johncho

Love this guy https://www.youtube.com/@jamiephillips30

So I think in the end, what I want to say is that it's easy to criticize and we do it too much (I just did it and I feel yucky). It's too easy, it's powerful and it sometimes feels good. He's criticizing equipment and we are criticizing his criticism. And in the end we haven't really created anything of value. The hard part is that once it becomes something you're good at, you tend to stop creating and your tastes start to narrow. But in the end it was just a way of saying "they did things in a way I didn't like".

Yeah I mean we established that even great goalies like KK can't explain why he likes certain pads. But also on the other hand, I think what I got from this is that the main issue is that he focusses almost obsessively on things that he values most which is the pad's ability to slide and rebound (I mean puck machines aren't cheap). He focusses on them because of the deficiencies in the way he plays; which is that he rarely gains his feet and prefers to slide around, and he doesn't control his rebounds as well as one should so he cares about hard rebounds. Again not a knock directly, I'm probably much worse.

Saw the puck machine tests and I don't think that I'll ever be flexible enough for a puck to hit my thigh rise that squarely if I'm facing the puck properly.

Can you get 2 of these? https://fixmygear.com/products/sting-stopper Or I would get a cheap JR/Int C/A for like 50$ and cut up some of the Belly section and affix Velcro to it.

I was in VH and it was the H leg that got hit Edit: during the transition from VH on my glove side to standing up, the shooter caught a pass as I was moving my right foot back to get up opening up the knee area. Should it have happened? No. Am I good enough to quickly recover and react before he shot? Also no.

I use this method and I quite like it. I have weak skinny ankles

You can see the mark it left through my socks.

I do like my Bauer Pro Knee guards, but I have to wear them with knee pads underneath which is a bit bulky. I happened across a pretty good deal on brand new CCM Pros on FB marketplace that could not be returned. The inside feels very plush and fit my knobbly knee cap well. The straps work well, it fits much higher than the Bauers (Bauers seem to provide more protection lower, and CCMs higher). Of course last night, first time out with it 15min in I get into a VH and take an absolute bomb off the knee. I definitely felt it when it happened and I still feel it this morning (no bruise yet but tender). I will try them again with some knee pads to see if they are bulkier than the Bauers in that manner. Either that or I will relegate them for lower games.

A girl in my group plays with Intermediate pads for mobility and she's very good. I don't think she misses any width at all. The pads do look kinda odd on her though with the little extra bit of skinniness

Tough news after John Brown shutting down https://www.instagram.com/p/DAQqv4DuQq6/

@Hockey34 success! Thank you again, I used your method. But one question remains, with the traditional setup, on the Hyperlites, there was no bias to either side, but since this one only goes through one, should I use the one closer to the inside or outside? Or is the offset kinda small to make much of a difference? I guess the actual offset is half of the distance between, since I’m going from two to one. Funny thing is that I was doing something similar previously anyway with Prolaces.

OH I was wondering how it was inside, but was afraid to take it apart, but it looks like I can do this to put it in easily

I was thinking of doing this if the pliers don't work. Thanks everyone