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About bildeer

  • Birthday 01/28/2001

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  • Location
    Lehigh Valley / Harrisburg, PA
  • Hometown
    Harrisburg, PA

Current Equipment

  • Leg Pads
    Vaughn Velocity 7600/7800 (third and final pair!)
  • Review:
    They're like my last pair of velocity fours, but with a solid outer roll and the velocity five sliding surface, and there is no knee lock
  • Glove
    CCM Extreme Flex 3 580 one piece
  • Review:
    I love this thing
  • Blocker
    Vaughn B7800
  • Review:
    I also love this thing
  • Chest & Arm Protector
    Brown 2400 "russian spec"
  • Review:
    Works very well, does everything I need it to do.
  • Pants
    Vaughn V4 Bobrovsky pro return (new spec)
  • Review:
    Very mobile, like my HPG12A
  • Mask
    Bauer 961SE stars and stripes
  • Review:
    it's pretty
  • Stick
    Total one nxg branded as 2s
  • Review:
    I like it a lot, It's like my Reebok 11k/6k but more consistent.
  • Skates - Boot
    Graf 7500
  • Review:
    I like them better than my DM1080's, which I really liked.
  • Skate - Cowling
    Graf cowling
  • Review:
    I like these
  • Skates - Blades
    Graf
  • Review:
    like step steel
  • Knee Pads
    Factory Mad
  • Review:
    these things are great, if your leg pads can handle them
  • Neck Guard
    Ecoprofoam
  • Review:
    I like it.
  • Jock
    10 year old Bauer Reactor due to pant/chest protector fit issues
  • Review:
    It works good

Wish List

  • Leg Pads
    MORE V4'S!!
  • Glove
    anything with a 90 degree break
  • Blocker
    a factory mad or another B7800
  • Chest & Arm Protector
    Another Brown 2400
  • Pants
    Vaughn
  • Mask
    Another 961SE or RXS Daytona 68'
  • Stick
    Reebok 11k
  • Skates - Boot
    More grafs
  • Skate - Cowling
    More grafs
  • Skates - Blades
    More grafs
  • Knee Pads
    Factory mad/ Ortema
  • Neck Guard
    Factory mad
  • Jock
    Brown 2000

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  1. I made it to 23 last month. Do I get anything?
  2. While I cannot advise as to what is the safest foam, I will say that I have had good experiences with the shocktec product. Many years ago I had planned on supplementing it with additional sheets of d30 in select areas between the shell and the other foam but never got around to it. Perhaps one of these days?
  3. @RichMan Glad you brought this up. I had been thinking about this lately. While I probably won't be old enough to worry about it for some time, I had been wondering: how long can I keep up my current style of play before I start breaking things? So far I've been able to get by with proper preparation (stretching, general training etc.), but it will be interesting to see exactly what changes will need to be made for me to continue playing for as long as the more "senior" members on the forum given that I grew up playing "the modern game" whereas many here had a different basis to start with. I hope my hips can take another 40 years of this, though I likely won't be able to throw myself around as I have been able to. Perhaps I'll find a way to work smarter and not harder.
  4. From 2018 to last year I was in a pair of Graf DM1080's. I liked them a lot (and still do). I came from some Reebok 11k's that I had been wearing for a while that quite frankly had a blade with a length that resembled a pair of skis. I could shuffle and do everything else fine, but It wasn't until I switched to something with shorter blades (and a more aggressive profile) did I realize that I had been missing out on the ability to pivot and rotate the way I was now able to. Back to the DM1080's I was wearing: I never really had any complaints with them, but I tried some G7500's on a whim because I recalled that back in the day the people who wore them would never shut up about them. I gave them a try expecting to not notice much of a difference and would switch back to the DM1080s. I found that the former allowed more flexibility at the ankle, was more comfortable as a consequence, and lighter, which was nice. It made movements feel more natural and quite frankly I didn't realize skates could feel that nice and give me that much control. I really wish I had known about these when I was younger, but the general sentiment at around that time was that "Grafs were for the old folks" and I never really questioned it further. Hope that is a sufficient explanation. You're entirely correct with respect to having to adapt to changes in how the game is played. All I am stating is that those of us who were "born into the modern game" might stop more pucks, but I have reservations regarding the ability to goaltend for 40-50 years like some forum members have without needing hip resurfacing or replacements. There's stuff we can do to mitigate the effects of it before it becomes an issue, but I do not believe we really had a good grasp on the effects of it until a few years ago. For many, the damage has already been done. While this may or may not be a similar equivocation, I will bring this up just for the sake of it. I have an uncle who was fortunate enough to be drafted to the NFL and spent several years there as a defensive lineman in the 1980's. He's showing signs of CTE now and the league is paying out for the brain damage he sustained during his tenure there. While we know a lot more about traumatic brain injuries now than we did then, the damage has already been done. Unfortunately, they didn't make this realization until many of his former teammates (nearly exclusively linemen) began taking their own lives as a result of TBIs sustained during their careers. While the situation with goaltenders hips obviously less severe, I really think it should be emphasized a little more than it is, as I really hate to hear about the guys I grew up playing with sustaining the kind of injuries that they do. With respect to men's league, yeah, the kind of stuff you'll see there is resembling of a shooting gallery at times. I honestly think it has the greatest variation in experience and skill level than any other group you'll play with, and that can make things very, very difficult at times. It's a different game out there. Perhaps this may be a consequence of how I worded my last post, but the only reason I made the statement regarding equipment and performance, I shared this because there are some things that you don't realize until you've done it, and it wasn't something I realized until a few years ago. I made my comment because If you go back 10 years ago, aside from the disappearance of shredded foam, bindings, strapping and weight they are not really that different. Now if you are referring to the "Pre-Velocity/box pad" days, yes, they very much different. Trying to stay in line with the thread topic, so I'll add a picture of an old leg pad, but when they were new. I swiped this photo from the GSBB many years ago before they took the site down. Dated 12/11/10. I would not get my hands on them until the summer of 2013 and wore them until the summer of 2017. I ended up liking the model so much (V4 7600) that I ended up with two more pairs, one of which I still wear to this day. (some of you may recognize these as DoubleG's leg pads that came with the single break instead of the double break it was ordered with) I still have them and have no plans on getting rid of them, although I did run them into the ground, so the don't look like they do in the photo anymore.
  5. You jest, but you're entirely correct, as you likely are already aware. The modern game is extremely hard on the hips (and associated ligaments). There are goaltenders my age (under 25) getting hip replacements and dealing with other serious hip-related issues. They may have achieved that "sick butterfly flare" (that has much less bearing on how many pucks will be stopped than some believe) but at what cost? Maybe Giguere was on to something with his signature "jiggy fly". Bringing this back to equipment in an attempt to not stray too far off topic, but my equipment bag resembles something that was swiped from a locker room back in 2012. I never thought I'd end up being that guy wearing "ancient" (allegedly) equipment but what is also somewhat humorous is not only the realization of how little bearing what equipment equipment you are wearing (within reason) relates to success, and that they all do the same thing, just in different ways. Sometimes we forget how little what we wear has to do with the equation. I'd post a photo of my equipment, but short of "downgrading" to a pair of 11 year old Graf 7500's last year (for $120!), nothing has changed aside from the fact that my skating is better than it has ever been.
  6. Don't really have much to add other than I would try to keep them. How much trouble would you get into if you moved them out of the garage and into the house? A couple years ago my father bought a Goldwing and banished my equipment from the garage! Also, very much like the representation of wankel powered road race cars (the MX-5 is neat too). Last year I got to take someone's highly modified third gen RX-7 around Pocono Raceway's North road course and enjoyed it so much that I decided that I was going to take my perfectly good one and go build what is essentially an SCCA/NASA compliant road race car out of it.
  7. bildeer

    True 580

    I made this post a couple of years ago regarding a similar query. Back in 2015 I made the switch from a Vaughn velocity 4 7600 to a reebok xlt 580, which for all intents and purposes is pretty much the same thing as the True 580 you are referring to and the Reebok premier 3 that was introduced all those years ago. While I do not have any experience with Warrior gloves, I can tell you that the hand position and how you close the glove will be different. If you see my above quote, you should be able to model the hand motions used to open and close the 580/90 degree break glove and see if it is something you are comfortable with. You also may want to take note of how you are holding your glove because the glove break can change how you hold it due to where the pocket is located with respect to the base of the glove palm. Hope that helps
  8. It has been said before so I won't go too in-depth, but If you're getting sick of it, stop playing for as long as you feel necessary. Back in my younger days when I would be on the ice 5-6 days a week for seven months straight (both practices and games) and by the end of the season I wouldn't even want to think about hockey for at least two to three months. I'd go find something else to do until the next season started. When I first started playing, I used to take goals against personally. Eventually realized (rather quickly) that it isn't productive to be upset about something that already happened and that you are better served identifying what happened and mitigating it. This is going to sound bad, but I really don't care about allowing goals. If it is something that I should have stopped (everything except a very good tip, rebound, or a 3-on-1), then I will address it. Do note that you will only feel as much pressure as you let yourself be subjected to. It is all perception and very much within your control. Some years ago I got thrown into a game against a nationally ranked ACHA div 1 team in a packed arena that I had absolutely no business playing against, or so I told myself leading up to that point. I reminded myself that I was just playing for fun and that it would be just like practice and played accordingly. While we weren't able to recover, as the damage had been done by the time I was put in, I was still able to hold my own against some of the league's top scorers (NCAA dropouts!) on some breakaways and odd-man rushes while only allowing two goals against. That is to say that if you perceive there to not be any pressure, then there will not be any for as long as you continue to believe it. With all that having been said, men's league is a completely different beast, and you have everything ranging from guys that have no clue what they're doing to ex-professional and collegiate players who can skate circles around everyone with their eyes closed. This can make for some less than enjoyable goaltending experiences coupled with people who don't have the first clue about goaltending telling you how to do your job. If you think your teammates (peers) may be receptive to conversation to reach an understanding by you informing them of what you perceive and how it affects you, it may be wise to explore that. My men's league team isn't very good at scoring goals, and they're very aware of the fact that I am often the reason they aren't getting blown out playing against good teams, so I always let them know that I will do everything I can to put them in a position to succeed during the game and attempt to keep them in contention to win. Like most humans, I sometimes make mistakes that put us in precarious positions, but that just comes with playing the position, and every single one of them knows it too. All I can do is stop the next one.
  9. I usually keep stuff until I cannot physically put it back together or can't get it to work the way I want. When I find a specific model of equipment that I like, I usually hang onto it and develop it to work best for my purposes. I've been in three different pairs of Vaughn V4 leg pads (which I will never get rid of, I like them that much) with various updates and modifications over the past nearly 10 years I've been trying (still trying) to stop pucks. I've got a few pairs of pants and c/a's from over the years that I should probably list in the classifieds to fund my ill-conceived race vehicle build, but I have not touched them in a very long time so I do not quantify them as being part of a rotation. I've been away from competitive play for a little longer than I'd like to admit due to some things beyond my control, but back when I was on an ACHA D1 practice squad, and later playing for another reasonably successful program and playing most of the week, the only particular piece of equipment I probably would have wanted a spare of was a catch glove. They are usually the first piece of equipment to go and the frequency and intensity of shots in practice make them not last as long as other pieces of equipment. Multiple sets of undergarments were also very helpful. If you're just playing once or twice every week, I wouldn't worry about having multiple pieces of the same equipment. I actually made a blocker last 9 years from middle school to college and just replaced it last spring, with the exact same model nonetheless. If you just like goalie equipment and have the means to procure it and the space for it, go crazy.
  10. In my younger days, one of the ways I was able to mitigate this was by either shortening the lowest strap that attached the shoulder floater to the unit or if it was particularly bad, I would just remove the entire floater and sew it back where I wanted it. Another way to do it would be to remove material from the floater near the top of your shoulders. I was using the original Warrior Ritual units at the time so a lot of the stuff was either designed to be removable or was easily disassembled. You could also replace the floaters with some from another model if you like everything else about the unit. If you aren't keen on dismantling new equipment, I would suggest looking for something with less stack height in the shoulder area. Hope that helps.
  11. Not sure what specification you are after, but this may help https://gamebreaker.com/product-category/d3o-sheets/
  12. I know this might not be exactly what you're looking for, as I tend to wear "antiquated" equipment, but I have had good experiences using a brown 2400 in collegiate hockey (ACHA Div 1 and CHF hockey) for some years. As you know, the increased number of practices, caliber, and frequency of the shots experienced have a tendency to destroy equipment in short order. I went with it after I got sick of paying several hundreds of dollars on a c/a only to have it last 6 months to a year before I started needing to have to reinforce it with stuff because the padding had broken down so much in a short amount of time that every other shot was rather bothersome. I think it is just a matter of whether you want it to last longer, and deal with the extra weight, or have the latest and greatest most high-performance thing but requires frequent replacement with heavy use. Much like a set of high-performance racing slicks.
  13. Greetings folks, I have some unused size 8 True shift attack holders and the matching steel from Bladetech with the "diamond-like coating" and a SAM profile. Holders are $119 USD Steel is $199 USD I am open to offers. Buyer pays shipping. Can ship from Allentown PA 18104 or from Middletown PA 17057 Please reach out if you have any questions.
  14. I think the one I have is from a different manufacturer. I got 5 yards from the Zoro website for about $16 USD back in 2019. Not sure how much it costs these days. Got mixed up with the 3m dual lock fastener that I use to secure foam in the mask. @Puckstopper
  15. I put 3m vibration damping tape in my Itech/Bauer 961SE onto the higher impact areas of the shell like the chin and forehead to decrease vibration. I also put some on the sides of the shell where the fiberglass is thinner and more likely to vibrate from impact. I think it works pretty well. I don't recall much of any ringing or "metallic" rattling over the past 3 years with it. This will add weight to the mask so if you are particularly sensitive to stuff like that, I would try to add as little as possible to achieve the desired effect.
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