Stiffer Knee stacks making 5 hole closure worse.

[Chenner29]

All pads have a boot taper to some degree and applying your weight through your skates will cause the pad to lift up (as it should, otherwise recovering to your feet would be a bitch)... It shouldn’t affect the torsion at the thigh rise if your weight is down the center over your knees and hips (and the pads are properly sized) 

Keep your stick down and drink lots of milk so you can grow into them 

[TheGoalNet]

10 hours ago, Chenner29 said:

All pads have a boot taper to some degree and applying your weight through your skates will cause the pad to lift up (as it should, otherwise recovering to your feet would be a bitch)... It shouldn’t affect the torsion at the thigh rise if your weight is down the center over your knees and hips (and the pads are properly sized) 

Keep your stick down and drink lots of milk so you can grow into them 

I agree with this in theory, but I think the 80 deg taper toe taper was phased out at retail for a reason. We’re splitting hairs here for sure... but I don’t think the 80 deg taper and and unsewn in knee block are helping. It’s a little of pieces that could negatively effect. I think that is not a great combo.

with that said, 100% agree that working on your technique is what you should be doing. I’d be shocked if that is really going to consistently allow pucks going in on you. 

[Max27]

18 hours ago, TheGoalNet said:

I agree with this in theory, but I think the 80 deg taper toe taper was phased out at retail for a reason. We’re splitting hairs here for sure... but I don’t think the 80 deg taper and and unsewn in knee block are helping. It’s a little of pieces that could negatively effect. I think that is not a great combo.

with that said, 100% agree that working on your technique is what you should be doing. I’d be shocked if that is really going to consistently allow pucks going in on you. 

arent the optik flx cores stock with an 80 degree toe, or is it 84 like the gnetik 4?

[Jonathon v]

6 hours ago, Max27 said:

arent the optik flx cores stock with an 80 degree toe, or is it 84 like the gnetik 4?

I believe stock optik flx is 80 

[Max27]

59 minutes ago, Jonathon v said:

I believe stock optik flx is 80 

you believe correct. 

[Jonathon v]

On 3/15/2019 at 11:04 PM, Max27 said:

you believe correct. 

So is that too much of a taper because for a while I wanted to get a  78 degree taper but that was dumb thought 

[Max27]

6 hours ago, Jonathon v said:

So is that too much of a taper because for a while I wanted to get a  78 degree taper but that was dumb thought 

It depends. Do you get into a wider stance? if so, not really. if yes,than it could be

[Jonathon v]

1 hour ago, Max27 said:

It depends. Do you get into a wider stance? if so, not really. if yes,than it could be

I gotta a pretty narrow stance sometimes I don’t get a good push when in my butterfly 

[TheGoalNet]

@Jonathon v  @Max27 I mean that GNetik used to have a more narrow toe and now the stock is 84. Brian’s seems to be moving away from the 78 and 80

[Max27]

On 3/21/2019 at 9:59 PM, TheGoalNet said:

@Jonathon v  @Max27 I mean that GNetik used to have a more narrow toe and now the stock is 84. Brian’s seems to be moving away from the 78 and 80

Yeah i gotcha