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Do one-piece composite sticks lose performance over use?

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I play D and take a lot of slappers, but I've never once broken a stick before (wood or composite). So what ends up happening is that I'll be the same stick stick for a a few years at a time before the blade starts to give out. I've noticed that my older sticks have gotten considerably whippier. Is this something that normally happens with composites? How will extended use affect the performance of the stick in other ways other than the flex?

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If you take a lot of slappers, you have great luck to get years out of your blades. My shafts don't break but the blades always seem to die at the point of impact with the puck. The shafts whip out or end up breaking on the follow through of a shot more often than not, but that takes a while for me. It has been at least five or six years since I have broken a shaft in any way other than on the follow through of a shot.

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The stick does wear down even though it's not broken physically the performance is no longer there. It's just like some people have said that they can get better shots off with a new stick where the exact same stick that has been used for a half of a season does not have the same performance.

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The various microscopic "breaks" in a stick's composite layers eventually lead to it feeling more flexible and losing some of the kick/snap that it started with. Some sticks seem to break in a bit within a couple months and hold that consistency for a long time (older TPS shafts), whereas others stay the same for a long time and then just suddenly lose any previous kick. As for breaking sticks, I have only ever broken three composite shafts out of the dozens I've used. An Easton Cyclone that had been used for ages snapped at a stress fracture point on the shaft during a shot, a Synergy snapped when it got caught between two other colliding players, and a One95 shaft that began showing a crack immediately after using it and snapped within a half dozen uses. That's it. I have an ancient Z-Bubble that started as a 100 flex and now feels comparable to an 80, plus has lost any pop and just feels like it has no recoil.

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