With the onset of the winter season lovers of activerest begin to think about how they spend their leisure time. Someone likes skiing, and somebody likes hockey. For any sports game you need your own attributes. To play professional hockey amateur is quite difficult, but on the box, near the house, just right. For this we need skates and a stick. If everything is clear with skates, picking up the size, then how to choose a stick know not all.
Before you decide on a purchase, you needplay with different clubs. With short and long, with right-handed and left-handed. And only after that, having decided, go to the sports store and shop.
Sticks are divided into 4 types: adults - after 17 years, adolescents - from 14 to 17 years, adolescents - from 7 to 14 years, and children - children from 4 to 7 years.
Sometimes adult players play with clubs for boys. This is convenient for those who are not very tall.
For defenders, for example, the length of a hockey stickis of decisive importance. The longer the player's stick, the more opportunities to take the puck off the opponent. For the attacker, on the contrary: the shorter the stick, the maneuverable the player.
Picking a club is a responsible and serious matter.If you buy a stick very short, you will not get pleasure from the game. But the long stick can be shortened and adjusted to suit itself. But do not overdo it. The shorter you cut the stick, the less flexible it will become. So look for the golden mean.
The keys are produced, as for left-handed players,and for the right-handed. Holding the stick in this position is called a grip. So all the same, how to choose a stick, if you really do not know which side to keep it comfortable.
If you grab the stick with both hands, your rightthe hand is located below the left, and you so play comfortably, then for hockey you are right handed, if the left hand is below the right, accordingly you are a left-handed hockey player. If you are interested, statistics say that in Russia and Ukraine the bulk of hockey players are left-handed.
Usually professional hockey stickshockey players are wrapped in electrical tape. Not many hockey fans guess what for? The answer is simple. First, the black washer merges with the color of the tape, and it is more difficult for the goalkeeper to navigate. Secondly, due to the roughness of the cloth tape, the grip of the washer with the stick increases.
But it's all about professionals, usinterest ordinary amateurs, adults and children. How long to choose a stick to sort out, now let's see how to choose a stick on the composition of the material from which it is made.
There are enough nuances here too.If you buy a wooden stick, it means to win in price, but to lose in its durability. In addition, the wooden stick is heavy, and the player is quickly tired and tired. It is better to overpay, but buy a stick composite. It is much lighter than wood and its service life is long.
And that is not all.The hooks are collapsible and not foldable. Unassembled, as you guessed, wooden sticks, and demountable - composite. The disassembly stick consists of two parts: a shovel or hook and a hollow pipe. If a wooden stick breaks, then it is usually changed, and if the composite is broken, then it can be restored. In sports shops, hooks and pipes are sold separately. Having bought a new hook, we use special glue to connect it to the pipe.
There is such a parameter as hockey stiffnessputter. He is determined from the calculation of the weight of the hockey player. In general, all professional sticks have a stiffness from 40 to 120 on the Easton scale. The strength of the stick depends on the rigidity of the stick. The softer the club, the less effort it takes to throw. And the harder the stick, accordingly, the effort should be applied more. Remember that with decreasing the length of the stick, its stiffness increases, and therefore work on the field will have more.
Now you clearly know and understand not only how to choose a stick, but how to fix it yourself.
