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I have the QLT 290s, predecessor to the Jetspeed line. I play D in a B-ish league with a lot of guys who played D3 or club hockey. So, I’m getting hit by shots from people who have a general idea of how to shoot. I’ve never gotten hurt through the front padding/plastic blocking a shot. I don’t intentionally put myself in position to get hit on the back or side. Those areas have less padding (vented hard plastic on anterior sides, padded foam on interior sides). You’ll definitely feel a shot in those areas. The stiching on my straps is garbage. I’ve had so many rips/tears at anchor points. They’re probably 4 years old at this point, so I expect some wear, but these starting ripping after a few months. As mentioned, above, I find the padding in the knee cap lacking. Maybe it’s compressed and packed-in over the years? But, overall protection from shots has been great, and I’ve never had an issue.

Here’s the thread where he sews in padding: I don’t know the names of different foams. I cut up a pair of padded shorts that people use for snowboarding and mountain biking. A quick goog tells me it might be EVA foam. It’s just soft foam padding that’s like 1/4 inch thick. If you have access to a Goodwill or Play It Again Sports, they might have something used that you can butcher and harvest. Mine is not sexy looking, but it does the job. Last week, I dove to try to clear away a bad rebound (fail, goal against), and landed directly on my knee that historically gives me trouble. It didn’t bother me at all, and I didn’t even think about it, until this thread made me look back on if this padding is helping. I wonder if d30 padding is light and fancy and SCIENCE, but ultimately not as good as just old fashioned soft foam.

Yeah, it should be super easy to punch. Also, with the increase moldability of skates, I’ve found that both Vapors and Supremes now accommodate my accessory navicular with no issue, when they didn’t seven years ago. Spots that feel tight when initially tryingn on, may open as the boot forms around your foot Your shop didn’t suggest or offer punching, and let you walk out the door with those skates...is there any where else available? I assume if you’re driving three hours there aren’t a lot of options, but can you drive three hours the other way?

If you like the Tacks, the solution might be to add extra padding to the knees. I added padding to the knees in my shins. (QLT 290s which I like well enough, but seem like shoddy construction and have been slowly and continuously failing at all the seems). Theres a thread where SkateworksPNW shows off his work where he sewed additional padding into shins and it looks really nice and professional. I cut up foam padding and used looped over packing tape to a fix it right behind the removable liner. I don’t notice it at all when dressing or playing, but it’s much more comfortable when I fall.

I thought a lot of recent discussion in other knee pad threads was people didn’t like the Tacks because they had fairly poor padding in the knee area.

Is anyone else a little cynical that this allows CCM to just stamp “Step” on what is now their mediocre stock steel, or change the production process of Step, so it is more “cost effective.” I know it’s a case of wait and see, and none of us on this board are in a position to predict what the end result of this will be. But, anecdotally, throughout my life, when I like independent company X, and they are acquired by large corporation A, something in the quality/price/output/ “je ne sais quoi” of X tends to suffer. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I like how they say their name is an homage to Koho. No, you are just stealing someone’s name, and probably trying to take advantage of people who aren’t very good at spellchecking or fact checking. I can’t wait until they release their My-Cron skates.

Re: Lies (apologies if I’m over explaining something you already know) The three main curves in widely available, p88, p28, p92, are all “rockered,” meaning that the bottom isn’t a flat line leading to an X degree angle with the shaft. They are rounded, so the lie sorta changes depending on where your measure it or what specific part your have on the ice. It’s annoying in that it’s not just a variable you can look at and say “I need this.” It’s one of those things you have to experiment with, and see what works for you. Where do your sticks hit when you are on skates? Adam’s apple on flat feet seems pretty short. Again, everyone likes different things (Crosby uses a fairly short stick and he manages ok). I feel like for a beginner, the danger of a short stick is that you bend too much at the waist to compensate, rather than a good deep knee bend. Or, maybe the shorter stick pullls you down and helps that. Who knows? Being able to “sit low” and drive everything through your quads and butt is one of the most important skills in hockey.

Those Kings Unis might as well go all the way and have one black glove and one white. I think black glove on the white sleeve, and vice versa, for maximum regrettableness.

At the risk of sounding like a handwringing parent, why wear shoulder pads for protection is you’re just going to cut off the caps? The shoulder injuries I’ve seen in adult leagues are never from checks. It’s typically incidental contact that you wouldn’t otherwise think about. The two that stand out to me are a guy watching the play move up ice and banging hard into the glass, not knowing how close he was, and the other catching a rut by the bench and falling shoulder first into the boards. Both guys are good skaters and just had bad luck while not wearing shoulder pads (but now they both do). In my opinion, if youre going to wear equipment for protection, wear it correctly and avoid potential problems. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Woodward and Berstein is about to blow the lid off the whole home sharpening industry. Prosharp and Sweetstick are already shredding documents left and right. This probably goes all the way to the top!!!

Your friends should be willing to pay you you to sharpen their skates, especially if it’s better than what they are getting in a shop. If the free beer doesn’t cover the cost of the rings, you explain your costs and time to them and ask them for some money. If they are just using you because you got a new toy, then they aren’t really your friends.

Has anyone skates in both the s29 and 2s? I’m kinda torn between them. I have the exact opposite worries in each- that the s29 will be too soft and break down quickly, and that the s2 will be too stiff. I tried them both on in the store, but I’m not good at translating that to how they’ll feel on the ice. Mid level adult league player, 4 times a week. I have 190s (not the s190, the MX3 line) now, so the 2s seems like the obvious choice and I’m overthinking. I know the 190 and 2s both have Curve composite, but it seems like there’s different types of Curve. I’ll replace the steel with Step, so the garbage ls1 isn’t an issue.

Would love to be in the CCM meeting where they complain that their company put out a stick with holes in it 10 years ago, and everyone thought it was a joke, but now Baauer does it and suddenly it’s cool and cutting edge.

Will he let you try on the size 9 1s and skate a game in them to see how you feel? A skate that’s too big opens up another whole can of worms.

What wheel set up did you have for inline? Going from playing inline all my life to ice, I felt like a shorter profile, 9’, helped me be more comfortable on the ice, because less blade was touching at a given moment. I don’t rememberer what I had on my inline chassis, but I tended toward slightly smaller wheels on the front for a more “rockered” feel.

Are the 2S all THAT stiff? Or, are you saying that they are stiffer than a broken in/broken down MX3?

I started doing just a width-of-tape knob last spring or so, and it’s been great (and by great I mean it’s fine and I don’t think about it.) Prior to that, when I taped a handle, I kept toying with different options of rubbing it with a puck, wax, melting the wax, and baby powder, and it would always be too grippy or not grippy enough. At some point I wondered why I was doing all that work to never quite be satisfied, when everything my heart wanted was already right in front of me underneath that tape. And I haven’t looked back since! (I do miss being able to tape my handle with some stupid bright neon color because I’m secretly 12 years old.)

QXT is more or less the QX3 with different graphics. I don’t have them in front of me, but I think the QX3 has raised grip, and QXT doesn’t. Same weight and feel with the minimus 600 carbon. Those are my favorite stick ever for price/value.

With the rockers on both blades, i feel like the lies on both of those are not as different as reading about them might imply. Cutting the p88 shorter would help playing closer to the body. Or, just find stick handling drills to practice that help with puck control closer to the body.

Check out the discussion in the ProSharp Project Section. Lots of reviews and discussion on people dialing in various quad profile radiuses (radii?). http://modsquadhockey.com/forums/forum/191-the-prosharp-project/ And, if you search “quad” in the equipment forum, you get a lot of returns. Definitely a ton of info and discussion on this board about it.

pm9 and Drury used to be the cool kid curves, and people with big banana curves got busted on. Now everyone loves giant toe curves. The world is changing and I am old and alone. No country for old curves.

Looks like Bauer has it on the 2N Pro and Vapor Flylite. Are there plans to quit producing it? Warrior has the W01 on the DX as well.

...seems like it might be hard to “finally decide which stick is best” for you, if you're buying something in the wrong flex and curve. Why not just wait and buy a stick in your parameters, rather than forcing the extra variables?

In the one piece shorts, depending on how/where the cup is situated, I wonder if it would get in the way of the Kinesiology wrap. Same with wearing the core shorts over your jock. Seems like you’d want the core shorts/KT wrap as close to your body as possible, and the cup/ compression shorts over top of that. That way the the KT is supporting the muscles, not being wrapped over the cup, which will deform the tension/support.