Grip on sticks

[Muzza_77 0]

Hey, I play with a stick that has no grip at all on it. I am looking at getting a new stick and was thinking about all the options. I was thinking about grip and stuff. I started to wonder why do these sticks have grip on them? is it an ice hockey thing? when the sticks get wet, they get slippery without the grip? I find it easy to play inline with no grip...

[pat19 0]

i find it easy to play ice hockey with no grip... i guess some people just like it.

[Kovy_Ribs_Fedo 3]

For me, I can't play without grip.

[sc37 0]

I find myself more succesful with grip. I can get more lift/wrist action on my shot with grip. If no grip, my hand slides a bit and can't get the proper action I want. But then again, too much grip is bad too, so I candycane. Maybe they should come up with grippy palms on gloves.

[willc7786 0]

I have a pair of mia gloves that the palm is "grippy"...I love it

[Chadd 916]

I don't like grip sticks and I don't need them as my gloves have good enough palms that I can still feel the stick.

[sc37 0]

I have a pair of mia gloves that the palm is "grippy"...I love it

What's that? With most palms I've come across, stick still feels a little slick. To me it's like still wearing batting gloves when playing baseball...makes me tempted to rub pine tar on stuff. My hope was to have those little glue/rubber dots on certain spots of the palm to provide a little more grip.

[zochi 1]

I prefer grip on my sticks, seems easier to grip the stick when taking slapshots and wristshots when I take a slap shot I don't want my stick to slip out from under me so the grip helps quite abit.

[mack 44]

I use grip on my sticks even when I had a digitech palm. I'll keep using grip on my sticks until someone replicates Eastons tackified palm.

[Duder84 0]

the digitech's treated me pretty good, but only after it becomes a little moist from game time. I used to have Easton Airs that had little silicone Easton logos on the plam, those were sweet. What were the tackified palms like?

[willc7786 0]

I have a pair of mia gloves that the palm is "grippy"...I love it

What's that? With most palms I've come across, stick still feels a little slick. To me it's like still wearing batting gloves when playing baseball...makes me tempted to rub pine tar on stuff. My hope was to have those little glue/rubber dots on certain spots of the palm to provide a little more grip.

its the digitech palm... coming from eagles it was a lot more grippy to me... I don't like a lot of grip on my sticks (the only grip stick I liked was the old Easton gold colored grip), so the gloves work perfect for me.

[mack 44]

the digitech's treated me pretty good, but only after it becomes a little moist from game time. I used to have Easton Airs that had little silicone Easton logos on the plam, those were sweet. What were the tackified palms like?

They were a basic palm, but in the middle of the palms (where a stick would line up when you hold it) there was a strip of leather sewn on top that was tackifed like football gloves. Best part was that when it got wet it worked better.

[LkptTiger 1]

I just use tape...I'll cut a 1" roll in half, go "candy-cane" style down the shaft, then come back up the shaft, criss-crossing with the the tape that's already on there.

[DamnLocust 0]

Many would agree that easton's original grip was and still is the best grip around. The grip on the original Vapor XX is nice too.

I used an easton grip lite for 3 months and when it broke I switched over to a yellow synergy grip shaft. After a couple of months I went back to a non-grip shaft and my hands felt more nimble and smoother. I've pretty much gone completely away from grip sticks.

Muzza, unless you have issues with the stick twisting in your hands on hard shots, I don't think you need the grip. Regardless, if you can borrow one from a friend for practice of for a shift, try it out and see if you like it.

[blueliner27 12]

I prefer to have grip one because it actually helps me to hold the stick tight, so I don't slip. But I really hate the extrame type like bauer nike xxx's.

[Chadd 916]

Grip on the TFG was a nice grip and I didn't mind the grip on the gold synergys.

[mack 44]

It peaked and died with the MM Z-Bubbles.

[DavisP 0]

Whats MM?

[Gongshow11 1]

metal matrix...type of weave

[DavisP 0]

metal matrix...type of weave

Do you mean those blue ones from a couple years ago? Didn't they metal matrix through last year.

[mack 44]

No, it's the model when they went to silver from dark grey. That first batch had the best grip ever.

[LkptTiger 1]

No, it's the model when they went to silver from dark grey.  That first batch had the best grip ever.

God, did it ever. Then, of course, came the chippy/peely tacky-ass grip that pretty much turned me off to the idea of a "grip stick" all together.

[hockechamp14 0]

I'm thinking the problem with the grip on the sticks is that youth players won't develop good grip stregnth using the grip all thier life, so thier stick skills aren't as good by the time they reach junior I bet.

The grip will be a crutch and they won't be able to develop stick skills properly if they always use a super light tacky gripped stick. I know my kid will learn to hold onto his stick when he uses a wood.

[TBLfan 25]

I can't stand grip sticks. The best grip type stick that i like is the tps redlite(the old one) and that's more of a fibre weave than a grip.

[chippa13 1844]

I'm thinking the problem with the grip on the sticks is that youth players won't develop good grip stregnth using the grip all thier life, so thier stick skills aren't as good by the time they reach junior I bet.

The grip will be a crutch and they won't be able to develop stick skills properly if they always use a super light tacky gripped stick. I know my kid will learn to hold onto his stick when he uses a wood.

Grip isn't a crutch. If anything it teaches kids not to choke their sticks.