WillyGrips13

Do I get points for reading this thread while on the toilet?

Had the missus take some photos after our skills clinic last night. She also plays there. The last picture is from last week when I wore some older pads I had Jeff Salvi make with Bucky material.

Has anyone checked out the GSBB site recently? It seems to be totally dysfunctional. You have to refresh after you post for it to show. Today's posts show nothing. The threads don't show the date of the most recent post. It's a mess. I guess it's on life support and it's more reason to be on this site which works flawlessly [knock on wood].

Have you already purchased? I have this roll that's been sitting in a plastic bag for almost 20 years. It's from art classes in college. Not sure if it's what you're looking for. FYI, I tried to send you a message and it said your inbox is full.

Yes. I believe they are the same pad both made by Boddam, mine are just branded as Simmons. Mine are stock, no mods.

Our site administrator asked that I post more pics of my black pads. It's nighttime and it's the basement, so the lighting isn't good.

I just posted the video in my user video section with a nice essay length description. BTW, Fullright you definitely could be a solid goalie in league play.

Indeed. I think I finally have had an epiphany. It's like I am finally acknowledging that competitiveness and the desire for winning really is at odds with the nature of any non-league adult hockey. Hell even some league play is devoid of the required level of desire and compete level. After Thursday's debacle, I skated out at my usual Friday night skate. We had 13 skaters for an hour and a half session. I was lucky to be on the good team. Of course there was a dominant team and a weaker team. I could only imagine being the goalie on the weaker team. I guess that's just what hockey is now, run and gun and no care for defense.

Wow, what a s#%! show tonight. I was asked to play at a skate that is a normal group. I call it a rent out. For some reason ALL the good players were on one team. I started on the good side. We were up 4-0 before I saw a shot. After 20 minutes the other goalie asked to switch. They did shift one guy over at that time, too. It evened out a little for maybe 15 minutes. Then it fell off a cliff. There's one guy who comes in on a breakaway and stops and puck handles back and forth three or four times before shooting. And he still has time to get the rebound and the rebound and the rebound. This happened more than once. Like five to ten times. That's how bad the one team was. After an hour or so I would just stand there since no one was presenting any resistance to anyone. Plus I feel like I'd injure myself trying to make a desperation save on the twentieth backdoor pass on one sequence. And of course I got it all on the damn GoPro. Maybe I'll edit some of this footage, or maybe I'll throw the GoPro into the river. @Fullright, I don't know how you do it with your two hour shinny session with lopsided teams. To me it doesn't resemble hockey and it isn't fun. I find it hard for it to be productive when it gets that way.

What I'm describing usually happens when there are only 12-14 skaters. The first twenty minutes are fine. Then people get gassed. By 45 minutes to the hour mark, it's a circus. And if the slot is an hour and a half the last half hour may as well be just breakaway and _ on 0 drills. I try to avoid getting roped into these situations, but sometimes you can't anticipate it will happen.

Yeah, it's understood that drop-in, regular groups, and even league play won't have great defending. However, when any skate stops resembling hockey, goalies can injure themselves trying to make miraculous saves or develop bad habits due to unrealistic situations. What I'm talking about is when players are consistently getting breakaways from their own blue line with zero pressure and can go as slow as they want and even stop fully before they shoot. And if you manage to save it, they still have time to go get the rebound in the corner or behind the net and bring it back in front of goal and take an eternity to shoot. Then when your team finally returns to the zone after a goal or save and cover, they take the puck and immediately turn it over. That's not hockey. That's insanity.

Ok, but then they'll have goalies build their upper bodies or draft goalies with larger upper bodies so they can fill the net if it's all about CAs fitting their body type.

Seeing these guys in their CAs without jerseys is interesting. My first thought is, wow the CAs don't look that big. As in, maybe CAs don't need to be reduced. After all, they were already reduced back in '05.

Oh yeah. I forgot I have her pictures that look more professional and the before shot before they went into surgery. She also replaced some jenpro on the catcher cuff and put some clear substance on wear areas.

Had Sara at PAW re-lace my gloves. Had her use red cord on the perimeter of the catcher and on the end of the blocker. Also had her put red skate lace in the pocket. New blocker palm and wrist pad on the catcher. She reinforced some worn areas on the blocker with jenpro. Original lacing was coming apart and was all black. Pocket lacing was also coming apart and was also black. These gloves are four plus years old, so they've held up well.

iPhone and iPad usually. I guess I can just touch the top of the screen to get to top, can't I? Duh.

How about a "Back to top" link at the bottom of every page?

I've just registered. I was on both GSBB and GoalieCrease.net. I'll continue with GSBB and see how this one comes along. Too bad about the Crease. I am on Facebook, but never joined GGSU. The name of the group signaled to me that it might be trouble and all reports are that it indeed was. I did join vintage goalie gear group and that one's cool. Facebook is actually fine. It's actually probably one of the most adult (mature not sexay) social networking sites.