LaxPower Back-Up Stick

ABV 8.3% wrote: ↑Thu Aug 01, 2019 12:16 pm {snip}

The eye test, from the 1/4 finals on, kind of show that the shot clock added to all being great games. Wasn't the main thrust of adding a shot clock to take the game out of the Refs hands? To be consistent ?

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Can Opener wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2019 4:00 pm Appreciate the thoughtful response DMac. And your ability to splice quotes and change text colors is very impressive. I won’t even try to match that in this post!
Thanks for the laugh, C O, I literally burst out laughing when I read that. Aint nuthin impressive goin' on there, but I understand what you're saying, believe me. I'm a real Johnny come lately when it comes to computers, they were always way above my pay grade, wasn't interested in having one. Was having a conversation with another lax nut one day and he said, "You should put that on LaxPower." I asked him, "WTH is LaxPower?" Obviously he didn't know what a can of worms he was opening (too irresistable) or what a huge pain in the nuts I am, so he showed me. That was it, I had to have a computer to play on that playground. I was clueless and completely intimidated by it all, beleeve dat!!! Everything was a struggle. I couldn't figure out why people ended stuff with, IMO or JMHO, had no idea what FWIW meant, etc, etc, etc. I thought there were a bunch of geniuses hangin' out at LP. Turns out pretty much anyone can look like a genius once they learn how to Google and copy and paste. Then my tech head son who made his living on computers moved back up here from Texas and I drove him out of his mind with questions and having him show me how to do stuff. I'm not afraid of freezing the the thing up or blowing it up anymore, and if you f around with the thing long enough you eventually stumble across how to do stuff.

If you want the ball out and in play almost instantly, TD is your guy. Check out this video of him breaking the single game FO record against a good Georgetown team:
https://youtu.be/8zeid4IP-uE

No real rotating battles there.

I appreciate your view on the sticks. Many of us wonder about the technology on sticks for field players and goalies. Those old goalie sticks weighed almost 2x today’s models and had much smaller effective pocket areas. https://www.lacrosseplayground.com/wp-c ... -stick.png
Look at you with your link refernce..
Yes sir, check this one out...I even know how to put up pictures (which is really unbelievable).

There's a nice light stick, catgut wall and all (try bending that baby...sticks were never meant to bend).

I’d like to bring back the gold standard and wish the iPhone had never been invented. Those things aren’t changing, however, and neither is a major rewind on stick technology. Alas, we old curmudgeons can’t win ‘em all.
Yup, just like pop tops replaced the can opener, the "new" sticks have taken over (and created some "problems"). I'm glad that phone was still hangin' on the wall when I was a kid and it couldn't take pictures and track your every move and conversation. Just sayin'.

runrussellrun wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2019 1:45 pm

Handoverhamd wrote: ↑Fri Jun 28, 2019 3:35 pm quote=palaxoff post_id=62249 time=1561736003 user_id=625
Please explain your thinking on how this would speed up game. I can see it for face offs but not sure after that.







Well because it would give the defender a 50/50 chance at taking away the ball. Checks would be less violent and defenses would take more risks because of the possible reward. Then as an offense you would have to move the ball more quickly because of the increased ability to put it on the ground.

Go back and watch 2007-2011 lacrosse. It was brutal. Too much ball control and defenses quit throwing checks and pressuring giving teams the ability to really stall the game out.

The shot clock helped because as you heard during playoff weekend it "gave the game back to the players" and that is why everyone feels it was a net positive.

The more ball control a player has the more the game is specialized, and then micromanaged by coaches and the product of that becomes some of the most boring lacrosse possible.

Well because it would give the defender a 50/50 chance at taking away the ball. Checks would be less violent and defenses would take more risks because of the possible reward. Then as an offense you would have to move the ball more quickly because of the increased ability to put it on the ground.

I’d like to bring back the gold standard and wish the iPhone had never been invented. Those things aren’t changing, however, and neither is a major rewind on stick technology. Alas, we old curmudgeons can’t win ‘em all.
Yup, just like pop tops replaced the can opener, the "new" sticks have taken over (and created some "problems"). I'm glad that phone was still hangin' on the wall when I was a kid and it couldn't take pictures and track your every move and conversation. Just sayin'.

DMac wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2019 11:45 am Has more to do than with just the shafts tough, the sticks back then didn't have the "sick hold" the sticks today have. It's interesting to watch the girl's game and see what a difference the sick hold (lack of) makes. I think their sticks are similar to what the mlaxers were using back then...it took much more skill to keep the ball in your stick, shafts being almost incidental, in '89 than it does today.

runrussellrun wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2019 2:19 pm

DMac wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2019 11:45 am Has more to do than with just the shafts tough, the sticks back then didn't have the "sick hold" the sticks today have. It's interesting to watch the girl's game and see what a difference the sick hold (lack of) makes. I think their sticks are similar to what the mlaxers were using back then...it took much more skill to keep the ball in your stick, shafts being almost incidental, in '89 than it does today.

don't recall seeing a lot of toe drags in this era for the men........but teach it to youth girls of today.

Leave the sticks alone.

PLL attempts to dislodge the ball. Sexton often does, at will. Epple leads the league in CTO's/18. Boy, anyone with a pole in their hands in Brighton this fall had better show up in the best shape of their lives. The ginger new leader, former coach to the aforementioned....well, we all know about gingers.

if the kids aren't their already, they mite as well hit PEI for the next two weeks and gouge away. Great Tuna this time of year

runrussellrun wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2019 2:19 pm

DMac wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2019 11:45 am Has more to do than with just the shafts tough, the sticks back then didn't have the "sick hold" the sticks today have. It's interesting to watch the girl's game and see what a difference the sick hold (lack of) makes. I think their sticks are similar to what the mlaxers were using back then...it took much more skill to keep the ball in your stick, shafts being almost incidental, in '89 than it does today.

don't recall seeing a lot of toe drags in this era for the men........but teach it to youth girls of today.

Leave the sticks alone.

PLL attempts to dislodge the ball. Sexton often does, at will. Epple leads the league in CTO's/18. Boy, anyone with a pole in their hands in Brighton this fall had better show up in the best shape of their lives. The ginger new leader, former coach to the aforementioned....well, we all know about gingers.

if the kids aren't their already, they mite as well hit PEI for the next two weeks and gouge away. Great Tuna this time of year

palaxoff wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2019 12:16 pm

Well because it would give the defender a 50/50 chance at taking away the ball. Checks would be less violent and defenses would take more risks because of the possible reward. Then as an offense you would have to move the ball more quickly because of the increased ability to put it on the ground.

HandoverHamd did you play defense?

Couple thoughts:
Do you really think it was ever a 50/50 ? Think about the 1v1 drills at practice , back 40 some years ago I'd say the percentage was 75% offense. The lighter lack of poles even the odds out for awhile but then the stick war really heated up. Show me a pole who doesn't like to throw a mean check and I'll find him on him on the bench for you. Risk /Reward goes both ways have a feeling the "O" wold take advantage of it.

I’d like to bring back the gold standard and wish the iPhone had never been invented. Those things aren’t changing, however, and neither is a major rewind on stick technology. Alas, we old curmudgeons can’t win ‘em all.
Yup, just like pop tops replaced the can opener, the "new" sticks have taken over (and created some "problems"). I'm glad that phone was still hangin' on the wall when I was a kid and it couldn't take pictures and track your every move and conversation. Just sayin'.

Agree, so glad not to have a filmed record of some adventures

We can admit 2005-2010 had to probably be the worst of the worst for lacrosse would you agree?

The problem that coaches want solved now is the disproportionate effect on winning that a specialist has despite not being able to engage in the rest of the game because of his athletic or skill attributes or (more commonly) the condition of his stick head.

palaxoff wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 12:21 pm Seem our little discussion here mirrors the thoughts of the coaches. Would have likes to hear a little more noise about dives.

https://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/ ... -off/55200

SCLaxAttack wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 1:31 pmIf the objective is to limit a player’s specific skills from affecting the game ...

The problem that coaches want solved now is the disproportionate effect on winning that a specialist has despite not being able to engage in the rest of the game because of his athletic or skill attributes or (more commonly) the condition of his stick head.