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Breaking in a catcher

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Put it on out hand and flex the hell out it. That's it. My supreme broke in quick. No steam, no heat, no crushing it, no trying it up around stuff.

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I don't know if this works. But my friend who is a goalie put shaving cream all over his pads and leaves them out over night. Then the next day we would wear his stuff around the house.

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best method ive come across, is to tie it up, to do this insure that your brother has already tried the save a good few shots with the glove,as this will leave is own individual shape and feal to the glove, never let anyone else try his glove on either, while breaking in, if the glove is leather, put some oil on palm of it,on the outside. then stuff the pit of the glove with hockey pucks(rolled up newspaper also works). tie up the glove with a wire( a wire as in electrical wire, inside a electrical cable, these are narrow wires, for example a earth wire in a tv plug). dont go ripping up ur tv now, but try a hardware store. the method in which i use to tie my glove is,place the pucks/newspaper into pit, insert the wire trough the pit(the meshed part), tie a knot here,making the pit extremly thight. warp the wire back alone the whole glove in equal spaces insuring that it is fully closed, dont be afraid to stand on it,or hit it to close it fully in the right position. leave for a period of time, and catch as much shots as possible during this period. this method is also good for thight hockey bags, it doesnt detroy the shape of the glove in the bag. to oiling is optunal.

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No goalie glove has been made with leather for a long time. No oil. I haven't tried a glove on in a store that has been hard to close or open with in the last 3 yrs. They are made to close and open. My Bauer was game ready with in a few hours. When you tie up a glove it doesn't help you cause the opening of the glove need to be worked in too. Do not put shaving cream on anything. What chemical in shaving cream will help a synthetic leather ( weave, jenpro, clarino ect) break in faster? I bet it won't do jack. My Heaton Helite-Z Pro trapper need a few hours to break in. Let the owner play catch with a puck for an hour and it will be ready.

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What worked with mine was putting a bunch of pucks in it to close it all the way. It came to me in a game-ready condition. Brand new too.

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i know the important thing is being able to open and close the glove. store gloves always feel more free also! but the reason that a glove is to be tied up is to make that all important crease in the matieral, whch should be acustomed to your very own particular "break angle" (i.e: 60 degrees). alright if you can break in your glove in an hour of taking shots, off with you, but i asure you that you will make so mistakes for the first few practices with catching pucks! ive broken in my glove with the method in which i have stated above (last november) and found that even after this the glove still took a few trainings to get to full promise.

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sleep wearing it for about a week lol

i do it with every bit of kit.. because your body moves all the time while sleeping and gets in all different place / angles lol.... believe it or not it works

and adds a pun to 'bedding it in' lol... :lol: oh i'm so sad

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Well, I remember when I broke into my baseball glove, I taped a baseball to it and then put some heavy books on it. After like two days, the glove was easier to move around in. Not sure if this is the same as catchers since I've never had one.

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I haven't tried a glove on in a store that has been hard to close or open with in the last 3 yrs. They are made to close and open. My Bauer was game ready with in a few hours.

I have tried on some really stiff gloves....I was at HawkQuarters in downtown Chicago over the New Year. In the back they have "game used equipment". There was an Eagle trapper made for either Leighton or Passmore, that looked new. It had maybe 4 puck marks on it. I slid it on and could not close it with one hand. I bet I spent 20 minutes in the store working the glove and still could not close it one handed. The killer part is they were selling the glove for $200 (they also had a matching Eagle blocker that was going for $150. What a steal!!The colors however were the Norfolk Admirals (white with bule and yellow).

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Some pro's get there gloves made like that for extra protection. Hasek's glove is like that. Cujo's glove after he broke his hand was like that. Maybe it was a pro-return because the glove was too stiff. My old Vaughn T-950 was hard to break in. But that glove was made 15 years ago. Most hockey equipment comes all most game ready now. Baking skates, gloves ect makes it easier now.

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its seemed to work for my brother but what he did was he put it under his matress and slept on it. i dunno if its good for it or anything being a player and all but i though id add my two cents...

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i had a goalie glove that was relatively stiff when i bought it a year ago - what i normally do is put a few pucks in it and clamp or tie it closed with something. i leave it like that for a day or so, and then clamp or tie the glove all the way open for a day or so - nothing will break it in as good as using it, but i found that it helps you get started at breaking the glove in.

im sure most gloves that you buy nowadays will not be as stiff as they used to be - but give this a shot and see if it helps...

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