Silicone Gloves

sorry zanjo, i have just realised you are from wellington...

there are a lot of decent gloves poolside at wrac every week. just have a look around and ask a couple of questions and you'll be pretty well informed pretty quickly.

Indeed. But some times those good nylon glove are not easy to find in the Netherlands.
Cotton is then a good alternative. Beter are indeed thos nylon glove. Those
i made are 100% nylon.

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Safety equipment shops are great places to get gloves. If you're in NZ go to Protector safety and ask for the 206K, it's thin, light and the silicon will degrade before the glove. If you're in Welly there's one on adelaide rd.


Does anybody else have issues with finger movement in latex gloves? I move my fingers a lot when doing skills and while I find latex gloves a little faster, more durable and would like to use one, the fingers tend to stick to each other when moving and it annoys the crap out of me. Any suggestions on how to make the surface of the latex slick and slippery gratefully received.

B

Hey Benson

It wouldn't be a problem if you used your stick rather than your fingers to control the puck

See you on the weekend, may have to ref a few games involving Reading.

Hamish

Benson - when we went to Worlds in 96 Arnie had a coating applied to our latex gloves which gave them a nice slick glossy finish. I think it may have been something like what they paint on the knees of wetsuits. Next time I see Arnie I'll ask him what it was. This made the gloves nice and slippery on the bottom and also the fingers didn't stick together.

Also the last latex glove I made I used a Kevlar glove as a base which seems to be going pretty well. I also got this from a safety shop.

that coating sounds like a really good idea gavan.

at a pinch you can use thin strips of electrical tape between the fingers to make sure they don't stick, but they need replacing now and then, some kind of coating would be much better.

Sometimes I think that I should approach an electrical tape company for sponsorship. I'm sure we could get something for the amount of tape that is used in the UWH community for all the running repairs and protection. Once a glove is well past is used by date you can always get a couple more months out of it being held together by nothing more than a good application of electrical tape!

And then there's still a few of the real old school boys around who don't even use a glove and just tape pieces of neoprene to their fingers!

And then there those twisted others who use tape instead of a lanyard, or tape instead of fin keepers.

Such a versitile thing to have in your hockey bag!

Finally I got to try out the glove, it works very well (Infact, another player even asked me to make him one!), it seems a lot easier to move the glove underwater. I still think there is room for improvement, but I guess I'll find out how to do it from experience.

yeah i saw some argentinian guys in tassie in 2000 who had gloves made entirely of layers of black electrical tape. nothing else. insane.

I dont now how it looks. Did they look something like the CanAm gloves?

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