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Salming WRTX (twisty stick).

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Salmings new high end stick.

"A state of the art elite stick fully equipped with innovative technology. The WRTX stick is engineered to give you harder shots and better accuracy. WRTX, the twisted part of the shaft, stands for an extra torsional stifness that has been added in order to make the area below the twist area to work even harder. Thus creating a whip effect - more power! This performance package will more than likely give you a new weapon of choice."

What do you think?

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Pictures from hockeymonkey EU's facebook.

http://www.hockeymon...tx-grip-sr.html

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Wow, a nod to Hespeler's old blade technology around the turn of the millennium. I'd love to whip it through the paces but doubt it'd be enough to switch.

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hmmm lol i honestely dont know what to think before trying that.

what are the pattern available?

also wondering the weight and the balance on that thing

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hmmm lol i honestely dont know what to think before trying that.

what are the pattern available?

also wondering the weight and the balance on that thing

Swedish distributors and shops get the new sticks way before Salming put any good info on their pages :S

Weight 450g aprox.

Salming patterns:

11- Sakic clone

21- Zetterberg clone

48- Parise clone

51- Lidstrom clone

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Swedish distributors and shops get the new sticks way before Salming put any good info on their pages :S

Weight 450g aprox.

Salming patterns:

11- Sakic clone

21- Zetterberg clone

48- Parise clone

51- Lidstrom clone

thank you for the info!

im no longer interrested in even trying the stick hehe

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Looks like a churro...mmm churro.

Makes sense in theory, torsional forces are rotational after all, and if you consider Newton's 3rd law, the way the stick twists should be in direct opposite with the way the stick torques blah blah blah

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The way I look at this is, if Bauer or Easton produced something like this, people would be dishing out their life saving to buy it and claiming it's the most brilliant idea ever.

I'm interested, but I'd have to see proven results. Getting people to try it will be the biggest hurdle for this stick.

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The way I look at this is, if Bauer or Easton produced something like this, people would be dishing out their life saving to buy it and claiming it's the most brilliant idea ever.

I'm interested, but I'd have to see proven results. Getting people to try it will be the biggest hurdle for this stick.

Agreed with your other point, but I don't think getting people to try stuff will be hard; there will always be those curious. It's the part where they have to convince users to choose Salming over their Bauers and Eastons that will be hard.

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I have a Salming M11 KZN, where it curves in around the same point that the above stick twists.

It's a good stick, kicks low, fairly accurately. Feel is pretty good.

However, I only bought it because it was on clearance at a LHS around here.

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Wow, a nod to Hespeler's old blade technology around the turn of the millennium. I'd love to whip it through the paces but doubt it'd be enough to switch.

The offset blade? Which was set back about 1" from the shaft? I have one in my garage still lol

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Looks like a churro...mmm churro.

Makes sense in theory, torsional forces are rotational after all, and if you consider Newton's 3rd law, the way the stick twists should be in direct opposite with the way the stick torques blah blah blah

It's not a loaded twist like a spring. It's shape shouldn't have any effect via Newton's 3rd law. By that logic I could curve the bottom of the shaft backwards and claim catapult action.

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it looks really weird, I wonder what the difference will be in: feel, shooting, receiving passes etc. Cause a twist like that should have a good reason behind it..

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It's not a loaded twist like a spring. It's shape shouldn't have any effect via Newton's 3rd law. By that logic I could curve the bottom of the shaft backwards and claim catapult action.

I was trying to say that the torsional forces when loading are intended to be counteracted via the twists. I'm no physics student so I guess you're right

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It would be pretty interesting to see floorball stick technology imported into hockey actually. For a number of years now, floorball sticks have come with numerous tweaks to the shafts, such as a bowed (curved) shaft (Unihoc and Fatpipe), carbon bubbles to modify flex point (Unihoc) and shaft with holes for aerodynamic purposes (Exel). I'm not sure if these features really added a lot to the sticks, but they definitely modified the feel significantly. I was a fan of the curved shaft from Unihoc myself.

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All of those things have been used in hockey sticks before.

Curved - Hespeler wood sticks, Salming composite sticks

Carbon Bubble - Easton Z-bubble

Holes - Reebok

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I think he was referring to the fact that cows are, by definition, female, and therefore do not have the aforementioned reproductive organ.

Got it in one. That's why I thought he was making some kind of point with the contradiction.

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The offset blade? Which was set back about 1" from the shaft? I have one in my garage still lol

Funny- the Hesspler offset blade was the first thing I thought of as well when I saw this.

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