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gruffin

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  1. wow, amazing. Thank you! This is going to be so helpful in my searching
  2. Is this mostly relevant for getting the skate blade onto the ice when recovering from a butterfly, or does the softness of the boot have other implications?
  3. This is one of the things that I've been struggling with. I think that I'd like to purchase a used, but newer set of gear, both to save money and to avoid a lengthy break-in process. However, with so many different lines and iterations of each line of pad I'm having a tough time feeling confident in an online purchase without trying the pad on prior, and even getting basic information/cross comparisons between older generations of pads. I would really like to find a timeline showing when each major brand released different versions of their pads, so that I can see which ones might be comparable across different brands and know when technologies like speedskin (thanks for the tip) were brought in. Maybe that's something I just have to create myself.
  4. Hey folks, I'm brand new here, just starting to poke around what seems like an excellent resource. Please excuse this post if it's been made in the wrong place. I've been playing with the same 34+1 V2's for the past 16 years. They were used when I got them. I haven't been keeping up with gear trends because I could never afford to change my gear, and it was working well enough. Now I'm finally in a position to get a new kit and the process is slightly overwhelming. I'm doing my research and think I have a decent handle on what would work, but I'm hoping some conversation here may be of assistance. Recognizing that my old V2's definitely shrunk, I did always find them to be a tad big in the knee. Today I tried on some new V8 and V9 pads in a 33 +2 and they felt great in the knee but a little bit too tall on the thigh; the pads were overlapping significantly in the middle when I went into butterfly. I suppose I could work on widening my stance, but my sense is that the +2 may just be too big. So, I think that a 33+1 would be the ideal sized pad and I'dd like to keep with a hybrid, softer style of pad. In my search, I'm seeing only 33 +2 in the newer Vaughns, but lots of ccm eflex in 33+1 size, so I'm wondering how these pads compare to the Velocity line -- they appear to fill a comparable niche, but am I missing something important? Recommendations for other brands/lines that might better suit my transition to the modern age? Any guidance provided would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
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