If you could change just one thing...

[Formerlaxdemon]

I was wondering what, if anything, all of you would change in your lacrosse career if you could? I am not talking about being born as Gary Gait, but was there something in your lacrosse past that you wish that you could change or perhaps do over again, both the good and the bad.

For me it would be this past year I was diagnosed with a condition that is called hypercoagulant. Essentially this means that my blood causes blood clots very quickly even if I am not injured. After being hospitalized and almost dying from blood clots in my lungs (as well as a collapsed lung), I was put on blood thinners forever. I then found out that I can never play lacrosse ever again, just in case I may have any future clots and to prevent me from bleeding out if I get injured. I coach now, and I love that I can pass on lacrosse to a new generation of players, but nothing beats the feeling of being a player.

If I could go back and change one thing in my lacrosse history, it would be that my blood would not have any problems at all, and that I could still play the game we all love.

[mmlaxplaya17]

Last game of the season I brought the ball all the way down feild around 5 defenders and took a shot the was the ugliest thing youd ever seen! I definatly regreted it and would change it.

[moondog]

I wish I had lacrosse in high school. I will attempt to walk on to a top school as a grad student, since I was a club AA four years after picking up my first lacrosse stick. I'll never be able to know what could have been if my high school had lacrosse, and I had not taught MYSELF at age 18.

[Superman]

if i could change one thing about my game it would be to have more endurance so i could stay out alot longer. i have alot of endurance from playing mid but i wish i could just like not get as tired.

[laxman359]

im only a junior in high school and my freshmen year i played for a 2nd year team in New Jersey and i was a freshmen starter for a good half of the season and really learned a lot and at the end of freshmen year my family moved to maine. and if i could change one thing it would be not moving because i know by my senior my old team will be a force

[ViennaLAX16]

A certain girl....and just push my self a little harder in the playoffs....

[roycegracie47]

During College, I would have worked harder in the offseason. Teaching martial arts was a good workout, and between that and my day job I didn't have a lot of time, but I should have pushed myself harder to make it, I would have had a better senior year at least.

[goalieskcickay]

Absolutly nothing. Everything I've done I've learned a valuble lesson from, and to change a situation would be the loss of a lesson that I might have to learn again, when it would matter.

[BioPro29]

during my first year (6th grade), i'd have actually practiced in my spare time instead of being content with what i now realize were horrible stick skills.

[Goldenbearslax6]

I would want to have my old stick back,which was a a kpro with a razer strung my a sweet laxer, yea.... i would give 200 bucks for that whole thing if i had it, too back the mesh ripped.

[gfgoalie28]

I wish I had played with my older brother when he started, but I was too afraid he and his friends would pick on me/hurt me (I was 9 or 10 at the time, they were 14 to 15).

[GBaschski]

I would have liked to have started playing sooner than 8th grade, I could be beastly now.
And working as hard at training as I do now.

But the top thing would be being aggressive. I could play some awesome defense, but whenever I had the ball and was on a fast break, I didn't have the guts to go up against a defender and trust my dodging skills...I always passed off the ball and ended up ruining the play. I never picked up groundballs either because I was too timid.

[isuckatlax]

start sooner, i started last year(freshman), and everyone else on my team has been playing since at least 7 or 8th grade, no joke, my one year aniversary is coming up cause it was like 2 weeks before i jined TLF. so yea, defenitly start sooner, cause everyone else has like 2 years on me, but ive been working my butt off so i can hang with most of them

[wilsontopowell]

last summer league game i played this year i hit the pipe 6 times in the game. it still haunts me. it was horrible. i also got a beautiful assist but it did one of those where it rolls around the crossbar and it goes out so it wasnt called a goal. worst lacrosse day of my life

[zak]

Absolutly nothing. Everything I've done I've learned a valuble lesson from, and to change a situation would be the loss of a lesson that I might have to learn again, when it would matter.

Im a firm believer in that too. I wouldnt change anything major. Theres one groundball I wish I had gotten though. I had a great take away, right in front of our bench. I go to the ball and I get a questionable slash on my shoulder. From the shock I dropped the ball. I wish I had looked up and saw the hit coming so I could just keep going. If I had seen it, I would have been ready and not dropped it and had a great fast break right in front my whole team. It would have been really cool. Whatever. It was agood check :thumbsup:

[laxrat22]

last game of the season, we're playing our rivals, whole lotta trash talking all over the field, i came close to getting in a fight, it was just an intense game. we are tied 2-2 with like 30 seconds left, i'm playing attack and one of my middies breaks out on a fast break he passes me the ball and i have a one on one with the goalie and the chance to win the game but i had recently ajusted my pocket so it had more whip than i'm used to and i take like a 3 quarter shot and i shank it to the left, i blow the game, everyone kisses their sister. and the sad part is that wasnt the first game that season that came down to my shot and i missed.

and i would take back all the trash i talked on the field, i was a real jerk to people but of course they usually started the trash talking.

[marflax33]

i wish i could have started lacrosse earlier than i did. i started like a year ago!!! thats unacceptable.

[ex-lax]

ya i started in eighth grade i wish i started in like 5th

[lax4life6]

i wish i would have tried out for a travel team last year. this is gonna be my last year i can play travel lacrosse and its gonna be the first year i try out

[vroom125]

I wish I had started playing lacrosse earlier.

[freestylewalkin]

i wish i ran it up the field one time when it was totally open i coulda scored:monkey:

i passd it but i missed the opportunity

at least i learned frm the mistake

[AHA lax5]

i wish i started working on my right hand earlier(im a lefty) like probably 3rd grade or around then...man, there would be no telling how good i could be.

[Hooligan]

I wish I had a chance to start earlier with lacrosse. I could be in the NLL right now...and maybe in much better shape.

[fitzy_nb_11]

I wish lacrosse started earlier in New Brunswick like before I was born...Then we could compete with b.c alberta and ontario and iroquois(maybe)..

[LowRida]

I would have saved the game losing goal that kept my team from going on to Sectionals.

[nclax35]

well at my school in my 6th grade year i practiced with the team the hole year and then we had an official meeting and the coach said 6th graders probably wouldnt play much so i didnt play in my 6th grade year.

[Lax Turtle]

I would have not turned down a full ride to Maryland. But, on the other hand I did join the Army became a Ranger and a Green Beret and sent many terrorist the meet their maker.

[RockfordAttack9]

Wish I learned about Lax earlier, I started in 7th grade, now in 9th.

[_lax4life_]

i also wish i had picked up lax earlier, alot earlier. Im in 10th grade right now and i just started over the summer.

[spenny]

1) i wish that i had started playing goalie in middle school, and not in college
2) i wish that i had taken my HS and college injuries more seriously and rested them rather than played on them. i'd hurt a LOT less than i do now

[bigOHlax]

pretty much same as everybody
wish i started freshman year instead of waiting till my sophmore year
also just to play my senior year over again. It was by far the best. And if i was the player then that i am now the whole year could have been diffrent. I am only a freshman in college but i learned so much this past summer