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saiber
10-13-2004, 11:49 PM
have ne of u used those goalie hockey pant things?...i was playing box lacrosse and my mom came to her first game ever and now wants me to get those....are they really that bad?
thx
saiber
WestSideLa X eR
10-14-2004, 04:33 PM
not really, if you get the right size, at least for me i dont feel any lost flexibility, but some people dont like the "feel" of them.
An alternative is wearing sweat pants to keep you loose
LaxGoalieLZ
10-15-2004, 12:13 AM
your playing box and you dont have any leg pads whatsoever?
saiber
10-15-2004, 09:26 PM
well i have all the armor but my mom thinks its dangerous......
yeh ne who i just wanted to know if they would restrict my already limited mobility in all that fricken armor
thx
saiber
xx21whitney17xx
10-26-2004, 09:12 PM
i wore hockey goalie pants for my first year....TOO BULKY i now wear the thinnest material spandexie thing with pads in it.. it helps for better mobility
ravens_4life
10-27-2004, 01:41 AM
what kind of box lacrosse do you play? in real box i have full maxlax gear and the maximum allowable protection. i would never play with anything less then hockey pants. i use custom box goalie ones. advise for anyone trying to play box goalie is that you should care more about protection then mobilaty.
WestSideLa X eR
10-27-2004, 01:28 PM
yea, box goalie's save most of thier shots with body so you need maximum protection. I didnt read your post and i though you where talking about field.
For box, dont skimp on protection. Maxlax costs so much though, for full maxlax you need 900+ bucks. Last time i visited the site, a chest pad cost like 500$
faacjb
11-06-2004, 11:30 PM
I'm an old guy(48) but back in the old days when I played in high school in NY state most of the goalies wore football pants with the hip pads removed. It didn't seem to hamper their mobility. After all, football pants don't seem to slow Deion Sanders down. Currently. I coach my son's Thunder team and he is a gaolie. He wears football pants and it gives him a lot of confidence. At this age level, shooters suffer from target fixation. They do not yet understand that they need to shoot at net and not at gaolie. Gaolies get hit alot and i think they need all the protection they can get.
srry im new 2 the forum but i have been playin both hockey nd lax goalie for yrs now but i was just wonderin why you ar called a wuss if u wear 2 many pads as a feild goalie and told not 2 skimp while u are box?