You're a new goalie parent and you're out there to select your child's first set of pads.
We have a flat-faced pad, and we have your more traditional hybrid pad, with knee rolls.
A hybrid pad with knee rolls will typically have a softer face in it, which
makes the puck hit it, and stay a little closer to the pad.
The flat-faced pad will typically have a higher density foam
in through the face, so you have to direct the rebound where you want it to go.
Moving on-to the knee rolls of the pads, you'll notice that
there's two different styles the breaks, this is a double break pad,
Where this is a single break pad. A double break pad is going to be a little more flexible.
Having a double break pad will allow the five hole to seal up a little easier,
and the second break on-top will help bring the five hole in
to give you a better seal along the ice with your butterfly.
the single break will change the top of
your house a little bit
and the way the pad is going to seal the ice. When you go down you have to be a
little bit more flexible and flair out your leg
to get the same top of the house. Another
thing that you want to take a look at when selecting
pads is the strapping system on the back
of the pad.
Here we have two different strapping setups,
this is your nylon strap, this is your
synthetic leather strap.
The nylon straps are a little bit easier
with the young goalie because once you have them set up
it's just a quick clip. With the more
traditional
leather straps, you have to find the proper hole
and remember we want the two finger width technique on the back of the strap
to get that locked in place
Another point of difference that you'll see
on pads at the younger sizes is
the different styles of toe brick, this right here is a sliding toe brick.
It will actually slide when you're going down into your butterfly and in your VH
and allow you a little bit easier of a
push
as it's going to slide on the ice. This
is your standard traditional HD toe brick.
Basically has a piece of HD Foam that's going to sit directly on the cowling.
After we look inside the pad,
you'll notice a couple different styles of calf landing. Your calf landing and your knee
landing with this style of pad is gonna be brought right in
to the inside of the knee landing and the calf, giving you a little bit easier
slide-ability across the top of your crease when you're down in your butterfly.
The final thing I'm going to talk about, is the thigh wrap.
There are two different styles of thigh wrap here. this one here
has a little bit of added protecting through the inside of the knee
where they have this additional doughnut
on there. So when you go down in your butterfly
none of your kneecap is gonna be exposed. This is another version of a thigh wrap without the doughnut,
it's going to be a little bit easier to
rotate on the pad.
However when you go down, you may still be exposed on the inside of your knee cap.
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