Comments on: Summer Lax Tourney Series – Vail Shootout

By: Oliver Rauch

Oliver Rauch — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 13:37:00 +0000

Love the tutorial. Could you also make a tutorial on how to string monster mesh or twelve diamond mesh?

By: Lax Ratz

Lax Ratz — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 18:06:00 +0000

A goalie head! Finally! Someone who deals with goalies. We’re fairly new to the game – my kid is in 6th grade – and he LOVES being a goalie. In fact, it’s the only thing he wants to do. Now he wants to try stringing his own heads and I’m so happy to see this article so I can show him. Do you think 11 yrs old is too young to do that sort of thing? He’s on his 3rd goalie stick (he torqued one so badly that the shaft bent) and they are getting expensive.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:16:00 +0000

HAHA! I remember Jim Ulman and Ulman Lacrosse Co. well. The owner’s son, Clay, and myself were teammates at the John’s Hopkins Blue Jay lacrosse camp in the summer of ’93. His dad would show up and have all these give aways and boxes of pizza. I remember one of Ulman’s stringing styles of nylons running vertically thru hard/soft mesh pockets – enabling a tracking system of some sort so the pass/shot would have pin-point accuracy. When I returned home, I tried to do something like that on my goalie stick but it added more weight and I think I ruined the pocket as well!

I can go on forever! :o)

By: D. Willson

D. Willson — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:36:00 +0000

Speak it, tell it, preach it, brother Vinnie. There is no such thing as incorrect style as long as the fundamentals are correct (pocket tight to the scoop, tight sidewall, shooters ramping for the preferred amount of whip, etc.) and this style doesn’t impact performance. My favorite example of this is Ulman custom pockets (defunct Maryland mailorder outfit) from the 80s and 90s: he started his sidewall knots from the INSIDE of the topmost hole of the head (knots were tiny so they did not impact the ball in any way). The kids from a certain stringing forum would probably fall over themselves to tell a legend that he was doing his sidewalls backwards and/or wrong.

By: Bill Mensch

Bill Mensch — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:50:00 +0000

Your point about style is really important. I’ve been stringing for a long time too and I’m always tweaking my pattern and trying new things.
A players relationship with their stick is one of the most unique things about lacrosse. Even if someone doesn’t string their own stick, they need to know how to adjust it and maintain it.
Great post.