Best "small" gear/stick line

[grider18 0]

Any thoughts on this?

Sande

Ballistik

Compro

Flite

SBK

Brooklynite

Salming

[sm326 0]

im gonna have to go with farrell eventhough you forgot to list them just because of the protective gear and the technology used to create it.

[Jarick 5]

Only one I've used is Christian for their wood blades. Nice guys too, but didn't like anything else of theirs that I've tried.

[team50 20]

Ballistik--getting better and better.

[Jason Harris 31]

Maybe it's a chicken and the egg question, but I've always liked Salming's designs and creativity.

[adam14 182]

Salming isn't small, just not available in North America because its a european company.

[chippa13 1844]

Perhaps you don't realize your posts follows that of the guy who distributed Salming in N.A.

[Patrick67 1]

Ballistik.

And Salming is a small company in Europe too. Outside Sweden you hardly ever see any of their products.

[Chadd 916]

I liked the Sande gloves when he had the goat palms but I hated the trigger finger. The Salming line at the time Jason was distributing it had the best fit and finish of any small manufacturer I've seen.

[Ogie Oglethorpe 14]

I tried the Sande stick. Pretty good, to be honest. It was light and had good pop. However, it was not durable.

I have not tried the Salming stick. However, my brother (who plays beer league now but used to play college) absolutely loves them and has tried to get more.

I haven't tried the Ballistik yet but its on my list.

SM326 mentioned Farrell. DrewHunz had one at a game once. It looked good and felt pretty balanced (wrong hand, tho, as Drew's a south paw so I can't comment on its performance).

I have played with a lot of the Busch sticks and really, really liked them.

I have a Fury stick that I love the curve on. Reasonable pop and durability for the money. I hear the Payback line was supposed to be quite good, but it never really made it to market.

[mdamson 0]

There seems to be less and less of these companies every day. Mostly because they keep getting gobbled up and absorbed by the big two. Harrow and Muskoka have done well for me in the past.

[Stafford21 0]

Anyone hear anything about the bankruptcy proceedings of the Kor company? Was kinda hoping to see future products from them.

[jimmy 194]

The Salming line of sticks was awesome. They could have grown to be more than just a "small" gear line. Besides them,. I will say Farell makes a really nice stick. On a side note no one has ever came in my store and asked if we had or could get a Harrow, Sande, Christian, Ballistic, Brooklineite, etc, stick. Without marketing, these fringe lines will always be fringe. They may be the best product,. but if the kids don't see a lot of pros using them, then sales will be flat. Too risky for dealers to carry them.

[ovechkin_368 0]

my friend has a harow stick and feels pretty good, and i have to agree with jimmy marketing is everything. Salming stick are great i used to have one, gotta off a friend who plays in europe. Salming isnt really big here but its massive in sweden and the surround scandanavia

[TBLfan 25]

Salming's gloves were very comfy and well made. Good glove for the money you can find them at now... if you can find them.

I've seen the new Ballistic sticks but they don't appear to be anything special and I didn't think their gloves were impressive either.

Compro sticks are tanks and perform well.

The older Fury replacement blades with z-tac on the face were stellar. The blades chipped easily but they were very lightweight and had the best feel of any replacement blade I've used.

[Chadd 916]

The older Fury replacement blades with z-tac on the face were stellar. The blades chipped easily but they were very lightweight and had the best feel of any replacement blade I've used.

Those blades had excellent feel and most of them were tanks in terms of lifespan. One of the guys that worked at the rink where my shop was went through 3 z-carb blades in a month and used one of the Fury blades for close to six months, playing four or five days a week.

[grider18 0]

I had a pair of Ballistik custom made gloves and paid wholesale $150 for them. Palms gone in 2 months, cloth material frayed on my glove and the name was screened on. Very poorly done. And frankly got ripped off IMO. Used their OPS, which was my first ever so cannot really give a fair opinion.

Flite has an MIA knock off, pricey but thats what you get for Canadian made gloves. have never used their OPS

SANDE had great mits good stuff, sticks not very durable though.

FURY gloves okay, OPS tanks, little heavier but very durable

Compro, best OPS by far of the niche companies. Had it for around a month and hope the durabilty is as good as the performance!

Salming, never had the gloves, have a Matrix, decent stick

[mrruin 0]

My first composite OPS was a Salming tf1 and I had a 2007 Evolution stick. Very light stick, decent balance but the blade cracked sooner rather than later. Pretty cheap to buy though over here for high end sticks. Their lower end line is also pretty decent, certainly beats out price point sticks from other companies.