superstitions/rituals???

[mustang_lax]

Do any of you guys (and girls) have any "superstitions" or "rituals" you do before or after a game? I myself ALWAYS wear eyeblack, sunny cloudy eyeblack it is. I also let no one use my stick. My sticks are prepared exactly for my liking and i feel that its like bad luck.. why? idk I also say a little prayer for our team to perform to our best and for none of the guys to get injured. A "ritual" i go of sorts is that I always put my equipment on the same order: socks, cleats, cup, team shorts, shoulderpads, team jersey, elbow pads, eyeblack, and last but not least gloves. Then I put on my helmet as i walk ahead to go take the faceoff

[LatinBabe]

i go to dennys everyday before a game. heck, i know its not the best food to eat but it gives you plenty of energy.

usually i restring my stick on the way to the game, i dont know why just a habbit. i got a set of leathers for games and several sets for practice.

i say a prayer for myself then head on the field where we all pray together (my team is all christain).

then i slide on my gloves and begin warm-up.

[MontclairLax]

the night before i pray a lot. in t he morning i go online, (like now) and listen to some music with my lax stick. it gets me in the mood. theres something else i wanna say but it might not be appropriate.

[blckout20]

I just listen 2 music while warming up like ill have my cd player tucked in my shorts while I pass around. Before every game I'll go over defensive strategy with our goalie and that's about it.

[laxbabe2121]

umm my ritual? well i fool around during warmups, get screamed at by my coach at least 3 times. i guess that could count as a ritual. if he doesn't yell cuss words at me, then i don't feel like playing. its only after he calls me a bunch of... bad words... that's when i feel set to fire at will.

[waxon]

I usually listen to music, I wish we could say a prayer but my school is too "diverse."

[Laxgoat]

I just get pumped i usualy hit myself in the helmet with my gloves and stick then try to run into something full speed to get me ready so i can lay the first person i see out

[laxbabe2121]

hahah that'd be funny if you ran into the football goal post and got unconsious. lol some guy did that at our school once, but he played football. it was the funniest/saddest thing i've ever seen.

[sumSum]

I dont have any pre-game rituals really. My only thing is wearing Under Armour. And I really have to prepare myself mentally. I always psych myself up. Imagine scoring goals or doing a great check. Anything like that.

[TRELAX]

I dont fully strech until right before faceoff. I'm either on the wing or about to get down and I'm still streching my abs and neck so I dont get a cramp.
And I'm always the first person to get to a game. I'm there before they turn on the indoor lights, before the league admins are there, before the coaches, refs, everyone. I strech and start doing some ball tricks by myself.
Some times I talk to the goalies from the other teams cuz goalies are cool. Plus you can kinda mess with them, feed em bad info about my team. Tell them one guy sucks when he's awsome, you know.
And when I get down for FOs I always chat with the other guy. Mostly, "hi, whats new man, nice pads, how much you pay? this your first year? cool, howsa your outdoor team look so far? hows your indoor record?"
Yada yada yada, keep talking until the ref blows his wistle and then its pretty easy to clamp and rake.

[Bouncing_Soul]

i wear my straw cowboy hat until the moment i take the field.

[Lax4Ever]

Our team listens to music while we get ready. The tunes get shut off about 5 min before the game and everyone prepares in their own way a lot of the guys talk to their line mates, I just try to calm myself and get ready for the game. The coach comes in and tells us what we need to do in the game. We hit the floor run one lap, team stretch and worm up the goalie.

[mustang_lax]

Yea I too like to talk with my linemates and dicuss plays of those sorts. After I talk with them I like to go to my locker area ( where I put all my equipment, not shool locker), close my eyes and get mentally ready and try to picture myself going through the game imagining me makin a check, going through fatigue and coming up big for my team

[WestSideLa X eR]

stretch, music, pray


meditate :laugh

[Jester27]

I need my alone time before a game. I'll sit in the crease, stretch, listen to music. No one talks to me. They know I don't talk before games.

[Dan]

i don't wear spandex if i want the team to win and i want to play my best. i mean compression shorts. that's a dangerous maneuver, but i can do it. i always have my best games, and in xc running, best races. so state, playoffs, no spandex.

[Paul_Gait_RULZ]

washroom ritual a must, and playing on an empty stomach, a hungry man plays with tonnes of hunger!!!! and thats when it gets nasty...

[cuse10d]

i always go to eveyr one of my teammates, and smash helmets. One day i wasn't wearing a helmet, and smashed my head into all my teammates helmets

[mustang_lax]

haha thats great. I hit helmets with our goalie after every quarter... kinda like in hockey at the end of a game where the whole team skates to the goalie and butt helmets

[Jjaylax09]

Originally posted by Jester27
I need my alone time before a game. I'll sit in the crease, stretch, listen to music. No one talks to me. They know I don't talk before games.

thats the same for me, except that i belong in the crease.... i do my warm ups then i watch the other team warm up... it helps me pick up on tendencies, etc.

[bigOHlax]

for superstitions
i never play with out my lucky braclet under my glove and my badana on. I have never played a game without a bandana on
and once at a tourney i left my braclet at home, and i played the worst i have ever played. and my team didn't score in 2 games.

for rituals i always put my pads on in the same order, shoulder pads, jesery bandana left arm pad right arm pad, helemt half on, gloves.
and i always strecth last int he last row of lines. next to my linemates. and they are the only ones i stand next to the entire game.

[murderlax]

i always wear a tied shooting string around my left wrist. i never take it off. also for about 10mins i play that game where you place both hands face up and another person places theirs on tops of yours face down, and the person on the bottom tries to slap the other persons hands. you know what i mean? it help me with my face-offs and checking too. (i'm a LSM)

[ADKlax24]

at our games a DJ comes and sets up speakers and we get pumped and go on to the field sceaming

[dta06]

Before every game I listen to a cs that gets me pumped up. Then minutes before the game and during halftime I bow my head and say a prayer, while everyone else is doint their own thing

[the next 'one']

before every game, during warm ups, i do a front flip. just go out and in the middle of the field and just flip. it gets me so pumped up and plus its gotta look a little intimidating if someone from the other team just happens to look over and see it.

[TheBenchWarmer]

before every game, during warm ups, i do a front flip. yeah just go out and in the middle of the field just flip. it gets me so pumped up and plus its gotta look a little intimidating if someone from the other team just happens to look over and see it.

Haha, Id be pretty intimidated if I saw someone do that :laugh:

[sidewinder19]

i talk to the other F/O guy and really scare him. pretend to be gay ask his phone number, if its in the middle of the game and were up by one (eg.6-5) i say its 7-5 and the other guy will say your stupid and try to correct you saying your only ahead by one.i say the ref forgot the time i scored with your mom. :clap: :clap: :agree: :nahya: :rofl: :guns:

[Riot]

I listen to really loud music on the hour long car ride to the game. Ugh, I can't wait until I can play lacrosse within 30 minutes from where I live, spring is so far away.

[sharpshooterFTW]

ya loud music is useually a ritual. eye black, i go from an mp sort of thing, but because of my face they look a little weird, and not at all like the mp ones, so it's all good. and useually i'll try and get a classic strip under my eyes for practices, but that's rare.

[crlacrosse21]

while we're waiting for the faceoff and after every goal i tell my attackman that i will eat his babies if he touches the ball. once, while playing my coach, he told me that he'd eat me like a wasp eats a spider. it eats the entire body, but saves the central nervous system for last so that it feels every bit of it. i can't wait till i find some kid to say that to. also i like to say i'm gonna be on him like a hobo on a ham sandwich.

it's all good.

[THALAX]

I don't pee before a game. I find I run faster when I gotta go :runaway: . It sucks when all the other action is on the other side of the field though.

[navyboy28]

i listen to Pantera's "cowboys from hell" CD, meditate/pray, pad up in the same order (low black socks, team shorts, cleats, shoulder pads, jersey, elbow pads, helmet (except buckling my chin strap), gloves), get on the field and stretch alone and with the team, get the circle together and get everyone pumped up, get the game going. oh, and i always wear my dogtags around my neck and a little pendant on the laces of my right cleat.

[itsthatkid]

Wake up early, around 5ish, doesn't matter when the ghame is. Take my dog for a walk followed by loud music while im out in my yard Running in circles, shooting, and playing wallball. Everybody in my nieghborhood knows when i have a game. Also, I put on my lucky bracelet. Also, the nght before, i watch the Fresh Prince Of Bel-air...Every night...Same episode. Me and my friend always wrestle at the x untill its time for me to faceoff.

[RazzMaChazz]

never step on a line untill the game starts.

[GFlaxD17]

I retape my stick, and put on eye black, listen to music

[meestagoaliemon]

What I do is more of a team thing. After every single game /tournament, we all go out to Quaker Steak & lube.

[svtg40]

i put everything on my left side first... ex) left sock on, then right, etc... also, i always wear black underarmour sliders and black underarmour socks.

[s1erra7i2]

Coach wears boots. Same pair of boots, infact, when we had graduates versus players at the end of the year, he wore boots during that game and he played.

Loud Music, and Mihm's Charcoal Grill afterwards.

[MaKiMaKi13]

i always do my eye black in 7's and then ill usually retape my sticks , and listen to Junior Senior - Move Your Feet but thatrs about it for my rituals

[phoenix-32]

no lovin the night before a game (and none the night of the game if we lose), and on game day i listen to alot of of angry music (example: rob zombie, dmx, swollen members) to get me hyped.

the very last thing i do before the game is put my eye black on, its like putting on war paint... it feels awesome

[shoebag2000]

As I walk up to face off, I always rap each of my arm pads twice and each side of my rib pads twice. It makes a big smack, and gets me pumped. Other than that, I just like to talk to the kid I am facing off against, not really to psyche him out, but to get me relaxed and in the zone.

[RockfordAttack9]

Shoot for about a half hour.

[blackstackcadal]

take the biggest dump of my life.

[thegooch]

i wear my bracelet. everytimei wear it our team wins and i play like im on fire.
i also wear my lucky under armour shorts with a whole in them and my underarmour compression shorts. they're like one of a kind and it helps me out i also listen to music and get real psyched like screaming and jumping around. my friends the goalie and we yell around the field to get each other and the team pumped

[Adrenaline]

I personally like to get layed out so that i get pissed and rage on anyone that touches the ball.

[MadLaxPlaya16]

I don't pee before a game. I find I run faster when I gotta go :runaway: . It sucks when all the other action is on the other side of the field though.
thats dangerous for u dude haha it can rupture if u get hit hard enough their and then everything will be loose inside u and u get sum kind of infection
i swear its true im an athletic trainer or goin to b one

[LymanLax5]

Usually on the bus to wherever we are playing I put in my headphones and listen to my laxmix on my ipod, close my eyes, and twiddle my stick if I am going shorty for that game, but I always have my stick in my hand the entire day before a game, i feel like its part of my body an we are connected, or something like that...

[ambidextrouslax]

I never talk before games, I always wear eyeblack. When I go to the FO, i'll try to look as intimidating as possible. That's about it. Listen to Rammstein, get's me pumped.

[Golekeepr]

i wack the goal posts as hard as i can and then i head butt the top one

[sjesuitlax]

listen to music.. and always make our parents and coaches proud

[homeskillet313]

when im starting at attack, especially in indoor when we only have 1 person each in the offensive and defensive zone i walk around the d-man and generally just move around a lot to get him moving and pissed off. and during a game if the balls on the other side of the field i like to walk circles around my d-man or start jogging back and forth up and down the field.

[shootandfeed]

i let no one touch my sticks

[BlackAttack2]

I never let anyone touch me or my equiptment before games, i also get dressed in the same order. And finally i listen to music and i try to talk as little as possible

[laxmonkey1]

I like to take a massive dump before the game and i also wear eyeblack

www.gamewarpaint.com (check it out)

Then i get dressed, shorts, socks, cleats, shoulder, arm pads, jersey, gloves, and helmet

Everytime

[COBRALAX13]

never eat before a game when i go on to the field i hit each pipe once....im attack not goalie.....equipment in same order i put it on everytime......
hop over the sideline..........and restraining box line........ say a prayer.........tap gloves with each attackmen..........lucky lax underwear<<<<i swear i have a pair of them......hit my cleats 13 times with my stick(my number).....after game win:take a step in the crease ....loss: hit restraining box line with stick but still never step on them...... yea u could say im pretty superstiotious

[COBRALAX13]

when im starting at attack, especially in indoor when we only have 1 person each in the offensive and defensive zone i walk around the d-man and generally just move around a lot to get him moving and pissed off. and during a game if the balls on the other side of the field i like to walk circles around my d-man or start jogging back and forth up and down the field.

dude thats sick i do the same thing..it gets them sooo mad!

[Elaxerata]

I have always used red athletic tape to tape my stick. I listen to extremly loud music then pray with my buddies.