Warrior Alpha Pro Skates

[iceman8310 111]

Can we open a discussion?  the skates come out on Friday.

 

Edited Friday at 06:31 PM by iceman8310

[Westside 270]

I’ve been in a pro stock pair for a month or two at this point. Very comfortable and feel a lot like the True skates I’m used to. Since I have a lot of CCM Step steel I already swapped holders which was easy since the hole pattern is the same. Time will tell how they hold up although certain elements of the pro stock version (that may be tweaked for the retail version) felt a little cheap. As in, not a $1200 skate, but maybe an $800 skate

[iceman8310 111]

14 hours ago, Westside said:

I’ve been in a pro stock pair for a month or two at this point. Very comfortable and feel a lot like the True skates I’m used to. Since I have a lot of CCM Step steel I already swapped holders which was easy since the hole pattern is the same. Time will tell how they hold up although certain elements of the pro stock version (that may be tweaked for the retail version) felt a little cheap. As in, not a $1200 skate, but maybe an $800 skate

I can’t wait to try these on 

[shoe2010 0]

Thanks for the overview. Any opinion on how they skate? Specifically, do you feel like these enforce the modern skating stride / penalize the lazy old man stride? Or are they what you make of them? That used to be a stiffness question, but manufacturers seem to be figuring out ways to have stiff + "flexible" feeling in one boot. 

[Westside 270]

Well I’m no longer young and am far from a pro, so I’d say they work for the lazy old man stride. lol! I’ve been spoiled with how True skates fit/feel and these are similar. When I tried FT6 Pros after they were released they never felt ‘right’ even after months of skating on them. With the Warriors I just needed to tweak the lacing a bit and I was good to go. 
 

The boot is definitely stiff and I can barely flex the ankle opening but they do allow me to move easily when wearing them. Not exactly sure how they’re doing it, but CCM is claiming something similar with flex zones on the Vizion skate so like you said, manufacturers seem to be figuring this out. Height of the boot is also on the shorter side. Measuring the inside of the boot to the ankle cuff without an insole my True 9x4 are ~6.5” whereas the Warrior Alpha Pro are 6”. One less eyelet as well 

[Sniper9 567]

4 hours ago, Westside said:

Well I’m no longer young and am far from a pro, so I’d say they work for the lazy old man stride. lol! I’ve been spoiled with how True skates fit/feel and these are similar. When I tried FT6 Pros after they were released they never felt ‘right’ even after months of skating on them. With the Warriors I just needed to tweak the lacing a bit and I was good to go. 
 

The boot is definitely stiff and I can barely flex the ankle opening but they do allow me to move easily when wearing them. Not exactly sure how they’re doing it, but CCM is claiming something similar with flex zones on the Vizion skate so like you said, manufacturers seem to be figuring this out. Height of the boot is also on the shorter side. Measuring the inside of the boot to the ankle cuff without an insole my True 9x4 are ~6.5” whereas the Warrior Alpha Pro are 6”. One less eyelet as well 

I'm guessing that's how they're incorporating more ankle flexion.  Making it shorter and one less eyelet. For trues, I always had to drop the to eyelet to not feel like I was in casts. 

[Westside 270]

10 minutes ago, Sniper9 said:

I'm guessing that's how they're incorporating more ankle flexion.  Making it shorter and one less eyelet. For trues, I always had to drop the to eyelet to not feel like I was in casts. 

I used to drop the top eyelet but for the last year and a half or so I’ve been skipping the second eyelet. Prefer how that feels on the Trues