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I know a guy who's going to be coming to your team in the fall, HZ! He's pretty cool, a little odd but a cool dude.
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Duckman2008 posted:Moving from Nashville to Philadelphia, and I need a roller hockey league. Curious if anyone knows the philly hockey scene? South of Philly down the Blue Route (476) there's The Hockey Dek (exit 3) which offers levels A-D and Marple Sports Arena (like exit 5 or 9) which offers levels A-F. South Jersey has Flyers Skate Zone and Choice Inline. Not too familiar with leagues inside Philadelphia proper. I encourage you to come out to the Hockey Dek for Saturday morning open hockey. 11a-1p, $10
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Topoisomerase posted:I know a guy who's going to be coming to your team in the fall, HZ! He's pretty cool, a little odd but a cool dude. From the Chalupas? If so, yeah he's a pretty cool guy. He seems really friendly, always hangs out with us for a bit after games if we drink at the rink. I talked to him briefly last night before our game, and we've got them in the first round of the playoffs.
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cenzo posted:South of Philly down the Blue Route (476) there's The Hockey Dek (exit 3) which offers levels A-D and Marple Sports Arena (like exit 5 or 9) which offers levels A-F. Nice, I appreciate the heads up!
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General question here. I'm someone who picked up the sport (as a player) in January. (this next bit might sound pompous) I've been playing sports since I was very young and I feel like I have taken a good hold of the basics of this game relatively quickly. However, my main issue that is preventing me from progressing as a player is I cant stop and I can only make tight turns on one side, leaning towards my right. Any tips/drills for this? Is this something that i just have to dedicate like 3 hours to falling down with some cones and trying to try and master this? Secondly, when I'm not skating and playing, I set up a garbage bin outside my house in my driveway and I try and whip pucks in, however I'm in tennis shoes, is this counter intuitive to learning how to shoot properly? I try and run around to simulate skating (yeah right) and then shoot but I don't want to be hurting my technique in the early stages.
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Been a while since I've learned how to hockey stop, hope I'm explaining it right... Put your weight in the toes, then when you think you've got it, put even more weight there, especially if you come from rollerblades. Keep your knees bent a lot. Practice standing still and scraping the ice with one foot from your feet together to the outside using your inside edge. Keep the weight on the foot that isn't scraping. Try not to bend your waist. Some people recommend taking this motion and going into the snowplow which is keeping knees bent and pointing your toes together while moving forward and eventually turning 90 degrees into one of your skates and putting the full weight into one of the "plows". I never did that, but rather just took the standing still snowplow with one foot and practice turning 90 degrees while snowplowing, to give the feel of putting more weight into the plowing motion. Then added movement. Fall down. Repeat for what seems like forever. Then one day you feel confident, so you try going faster, then you fall down again. Etc...
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polydizzle posted:However, my main issue that is preventing me from progressing as a player is I cant stop and I can only make tight turns on one side, leaning towards my right. Any tips/drills for this? Is this something that i just have to dedicate like 3 hours to falling down with some cones and trying to try and master this? Yep, just suck it up and force yourself to do it. It's quite normal to favor your dominant foot, and you have to train yourself out of it. quote:Secondly, when I'm not skating and playing, I set up a garbage bin outside my house in my driveway and I try and whip pucks in, however I'm in tennis shoes, is this counter intuitive to learning how to shoot properly? I try and run around to simulate skating (yeah right) and then shoot but I don't want to be hurting my technique in the early stages. Almost everyone playing professionally today probably grew up practicing shots in their driveway or basement while wearing tennis shoes. As long as you supplement the practice with ice time, you'll be fine.
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Aug 2, 2011 01:10
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Played our final inline game of the regular season (7 games) and remain undefeated going into the playoffs. It was so warm that one of our guys was puking during the second.
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Anyone ever wear a neck protector as a skater? Since I apparently have a medically rare neck I was thinking I should so I ordered a Shock Doctor one but it doesn't look too comfortable.
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Aug 2, 2011 20:53
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Thufir posted:Anyone ever wear a neck protector as a skater? Since I apparently have a medically rare neck I was thinking I should so I ordered a Shock Doctor one but it doesn't look too comfortable. When I was like 8 lol Seriously though, neck protectors don't really provide much impact protection, they're there mainly to provide protection from skate blades. If you really seriously need to protect your neck from impact a goalie neckguard is the way to go.
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Aug 2, 2011 21:01
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Thufir posted:Anyone ever wear a neck protector as a skater? Since I apparently have a medically rare neck I was thinking I should so I ordered a Shock Doctor one but it doesn't look too comfortable. A little bit expensive, but totally awesome. Custom fit, as well.
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brosef deluxe posted:http://maltesehockey.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=2 (I also wear it playing goal, too. It's a bit of a purchase to use it just for skating...)
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So I got a nice surprise today. A few months ago I ordered a Combat 52 Cal, but they didn't have the pattern that I wanted. They went ahead and sent me a similar pattern, which I've been using since then. Today I get home and there is a hockey stick on my porch. Combat decided to send me a free stick to say sorry for not having the pattern I wanted before. I think I'm in love.
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Aug 3, 2011 02:28
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I got some Tour Thor GX7 roller hockey skates sometime in the spring to upgrade from my old skates which were breaking. The thing is the right skate boot cuts the hell out of my ankle. I've tried everything from not wearing socks to wearing socks both thick and thin and even taping over that area and nothing has worked. I'm not sure if there is something wrong with the quarter panel on the right boot compared to the left since only my right foot is affected. I am right handed and I usually stop on my right side. Anyone have any suggestions to fix this? I love these skates
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Aug 3, 2011 04:18
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bewbies posted:So I got a nice surprise today. A few months ago I ordered a Combat 52 Cal, but they didn't have the pattern that I wanted. They went ahead and sent me a similar pattern, which I've been using since then. How do you like this combat stick? I swore off Bauers a while ago since they kept breaking on me, and I have a warrior and easton I swap between now. I like them, but I think I scored more with the bauer. But that's most likely a lie, since I tore my ACL and only came back about 1 month before I broke my last bauer.
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Aug 3, 2011 21:24
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Hockey Monkey doesn't have the Combat 52 Cal shaft in Intermediate. drat, I need a stick to replace my stiff-as-gently caress X:20 backup. Man, I've ruined myself by going TotalOne 67 flex Intermediate 
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I'm probably in my worst scoring slump since I've started playing hockey. I've gone 5 games without a goal, only picking up 3 assists in those 5 games. Disclaimer: I have played on D for 2 of those games. I really do need to hit some Gretzky hours and work on some stuff. My shooting accuracy on wristers has gone to poo poo and that is my bread and butter when playing forward. I'm seriously considering buying a practice net to work on shots, I remember from the old thread, someone had made a shooting surface to put some pucks down and fire them at the net.. any suggestions on that?
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Anyone have any tips for receiving passes? Particularly ones coming from behind to my backhand. Our poor goalie was a complete headcase tonight. His son-in-law walked out on his daughter earlier today and he was late to the game and didn't get a warmup and gave up a goal while pulling his groin on the first shot. All he could really do was flail around with his stick or hope stuff hit him. We ended up losing 10-4 but I can't blame him given the poo poo sandwich he got today. The other team was cheering every goal like it was an NHL game winner too, which didn't help.
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Thufir posted:Anyone have any tips for receiving passes? Particularly ones coming from behind to my backhand. Get your d-men to not throw you sueys all the time!  Seriously though, try to catch the puck even with or even behind your skates, then cushion the puck towards the front of your body. Since this probably isn't contact, it;s less dangerous, but I've basically been taught that this is the kind of pass that it's "ok" to just try and touch the puck and hope it goes somewhere that you can most quickly respond to (and hopefully evade the massive check the d-man is just grinning at laying out on you.) Ie, you're touching the puck so that you know where it's going, and therefore have a jump on the opponent, while THEN trying to find a spot to go to, because receiving a pass on the backhand from behind is just asking to get laid out, because you have to turn your whole body to see the puck and are incredibly vulnerable during this time.
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Thufir posted:Anyone have any tips for receiving passes? Particularly ones coming from behind to my backhand. If you play in a beginner league and are a winger on the boards trying to take some crazy slap shot pass that's coming at your rattling off the boards and you're on your backhand... do not be too upset by your inability to always get to them or make a play off of them. It is simply the d-man's inexperience and panic screwing you over. trilljester posted:I'm seriously considering buying a practice net to work on shots, I remember from the old thread, someone had made a shooting surface to put some pucks down and fire them at the net.. any suggestions on that? Onto my first post in this thread. I've been playing hockey now for going on 13 years. I absolutely love the game. I was a very good player in high school, and up until 3 years ago maintained this high skill level. I took a couple year hiatus and put on some weight. So, now I'm bigger(was pretty scrawny and have since bulked up) then I was in my youth hockey days. I recently got back into the game, and was very unhappy with all the things I couldn't do anymore. I've been working on getting into better shape, and have since started to slim down, but I'm curious how other people have handled this sort of thing. Do you essentially have to change your style of play? Do you just work really hard to get back to the level you once were at? I don't know how some of the guys in our league do it, because in order to play at that high of skill level I would need to be at the rink everyday playing like I did years ago. What I've noticed most is my skating ability has declined, as well as my stamina. It is however very strange how I've retained my shot power/accuracy and my pass abilities. Anyone else have this sort of poo poo happen in their 20's? Vital Signs fucked around with this message at 16:04 on Aug 4, 2011 |
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trilljester posted:I'm probably in my worst scoring slump since I've started playing hockey. I've gone 5 games without a goal, only picking up 3 assists in those 5 games. Disclaimer: I have played on D for 2 of those games. I have a net you can have.
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Vital Signs posted:I've been working on getting into better shape, and have since started to slim down, but I'm curious how other people have handled this sort of thing. Do you essentially have to change your style of play? Do you just work really hard to get back to the level you once were at? I don't know how some of the guys in our league do it, because in order to play at that high of skill level I would need to be at the rink everyday playing like I did years ago. What I've noticed most is my skating ability has declined, as well as my stamina. It is however very strange how I've retained my shot power/accuracy and my pass abilities. Anyone else have this sort of poo poo happen in their 20's? Most people don't lose their shot technique and if they do can get it back really quickly. Shooting is a mechanics thing, more than likely you've practiced your shot enough as a kid that you know how it should feel. Thats my favorite part about sticks and pucks sessions is that kids will work on their slapshot for 2 hours but never skate or stick handle. Your fitness on the other hand is a different story. You were a different person as a kid/teenager than you are now. Weight has shifted, you have stopped conditioning, and you don't have the free time that you did as a kid. If everyone practiced 3-4 times a week for 2 hours at a time, they would be much better than they are now. As a kid, you probably went to a summer hockey camp to learn new stuff and keep sharp. You would then start your season with really harsh conditioning, sometimes morning conditioning skates and evening technical skates. Skate for 2 hours, 3 times a week and you have no excuse to be a bad player. Lets not forget you are playing with the same people with the same level of training on a consistent basis. As an adult, we often have to get on a makeshift team of guys who have completely different levels of skill and coaching history. Then we need to try to fit it into our schedules often times only skating once a week. Lastly, you might just need to give it time and effort to get the rust off but remember that you may only perceive the skater you used to be much better than you actually were. The best thing you can do is to skate as often as you can, and actually do drills. Practice stick handling a golf ball in your driveway, do ladder drills, run to improve your stamina. All of the things that worked for you as a teen will work now, you just have to do them if you want. You will improve simply over time the more you play but eventually you will plateau unless you start playing with better players.
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Just play NHL 11 and listen to Iron Maiden. You'll get everything back.
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poser posted:I have a net you can have. I might take you up on that. Of course, I post a whiny bitch post like mine yesterday and last night, I rang one in off the goalie's skates from an odd angle shot. Maybe I should bitch more often.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Just play NHL 11 and listen to Iron Maiden. You'll get everything back. Sound about right, if you really want to get some skills use your stick as an air guitar between shots.
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trilljester posted:I might take you up on that. I have a shooter tutor for it too, I just reserve the right to take it back if I move to a place with a big backyard
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I've decided since I'm going to rivers casino saturday, I'm leaving whether or not I get a 52 caliber entirely up to fate. 52 caliber, 52 cards in the deck? Its fuckin destiny
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Verman posted:Most people don't lose their shot technique and if they do can get it back really quickly. Shooting is a mechanics thing, more than likely you've practiced your shot enough as a kid that you know how it should feel. Thats my favorite part about sticks and pucks sessions is that kids will work on their slapshot for 2 hours but never skate or stick handle. I am and always have been the opposite of those people, haha. I go to stick and puck and work on my stickhandling and skating. I also basically lived at the rink as a kid and skated all the time anyway. As a result, when I came back to playing after some time off I was in the complete opposite situation as Vital Signs - skating came back to me really quick but my stickhandling and shooting took a bit longer to get back. It was really frustrating to outskate my stickhandling ability all the time cause I used to be able to do it really well! But yeah, what I've realized is that I will never get quite back to my former playing level because I just can't dedicate the same time and energy to it as I could when I was in high school and undergrad. I go to the outdoor rink and skate and shoot pucks a couple times a week if I can, play my league games every week and tournaments a few times a year and go to my team's practices when we have them (once or twice a month) and that's all I can really do. For the love of the game, pretty much...
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poser posted:I have a shooter tutor for it too, I just reserve the right to take it back if I move to a place with a big backyard This whole moving from net to defense is hard, man.
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Nizox posted:How do you like this combat stick? I swore off Bauers a while ago since they kept breaking on me, and I have a warrior and easton I swap between now. I like them, but I think I scored more with the bauer. But that's most likely a lie, since I tore my ACL and only came back about 1 month before I broke my last bauer. I absolutely love both of them that I have. They're both great shooters, particularly for slap shots (where I like them much more than the X:60), and they're light and feel great on the puck. The thing I like most I think is how they catch passes. I can be reaching out for a strong pass with one hand on my backhand and the puck just seems to stick to the blade like it is magnetized. Never had another stick that did this so well. It is the best stick I've ever used, and its a good $50-60 cheaper than the top line stuff from other companies so its a nice value too. That plus the awesome customer service (my experience was not unique), pretty cool. I'd recommend them to anyone. In related news I just had an appendectomy so I'm out for a couple of weeks, probably.
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My Achilles has been bothering me for the better part of a month. No clue why either. I can barely walk when I get out of bed for 10 minutes or so because it's so tight. But the PLAYOFFS start on Sunday 
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:My Achilles has been bothering me for the better part of a month. No clue why either. I can barely walk when I get out of bed for 10 minutes or so because it's so tight. But the PLAYOFFS start on Sunday Anyone ever notice that if they have a slight injury, such as a pulled muscle or ache... that is disappears while you're on the ice? This is of course followed by it absolutely kicking you in the dick an hour or two after the game.
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Henrik Zetterberg and bewbies, for your injuries I recommend localized aplication of Iron Maiden to your point of injury. This is best done by Dr Dre BEATS headphones wrapped firmly with an ACE bandage or in a pinch can be executed using those tiny portable speakers. Improvement should be shown withing 4-6 hours after treatment. And since you had surgeries bewbies, enjoy the medication along with the new treatment. Get well people.
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bewbies posted:In related news I just had an appendectomy so I'm out for a couple of weeks, probably. Better now than in February, amigo. Glad you're feeling better.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:My Achilles has been bothering me for the better part of a month. No clue why either. I can barely walk when I get out of bed for 10 minutes or so because it's so tight. But the PLAYOFFS start on Sunday Just FYI I think I'm watching your playoff game right now on rink 1.
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There's so man penguins fans on these forums yet no pittsburgh hockey goons. Such bullshit
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toxicsunset posted:There's so man penguins fans on these forums yet no pittsburgh hockey goons. Such bullshit I'm a Penguins fan who played in Pittsburgh when I was a little kid but I live in CA now sooo... We had five games this weekend. League game and tournament game Friday night, tournament game Saturday afternoon, tournament game this morning and league playoff a couple of hours ago. Last Friday I hosed up something in my left shoulder/neck to the point where I couldn't even lift it up last Saturday. In our league playoff game tonight, my arm felt like it was going to fall out of the socket and I was dead tired and as a result I could NOT control the puck and my passes/shots had no zing on them at all. I did get a goal in the tournament though. It was cool.
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I hate that when it's playoff time teams bring in ringers. We were the first place team and we played the last place team in our division. Normally our team is able to cream them, but tonight they were skating circles around us and beat us 5-2 to eliminate us from the playoffs. I suppose it didn't help that a third of our team was missing and we only had two lines.
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