Stick question - woodyuk?

[PhatOrange]

rice, donahue, staats - anyone know what kind of sticks these guys are using?

 

[rrlbees]

rice, donahue, staats - anyone know what kind of sticks these guys are using?

Lacrosse sticks

 

[outoftownie]

Looks like most of the offensive players are using STX stallions or surgeons.

 

[WoodyUK]

They are all using Nike Lakota U head, which are made by STX really.

 

[PhatOrange]

Looks like most of the offensive players are using STX stallions or surgeons.

what i can't figure out on the surgeons; there's 3 models. The Surgeon 10 500 is NCAA legal but not Youth legal. The Surgeon 500 and Surgeon 300 are both Youth legal but not NCAA legal.

I'm curious how the 10-500 is NCAA legal but not youth legal ? Seams backwards, why would that be.

 

[WoodyUK]

Lecky and Galasso do use a Stallions

 

[PhatOrange]

Here’s why I ask the question. I have a 6th grade attackman with the potential to be really really good, star type potential. He dominates youth. He’s a natural lefty who’s easily going to be 6-0 tall. Hockey player. His Dad asked me what stick I’d recommend. Well my kid is a goalie (smh ) and I played with an SL2 & Highwall so I’m a bit out of touch with the elite type offensive sticks these days.

We all know sticks are a preference and don’t make the player but I think it’s time this kid start using/learning with an elite type big boy stick.

Thanks guys!

 

[WoodyUK]

Hi wall or Excalibur for me haha

I coach kids all the time and have a son that plays and there is a huge fashion but you can't play with a twig anymore and it can be the difference in the development of his game, I sound like a sales men, anyway my son has never used any other head than the Warrior Evo and know a lot of players love this head. You can have the X college legal or normal for youth I'm maybe in the thinking that you should get used to a college head at some point but the normal Evo will have slightly better hold.
EVO X

EVO

Shafts can break and some are stronger than other but get the lightest and toughest they can afford, Maverik, Brine, Warrior or STX I'd go for a mix or just Ti don't go composite.

I'll post some other popular heads for attackman below as players have to use the schools sponsor like STX and Nike for Cuse

 

[WoodyUK]

Nike Lakota U

Brine Clutch

 

[WoodyUK]

STX Super Power

 

[PhatOrange]

Thanks Woody. I'm with ya. I always tell the parents to get NCAA regulation sticks. I see no purpose what-so-ever learning to play with a stick not legal for the college game.

I have a couple of Evo's in the garage. I bought them for my own 11 year old before he went to the dark side and became adamant that he wanted to be a full time goalie. (speaking of which - any real good goalie camps out there); my kid doesn't like taking my advice/instruction.

 

[outoftownie]

Phat, there are plenty of great goalie camps out there, but it all starts with Billy Pilats camp. It was the original and still the best. That said, I would try to find a former college goalie in your area to work with him weekly or biweekly for about $40-75 an hour. He will get more out of that than going to a $600 goalie camp.

Then again, as a goalie, I would recommend you keep working on getting him out of the cage. It truly is a terrible position

 

[WoodyUK]

I believe John Galloway is doing a few for LB3, maybe one in Cazanovia. It takes a brave soul to play in goal and its a game within a game, I ahvea lot of respect for them and they can have a huge impact on a game, I went i goal once as I was an attackman and hated one guy scored 10 on me!

I'll have a look and post, there is also another one that has been going for years that is just for goalies.

 

[WoodyUK]

OuToftownie - you're so right Bill Pilats is the camp I was thinking of.

 

[WoodyUK]

 

[WoodyUK]

An English friend of mine coaches with him at Providence and I'm auctioning a goalie head he signed for my travel teams US tour this year, someone is stringing the stick for me in his set up.

 

[WoodyUK]

If your in Upstate there are loads of great goalie coaches in that area - Ben Gaebel is a great coach!

 

[WoodyUK]

http://www.goalieschool.org

 

[PhatOrange]

It looks like Donahue uses the Nike Lakota U

 

[CHSLAX]

The stringing is more important than the head. I struggle to string some of the ones mentioned above in the style I like. Clutch X or a Pannel X (RP3) are really good heads but again those heads work well with a specific style of stringing. The EVO is a great head but I could just never get it to work the way I wanted to.

 

[690West]

I'm partial to my PL-77