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Cheezymadman posted:Getting hit in the nuts: You can take away that pro with a quick visit to the man with the snips (or by wearing a condom), but getting your balls smashed will always suck severely. Also, high-impact trauma to the groin can temporarily or possibly permanently impair your ability to get/sustain an erection or deliver the goods. Not to mention the temporary blackout and up to a week in painkiller-induced lala-land. TLDR: ball-smashing bad, solid cup = good.
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Dangerllama posted:this. Basically this (note I'm not a hockey ref, but this is pretty general among all sports). poo poo on the ref, they'll poo poo on you back twice as hard with a  expression. Be nice to them and they'll be nice back ... or at least not poo poo on you as hard.
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Is flamingo where they dodge out of the way of an incoming slapper?
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Zettace posted:Yeah, playing goalie in a lot of sports is pretty tough. I personally never blame the goalie and always try to keep the morale up. Blaming the goalie is always a bad idea since a goalie without confidence is pretty much useless and in hockey, a goal against almost always means someone in front hosed up. I play goalie in futsal/football and floorball, and my internal monologue is "Oh? A goal was scored? Why wasn't my defense covering it?". It works well except for absolute howlers. e: And penalties, but I rationalise those by the shooter being expected to score, and any saves I make ruining their day.  Incidentally, if any of you guys are looking for a summer sport, give floorball a try. It's great for cardio, you keep your hand-eye (stick-puck/ball) coordination, and most everything translates directly across (key points are no checking, and no deliberate stick-on-stick contact). (Floorball Canada, USA Floorball) e: Marty, let me know if this isn't appropriate and I'll remove it. (I can't play ice hockey since the nearest rink is ~400km away and on a different island, so I play floorball instead.  )
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Rutkowski posted:Floorball is awesome and for new players it's really cheap. A decent stick can be found for cirka 30 bucks(cirka 60-80 for semipro stuff, a pro friend of mine is sponsored but would have to pay cirka 150 bucks for each stick) and a good pair of indoor sneakers. At a beginner level of floorball, really any stick works, as long as it's sized appropriately and not broken -- note that for ice hockey players where you might be used to a stick coming up to your nose/chin, the floorball stick length is more typically around your navel area. (I play with a longer stick since I'm a defenseman) The semi-pro/pro sticks trade off less weight for decreased durability -- the kickpoint-style wavy-shaft sticks (the big-$$$ ones) are really only useful if you already have a powerful shot and want to add that 1-2% extra to it. The physicality of floorball depends on the interpretation by your refs - here we play that if two players both see each other and go shoulder-to-shoulder that's fine - using your body to blindside someone, or non-shoulder-to-shoulder contact or *any* head contact is an immediate penalty.
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For another warmup exercise, a variation on 2-on-1's: - Defenders line up at the blue line, forwards make two groups at either side of the goal line (a pile of pucks with each group). - One forward passes to the defender, who takes a shot at the net (slapper if he can, otherwise wrist/snap - key thing is not to gently caress around with it, one touch at most before taking the shot). Getting it on net >> power/aiming for a corner. - Defender goes to the front of the net. Both forwards move up the wall to about the top of the circles (the forward who didn't pass to the D should be carrying a puck). - From there play it as a standard 2-on-1. If you want to be extra dicky to your defenders, you can have your centres on the blueline somewhere too, and make it a 3-on-1.
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Diverting slightly to floorballchat for a moment, I pulled out probably my all-time greatest goalie bail-out tonight. Our goalie was playing ridiculously aggressively, and he made the first save and the second save but was about 5 feet out of position for the re-rebound. Their forward has an empty net to shoot at from the slot, and puts a solid one at the centre of the net, with the ball about 2 feet off the ground. Enter me, stage right. I was hustling back from the far corner, reach across from way outside the far post, and with the ball about six inches from crossing the line, one hand my stick like it ain't no thang, I get the blade on the ball (in the goddamn air) and send the rebound right into my goalie's hands.  The forward that took the shot was the living impersonation of  .
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Guys, I need some advice. (This is for floorball, but it's more about team dynamics and poo poo.) A few friends of mine are putting in a team to a grade that's above the one I play in, but I got word tonight they want to put me on the wing (to get a bigger more physical guy on D). I've played defense the entire time I've been playing (have filled in a few times as goalie too). Another team in the higher grade has asked if I'm available to play goalie, and I'm a bit conflicted. I feel a bit like my friends are keeping me on the team so I don't get butthurt by being excluded (or they're too nice to say "you're not up to speed, deal with it"). I know for myself I'm not going to be at all effective moving up a grade and playing forward - I'm straight-up going to be a liability (or, even more of one than I'd already be  ).I guess the logical thing here is to grab the captain of my friends team, and just say to him "I've been asked to play goalie for another team and I'm not confident in my ability to step up and play wing. Is it going to bother you if I swap teams?". Beer league sport. Serious business yo. (Oh, additional complicating factor: me and these friends - we basically are the organisers for these leagues, and this team we're pitching is, essentially, just to make up the numbers to make the upper league viable.  )
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Thel posted:<<snip: guff about me being not up to speed for a higher league in floorball>> Followup from months ago: Scored an absolute beauty* of a solo goal tonight (first-ever non-practice goal). On the forecheck, stripped the ball off one defender, deked the other defender with a drag-back and slammed it top corner.   * This is an entirely objective opinion here. You guys were all correct too - it hasn't been an issue that I'm the worst player on the team and I'm learning shitloads about the game by pushing myself to not suck. Thel fucked around with this message at 10:02 on Nov 18, 2012 |
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Cringe-worth injury story time: Playing floorball last night (relevant: no protective gear in floorball, except for goalies), I went in for a tackle along the boards (other dude was coming straight down the boards, I was moving toward him at about a 45° angle to the boards). My stick jams against his foot just as he kicks the ball past me - the other end of the stick lands up in my groin. Yeah, I basically stopped from running full speed via spearing myself in the nads. Cue me lying on the floor for ~2 minutes before I can gather myself and crawl (more like earthworm-slide) the three meters to get off the rink. No permanent damage, just bruising. Turns out I didn't actually hit square on, but I did hit bone. What's your worst story? fe: This post brought to you by the combined power of ibuprofen and paracetamol. Incidentally, you guys would probably know - what's the risk if I ignore the "max 6 tabs per day" on the box? I'm popping two at a time at the moment (also have an inflamed/erupting wisdom tooth) and they only last four hours or so.
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To echo everyone else, just hustle. Nobody cares how bad you are as long as you're trying. It's stick'n'puck not pro hockey. (Anyone who gives you poo poo for being bad is a douchebag and can be ignored.) I assume you're playing wing? If so, you can be 50% of a useful defensive winger just by being between your defender and the goal. On offense, depending on your team's skill level, either chase the puck around with everyone else, or try and get open to receive a pass. And yeah, skating clinic. Go do that.
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Dangerllama posted:Meh. poo poo happens. Thankfully, one of my teammates had an extra cup I could borrow. The next day I bought a jock that now lives in my bag. Go and do likewise, gentlemen. Go and do likewise. You don't air it out? 
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YeehawMcKickass posted:It's a certain amount of crazy, from what I've gathered. I'm wanting to try it, so my level of crazy. Goalies start off crazy. Then you add repeated head impacts and you land up with Ron Hextall.
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