Silicone Gloves

well, I know the maker of slovenian gloves and i can tell you that he is not making them for cave like hockey players. He's been developing them for 6 years now, trying them out in every possible situation, designing them for players like benson - most of our guys are training those skills because there are 40 players in slovenia and most of them are cave men so we have to somehow make the best of our training, we are trying to skill in a total mess :? . So Mare designed a glove which has to be really flexible in the game, beside that he's one of our most creative skill wackoes. The stick in that glove can slide really well and you don't feel stretching. This glove is not made for bashing!!!! It's for Michael Jordan like playing. Yes you can even destroy it, well mine was custom made on my hand and lasted 3 months before I noticed a crack on it, after it was repaird and this time more solid than before the crack re-apeared. The only thing wrong on it was my playing - well today my gloves last much longer than before. Mare's gloves are good and lot's of european players all over are now ordering them, the problem today is getting them.

all of those gloves look so chunky, and look like they offer barely any protection for the sweet spot inbetween the index knuckle and your thumbs knuckle :shock:

A real important line. A glove can be realy good.
but iff its not availeble for players .?????????
Especialy new and lower class players must easy get equipment.
Iff they can not get easy good equipment they stop or buy as example those south africa/Netherland glove.
You can say everything about my gloves. But they are availeble for everybody and easy to get iff you wanted.
And they are better then most gloves.

Yes indeed. Thats one reason why on my own site there is a drawing were the standard protection is given but were you can draw extra protection in were anybody wanted it.

Like this one wanted under the standard thump line some extra.
And the second line on the thump a little longer. (on the indexfinger side)
That also resulted in more protection between the thump and indexfinger knuckle

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the way the protection is placed, in thick chunks; what happens if the hit isn't on the meat of the protection, if it's on one of the many open spots on the hand?

Then you illigal stopt the puck 8)

But the lines/protection is placed so that the puck always hit a protection line. most time even 2 off them.
The spaces between those lines is not as big..(exactly like the slovenia gloves)
And it work pretty good. In training i have the talent to hit the puck with my fist out off mid water. (an very illigal move)And by doing that i never inguired(realy hurt)my hand. You feel it : YES sometimes it hurts a little YES but that with all good gloves availeble.
But there are players that ask to fill those spaces up on the spots on top off the hand between the nukles.(to bad no photo off that)


Many people in the Netherlands like the standard protection. I'm already now making many gloves. for dutch players,And maybe it tells something about the protection. Liam told before in some discussion that the Netherlands has the most Rough and Damaging play off the world.(yes liam i have a good memorie and everything anybody say can en will be used.) :wink:

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Sven, available and cheap is good to get someone started, but it has nothing to do with making a good glove for hockey. Or maybe I need to say it like this, it has nothing to do with making a glove for good hockey. You say you have the talent to knock the puck down with your glove, to me that is not talent, that is slow and unskilled play. And your glove promotes that. Cut your glove in half and you may get the talent to knock the puck down with your stick. Hey! Legal play, what a concept.

The Slovenian glove is the fastest most comfortable glove I have worn since I used to use (early and mid 90's) two strips of radiator hose on my middle and fore fingers, nothing anywhere else-- and I still have complete mobility in my hand. My only serious hand related injury came from using the brass pucks with the hot glue gloves when I first started. And that was from too many over zealous bashers trying to run through little ol' me. Once I learned to puck handle I reduced my glove to the hose and never had a serious injury since.

If everyone went to playing without a glove, or something with very little protection, the game would clean up a lot better. Too much protection results in bashing because people can't feel, or don't care that they feel, the little hits and become more fearless on the big wreckless ones. Take away all or most of that protection and people will change their bashing style. They will become fast and accurate and skilled and make plays that are smart instead of being brute force bullies that don't know what this game could be.

The g-loveless Troll

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Oh yeah, and now they're broke.

Andre Buck never used to wear a glove and he would always say if his hand got hit then he wasn't moving fast enough.

@Duck
Have you ever seen or wear one in real. NO
It its easy to burn glove to the ground with that not good and that no good. I can do the same with the holly gloves from the slovenia. But i will not do that because there basic the same/like eachother.. Including the protection. But with little differends. Like they use sillicon rubber and i 2 component sillicon. And both has standard protection. only i will chanche it iff somebody ask(custum made) And those slovenian are differcult to get and the Sven glove easy to get. etc.

But like Liam you did only see some photos. And on that photo you can not see or feel how they feel wearing them. Also not see realy how thin or big the protection is. Or even how they protect. Iff you dont believe me
Your from the US
Ask some juniors from the roger bacon high school team.
Ask the defender from houston.
Or ask here from these forum site
Bell/Hannah did try it. Alexandra (seen it) And Tan (will try next week)
And "rob"but i dont now iff that aussie is on this forum?

And what makes a glove good?
My gloves like the slovenia.
1.Fits good arround the hand.
2.Protect relative good. But also not to good. both can take a hit but dont do it to much often.
3.The slovenia glove are a little bit stiffly but iff you look to most other gloves in the world they are flexible.

But a bad glove do not get these reactions.:
"Your glove is very comfortable, flexable and just great compaired to what I am using currently"
"the gloves are insanely cool, i gotta get one"(after trying)
"Im using it again tomorow night. Im sure hanna will fight me for it."

And even from your country the US i get these sorts off reactions.
And even from some top-rank players in the Netherlands
that now the south african/Netherland glove and the slovenian gloves and the treu-bleu.

BUT PLEASE TELL"WHAT DOES MAKE A GLOVE GOOD?"
Tell the rest off the world.....

And for chanching the game to clean play. Please dont look to the gloves.
Look to how the teams play. There must be more atention to play with more skills and technicks.
(do you realy think i will take an unprotected glove when playing to the french? or even in the dutch comp?)
Then you are realy nuts. The first thing is attention for good reffs. and attention for skills and technicks.
Against some teams i play without protected gloves. But those teams i train(even from other clubs)
And i don learn them how to get a puck from mid-water with the stick, its very easy to do and learn.
But like those gloves. you never see me playing or even played against me.

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Sven, gloves are such a personal thing. People get picky with what they like/don't like - don't take offense just because Duck and a few others don't like your gloves. People don't like the ones Todd and I make but they work for us so that's all that matters.

So, I think what makes a good glove depends on the person and what they want from it and also what they are using it for.

I agree with you. Its personal.
But like myself i try thing out before i like or dislike them.

But zoee what gloves are you making?

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