How to Build a Rebound/Practice Wall [Archive]

Lax&Basebll Dad

11-29-2006, 09:24 AM

Hello,
My son just started playing lacrosse. He is an 8th grader (2011) and he really wants to improve his game so he can gear up for the spring as well as for high school. He mentioned a rebounder or practice wall. I searched the forum on this subject and found some useful information, Rather than buying the standard Brine or Warrior wall, I wanted to see if anyone had some advice or tips on how to build a bigger one similiar to a "school wall" or where I could find something similiar. Any information will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

RockStar

11-29-2006, 10:25 AM

.........I wanted to see if anyone had some advice or tips on how to build a bigger one similiar to a "school wall" or where I could find something similiar..........

Like a concrete-block masonry wall?

Lots of online tips for brickwork, google is your friend. Easy, just heavy work and time consuming. I'd expect costs of $5 to $10 per square foot of finished wall, plus whatever you think your time is worth.

Half-arse job not good enough? I bet you could find decent master specs and detail sketches for a heavy duty industrial-commercial type reinforced structural blockwall.

destructivelax

11-29-2006, 02:20 PM

Like a concrete-block masonry wall?

Lots of online tips for brickwork, google is your friend. Easy, just heavy work and time consuming. I'd expect costs of $5 to $10 per square foot of finished wall, plus whatever you think your time is worth.

Half-arse job not good enough? I bet you could find decent master specs and detail sketches for a heavy duty industrial-commercial type reinforced structural blockwall.
i don't think brick walls should be a good idea. i hate how they're not perfectly straight because of like indents in the cement between bricks. the ball always seems to go everywhere

MVlax19

11-29-2006, 02:30 PM

i think he means cinder blocks, not bricks

CSlax06

11-29-2006, 02:32 PM

I made one...Ill go take some pics...

RockStar

11-29-2006, 02:43 PM

........i hate how they're not perfectly straight because of like indents in the cement between bricks. the ball always seems to go everywhere

This is exactly why brick walls are good for practice:

-you work on accuracy by targetting a single brick with your throws.

-you get better at chasing down loose balls and/or catching "bad passes".

destructivelax

11-29-2006, 05:23 PM

This is exactly why brick walls are good for practice:

-you work on accuracy by targetting a single brick with your throws.

-you get better at chasing down loose balls and/or catching "bad passes".
i guess but they're annoying after having to continously chase down passes

navyboy28

11-29-2006, 05:42 PM

if you throw at a specific brick, the ball doesn't ever go to far to either side and rarely catches an edge that makes it uncatchable. i think wood would be much more practical than building a brick wall though. like an L shape but with \ supporting it from behind. a few cinderblocks to hold the _ part down flat so it dowesn't fall forward and your good to go.

MVlax19

11-29-2006, 05:53 PM

but the ball dosnt bounce off the wood as good

goalie33fan

11-29-2006, 06:14 PM

Get a mini trampoline, a ladder, and your good to go.

MiddieMan05

11-29-2006, 07:11 PM

I want to see the pics of CSlax's homemade wall

mikeman5

11-29-2006, 07:18 PM

Get a mini trampoline, a ladder, and your good to go.
wait what?

navyboy28

11-29-2006, 08:19 PM

wait what?
duh, you climb up on a ladder and shoot down onto the trampoline so it bounces up at you. good luck making an off balance catch though. :dummy:

for real though, a more detailed explanation would help.

BTW, wood rebounds fine, put it on a little bit of an angle back (this will help with its balance, too) and your fine.

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mikeman5

11-29-2006, 08:24 PM

duh, you climb up on a ladder and shoot down onto the trampoline so it bounces up at you. good luck making an off balance catch though. :dummy:
god I was hoping he didnt mean that because I actually have a mini tramp and a ladder and was hopin he had some genius invention that I could do to make myself a rebound wall

manup5183

11-29-2006, 08:30 PM

wood is very loud, especialy plywood.

fenderDman23

11-29-2006, 08:32 PM

yake your mini tramp and your ladder and buy a roll of duct tape :grin:
then tape the tramp to the ladder and then reinforce it with more duct tape and then if its off ballance use tent spikes and string to hold it down...

ok so mayb that wont work haha but it kept me occupied for a while

and speaking of trampolines if u have a big one just sit it on its side!

mikeman5

11-29-2006, 08:36 PM

fenderDman23

11-29-2006, 08:39 PM

i was thinkin the same thing with the mini tramp and ladder, i might have to try it some time :agree:

sweet! haha i actually found the idea to be quite amusing myself haha

PCO6

11-29-2006, 08:53 PM

I made a 8'H x 4'W wall out of wood and it works great. I used 6" x 6" pressure treated landscape timbers screwed together on the backside by 4 evenly spaced 2" x 4"s. I screwed a 4' x 8' sheet of 3/4" plywood to the front side. It gives a much better bounce back than arena boards (which are typically made of 3/8" sheet plastic) and it's overall thickness deadens the sound. It's leaned up against the back wall of my garage at about an 85 degree angle which makes it easy to play catch with your self and work on grounders.

upstatelaxdad

11-29-2006, 09:01 PM

i'm planning on building one of these myself for my son. he's played for only one year (7 yr old). last year i just stood up an old picnic table on end with a 3/4" sheet of plywood screwed to it. we painted three small targets on it, gave each target a different point value, and made up games like who could get the highest point total in ten shots.

click this -> http://e-lacrosse.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=EBO&Category_Code=Goals

scroll down toward the bottom of the page to "the wall". save the picture and do your best to duplicate it. it looks like a trip to home depot or lowes and a few hours work and you'll have a heavy but portable wall.

for the face i'd just use some of those pre-made concrete pavers.

LaxDman62

11-29-2006, 09:14 PM

You can tape the trampoline to a wall and throw passes to that and it may act as a rebounder. But this idea can be improved upon with an angle and a maybe bigger trampoline. Also you can maybe take some of the trampoline material and get some springs. Then attach it to some sort of fram and it would be perfect with an angle. But that seems to complicated. It may work tho.

Lax&Basebll Dad

11-30-2006, 06:30 AM

I really appreciate all the info. I'm really not worried about noise. We have a little bit of land so the noise won't bother anyone. CSlax06, please post your pics. I'm really interested in seeing it. PC06 and Upstatelaxdad thanks for the input. That sounds like something I can build. Thanks again.

EHSLAX12

11-30-2006, 07:02 AM

mikeman5

11-30-2006, 02:55 PM

if i didnt read this correctly, did you say how old he was, because if you dont wanna spend so much...build a frame of pipes and then use a net off of a baseball rebounder...if hes not too young, that is.
those nets get holes in them very easily though because they're not meant for lacrosse balls

CSlax06

11-30-2006, 03:11 PM

http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/3977/backnq4.jpg

http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/4462/backwholedt7.jpg

theres some quick pics for ya, 2 sheets of plywood, some 4x4.

mikeman5

11-30-2006, 04:33 PM

wait how big are the two pieces of plywood? and how thick?

looks pretty nice, that would deffinitely work, and would be easy to make

fatmanlax

11-30-2006, 05:09 PM

I got some questions for you cslax
1) does the ball bounce back far
2) how tall and wide is it

Lax&Basebll Dad

11-30-2006, 08:26 PM

CSlax06,
Thanks for the pics. It looks fairly easy to build. I also want to know how big is the surface. Is that 1 sheet of plywood (4x8)? How thick 1/2 or 3/4? Lastly, you said those were 4x4 rather than 2x4's? Thanks again. I showed my son the pics and he is pretty siked about it.

sticktrix 34

11-30-2006, 08:30 PM

hey mr lax and baseball dad

im sorry but baseball and lax cant be used in the same sentence unless sucks is used after baseball

example - lax is cool and baseball sucks

CSlax06

12-01-2006, 08:31 PM

2 3/4 inch sheets of plywood, 5 1/2 foot wide by 5 foot tall. Its SOLID, weighs about 150-200 pounds atleast, bounces back just as fast as the brick wall at my school. Just make sure to use alot of screws to hold the two pieces of plywood to the 4x4's. that way they dont work and just makes it more solid/quieter.