All black/PRO/hockeystickman etc blade feel

[nisselrm 22]

I’m curious about which of these blades, if any have “pingy”, stiff feel to them.

 

Vapor blades are by far the best for me so I’m trying to find a low kick option with a p91 curve with a blade most similar to vapors.

 

thanks!

[mcne0101 16]

I've always been a Ribcore guy, loved every one of them up until the Ribcore 8 where I think the blade feel is brutal. It was unusable for me. 

Because of that I decided to give the Hockeystickman pro blackout extra lite a shot. I absolutely love it, the puck feel is very similar to the ribcores of the past. I wouldn't call them overly pingy, they have great puck feel. 

[Hills 717]

You are going to get a bunch of different and wrong answers from people when you ask this since 99% of people don't understand blade feel and stiffness.

Hockeystickman has a few different sticks, they have their Pro Blackout and Pro Custom Blackout (which are made by Prostockhockeysticks). I used a Pro Blackout and the blade felt completely dead and like you'd expect from a budget stick.

Prostockhockeysticks depends on what blade material you use, the stock one is pretty "standard." Think CCM Jetspeed before the 7, current Warrior offerings, Sherwood, etc.

Vapor is a VERY VERY pingy blade. The closest you will find to that is the Hoapa X-Stiff but it is hard to recommend those sticks with how many bad experiences for durability I have heard of is.

But... I think you have to ask yourself if you actually care about the puck feel to the point of where you have to have a Vapor like feeling and what part of the feeling do you want. Do you want the feeling while shooting? Is it the stiff feeling you want or the pingy feeling, these are both different things. Stiffness is if you can feel the blade opening up or flexing while shooting, pingyness is the vibrations and dampening.

When taking hard shots, the pingyness feeling is more similar between a lot of the brands and models of sticks. But passing and stickhandling is where the pingyness makes a big difference.