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Bradf0rd posted:I hardly know any goalies using 1" now. 1/2" is my standard on my goal skates. Yeah my goalie skates are 1/2". I get 7/16" on my regular skates.
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Talking with our goalie he got his at 1/2" at the local shop. Hopefully they will be open before tomorrow's game so I can get them sharpened. When I was younger, no one ever told me about different radius grinds, etc. So I'm learning as I go now that I'm older.
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Dec 22, 2014 02:59
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That kind of blows my mind, I've only been skating three years and change, and skate hollow comes up constantly in the locker room. But maybe I skate with a bunch of colossal nerds.
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Dec 22, 2014 04:28
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xzzy posted:That kind of blows my mind, I've only been skating three years and change, and skate hollow comes up constantly in the locker room. i think you skate with a bunch of colossal nerds. the times it has been brought up most have little idea about hollows. i didn't until maybe a couple years ago.
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Dec 22, 2014 04:30
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Gio posted:i think you skate with a bunch of colossal nerds. the times it has been brought up most have little idea about hollows. i didn't until maybe a couple years ago. The first thing they ask you when you get your skates sharpened (which, presumably, you'd have done at least once, when you bought the skates) is what hollow you want. At least, they should if they're any good at it. I recently switched from the standard 1/2" to 9/16", and I'm liking it so far. I can cut way harder without my edges "catching" or digging in too much. bgreman fucked around with this message at 06:53 on Dec 22, 2014 |
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Gio posted:i think you skate with a bunch of colossal nerds. the times it has been brought up most have little idea about hollows. i didn't until maybe a couple years ago. I have a theory that adult beginners in their first 1-3 years of playing are the people who talk about sharpening the most. I think it's because getting the "wrong" hollow can make such a big impact to them, and the way different hollows feel change as they get stronger in their skates. At least I was super-preoccupied back then, and now if the dude just gives me 1/2" without asking it doesn't really make a big difference to me.
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bgreman posted:The first thing they ask you when you get your skates sharpened (which, presumably, you'd have done at least once, when you bought the skates) is what hollow you want. At least, they should if they're any good at it. Yeah Delaware isn't the best for sharpening. The closest best one for me is about 2 hours away. But talking with my goalie he definitely got 1/2" done so going to get that done. I can tell there is a difference between what it used to feel like when I was younger and the hollow I have now. I'm just trying to be able to skate around without looking like an rear end.
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Dec 22, 2014 14:07
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tip: if you have a hollow that you like, write it on the blade holder
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bewbies posted:tip: if you have a hollow that you like, write it on the blade holder That's really good advice, actually. Heh, now every time the guy asks, instead of saying, "7/16," I can say, "Can't you read you moron?"
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Habibi posted:That's really good advice, actually. Which will certainly read to a really good sharpening. But seriously, why is skate sharpening still done by humans? The operation could easily be automated. I am pretty tired of paying $5+ to get my skates sharpened and not knowing if I am just pissing money away or not.
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Dec 22, 2014 18:44
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Total Hockey caters to my laziness and remembers the cut in the computer. It has changed my life.
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Benson Cunningham posted:Which will certainly read to a really good sharpening. Not really imo and not without a massive increase in cost.
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Dec 22, 2014 18:52
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I like to think of skate sharpening as craftsmanship. A good sharpener will give you a better edge than most machines. Might be placebo though, but I prefer the sharpening that my father does over the ones I get when I get them sharpened on a machine at my local sport shop
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Dec 22, 2014 18:58
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A proshop by me has an automatic machine. It's fine. Not as good a job as Pops used to do there, RIP.
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sellouts posted:Not really imo and not without a massive increase in cost. You need a mechanical arm that can move in three dimensions, a light to determine the hollow cut dimensions, and a pressure sensor for applying the skate to the grindstone (is it a grindstone? I have no idea what it is called). I'm being simplistic obviously but I don't think it's a very difficult engineering problem to solve. Some place can take all the money they've received from lovely cuts they don't deserve to get paid for and invest it in this feat of engineering.
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It would help out places like where I play. The daughter is absolute poo poo and I think has no idea what a skate actually is. Her mother isn't bad but from the grapevine the guy is the best. But every time I have ever been in there he has never moved from his seat.
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Dec 22, 2014 20:08
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poo poo I forgot my skate cut.
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Dec 22, 2014 20:19
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A friend of a friend has a home sharpener. That's the ultimate in sharpening geekery (or frugality, I guess, if you've got enough hockey players in the family).
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Dec 22, 2014 20:52
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Here you go, nerds. http://www.wissota.com/skate-sharpeners-kits/911-skate-sharpener-115-volt.html
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Doctor Butts posted:poo poo I forgot my skate cut. I use a "can I get a sharpening please"
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Loqieu posted:Here you go, nerds. Um, I might buy this.
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Benson Cunningham posted:You need a mechanical arm that can move in three dimensions, a light to determine the hollow cut dimensions, and a pressure sensor for applying the skate to the grindstone (is it a grindstone? I have no idea what it is called). I'm being simplistic obviously but I don't think it's a very difficult engineering problem to solve. It's already solved, one of the shops near me has a computerized skate grinder, will allow setting different rocker profiles. Just clamp the skate into the little saddle, type in settings, hit go. Adapting that to sharpen skates seems like it'd be trivial.
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xzzy posted:It's already solved, one of the shops near me has a computerized skate grinder, will allow setting different rocker profiles. Just clamp the skate into the little saddle, type in settings, hit go. That's what I mean. It's tough to believe that wouldn't be a better way to do it everywhere.
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Dec 22, 2014 23:25
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But if they build a machine that can sharpen skates perfectly, then what will we complain about in the dressing room?
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I mean we put a man on the moon so sure, but the odds of something like that coming to your local poor rear end hockey shop and it keeping functioning seems real unlikely. Especially with a modicum of training anyone can do it well enough and with some real experience they'll be "the guy" My local shop can't even keep the bubble hockey working. Hell of a skate sharpening though.
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The previous two posts are from people allegedly on or traveling to their Christmas vacations.
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If you can't find something to complain about in hockey you're just not even trying.
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Bradf0rd posted:But if they build a machine that can sharpen skates perfectly, then what will we complain about in the dressing room? Missing tape, warm beer, that guy, cold showers.
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Pleads posted:The previous two posts are from people allegedly on or traveling to their Christmas vacations. I'm already at my Christmas vacation, hoping snow comes out of the mountains and watching a fire burn. Sitting on a couch with a laptop. :nerd:
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I'm 50% sure sellouts was literally on a plane to Mexico when he made that earlier reply about automagic skate machines.
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Don't forget about crappy ice too. That's why I've whiffed on so many sure fire goals.
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A dude snap hooked a golfball into our pool within 15 seconds of my being here. Looks like I am going to have a busy week on our patio or pool chirping terrible golfers.
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Was bored today, decided to waste time combining two things I enjoy (making photoshop poo poo pictures and hockey) for the holiday hockey tourney we're having in Austin.    If only I could put as much effort into actual hockey.
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Blades of Steel was the best game ever. I should bust out the NES to play it. I got sharpened at 1/2" and so much better. Though I did forget the gold rule to keep the head up and slammed a guy pretty hard. Got some nice bruises on the forehead, and a bit of a busted lip. Other guy got it right in the sternum and was wheezing for a few minutes while we both laid on the ice.
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Pleads posted:The previous two posts are from people allegedly on or traveling to their Christmas vacations. So? I had time to kill at the airport.
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Considering changing my stick from right to left handed. I'm right handed and always wondered why a lot of rightys shot left handed. I'm a poo poo stick handler so it's not like I'd be losing a ton of skills or anything. I figure I'll just use a right handed stick at home and practice lefty with it and see how it feels. Anybody of you guys ever try it?
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Nostratic posted:Considering changing my stick from right to left handed. I'm right handed and always wondered why a lot of rightys shot left handed. I'm a poo poo stick handler so it's not like I'd be losing a ton of skills or anything. I figure I'll just use a right handed stick at home and practice lefty with it and see how it feels. After playing right handed for 20 years, I tried for a few weeks to learn how to stickhandle and pass left handed, as a goalie. It only lasted for those few weeks before I said "gently caress it" and just used my backhand.
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My in laws are celebrating christmas tonight but I have a hockey game at 1040. I'm pretty sure I can do both. I hope they understand.
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Benson Cunningham posted:Um, I might buy this. These guys are about 2 minutes from my house. Can confirm, great company and machines.
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calandryll posted:Blades of Steel was the best game ever. I should bust out the NES to play it. I can still remember the intro to BoS 20 years after playing it. *shkingggg... Blades of Steel*
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