What is Armor Mesh?

Armor Mesh, it’s new, it’s innovative, it’s a little tricky too. Typical mesh is made by weaving very thin thread tightly together and interwoven between diamond rows and columns to make a sheet of relatively flat piece of mesh. Because these thin threads are woven so tightly together, there is not much room for it to […]

The Ultimate Lacrosse Mesh Buyers Guide 2021-22

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Whether you’re a stringer like me or would just like to know what type of mesh to buy when getting your head strung for this lacrosse season, I have you covered in this buyers guide. For as long as I can remember, I have been stringing my own heads and the heads of many other […]

How Performance Mesh Took Over the World

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Performance mesh is ubiquitous now, but how did we get here? We all remember the day wax mesh took over the lacrosse world; this new type of mesh could withstand any weather and always held its ideal pocket shape. From East Coast mesh to Throne mesh and everyone in between, it was revolutionary to even […]

Full-Mesh Women’s Sticks: When Will We See Them?

Team USA's Taylor Cummings challenges with Canada's Taylor Gait (L) and Kay Morissett during the World Cup Final at the 2017 FIL Rathbones Women's Lacrosse World Cup, at Surrey Sports Park, Guildford, Surrey, UK, 22nd July 2017.

Editor’s Note: This multi-part series Women’s Stringing Roundtable on #TheGopherProject will provide insight from experienced stringers and representatives from stringing manufacturers. Check out the first week in the series here, and the second edition here. Women’s lacrosse equipment manufacturers discuss the timetable that they think will need to happen before we see a full-mesh women’s […]

How Mesh In Women’s Lacrosse Has Affected Manufacturers

USA's Taylor Cummings celebrates with scorer Kayla Treanor at the 2017 FIL Rathbones Women's Lacrosse World Cup, at Surrey Sports Park, Guildford, Surrey, UK, 18th July 2017.

Editor’s Note: This multi-part series Women’s Stringing Roundtable on #TheGopherProject will provide insight from experienced stringers and representatives from stringing manufacturers. As we have just finished the stringers point of view portion, it’s now time to see how women’s lacrosse mesh has impacted the sport from the view of the manufacturers. Women’s lacrosse pockets have […]

What Is The Best Women’s Lacrosse Pocket? Our Women’s Roundtable Answers

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Editor’s Note: This multi-part series Women’s Stringing Roundtable on #TheGopherProject will provide insight from experienced stringers and representatives from stringing manufacturers. Today, we focus on what our Roundtable thinks is the best women’s lacrosse pocket. Women’s pockets have always had more restrictions than men’s pockets. With the recent relaxing of the rules and allowing mesh, […]

Trameshional Tradmesh Stringing Tutorial

Trameshional Tradmesh Stringing Tutorial

A couple of months back, we put up a couple of tradmesh pockets photos on Instagram that I dubbed Trameshional. Perhaps that name is stupid, but I’d never seen this variation of tradmesh done before, even though I’m sure it has been. People asked for a tutorial, I took my sweet time in making one, and now it’s here.

Paul Rabil – Talking Pockets

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Paul Rabil spent an hour with me a couple weeks ago talking about lacrosse, and his path to stardom, but we didn’t cover his pocket… or did we?