How much blades or sticks do you break per year?

[Kovy_Ribs_Fedo 3]

1 stick broken = 1 blade broken

broken shaft don't count

[LegoDoom 0]

I voted for 9-11. I haven't been playing as much, but think I've been breaking less in general. When I do break them, I seem to break them in spurts. Luckily I've gotten past my TPS problems and haven't broken a R+ in a while.

[Kovy_Ribs_Fedo 3]

Most of the blades I broke are because of slap shot...It's why young russian players don't slap shot, they don't have a lot of sticks in Russia...

[kosydar 0]

I usually wear sticks out and quit using them before I actually break them. When the blade goes soft I just stop using it all together. If I continued using it, I'd say I'd break about 6-8 per year, but at my current method I'm like 3-4.

[Eternal 0]

I usually wear sticks out and quit using them before I actually break them. When the blade goes soft I just stop using it all together. If I continued using it, I'd say I'd break about 6-8 per year, but at my current method I'm like 3-4.

I do the same when I can flex the blade a lot i just take it outside and take a slap shot with a puck and it snaps.

[Chadd 916]

I usually get rid of mine before they snap but I've been through 3 OPS this year and I haven't been playing as much. Maybe come fall it will increase again.

[Veltri 0]

i use wood blades in my griplite shafts. this summer, ive snapped 3 shafts and have gone through almost 3 dozen blades is my guess.

[thejackal 46]

No graphite shafts yet, 1 OPS , 1 wood blade, 2 more i stopped using because they felt dead. My inno blade is cracking right in the middle of the sweetspot, and the TPS Genesis i just got is getting mushy. It must be because my shot improved a lot the last couple of months, even though i already had a good one.

[Pinkfloydspig 0]

I never use a stick long enough to break it. I usually get bored if I use 1

stick for an extended period,I like use a rotation

[Vapor 0]

6-8. I broke a few blades from shots or being jammed weird. I just broke my XN10 on a slapshot in open hockey. I wound up, took a shot, and it broke at my lower hand. Very weird, never broke a stick liek that, proabably do to my pitiful form.

[thejackal 46]

6-8. I broke a few blades from shots or being jammed weird. I just broke my XN10 on a slapshot in open hockey. I wound up, took a shot, and it broke at my lower hand. Very weird, never broke a stick liek that, proabably do to my pitiful form.

Using too short a stick doesnt help either.

[sweetblazer 0]

I do9n't know how you guys break some many sticks I break like two a year.(knock on wood) I have a pretty good shot two.Maybe I'm just getting luck with my stick selections?

[Shorthanded67 0]

I voted 6-8. My situation is similiar to Kosy's where I usually sell off the blade (or OPS) when it starts becoming mushy. More of a "feel" than anything on shots. In reality I maybe break 6 sticks a year.

[LkptTiger 1]

I went through eight sticks this past year (beginning of last season through summer hockey). I broke seven, the blade on the other one just got too "dead" for use, so I stopped using it. Out of the seven that were actually broken, three were covered under warantee. I usually don't break a whole lot of blades; usually the breaks occur somewhere above the fuse-point.

[tipsy_39 0]

im always rotating between a ops and woodys when i get bored or things arent going my way in the goal scoring department. so im between 3-7 because i rarely break ops's.

[quilty14 0]

This year I probally broke the most sticks. I broke a one piece, broke a few shafts and went trough about half a douzen blades. All in all not too bad, hopefully it wont be as bad this year, but it probally will seeing as I'm switching back to shaft blade combo's due to more selection of curves.

[Vapor 0]

6-8.  I broke a few blades from shots or being jammed weird.  I just broke my XN10 on a slapshot in open hockey.  I wound up, took a shot, and it broke at my lower hand.  Very weird, never broke a stick liek that, proabably do to my pitiful form.

Using too short a stick doesnt help either.

But the advantages are so much more obvious. Stick handeling is much improved, as your arms are aloud to freely flow, instead of having your elbows bent and crouched up, your shot flows more. If anything, the stiffness helps it from breaking.

[kosydar 0]

I remember the discussion of flexy sticks vs. stiff sticks, which break easier, and Marcelo (TPS) said that flexier sticks are harder to break. I was pretty surprised by this. I think it might have been on CB though, so finding the thread would be hard.

[mm705 0]

i broke 2 z bubbles, 2 synergys, 1 inno taper and 1 inno ops (both 1100). i only broke one wood blade the whole time because i usually toss em when they get dead, before they actually break.

[Cavs019 710]

i dont understand you guys. I skate 5-6 times a week and manage to break at most 2 sticks a year.

[Chadd 916]

I believe you're right about it being on CB.

[JR Boucicaut 3804]

Been using Flyweights for 3 yrs. I have not broken a shaft yet.

It also has to do with the way you shoot. If you have very good form you won't break them often. I see too many hacks breaking sticks by just plowing them into the ice.

[Chadd 916]

All of mine are from blades snapping on OPS or slashes.

[Vapor 0]

yeah, the only reason that stick broke was because I was like all off kilter, and just, shot wierd, I dont know how to explain it. I think weve all had those shitty shots, but breaking at my lower hand was a little odd

[thejackal 46]

6-8.  I broke a few blades from shots or being jammed weird.  I just broke my XN10 on a slapshot in open hockey.  I wound up, took a shot, and it broke at my lower hand.  Very weird, never broke a stick liek that, proabably do to my pitiful form.

Using too short a stick doesnt help either.

But the advantages are so much more obvious. Stick handeling is much improved, as your arms are aloud to freely flow, instead of having your elbows bent and crouched up, your shot flows more. If anything, the stiffness helps it from breaking.

i have been using a shorter stick (up to adam's apple on skates) and it isn't bad, but i wouldn't wan to go shorter than that.