rusty_black

Well had my game and went ALOT better than the last one. 1-1 tie and 24 shots faced (last week was 7/23). Tried some home made toe ties and some knee guards and they worked wonders, only issues was the left one broke in the second period so my pad was very loose. Here's a video of my outing, if you've got 20 mins free and see anything you thinkI can work on let me know. I definitley tried to keep an eye on my posts a bit more. There's a lovely tumble at 4.30 that should give you abit of a laugh.

Guy almost kills himself at 1.13 haha. Your movement looks very lazy but its very fluid so it's cool to watch. You got beat by a nice shot though near the end. I'm got my second game this weekend so I'll see if someone can hook my camera up behind and take some footage, my movement will be very bad and I think i'l find my angles will be off, but hopefully some of the videos I've been watching might help. I've gotta fiddle with some toe ties and see if I can get my straps sorted as I think I have them too tight, just don't have the ice time to play around with them here in New Zealand considering I live an hour away from the rink.

Cheers fellas. I've been on youtube for the past few weeks checking out anything and everything goalie related so I can se ehow that will help pickup the little things that add up to a solid foundation. I have a Go Pro so i'll try to bring it along to the next game (shitty scheduling means I have 4 games in 2 months). I want to see myself but at teh same time I don't want too as it will be embarrasing as hell. I don't really have the money available to get new gear/gear that fits so I'm kind of stuck for a bit. I really want to get some pro stock gloves at some point as I feel that'll be best bang for buck. I currently have a set of Full right TPS Response R5 gloves which just feels and look kind of small and the stick feels very small. I'm not sure on leg pad sizing as they don't have them printed but they look like Itech RX9 Pro stock/Custom leg pads, they seem to have great protection from shots, but my knees are killing me after every time I wear them. Bruises all over my knees. Also ThinkingJack I can see you like to use your stick alot when in goal, can almost tell you're an out player playing in goal by the way you use your stick to poke and block cross passes. I'm very similar, except with the short stick I can never seem to get good contact on the puck so I end up leaning forward and getting off balance and not begin able to recover.

I'm starting out goalie using some gifted gear. I'm 32 years old and 6'5" and the guy I got it from is 5'10 or so. So far I've played 2 games of low level rec league. 6 goals on 12 shots and 7 in 24. My positioning and movement is terrible so once I go down its a guaranteed goal if I give up a rebound, and I give up alot of rebounds. I seem to do well on shots I can see from outside the circles, but if it's a 1 on 1 or a 2 on 0 where I have to make a move its a goal. I've played out for 10 years and consider myself to be pretty good so it's really frustrating to not be able to do things that I think I should be able to do. Looking at some of the posts in this thread I think i'm dropping down and forward when I go to butterfly and my 5 hole is huuuuuuge. It doesn't help that my stick is tiny so It feels like its never on the ice, i'm thinking of using tape and making a knob or something for me to hold higher up the stick.