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Eclipse
04-28-2005, 01:02 PM
What area plays the most physical Lax in the nation? I personallu say midwest, home of all the hockey and football goons, but i hear they hit pretty mad in Cali..
WHEELAX2
04-28-2005, 01:07 PM
I've played ball all over this little nation, and I'd say that Dudes from New york/Maryland crush some bodies.
When you combine sick lacrosse skill with size, it's a lethal combo. I played college ball in the midwest.. pushovers ... just played a tourney in cali.. pushovers..
craig21
04-28-2005, 05:42 PM
new york bro...im not just sayin that cuz i live in ny but i havnt seen any other place in the country hit like we do
CFLaxer
04-28-2005, 09:32 PM
Most of the players in Florida have football experience, there's some pretty tough good ole boys down here. And a lot of times, they play lacrosse just to stay in shape for football, think about that one...
Eclipse
04-28-2005, 09:44 PM
yeah but college lax in the midwest isnt the same as high school lax at all...i mean ive been around camps and tourneys. While new york has the best defensmen i dont see them doing the most body smashing
Chaminademid
04-28-2005, 09:49 PM
All we do in the MW is hit, it's sloppy ball for about 90% of the teams and its very goonish
woogums
04-28-2005, 09:54 PM
very true; generally alot of teams skills arent on the same level so some rely solely on body checks to carry them through to a win.
although in MN i have noticed some teams just dont have size on their side. the guys are really not that large and bulky the way some teams do. Especially around here, big guys do things like track to stay in shape for football and hockey, lacrosse just isnt as big yet
tick102
04-29-2005, 06:51 AM
Hands down the hardest hitters are in Fl. FL and texas are the best football states, and in FL a lot of football players play lacrosse to stay in shape for next season, so when the attack bring it in, or anything like that, its usually a pretty ugly site, w/ the poles destroyin anythin in their way. Fla hits the hardest no doubt. in the 2 powerhouses in Central Florida Lake Brantley and Winter Park, the avg d-pole size it about 6'2 6'3 210-225.
WHEELAX2
04-29-2005, 07:33 AM
I've played against flordia "thugs" (the dpoles you're talking about) they wouldn't scratch the playing surface for any D1 teams; on the other hand, there are quality d poles in florida who don't need to rely on laying the body. Are we talking high school or College?
serbocroat
04-29-2005, 12:18 PM
I just got back form playing some quality NY teams and they did not hit any different from anyone else in the country. I think in every place there are goon defenseman that just look to head hunt and get hits. I don't think one region has more than any other
Eclipse
04-29-2005, 03:47 PM
were mostly just talking high school...and i know what ur saying serbocroat...but in alot of crappy schools in the midwest they cant play real lacrosse so they just have to play soley on hitting people to try and stay in the game its like if you cant beat them..BEAT them literally
GeorgiaMiddie2
04-30-2005, 04:55 PM
i've played with kids all over and i've played all up and down the east coast. i'd have to say that the south has some pretty physical ball. the reason being, is that a lot of our players are transplants from football or hockey. up north, where i learned, everyone plays a finesse game, where speed kills and everything's one dodge and shoot or pass. down south, most guysa do two or three dodges tryin to muscle their way in for a shot. and, half the time, guys will take the man, before the ball on gb's. anyone down here who can do one quick dodge and a good shot ends up bein a good player from ga.
LHSlaxNfootball
04-30-2005, 08:40 PM
im not gonna say a specific area, but more the type of kids. Some of the bigger hits come from kids that play hockey/football.
GCHSLax04
04-30-2005, 08:54 PM
Midwest, but only because 90% of our teams are football players in disguise who don't grasp the concept of finesse and skill.
Attack027
04-30-2005, 09:13 PM
i'd have to say that the south has some pretty physical ball. the reason being, is that a lot of our players are transplants from football
Thats true but my team is very skilled. My defense will do very good poke, wraps, and lift checks, but when the decide to lay out a person they flat out kill the kid.
KlagesLaX
05-01-2005, 10:24 PM
I play goalie, and my defense never hits. In our twelve season games, there hasn't been one kid that has been laid out by one of d-poles. But, as a goalie, I have knocked eight kids on their butts, and any time any one tries to come around the crease and shoot, I thrust my left hand (on the bottom of my stick) below their ribs, knocking the wind out of them. It's basically a punch. And sure, it's illegal, but a ref will never catch that. When a goalie lays out a kid, it gets madder than when a kid lays out a goalie.
lyonslax98
05-03-2005, 09:20 PM
theres a difference between physical players and outright goons. just b/c a kid in chicago can lay down the hits doesnt mean he cant back it up with stick skills, and just b/c a kid in new york is a very skilled player doesnt mean he cant put a kid on his *** when necessary. its easy to tell the goons though...they dont go far and their teams usually dont do anything either. everyone knows that as you get into more skilled games, there are less chances for hits. so by that logic, IL, FL, and TX are probably more physical, but in places like NY and MD i'm sure that the vast majority of players can put down a good hit--they just dont get as many chances at it.
muligalax
05-04-2005, 12:52 AM
sounds like a buncha fl and texas egos flapping their lips; kids who talk about how great they can hit talk
about hitting because they cant play position, catch, or throw, you know; actually play lacrosse, making one big hit a game doesnt mean much when you dont understand position and get burned to the hole time and time again; just speaking from experience but where im from, the best d-men make the big hit every once in a while, but mostly lay sick checks and dont get beat
808lion
05-04-2005, 01:41 AM
Ever played in hawaii well if you have then you know that they win hands down. I gotta rep the 808
WHEELAX2
05-04-2005, 07:40 AM
I totally agree with you muli
roycegracie47
05-04-2005, 08:32 AM
The most physical players I've gone against are ex Ohio football players while playing in the NCAC. The Texas players I played with had a great deal of finesse to their game but those guys were on my team so I was rarely hit by them in practice, but one of them could rock any guy on the field he wanted to if it came down to hitting.
The hardest I got hit recently was this kid from Detroit who is playing for Howard U's club team, but he is new to the sport (and very polite in helping me up as he was all concerned he hit me to hard).
TRELAX
05-04-2005, 01:46 PM
There are some nasty hitters here in Jersey. I mean, we played a game with our town rivals and three kids came off the field with blood running down their foreheads. One dislocated a shoulder. Another had 3 stiches put into the back of his head from it hitting the grounds on a lay-out hit.
My teammates actually give me crap because I'm a finesse player... well at 5'8" 140 you can't be that much of a hitter. I like the game of lacrosse a little more than the sport. The smart, quick, skilled lacrosse, not the burly, pushy lacrosse. I love agressive dmen, the harder they lunge and the easier they get burnt...
Eclipse
05-04-2005, 04:10 PM
sounds like a buncha fl and texas egos flapping their lips; kids who talk about how great they can hit talk
about hitting because they cant play position, catch, or throw, you know; actually play lacrosse, making one big hit a game doesnt mean much when you dont understand position and get burned to the hole time and time again; just speaking from experience but where im from, the best d-men make the big hit every once in a while, but mostly lay sick checks and dont get beat
Thats why this is a post on who plays the most physical, not who catches throws and plays the best positioning..
Lacrosstitute
05-04-2005, 05:05 PM
I think every area has teams that vary with how hard they hit. On my team we have guys who can crush people but are very quick and skillfull with a stick. No area really hits harder than another, it depends on the individuals.
GeorgiaMiddie2
05-04-2005, 05:05 PM
Thats true but my team is very skilled. My defense will do very good poke, wraps, and lift checks, but when the decide to lay out a person they flat out kill the kid.
This may be true, but trust me, lacrosse down here is a totally different game from up where i came from. up north, it really is a totally finesse game. you dont see all these kids on the ground or all the shoving in the maryland high school championships that you see in the ga hs championships. Huge hits just arent as apparent up ther bc those kids wait to make sure they're gonna get a solid hit, whereas down here, kids will just try and knock over anything they can, when it would be more evective to just throw a good takeaway check or some simple positioning.
LaXDaVe
05-04-2005, 07:27 PM
I dunno, theres a kid on our varsity team that is like...5'10'' 150 or so, and smashes kids that are like 250, and all americans. We play with kids from severna park and broadneck, josh peck, all them, and he goes after them all its crazy.
FunkyGuY
05-04-2005, 10:00 PM
all the off-season football teams (we dont got too many here, most of our lax players on our team are hardcore lax) but the football player teams we played...sucked. They just checked, hard. Bruised people etc, but they got ourrun, outplayed, and served. We only got a few football players on our team, but they have been playing lax alot longer then football, they are more hardcore lax.
manhassetlax
05-04-2005, 10:11 PM
who cares if u get big hits
chsFIRElax15
05-04-2005, 10:27 PM
ha, i played on this team over the summer and we played hollywood and the OC and they were just dudes with big muscles and a tan. we beat them by like 20 or 500 or 8373873.
lyonslax98
05-04-2005, 11:43 PM
speaking of tans, the lax tan is a pretty annoying version of the farmer's tan isnt it? i got a line about 3/4 inch wide right by my elbow b/c of this strap in my arm guards.
bellairelax
05-05-2005, 04:26 PM
i got the tiger stripes on my forearms thanks to the straps on my arm pads
the girls love it
gillietiger
05-05-2005, 04:39 PM
What team was that?
stix1025
05-09-2005, 05:01 PM
replying to the comments earlier on Florida. I live in Florida and play lacrosse. There are some guys who do it just because they can lay people out and hit them with a stick, but there are some good lax players. There are good players but also the football players who mainly play for the fun of hitting people, except people like me who juke them out of there pants and make them look crazy.
lyonslax98
05-09-2005, 06:42 PM
in defense of football players, there are tons that are excellent lacrosse players. i've heard a few DI coaches say that they have a roster full of DII football players. so what if football players like to hit? for a lot of these guys (me included) the hitting brings them to the game, and then they develop skills and can appreciate the finer aspects of lacrosse.
AStyles17
05-09-2005, 07:01 PM
that sounds pretty good to me
Lyons Lax
05-09-2005, 08:36 PM
^ god you're just so cool Andrew, i wish i could be as awesome as you.
raiderlax05
05-09-2005, 08:43 PM
honestly im from jersey and i dun see much contact...i love 2 hit ive sent a few kids to there bench crying but i dun pride myself on that id love to throw a sick fake and score rather than lay a kid out...but its so dam fun lol...and ye i dunno about other teams but the poles on my team dun hit 4 **** its myself and 2 other middies on my team that do all the bone crushing
AStyles17
05-09-2005, 08:46 PM
^ god you're just so cool Andrew, i wish i could be as awesome as you.
hey thanks buddy
lyonslax98
05-09-2005, 08:55 PM
And thats why you suck
yeah thats why all 3 of the sophs nuss recommended for that top 160 camp were football players (me, nolan, gaughn even though he quit).
I wana Lax you!
05-13-2005, 12:16 AM
Now as for the most physical areas of LAX I would agree that Lyons is not the most physical team. Based on specific scientific research that shows most Lyons Laxers havev the ability to hit people and score for that matter with their mind.
LT.HOOGANHAUS
05-13-2005, 12:23 AM
what was the score of nt vs lyons?
rkenshin09
05-13-2005, 12:30 AM
http://www.laxpower.com/update05/binboy/XNEWIL.PHP
8-3
Lamada
05-15-2005, 08:56 PM
in cali its all football players playing lax...only like 2-3 real lacrosse players on the team, rest are football/soccer turned lax players...for example the whole torrey defence is made up of all conference middle linebackers for football...they hit hard
IRISHLAX30
05-15-2005, 09:49 PM
i got the tiger stripes on my forearms thanks to the straps on my arm pads
the girls love it
Yah i got something like that except i got it on my feet were i were my socks and i'm if you look closely only some of my face is tan because of my helmet visor . But yah it does bring in the chicks
IKElax51
06-05-2005, 12:32 AM
i would say midwest for sure i live in michigan and thats how anyone here plays. i cant really say there are any good SKILLED lacrosse teams here maybe besides brother rice. i play for eisenhower and we have some good skilled players but michigan lax is all about hitting for the most part
Eclipse
06-05-2005, 01:10 AM
God brother rice is good
justlaxin484
06-05-2005, 05:25 PM
midwest hits the hardest
LpLaX_10
06-11-2005, 01:39 PM
LaPorte was known as the "Thugs of Indiana"..we finished only 5-10 but we buried like 20 kids on every team ...our defense is all offensive linemen (from LaPorte Slicer Football..the hardest hitting team in Indiana) one of defenders hit a kid so hard it helmet flew off like 5 yards bhind him..and then 2 kids were chasing him down and he stoped and bent over and the 2 kids flipped over him and then he just kept goin..that defender is also out Face-Off guy..hes a big mofo ...our whole defense is big mofos
Diesel4958
06-11-2005, 11:27 PM
B-town (Burlington) Vermont were all crazy, jk.
LaxBoozeWomen
06-12-2005, 03:08 AM
Id say Maryland, New york/long island are main. followed by rest of the northeast
sailorslax88
06-12-2005, 11:11 AM
the dirty longisland is where they hit hard
stix1025
06-17-2005, 07:24 PM
Wow last game i was watching lol, there was a kid playing defense who had to be 500 pounds. He didn't wear arm pads and had a custom jersey. boy the kid was huge. This was in High school by the way. Then this kid who was palying in the high school game as an eigth grader wen against him. Dud it looked like a giant and an ant. Lol it was great. Of course the defender couldn't move and everyone wanted to be guared by him. lol . This was in Florida by the way!
wickedlaxer4
06-20-2005, 01:10 PM
Ive herd the further down south the more they got in the game for hitting anyways so some teams but not all down there is thats all ther lookin to do
franks2089
06-20-2005, 08:01 PM
People from texas. We all have played a great deal of football. For some reason it seems like athletes from texas seem to be bigger than anywhere else for some reason anyone notice that.
sthlaxman40
06-20-2005, 09:59 PM
Texas, many of the lax players play (or played) football and are used to dishin out big hits.
LIlaxkid
06-21-2005, 10:32 AM
Id say Maryland, New york/long island are main. followed by rest of the northeast
I dont know about you but on Long Island we dont hit as much as the west. Its mostly all stick skills here. Unless your just playing kids you dont like on JV then we go all out and hit like crazy.
XtremeLax
07-11-2005, 02:02 PM
I think the south does hit hard. consider- lacrosse is new to the south seeing as how it spread from the north down. to make up for poor stick skills kids just hit alot. The fact that most of the kids were recruited from football to start up the teams also plays in to this fact. This past season a kid on my team broke another kids arm when he hit the kid four feet off the field and onto the track, the break didn't comefrom the track either cause the snap was heard as soon as he was hit. Not only our d-poles hit, but so do the middies and attack. Southern guys would rather lay out a body then pick up a GB.
BuschBeer89
07-11-2005, 02:40 PM
Its not like everyone's just going to say their area is the most physical.
UNCdefense
07-11-2005, 03:28 PM
anywhere you go there will be some hard hitting teams...up North in MD where msot my family lives, my cuz played for St. mary's & Annapolis(the high school, nto the academy..by the way, he was all state junior year, ripped a hamstring begginning of season senior)
back on topic though, he said annapolis was the best cause they ahd good stick skills but there D did like to hit alot, & alotta teams up there hated them for it....anywhere u go there'll be hard hitting teams, but i agree that as you go further south it becomes more & more about hitting, just like everyone else said since it's not as big most kids dont get into it til high school so they have no stick skills at all & just expect to run out & knock people over(i will agree w/ the statement about texas though, those guys live for football, & the fball players that cross over are simply there to nock people over)
chslax538
07-11-2005, 05:58 PM
Yea its definatly not about where your from, its about how much you suck. The worse a person is and the worse their stick skills are, the more they will rely on hitting to get the ball. This is why in college there arent gigantic hits every time an attackman has the ball, just stratigically placed checks. However lacrosse is a war game origonally so its bound to have some body checking every once in a while.
Conrice
07-12-2005, 04:10 AM
i personally think that d-poles will make up for their lack of stick skills by phyiscal skill....about the comment of florida players....we have our fair share of agressive players (i included), but i think that we are as tough as some of the NY laxers...but i also think that we have a long way to go on stick skills....its kinda like when i watched the FSU v UF game last may (im going to FSU)....the physical play looked like d1, and so did the strength and speed....but when it came to working the ball around, they didnt have all of the stick skills....i think thats where florida is....is lacking stick skills, and d-poles make up for it by physical play.....as well as everyone else
wickedlaxer4
07-12-2005, 09:41 AM
... Its how the player thinks... If when he sees a groundball hes thinking of nailing who ever tries to get it or thinkin of pickin it up and scoring but im guna have too say farther south its more of a football like game and higher east its more of a basketball-soccer type game
JH-USNA80
07-12-2005, 10:23 AM
FL and texas are the best football states, and in FL a lot of football players play lacrosse to stay in shape for next season, so when the attack bring it in, or anything like that, its usually a pretty ugly site, w/ the poles destroyin anythin in their way.
I think you will find that in Maryland (and probably LI, too), it's the other way around: players play football to stay in shape for lacrosse.
The PowerRanger
07-12-2005, 10:34 AM
I think you will find that in Maryland (and probably LI, too), it's the other way around: players play football to stay in shape for lacrosse.
yeah, that is true, I play in the hudson valley region of NY (which some of our high schools in our county (yorktown, john jay) and known for some of the most physical d on the planet), and we almost all play football to stay in shape for lacrosse and to keep our aggressivness up.
geggieman
07-15-2005, 01:25 PM
they hit pretty dang hard in texas
LibertyRose
07-16-2005, 01:03 AM
out west we're still pretty new to the game, so alot of the stick skills arn't where they will be so alot of the D-poles including my self lay down some heavy body checks. but we got some knew coaches comeing in so that we can get that stick skills to match our mad body checks. i've only met a couple kids from down south and only one kid from back east and they were all middies so i didn't reall get to see ur guys hitting power.
Gobbler
07-18-2005, 03:29 PM
They hit in Maryland as hard as anywhere, the real difference is that they know when and where to hit. Chasing bodies all over the field is sad lacrosse.
Generally, the higher the skill level the less the contact. However, when there is contact, it can be brutal.
We are talking "body shots" right, not slapping with the stick?
Football players dont always make good lacrosse players. How many D1 size prospects are playing in TX or FL anyway?
Give me a squad of good sticks and I can beat a goon squad all day long. :guns:
patlax22
07-18-2005, 09:45 PM
i havent seen anyone hit like my team... every game there is always a big hit... last year one kid had to have cpr and a couple have been knocked out cold
pantherslax20
07-19-2005, 12:57 PM
i've played against teams from the best lacrosse states in teh country and i would say NY and NJ teams are rough and hit hard. and you combine that with their skills and its great play.
franks2089
07-19-2005, 05:24 PM
If only I had a dvd drive in this computer I could upload a video of me knocking this big kid onto his little teammate it was freakin awesome.
DwinsChamps
07-20-2005, 07:02 PM
As a football player, i can honestly say that football kids aren't the best at hitting in lax. Football isn't about hitting nearly as much as it's about tackling, which is very different from anything that you can legally accomplish in a lax game. That said, hockey players hit the hardest. They spend years learning to breakdown and pummel people, and it's very applicable in lacrosse. Therefore, i'd have to give it to kids in the midwest and northeast....
STAlax06
08-01-2005, 10:18 AM
usually the few negroes that play lacrosse hit hardbecause they come fromthestreets
roycegracie47
08-01-2005, 10:27 AM
usually the few negroes that play lacrosse hit hardbecause they come fromthestreets
I understand the day is still young but I doubt I'll see a more ignorant qoute today.
I gotta say FL just cuase i have seen a couple of up north game and i didnt really see that crazy. But down where we play in the south i have rocked a couple of those said football player that are about 210-235 on thier asses and they didnt get up that insane cuz i am only about 165 during the season and i am a d-pole. so i gotta say FL
LpLaX_10
08-06-2005, 02:42 PM
i play for LaPorte, IN and we r a physical team and ya we played in kentucky for the ICebreakers and alot of teams werent physical at all..but from wat iv played...its pretty physical here..LOTS of football players
TCreeker
12-28-2005, 01:56 PM
size doesn't seem to matter that much. the most impressive checks I've ever seen were done by averaged sized dudes. I swear to god this kid who's like 5'10'' 140lb hit this huge kid into the air like 5 feet
LAX4LIFE003
12-28-2005, 03:21 PM
There are some nasty hitters here in Jersey. I mean, we played a game with our town rivals and three kids came off the field with blood running down their foreheads. One dislocated a shoulder. Another had 3 stiches put into the back of his head from it hitting the grounds on a lay-out hit.
My teammates actually give me crap because I'm a finesse player... well at 5'8" 140 you can't be that much of a hitter. I like the game of lacrosse a little more than the sport. The smart, quick, skilled lacrosse, not the burly, pushy lacrosse. I love agressive dmen, the harder they lunge and the easier they get burnt...
i agree. im the same size and when the big D go for a hit just split dodge and your around them. its fun cuz they look like idiots after.
craig21
12-28-2005, 03:35 PM
long island n rest of new york ppl call us p***** but we def hit the hardest
LVHSlax
12-28-2005, 04:38 PM
I understand the day is still young but I doubt I'll see a more ignorant qoute today.
Hands down the funniest thing Ive seen all day. This is a stupid thread by the way, at the end of the day all that matters are how many points you score, and if you go for the big hit every time, people can LEARN and then they will do a dodge and burn you.
Eclipse
12-28-2005, 05:36 PM
To be honest this probably was a stupid thread for me to make. Everyone is just gonna say "YO BOYEE WE HIT THE HARDEST UP HERE CAUSE WE BE TIIIIIIIGHT" I was kind of looking for people who have seen alot of action played in alot of states have some input on this.
LVHSlax
12-29-2005, 10:45 AM
long island n rest of new york ppl call us p***** but we def hit the hardest
If you say that your from LI how come your profile says that you are from the Lax hotspot of St. Augustine FL? Which is it?
dragoncoach
12-29-2005, 01:43 PM
I think it's New York.
Every league and team has it's heavy hitters, but the game in NY is pretty tough.
WHEELAX2
12-29-2005, 01:45 PM
To be honest this probably was a stupid thread for me to make. Everyone is just gonna say "YO BOYEE WE HIT THE HARDEST UP HERE CAUSE WE BE TIIIIIIIGHT" I was kind of looking for people who have seen alot of action played in alot of states have some input on this.
at the time I did... I've played all over the lacrosse world...
I saw FL cause "That's how we roll"
dragoncoach
12-29-2005, 02:03 PM
I think it's New York.
Every league and team has it's heavy hitters, but the game in NY is pretty tough.
Three considerations -
Officiating
Ground-ball Play
Coaching
Lots of ground balls will lead to a ton of hits, which anybody with half a brain knows how to do. The officiating style from region to region has an effect on hitting there for sure.
What I like is the team that knows the best time to hit: knocking down shooters. For that reason, I have to say NY... kudos to NJ, Baltimore as well.
If all things are simple, then it's obvious to me that the lacrosse with the most ground balls is going to have the most vicious hitting... doesn't say much for passing and catching, but the hitting is pretty hard.
PHSLaxDude
01-07-2006, 02:10 AM
I guess playing football is a helping factor because of tackling experience and size but that doesnt always make the big hits. If a FL or TX team played a good MD or NY team, they would rarely get the chance to hit a player with full force. Good hits come from good stick skills and knowledge of when to throw the right check. Its also a lot about position defense more like in basketball than in football
canadalax22
01-07-2006, 11:18 AM
im sorrry but canada hits the hardest and we do alot more hacking a wacking then teams in the states for examlple i play attack but take the draws and liike or team recks ppl off the scrums because we are taught liek in pracky and stuff a 2 on one drill and the first guy there yellsman and the other guy gets the ball my team never looses loosies. or poles demolish kids the just hammered kids i got kids on my lx team tha played junior hockey and and just men. so i feel from playing al lmy lax here but playgn some good tournys in colorado and md that we hit the hardest and are way mroe aggresive.
MeTHLax18
01-07-2006, 11:38 AM
i think you cant really pick one specific area cause theres almost alot of hitting everything cant really say it is in one area...just doesnt make any sense to say one area has the best or hardest hitting.
theres alot of other states who play lacrosse too who have players who just want to hit or injure someone.
LaxLlama8
01-07-2006, 01:21 PM
very true; generally alot of teams skills arent on the same level so some rely solely on body checks to carry them through to a win.
although in MN i have noticed some teams just dont have size on their side. the guys are really not that large and bulky the way some teams do. Especially around here, big guys do things like track to stay in shape for football and hockey, lacrosse just isnt as big yet
I completely agree, nobody is huge, but hockey players often just play lax for fun and just love to hit people.
b-waterlax
01-07-2006, 01:23 PM
i heard some kid who live here in bridgewater ma moved out there and was pretty good, I think his name was dave sibilia and he was on the cover of a lax magazine out there. He was vrazy! he did this weird thing like a rowboat check
Eclipse
01-07-2006, 02:02 PM
Unless you guys can start citing specific reason...game film....or say i have played at place X and place Y, but place X hits more because...then this a stupid thread to even keep open.
I saw FL cause "That's how we roll"
That is just plain stupid. Start acting like you know what youre talking about or dont post at all.
tomahawks11
01-07-2006, 02:12 PM
in canada there is a ton of huge players thta play at high school..... especialy newmarket..
Z12/AM
01-07-2006, 08:06 PM
west coast.
Levin
01-08-2006, 07:25 PM
Idaho... definetly
i live 4 lax
01-08-2006, 07:50 PM
hawaii. jk jk i think the southerners hit hardest.
MClothier
01-09-2006, 12:02 AM
to be very very honest with you- texas and cali prob hit the hardest. i play in cali and like CHSLax538 said- the west isnt the best skill wise but we def make up for it with our hits. I have been going to vail for a few years now (4) and i must say very few eastern teams hit hard or hit t all. colorado hit hard, as does texas and cali. ny and md is all about finesse, out west although we try to match the skill of the east, we just play a more physical game.
fossil8412
01-09-2006, 08:19 AM
Down south we got somes good ol' foosball players who like to play lacrosse during the off season. Up north, you guys may hit hard, but at least you play with a sense of finesse. We've got guys that just enjoy hitting people...
ColtsLax
01-09-2006, 10:07 AM
South Jersey is a big hitting area, specifically the olympic conference. Most programs are 3-4 years old, so the original footballers are now seniors, and they hit hard, but they have good skills too.
fossil8412
01-09-2006, 03:08 PM
Is everyone just saying where they play?? Yes, I think so... How many people have ever even played against/for a team outside of their state?
Eclipse
01-09-2006, 03:25 PM
Is everyone just saying where they play?? Yes, I think so... How many people have ever even played against/for a team outside of their state?
This is what i have been trying to say the whole time.
vernonlax
01-09-2006, 04:01 PM
In the winter league that I play in we play some NY teams. I'm from NJ so its not like there that far away. NY plays just like us jersey kids do, in the physical aspect. It all depends on the team you play no matter where your from. Some teams do nothing but hit and some who can throw and catch will just run circles around you with stick skills.While the ones that cant just hit. There are some nasty kids in NY and NJ though, and besides we all know the East Coast is some much tougher.
craig21
01-09-2006, 06:07 PM
If you say that your from LI how come your profile says that you are from the Lax hotspot of St. Augustine FL? Which is it?
cuz ill always be an island boy but i jsut moved down to st aug
fenderstrat3578
01-10-2006, 06:23 PM
I am from the midwest, but definatly do not play as physically as Long Island guys. If you play against a long island public school, you are going to die. Maryland hits hard, but has more composure and style in their game. Virginia teams hit hard, but isn't outdone by long islanders. West Coast lax isn't nearly as tough and physical as North East. Overall, Long Island is the most physical
Laxin2266
01-10-2006, 06:40 PM
I have played lax all over the east coast, but no where that much further than PA or Mass. Ive heard that LI is the toughest, not b/c im from there. Thats why its STRONG ISLAND lol
mikabaloskian
01-11-2006, 07:14 PM
dude ive played a lot and i say new york, maryland, and my team in georgia. most of the kids are decent at stick skills n stuff, but the highlight for them is to floor someone. ive never broken or seen so many sticks break b4. i moved to ga from boston n it kinda sux b/c they dont take it seriously down here. lax is just an excuse for them to kill someone w/ a stick.
BeIVdeR
01-11-2006, 07:21 PM
haha tru dat, country day is their rivals, and we lose to them in football and lax, we close in lax though
telemaster1952
02-02-2006, 12:18 PM
ew englandish area