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Those battery powered heated skate blades that were super heavy and had dubious science behind them. Roller hockey, but those Mission skates that didn’t have traditional grommets and had hiking boot style quick tightening nylon pull throughs (there’s gotta be a name those that I’m blanking on). It was like Mission had a cool idea and did no longer term stress testing and everyone’s “eyelets” ripped out in three months.

At this point, it feels like companies are just rolling some various number of dice, then whatever numbers come up, making it a profile and marketing it as some mix of speed and agility. It’s like making a D&D character, but for skate blades. I’m getting elf/mage/warrior/thief for my next quad profile.

It was a limited release only available on some SMU sticks at some shops. I can’t find a curve chart that shows it. They also had an MC2 that was a pm9 clone.

True’s ic curve was an iginla clone. Can you use a p88? It’s not drastically different than the iginla and is more widely available. Chasing the Iggy is gonna get tougher and tougher as the seasons go by.

For my powerfeet, I just put doubled overbasic packing tape on the back. Easy to remove and put back and reposition, and if the adhesive wears off, I can afford to reapply the tape.

Ok, do I need the drill going in forward or reverse, and am I going from the front or back of the tendon guard? Thanks!!

My tendon guard is like that first pic. Looks like the screw broke, so the tail end of it is sheared off in the tendon guard. Im not a particularly intuitively mechanically inclined person, but I can do the stuff with directions. How do I get the small piece of screw out of the tendon guard?

Skates have changed so much in this time. You’re better off just trying on a bunch of skates and seeing how things feel. And, try googling “Easton s12 skates modsquad,” and you can find old threads discussing them and what other people moved into. i know those are both kind of non-answers, but I don’t think you’ll get answer like “s12s feel exactly like xyz.”

Has anyone compared the Jetspeed Team retail stick vs the Jetspeed Team LK prostock stick? I know the LK are low kick, probably some rebranded Trigger. Anyone know the weight of the LK and/or what blade it has?

Honestly, I’d be happier with a bunch of professional social influencers than a bunch of lawyers. I hope everyone aspires to be whatever makes them happy and brings joy.

They aren’t selling to you, they are selling to teenagers who will throw a tantrum unless their parents buy them the newest sticks. And hockey parents who think their kid will make the nhl if they just spend enough money on sticks.

Ask them to remove the tape on that one blade, that’s a great way to hide bad wear. Plus, that description is so vague. It just says used. They could have seen 3 games of adult league and been carried as backups after the seller changed sticks, or the blades could be totally shot and soft and the shafts whipped out. There is a reason they are selling them for so cheap. Maybe they just want them gone. Or, maybe they are beat up and barely usable.

Did you have an edge at the start of the game? Could have banged it on something mid game and lost it. If you had it at the start, then didn’t have it later, to me, that speaks to some “traumatic” event rather than being bad from the start. And, also, buy an edge checker. 🙂

Do you have an accessory navicular? It’s like an extra bone bump below your inside ankle. Other people have has success punching that are out to give it a little more space.

You can also google p28 vs p92 to find images and discussion. And/or if you play hockey with people who have both, you could compare them side by side. I’m not trying to be rude or salty. There’s a lot of info out there, and that will give you a better understanding than one or two replies here.

You can use any hockey insole that’s the the right size. It doesn’t need to be Bauer Vapor.

How long ago did you get them profiled? If it feels off, just pay to re-profile. And/or if it feels drastically off and they’ve been doing the sharpening, maybe go somewhere else?

There’s a million threads comparing p92s to p88s, and for all intents and purposes, p90TM is a p92 with a toe hook. So, google all those “p92 vs p88 threads.”

There are good how to videos on the Sparx website for where and how to set that.

At this point, we need Virginia Tech to do an arbitrary study of stick length and flex and we can all disagree on everything.

This is all semantics. You’re just stopping the word flex and inserting the word leverage. You’re not solving any problems. It doesn’t matter what you call it. Flex, leverage, whatever. I have a stick with a bizzapapa rating of 75, and I cut 2” inches off and it now has a different, more resistant or “stiffer” bizzapapa feel. Put whatever word you want there. They are creating more confusion by talking about the flex of the materials in the stick, and not the flex of the stick itself. As it is now, it’s not wrong. They aren’t correcting an error, they are creating a semantic argument about the definition of “flex.” Full copyright on bizzapapa terminology and tech. Bauer, hit me up, let’s talk.

The problem for me with that video is that while all the jargon is true, that’s not people think about sticks flexing, and not how hockey players have discussed flex in real world terms in the history of hockey sticks. When we as hockey players say “75 flex” or “95 flex” we are taking about the general feel in the bend of the shaft for how much force we are putting on it, and how the feel of that force relates to each other. That True video is needlessly adding all this complicated discussion of materials so they can say “well technically the flex doesn’t change.” But we all know damn well from experience it does. It’s needlessly complicated and just creates confusion. It’s some heavy breathing neckbeard nerd shit meant to mislead people. Maybe we should have been using the term “leverage” for the past 40 years to discuss flex instead of the word “flex.” But, we didn’t, and no reason to try to mess with it now. Shut up, True.

When you put on the skates, do you pull them on by pulling on the tongue? Having the tongues come loose is an odd failure point, as there’s no torque or pressure otherwise being applied there.

The warrior pros were still good sticks. For the senior models, they were a few extra inches longer than whatever the standard market length is. There was a DX Team stick, that’s a different stick, it was a prostock option for juniors and college teams. Those mapped more to the “3rd” pricing tier.

Warrior _____ pro used to be the second to top of the line. Then, Bauer started making pro their “top” stick, now warrior does that too. I think DX was Warriors last product line where pro was the second tier. But, now I think Bauer has some lines where it like model (3), model pro (2), and sameline newname(1) for top tier. “This stick goes to 11.” “But why not just make it shoot harder, and still have 10 as the top rating?” “Yeah, but this stick goes to 11.”