To tuck or not to tuck?

[StinkyPinky 11]

On 2/10/2018 at 7:20 PM, IPv6Freely said:

As with all things labelled ‘personal preference’ if you’re a beginner and therefore haven’t yet settled on a preference, you need a starting point. 

With that in mind I’d go with shins over tongues to start. It’s more protective obviously and if you don’t know any different, then that’s basically the tie breaker with everything else being equal. 

This ^

Buy longer shins to tuck. Maybe don't spend too much money in case you want to switch later?

Since you're big and playing D it just makes sense to me to tuck. I believe the majority players also prefer to tuck, so play the odds.

I'm a forward and go tongue-out with only 14" shins, but that's just how it is. I don't even argue it's better as it's a preference.