Your glove survey

No offence taken amc, I appreciate the advice

agree about bulky gloves....

the aussie club gloves are the most disgusting banana-fingers abominations ever. they last for a long time but they are absolutely horrible in terms of using skills. the slightly smaller comp gloves are only slightly less crap.

when you have the option of getting slovenian gloves you'd have to be a maniac to buy from tru-blue. i don't mean to dent their rep, but hey there are much better gloves available and i think tru-blue have to wake up and develop a new design.

for example, i spent a couple of hours with an extremely high-level player recently and we were specifically working on one particular skill... one thats not easy to master initially. she had a big aussie banana glove and an aussie slickflicker. i had a glove custom made for me, bit old but still ok, flexible and reasonably low-volume, and one of my sticks, really basic but with a slight curved front edge. as we got further into it, we swapped gear a couple of times and by the end, she could do the skill without trouble most of the time wearing my gear, but not at all with the aussie gear.

the banana gloves are just too bulky to allow different faces of the stick to be used to control the puck without the glove lifting the stick too far off the bottom... they also restrict hand movement hugely. thankfully tru-blu also sell make-your-own latex kits, or they used to.... get one of those and make the glove yourself rather than buy bananas. it only takes an afternoon but you will benefit for the life of the glove.

worth it!

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

amc 32 rocks..
your the hemmingway of uwh

all great points thanks

in ireland we used to used to make our own with that hot glue gun.
then we were showed benny how to make them,i've never looked back since,i wouldnt change my glove for the world.
only problem i have with my silicon glove is when i hold my stick(dorsal,plastic) it tends to slide in my hand a lot but i've put some serious gashes in the handle to give it grip.

geesh if the aliens could only read what we are writing about...

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liam is right about the tru-blu gloves - they are possibly the worst things ever

but i have that view about every pre-made glove

i suppose i was spoilt and had a glove made for me even when i was new - oh the joys of having uwh loving parents

ahem...and a sister who happily makes you a new glove every six months.

But I very much agree that home-made, individual gloves are the way to go. I don't think I could imagine life without one.

Why dont you have a glove making party....
its a fun way to make a glove and yu dont feel like that freak in the family making something really strange that smells awfull.
once the party is over then everyone has a glove.

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lol steve we don't have that problem here - family of 4 all players!

good rant. bring it on.

I forgot to take my glove to the pool the other day and had to play with a borrowed glove. I think it's good to do that from time to time just to make you realise how good your own homemade glove feels.

I bought one or two gloves in the early days but since making my own I'd never you back. A handmade one fits, well, just like a glove! And AMC is right, every time I make a new one I modify it slightly to improve it in any way that I can. I use latex and it takes about 5 hours to do it properly but the end result is worth it.

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I always cut out palm- couse i think i have better feeling on the sick. and i alway try to find the weakspots on the gloves i make, but there is a lot of players with different playing style out there. so i cant satisfy all of them with one glove
i think everyone should try to play smart instead of hard. It changes UWH perspective upside down, and you start thinking thai-chi way. circular movements, go with the flow, ...wax on - wax off

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