i like the fact that you've made an effort to texture the outside circumference of the puck, even if it's only with a rough file.

i've mentioned it before but it's been pretty frustrating lately playing with the aussie pucks for the shc and having new or near-new pucks being used in the tournament... the aussie pucks are made with no texture at all, in fact a slick gloss finish all over and when they are new it's very hard to get much spin on the puck due to that gloss finish... which ruins passing completely and makes consistency a lottery. the aussie pucks always need "breaking in" or even manual adjustment with sandpaper or a concrete wall to be able to play properly. to be honest it's a big design flaw and i'm surprised more isn't made of it.

co-incidentally, passing of the pucks was a nightmare for all teams involved in SHC, and the dodgy pool bottom was blamed by most people... but i actually think it was only a small amount of pool bottom contributing to it (due to no grout between the tiles and cracked tiling), i think the puck had much more to do with the problems everyone had.

playing with a nice new shiny polished puck like that is essentially the same as having rugby, afl, league or gridiron balls being manufactured and produced with coatings of varnish and vasoline... just to make sure passing and handling the ball is as difficult as possible. doesn't make much sense.

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it's more polite on the grating than on the subs bench