how many of you taught yourself how to string?

[Buzz1991]

How did you guys get into stringing. Personally I taught myself by emulating other jobs.

[Mustangs21]

Self-taught, by looking at my other heads.

[tiplax]

Self-taught, by looking at my other heads.
same for me, i got my first few sticks strung by LU, then i just coppied them onto others. Now i'm a good stringer

[EndlesFimbulvet]

Self taught, but I have an "apprentice" now. Hehehehe.

[lax_11]

tought myself how to string all types of pockets. half the time i look at a picture and just copy it unless i already know

[PBlax]

kinda self taught.

Elementsk8r use to string all of my sticks but one day he got lazy n didnt wanna string my razer so i thought i would try and i used orange's guide and ive gotten pretty good at stringing now

[Buzz1991]

Self taught, but I have an "apprentice" now. Hehehehe.
Yeah me too, he's like 10. I love bossing him around.

[ekajsk8er]

Nope. Orange taught me how to do it. Tutorials should be an option? I guess instructions kinda works though.

[cgv1016]

the warrior hand book, but then i learned pita and tradish from the good old lax forums

[the wister]

I got my first stick free and hated how it threw, but didn't really have any friends interested in lacrosse so I had to do it myself. And that's how I learned to string mesh. I also bought some hard mini mesh and that was a lesson in itself.

I copied stylin string's pockets for my first two traditionals and my sister's stick and have gotten a lot better since then.

[mrmccool]

isnt looking at pictures to figure it out and self teaching the same thing? no one sat down and taught me, i just read e-lacrosse. so what am I?

[Orange]

I taught myself basically. I remember my first string job was without looking at any head and the top string was gross and the sidewalls were actually done pretty good but real lose. Then from there on I looked at other heads and learned from them.

[Brandon303]

Self-taught by trial and error. Now basically everyone on my team is my apprentice.

[WickedDpole21]

self taught originally then i read tutorials here on TLF and went back to adjust them.

[MedinaLax21]

i thought it would be easy my freshman year i broke my blade and ordered a head and a string kit and i got it a night before our game and it was alli had so real quick i learned it was a skill needed to be learned and i was up till 1 stinging the dumb thing and it was a terrible job too so yeah just a lot of messing around

[aviator]

ive strung 3 like real heads and messed around with a bunch of minis (and attempted customs on my av8) and look at the directions usually on my first stringing i did terrible and like did the sidewalls on my own and had help with the topstring................got a new head that came strung real nice and after usingit for a while restrung it with monster mesh, got a new head when that warped, and strung it with 6d from jima

[mrmccool]

I have a thought, let me know what everyone thinks:

If you know how to string a lacrosse stick well, or if you know how to do customs, then you can't have strictly taught yourself. I understand what everyone is saying about starting easy and teaching yourself, but you HAVE to look at other people's work to know if you're doing it right. If there was someone whose stick looked awful but it threw great, then they could make an argument. As I see it right now, everyone that strings has learned from everyone that strung before them, no matter how much they figured out on their own....

opinions?

[lax1191]

I definately got into stringing with e-lacrosse's stick tech. I saw all the cool pockets they had and just tried 'em all out. Now I rarely go there and instead look at the stuff here.

[i live 4 lax]

my friend taught me, but i learned how to do traditional by instructions on the back of an STX poster

[LaxDr]

i just looked at other ones and pretty much became pro lol but i still cant strings customs i just do mesh

[A-D-I-D-A-S]

I bought the stx stringing kit and used those instrustions for my first time.

[DQLAX22]

i bought a kit but didnt understand the instructions so i looked at my evo pro that was strung and i figured it out and then i came here and it made me better

[OwlsLax2]

I just taught myself how to string today.

[MDlaxin69]

i basically taught myself... the very first time i strung mesh, i used a tutorial. But other than that, i taught myself. I just use tutorials to see what lengths of string i need.

[Dadabhoy_Muzzi]

I looked over some pics of different meshs and started to string from there. I was self taught.

[EastCoastSurf]

im self-taught. I found this site after i learned how to string but it helped me improve just by looking at other peoples heads.

[ramslax12]

i got sick of how the local lax store strung my X2 so when i got an evo pro i decided to teach myself

[nd_lacrosse]

self taught. started by seeing stuff on e-lacrosse and trying to copy it.

[WezAlmighty]

Yea self taught, although i pretty much learned everything from Orange...

[madLAXhax]

i looked at tutorials and at my other sticks and pictures. so im in between

[robi]

Yeah I looked at tutorials first, then borrowed my friends head and copied the stringing.

[TRELAX1201]

I kinda taught myself, with the help of Oranges tutorial. Whenever I got mixed up I refered to it.

[mmlaxplaya17]

e-lacrosse's stick tech is the best thing ever!!!!!!!!

[broslax16]

I learned by looking at a strung stick and mimmicking it on the stick i was stringing. Then once I got to a little more advanced pocktets i started looking at tutorials and learning the pockets from there.

[spenny]

you guys dont know how good you have it today, back in the 80s we were all self taught, it was the only way to do it, unless you had a teammate to help you out

[Buddha]

e-lacrosse helped out but pretty much self taught

[MidiLine1]

My brother taught me. We both did a head at same time and I copied him.

Seriously how couldd that many peopel self teahc them sleves?!?! They would have needed the advice ffrom somewhere, or have someone help a little.

[CustomX157]

I tought myself how to string, then my 10 year old sister watched me and can rack out some bangin hard mesh pockets. Even the shooters are clean. It's insane.

[laxmann1993]

I tried to use the instructions on the STX kit, but I could not understand them. So I kind of did it on my own while looking at other sticks/pics. Then by trial and error I perfeted them. I am in the midst of teaching my neighbor, but he cannot grasp the technique.

[laxmister22]

i tried using the instruction manual in one of like the stx stringing kits, but then i just started looking at pictures and improved every time i strung a stick.

[pshwarriorlax17]

yeah what would you say just looking at pics?

[cloo24]

E-lacrosse showed me the ropes