GoalieInTheDesertYT

10 inches

Is this what you are looking for? Coming from a size 8 skate.

Also I am having problems finding cowlings at a reasonable price. 
If anyone can find second hand cowlings that would be nice.

also thoughts on the ccm Prolite cowlings?

how about graf? Would shaving down grad cowlings work?

On 5/16/2022 at 7:00 PM, Bmats30 said:

I think cutting out the Bauer cowlings increases the attack angle of the cowlings, but I don't know for sure if it would be the same as cowlingless. My immediate thought is no, its close, but not quite. You do not have anything you have to trim with the holders, and I could be wrong without having both in front of me, but I believe the holders will sit higher than the cowlings to begin with. So, you would get rid of the cowling that hits the ice first, but the area of your boot that would hit the ice first is still lower to the ice from the start. You would get the protection from the cowling. 

Have you checked out the new Bauer skates with fit 1,2, and 3? They definitely seem to be more accommodating than previous models. Also, I'm probably one of the few left, but check out the grafs if you have a chance. I've always had some kind of discomfort or pressure with most skates, but the DM's feel like carbon fiber slippers on my feet haha. I know Goalies Plus can still get them. 

So I settled on buying and cutting cowlings. The Difference is so minute I’m sure I won’t have a problem.

There is one problem with your suggestion of getting new skates. The closest store with more than 5 goalies skates is far far far away. I would love to try on skates but being in a country with a small but growing hockey community I don’t have that option.

I’m excited for a Florida v Florida match up

15 hours ago, dreadlocked1 said:

I would get a cowling from goalie monkey's clearance section, one 80 or one 100 series, if they have your size, and try them as is before cutting them if needed.  Only if you're set on modifying your rollers.  It might be worth just trying another brand or series of ice skate.  You could find a good deal on sideline swap and sell again if they don't work out as well as well the ones you don't like now.  As part of this goalie community, I'm sure we'd all rather see a project posted with a ton of photos and results that we'd all enjoy reading about.  But time is precious and experiments can be expensive and can fail.  Either way, keep us posted.

Off-topic but I wanted to mention that your pictures illustrate what forced me to change some of my foot work between skate styles.  I was used to Tour skates for 5-6 years before I got Mission Inhaler skates (much closer to Bauers and ice skates in general).  The Tour cowling goes past the wheel, so you can drag your toes around pointed straight down at the floor, but the Mission's wheel extended past the cowling and that motion was prohibited by the wheel.  That was a rude wakeup call to my subconscious leg movements.  It made transitioning to ice easier though after having gotten used to it.  That was almost a decade ago and I still miss being able to do that to this day.  If there's a goalie ice skate that has that, please let me know.

15 hours ago, dreadlocked1 said:

I would get a cowling from goalie monkey's clearance section, one 80 or one 100 series, if they have your size, and try them as is before cutting them if needed.  Only if you're set on modifying your rollers.  It might be worth just trying another brand or series of ice skate.  You could find a good deal on sideline swap and sell again if they don't work out as well as well the ones you don't like now.  As part of this goalie community, I'm sure we'd all rather see a project posted with a ton of photos and results that we'd all enjoy reading about.  But time is precious and experiments can be expensive and can fail.  Either way, keep us posted.

Off-topic but I wanted to mention that your pictures illustrate what forced me to change some of my foot work between skate styles.  I was used to Tour skates for 5-6 years before I got Mission Inhaler skates (much closer to Bauers and ice skates in general).  The Tour cowling goes past the wheel, so you can drag your toes around pointed straight down at the floor, but the Mission's wheel extended past the cowling and that motion was prohibited by the wheel.  That was a rude wakeup call to my subconscious leg movements.  It made transitioning to ice easier though after having gotten used to it.  That was almost a decade ago and I still miss being able to do that to this day.  If there's a goalie ice skate that has that, please let me know.

I was thinking about buying a set of Bauer vertexx cowlings and cutting those. Just came across a recent problem. The boot of the tour skates may be a little too flimsy. I should probably skate around with the tour skates and figure it out.

this option seems a lot cheaper than buying a used pair trying them on and reselling them.

21 minutes ago, Bmats30 said:

I'm all for a franken skate! Current setup (left) and previous skates (Right). I've also had the True holders on a player boot that fit my foot well. 

Looking at the pictures of of the heels, by swapping the chassis', it looks like you would actually lower the Tour's by a couple millimeters or so. So, if you just did the swap I don't think the height would be an issue. With the tours you would definitely need some type of cowling, but at the same time I cannot speak to the robustness of the tour cowlings in regard to ice pucks. 

Swapping rivets into the current holes would not damage anything, as they should be replaced anytime they start to show wear. You, or whoever would do the swap, will need to drill new holes to fit the respective chassis as roller and ice are nowhere close to the same position. 

Comfort is worth the experiment. In the end you need to be comfortable, but have proper protection at the same time. If you can accomplish both of those with the swap, go for it. Playing with foot pain will hinder your performance and most of all won't be fun. 

 

I really love angle I get with the cowlingless skates, so if I were to buy a Bauer cowling to put over the tour skate I’m worried about losing the edge I can get from the cowlingless. 
I feel combing the two can keep me at the angle I want plus the comfort.

the problem lies with the protection. Do you think I get the angle+ protection by buying Bauer cowlings while cutting the sides? (What trav4oilers did)

So for awhile my x700 skates have been hurting my feet, even after baking. 
I recently got the idea to try and convert my Tour thor G1’s to ice skates. But I have thought of some problems

1) the Tour skates have cowlings while the Bauer ones do not. Which means the toe cap of my roller skates won’t be able to stop a shot like the Bauer skates if I take off the cowling.

2) if I just swap the chassis and runner I’m worried that the Tour skates will be too high and the vapor skates too low.

3) is it worth it? My roller skates have been the most comfortable skates I’ve worn in a long time. And my current ice skates don’t let me get tight bcs of pain.

unrelated question, does swapping rivets multiple times damage skates?

Does anyone have suggestions what I should do?

do I just swap the runner and chassis of each respective skates with each other? 
do I just buy a new cowling for the roller skates? Or something else.

here are pictures of the skates

Another games where israel got crushed. Talked to one of the players last night. I was told they could’ve picked a much better team if it wasn’t for hockey politics 

https://youtube.com/shorts/-E362G23zWs?feature=share
 

i have done it a fully mic’ed up vid. Granted I sucked this game but hey one thing at a time

6 minutes ago, mr_shifty1982 said:

Still great to see my home country play  

Just about done with the Israel v Netherlands game

working on the Israel v Spain now. this one was the closest game

1 hour ago, ilyazhito said:

And China is not even that good. They got their butts kicked to the tune of 3 losses by a score difference of 16-2 against.  The only game they were competitive in was against Germany. 

Hopefully Israel can make some progress up the leaderboard in the next few years. 

I’ve been told by a very trusted source that they left out some of the better defensemen this year by taking a lot more defensemen (fcking hockey politics.)

Looking over the past 3 games it feels like 

1)individually a good amount of them can be competitive but they aren’t playing well as a team. They barely practice together. If they even get a practice game they will absolutely fleece everyone else. So it’s hard for them to get actual competition.

2) while watching the Israel’s defensive game they just stayed inside the dots leaving a ton of space by the boards for passes. We only have 1 ice rink with European size ice and that’s all the way up north in israel. The main rinks we play/practice in are not that size. It looked like they played the wrong style of defense 

3) there had no urgency/hustle. They were always second to the puck just waiting for the other team to make a move. Not getting so physical. Leaving the goalies to foot the bill.

Israel got rocked by China this game 14-1 final

So this practice was right before the IIHF tournament in Zagreb Croatia 

The other three goalies were all on the National team this year.

let’s just say I got completely rocked by some of these guys

Will reupload later

I made a highlight vid for the Israel v Croatia IIHF game that just happened

the Israeli goalie faced 84 shots while the Croatian goalie faced 22

couldnt do much about the announcers though.

On 4/29/2022 at 4:32 PM, mr_shifty1982 said:

I'm coming soon, May 10th is my flight but sadly not taking goalie gear haha going for a visit  

That’s awesome! It’s always great here in the holy land. 
did you know israel just finished competing in Croatia they got crushed

IIHF Division II Tournaments are happening now. Just throwing that out there

11 hours ago, mr_shifty1982 said:

Oh ok lol ya, that league is no joke. Players from Europe come and play. They have an Instagram page and they showcase the players. 

My cousin recently got signed. I’m also friendly with half the goalies in the league 

i guess that’s the perks of playing hockey in such small country 

Sheesh that’s one hell of a set

11 hours ago, mr_shifty1982 said:

Yup!

Have you seen the leagues in Israel that they have started? You don't play on any team do you?

As of now I’m not in any league

i was actually supposed to draft yesterday but I had it pushed off last minute for medical reasons

i was thinking about trying to sneak my way in the IEHL as a back up but I realized how rusty I am when I went to a practice with the best players that are currently in israel. I got absolutely sniped felt like Swiss cheese. That vid will be up in a week.

On 4/25/2022 at 7:27 PM, mr_shifty1982 said:

Not sure if I mentioned it's a vinyl wrap, a lot cheaper.....you could go that route and if you get sick of it after a few years you can always change it up.

Paint costs too much, done it once before.

That’s nice to know, I just sticker bombed my helmet it came out pretty decent

On 4/23/2022 at 10:00 PM, mr_shifty1982 said:

Thanks bro, don't know if you see the Kotel there on the gold side. 

I did, this is giving me ideas on what I would do if I get a bucket painted

On 4/21/2022 at 7:49 PM, mr_shifty1982 said:

Beautiful bucket

I made a very nice split save at around 4:12

There was this Russian player taking this “beer league” game waaaaaaaay to seriously. He must have had like 8 breakaways