hollow in the past. Now i’m only coaching my sons U13 Team. When i still played i was on 41mm hollow, (1 1/2 is 38mm). My son who is 12 years old is on 1 1/16 Quad XS. The club i coach for focus a lot on edgework and being strong on the edges, inside and outside. We always start the practice with focus on skating for about 20 minutes. So i guess the skating focus is a big factor in being able to use such a shallow hollow as most of the kids on my sons team do.

Size 7 and 7.5 skates, both with 263 runners. Both are on Quad Zero. I could have gone with Quad 1 or 2 as well, but im more agile on the Zero, and i have a 1 1/2 hollow so the glide is never an issue for me anyway.

I used to be skating on ellipse zero but changed to Quad Zero like two years ago. I find the transition from Ellipse to Quad was easy. The biggest difference to me was the increased glide and the stability in backwards skating. the ellipse is very good for someone with fast feet and fast direction changes while i would say a quad is better fore someone with longer strides.

It’s mostly just there for some cushion behind the belt buckle, so you’ll be fine. David Tomášek of the Edmonton oilers uses the Tackla Breezer 3D prozone girdle. https://tackla.eu/tuote/tackla-breezer-3d-prozone-icehockey-girdle-sr/ it has crazy amounts of padding everywhere except for the lower abdomen which is not padded at all.

It’s totally uneccesary.. it’s just a piece of foam that actually don’t offer much protection anyway. I have the Supreme 2s pants which have a big belly flap, but i find it mostly in the way, and kinda restrict me in my skating, so i push it as far down as i can. My 12 year old son went from Vapor x900 lite pants which also have a big flap to Tackla Expp55 pants which don’t have any flap at all and also have a much lower cut front than other pants on the market. He is much more mobile in the lower cut tackla pants. And he plays D with most blocked shots on the team. He says, there is tension in the abs when skating, so the padding for the lower abdomen is uneccesary

I would say that TPS was ahead of their time in before they were outbought by Sherwood.. TPS and Easton were the ones that came with new materials and new tech. Bauer weren’t even making composite sticks themselves back then, but bought sticks from Innovative (Warrior) and slapped the Bauer logo on them.. TPS were the ones that pushed the boundries weight-wise etc.. TPS problem was, that they were a smaller company without big financial muscles and could not compete with Bauer and CCM for the big names like Ovechkin, Crosby and so on… Sure, Rick Nash and Patrice Bergeron, and Keith Tkachuk were great players, but they did they sell as much sticks as Ovechkin?? I think not.. It’s nice the see a few brands from the past rising from the ashes. I hope the sticks make it to Europe as well.. TPS adrenaline and Response R8 were my favourite sticks back around 2005-2008.

Or, you can mix em, like i have.. Bauer Vapor boots with Easton CXN holders/step steel.. I have stocked up on CXN holders so i probably have a dozen of each side.. Same with steel and bolts

Hyperlite2.. hands down the best Bauer stick in years. Nexus sync in second… Tracer, Ag5nt, Twitch, Proto etc all suck in most ways. bauers problem the last years have been the blades going soft/dead. You can still use the stick, but it looses it’s feel totally. The blades on the Hyperlite2 and Nexus Sync are better, but far off Warriors blades.

If you kinda like the fit of the Covert Cf 100 helmet, but prefer VN foam, you should try the Cf 80 helmet.. It has vn foam but with a softer more comfy foam on top of it.

Converted from SEK to USD the CCM Vizion is $303 here in Sweden, the Ft8 pro is $334..

If you want a tackla pant with +1” option your’e pretty much stuck with Air 9000 or 951 Advantage pants. I’m not so impressed by the new Tackla X1 girdle and the new pants (which are just about the same pant as True Catalyst 9x4) Me and my son went to Finland a few months back (we live close to the Finnish border) looking for hockey gear for the upcoming season. My son actually tried on the X1 girdle and the X1 Pants.. Both were light and mobile, but lacked the bulletproof feeling of old tackla pants. All the plastics felt thinner/softer and the padding did not feel as plush as before. If you had tackla pants in the past, you will be disapointed.. We actually ended up buying another pair of Tackla Expp55 pants for him. The lower cut front and kidney pads fits his shorter torso great.

Warrior hockey Sweden posted this on Instagram.. There is a Warrior skate oven on the floor, so probably Warrior will launch the new skate during the World Championships. https://www.instagram.com/p/DJojflwNPDh/?igsh=MXNyZTZldXFyMGlsMQ==

They launched them in Sweden 2 weeks ago, before the world championships started. Strange if it’s not available in the US yet??

More like a marsblade O1 elite but with holder and steel and different colors