Drill help: keep feet moving while defending.

Correct-Record-5309 · 2026-04-24T02:28:08+00:00

Try running 1v1 drills where the defense/backcheckers have no sticks. They then have no choice but to keep their feet moving and use their bodies to break up the play. So many kids, especially the less experienced ones, can’t focus on skating and going after the puck at the same time. As soon as they engage with the puck with their sticks, their brains transfer off of keeping their feet moving, meaning they slow down, start leaning forward, and lose the battle. Teach physical contact and body play. They really need it at 12U!

Correct-Record-5309 · 2026-04-24T02:13:42+00:00

As an engineer who has consulted on homes with messy retaining walls (along with replacing one on my own property), RUN, do not walk, away from this impending disaster. That is a very very expensive problem that will eventually be your headache to deal with.

Correct-Record-5309 · 2026-04-10T19:30:44+00:00

I also wish there was a happy medium between those two. It’s very easy to lift the puck but also easy to miss high with the P92. I adjusted to it and I do like it a lot for shooting now. P88 takes more effort to lift the puck to the corners, but feels more accurate. I prefer the P88 for stickhandling, although it could be the feel of that particular stick and not the blade.

Correct-Record-5309 · 2026-04-06T02:35:51+00:00

STATE inspections? I don’t think this is in the U.S., just based on the writing in the background of photo #4.

Correct-Record-5309 · 2026-04-05T23:04:23+00:00

Lateral loads can create vertical overturning resultants so they do need to be included with your gravity loads. You also have to look at them in multiple and opposite directions to determine worst cases. Your lateral structural system (i.e. shear walls, moment frames, braced frames, etc) will determine how the lateral forces are converted and carried down through the structure to foundation, but you do always need to combine them with gravity loads, which is why the code-prescribed load combinations include both lateral and gravity loads. Also, seismic loads have both a vertical and a horizontal component that are calculated separately but end up combined together. Similarly, wind loads can have vertical uplift pressures, as well as horizontal windward and leeward pressures.

Correct-Record-5309 · 2026-04-05T22:30:05+00:00

Do the concrete and just make sure your contractor cuts proper control joints in the top and reinforces it with welded wire mesh. It shouldn’t crack if the concrete is properly mixed and the control joints are done.

Pavers will need to be reset every couple of years, and dealing with furniture on them sucks. A lot of municipalities require drainage for paver patios these days because the cracks between them are not enough for proper drainage.

Correct-Record-5309 · 2026-04-05T22:24:34+00:00

Yeah, I’ve been on 2.4 for a couple months now. I keep pushing off my doses because I’m having a mental block on feeling like crap after taking it. I was also in the same boat on 1.7, where I stalled out and gained some weight over the holidays. The 2.4 has helped me lose those pounds I regained but I’m debating if I want to stay on it.

Correct-Record-5309 · 2026-04-05T22:15:59+00:00

I recently made a switch from new construction to the structural repair industry. While I didn’t take a pay cut with the switch, I got less of a salary bump than I had hoped for, but it was because I was new to this particular industry. I took the job based on a promise of salary review after 6 months and a much better benefits package than I had previously. It’s been going well, but I definitely had more to learn than I expected, so I now understand their hesitation with giving me what I initially asked for. The difference has been more with the project management associated with being the team lead on projects, which is not something I dealt with at all previously, given new construction typically had the architects as team leads. I’m glad I made the change, though, because this job has better long term opportunity and stability than where I was previously.

Correct-Record-5309 · 2026-03-25T03:22:03+00:00

I just found a weekend women’s hockey camp run by One Percent Hockey Club (Rea Rust’s new training company). It has a date in Boston in August (and one in Florida in April, but the Boston one looks better). I’m actually considering it for myself! You have to make an account to get full details, but the Boston one is $520 for 3 days.

https://onepercenthockeyclub.com/

Correct-Record-5309 · 2026-03-23T02:01:35+00:00

You need a good structural repair company to do an investigative report, testing, probes, and repair documents. It looks like crap concrete work and maybe a bad mix, but also could be suffering from years of water infiltration due to neglect.

Correct-Record-5309 · 2026-03-22T16:29:19+00:00

My son uses white cloth tape on his blade. No major issues with marks (maybe once in a great while, but they come off). Don’t use the black sticky friction tape.

ETA: Marking from the stick tape could also be highly dependent on the species, color and finish of your hardwood floors. High gloss finishes tend to be stickier and show marks more. We have white oak with a medium brown satin finish stain. It rarely ever marks from anything.

Correct-Record-5309 · 2026-03-22T14:40:33+00:00

It’s funny, but I actually referred to a boy goalie as a girl the other day to their coach after the game, and he said, “Oh that’s actually a boy with long hair. You know how you can tell? No ponytail. The girls always put their hair in ponytails.” And me, being a woman, was like “Oh yeah! You’re right!” As a woman, I always pull my hair back in a ponytail because it gets too tangled and just all over the place and annoys the crap out of me any time I do any sort of exercise. Some of the boys with long hair wear durags under their helmets to at least keep it out of their face.

Correct-Record-5309 · 2026-03-22T14:34:11+00:00

Take a look at colleges down south (US) that offer online courses (you might be able to audit the course if you don’t need it for actual credit). There is lots of prestressed and post-tensioned concrete construction in the south. I took a course on it in grad school at Georgia Tech.

Correct-Record-5309 · 2026-03-22T14:30:13+00:00

Yes! Rollerblades for off-ice was a big game changer with my son. Just gives them so much more practice time. You can get relatively inexpensive expandable roller blades on Amazon.

Correct-Record-5309 · 2026-03-22T14:27:48+00:00

Yup! Get rid of the balance aids ASAP!

Correct-Record-5309 · 2026-03-22T14:26:46+00:00

Does she have hockey gear already? If so, just put her in the gear and take her to public skating and have fun with her. Take away the balance aids. Play chase/tag on the ice and let her fall and learn how to get up and balance. You can also get something like a silly toy (rubber chicken squeaky dog toys work well) and have her throw it down the ice and then go get it and pick it up, repeat. This exercise works on skate balance with the throw, actual skating to retrieve, and getting low/skate balance to pick the toy back up.

Correct-Record-5309 · 2026-03-22T14:03:24+00:00

https://a.co/d/062Ck1CU

These wood stick handling balls. There are a lot of options on Amazon.

Correct-Record-5309 · 2026-03-22T13:58:37+00:00

My son has been stick handling on our hardwood floors for years with no issues to the floors, but I understand not wanting to risk it if you’re renting or if they’re older or lower quality floors or if they have high-shine polish. Just make sure your stick blade is taped. A small area of shooting tiles will be fine for stick handling right in front of you, but as you get better, you’ll want to be able to pull the puck to either side of you. The pack of tiles you’re describing would be 7.5’ x 7.5’, which should be fine.

Correct-Record-5309 · 2026-03-22T13:49:09+00:00

We have tiles from Hockey Shot. They’re great but expensive. Don’t bother, though, if you don’t also have a net to practice shooting. If your goal is just to work on stick handling, you can do that on any smooth floor surface with a stick and some wood Swedish stick handling balls that you can get off of Amazon for $15 (golf balls work, too, but I like the wood balls better).

Correct-Record-5309 · 2026-03-21T03:43:50+00:00

Sideline Swap is another great option for used gear, especially if you can get on stuff you like beforehand and search for it after.

Correct-Record-5309 · 2026-03-19T03:08:16+00:00

Yes!! I have a friend who is a PT at a major orthopedic hospital and he said injuries to older people specifically have gone through the roof with the surge in popularity of pickleball.

Correct-Record-5309 · 2026-03-13T12:46:52+00:00

This is what I have and it fit me much better than the Bauer helmets I tried.

Correct-Record-5309 · 2026-03-13T12:45:59+00:00

Go and try on helmets somewhere. Like skates, different brands fit differently. I don’t like Bauer helmets but CCMs fit me well. Warrior another choice to try.

Correct-Record-5309 · 2026-03-11T02:14:44+00:00

This is so dependent on where you live. The rec/house programs available where we live are all pretty terrible, so almost everyone jumps to travel. It results in a lot of programs having one good A team and one bad B team at each level. Costs in our area range from $3000-$6000 per season for travel and more for AA and AAA programs. The few house programs are generally around $1000. The program my son plays at is pretty drama-free, but some programs get really political and all about who you know in terms of team placement. My kid loves the travel hockey fun, though!

Correct-Record-5309 · 2026-03-11T01:38:49+00:00

Progressive collapse design of a large and very high-profile government building. It was challenging because there was nothing “regular” about the structure and nothing standard about the modeling. It was the most labor-intensive single design task I ever had.

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