LaxPower Back-Up Stick

Drcthru wrote: ↑Thu Jun 20, 2019 7:56 pm https://www.outsports.com/comingout/201 ... coming-out

Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Thu Jun 20, 2019 8:27 pm

Drcthru wrote: ↑Thu Jun 20, 2019 7:56 pm https://www.outsports.com/comingout/201 ... coming-out

Thanks for posting. Good for him and his teammates.

“Bring it!” Rabil yells. “We need that!” In college lacrosse, he says, players are conditioned to be too respectful, to swallow their competitive bile. But he would rather “reengineer the mind of the athlete” back toward having no filter and no fear, both to showcase the rough, rugged glories of lacrosse, and because mercenaries make for good memes. “That’s how you build modern rivalry,” says Rabil, who in his ambitious new role at the center of lacrosse’s biggest schism stands to become an expert in the field.

He hates to be known as a “laxer”; he prefers “athlete” or “player.” When he appeared on the tech writer Kara Swisher’s podcast in 2018, he bonded with her son, Louie, over their shared distaste of the canonical “lax bro.” When he was profiled by The New York Times in 2010, it was on the cover of the Styles section, not the sports page.

Rabil retweets the Barstool account, and later, when he goes to a wrestling match, tweets: “Fighting. Love it.” When the league releases a slow-mo, mic’d-up edit of the whole thing, featuring combatants, coaches, and officials alike, it is brutal and funny and insider-y and unique, the very viewing experience the league is going for. Still, in a post-CTE world where even the NHL has tried to downplay fighting, it feels more like a cool new spin on an outdated concept and less like a true testament to the sport of the future.

Lacrosse’s default image as a bunch of “Chads and Brads” has yet to be effectively overwritten: When college lacrosse remains the de facto peak of the profession, after all, maybe it’s not much of a surprise that the sport maintains its fratastic vibe.

HooDat wrote: ↑Fri Jun 28, 2019 11:05 am Let us not forget that Rabil was THE FACE of LaxBro lacrosse.It is what he knows. He is the king in exile of LaxBro Lacrosse; and the PLL is his Forty-Five uprising.

He has cleaned himself up some, but the guy is going to need to find some other way to make a living pretty soon....my 17 year old (who's had a stick since he was born) couldn't care less about Rabil - barely knows who he is.

HooDat wrote: ↑Fri Jun 28, 2019 11:05 am Let us not forget that Rabil was THE FACE of LaxBro lacrosse.It is what he knows. He is the king in exile of LaxBro Lacrosse; and the PLL is his Forty-Five uprising.

He has cleaned himself up some, but the guy is going to need to find some other way to make a living pretty soon....my 17 year old (who's had a stick since he was born) couldn't care less about Rabil - barely knows who he is.

hooligan88 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2019 4:13 pm I feel like the term Lax bro is and can be used as a + and -. My observation is that lax bros are guys who are consumed with Lacrosse and its culture. Nothing wrong with that. In fact the sport is in need of kids who live the sport. Lax bros and not wanting to have a lacrosse sub culture is the kind of things that kill sports. I guess its because its the younger culture of the sport. I do not hear people openly talking we need to rid the sport of Native culture. (at which point i would be making some noise) I do realize that some lax bro stereotypes people do not want be stuck in. Am i missing something? I would love to see some other lacrosse sub cultures started maybe a opposite to the lax bro? IDK, But i do like the lacrosse culture. What would surfing be without the surf culture?

co2519 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2019 6:13 pm This goes for the youth level (HS and below) - Correlation doesn't equal causation, but it seems as if the more "free spirited" lacrosse culture has been tamped down at the same time as the club scene has risen, and the game has become much more coach-controlled. Less improvisation and decision making in the hands of the players, more of it dictated by the coaches...during almost every moment of games, from what I see...