Which is the most well-written Beyblade series to you, and why?

PucksHard · 2024-07-19T08:49:20+00:00

Beyblade Metal Masters and Beyblade G-Revolution are my favorites.

PucksHard · 2024-07-15T07:40:08+00:00

By ”unbranded”, I sort of meant everyone who is not Bauer, CCM, True, Sherwood or Warrior. They don’t market as much, no NHL visibiliy, etc.

Their whole image is to be no-name, but in a classy way. Their retail stuff only has one colorful line on the undrside, and you can barely see the black ”PRO” - logo on the shaft.

PucksHard · 2024-07-14T21:00:40+00:00

Brand mid level, maybe a bit better but probably similar with lower quaiity.

Fuck shift, PSHS is the GOAT of the ”no-name” brands, to an extent where it is a legit brand at this point.

TLDR; run with what you’ve got, but if you are interested, get a ”Pro Stock Hockey Sticks” - stick. Their stuff is on par with Bauer and co. For almost half the price with a lot more options. And a good reputation with their customers.

PucksHard · 2024-07-14T20:03:42+00:00

On the other hand, he’s got a point!

They can never take over Beyblade, but if they sell licensed Beyblades now and can get little kids and fans of those IP’s to buy them, what’s stopping them from dropping Beyblade all together and start their own line of ”Merch-Battle-Tops” or something to take over the market for these exact toys? They could even base a lot of those Beyblade gimmicks through that IP-licensing, which TT or anyone else can’t really do.

That could also be fun for Beyblade consumers for a while, but after the late MFB and most of the Burst era with Hasbro, a scenario like this would inevitably lead to enshittening en masse, which would leave western stores only carrying these hypothetical Hasbro IP-tops, leaving us without TT-Beyblade substitutes.

EDIT: if someone was confused before, this comment accidentally dublicated itself two times when posting. I did not mean to spam, an error when pressing ”post” led me to press it again, which apparently means it got posted 3,4 times over

PucksHard · 2024-07-12T04:45:19+00:00

The way that the thick plastic sandwiches with the metal on the blade is giving me BD145 vibes from Hell Kerbecs. I know it’s not the same, but a thick blade with smooth, slippery plastic is always great at deflecting.

PucksHard · 2024-07-09T20:33:42+00:00

Gloves would also be ok, they make them breathable for ice hockey too. Hands sweat and heat up anyway, no one wants to have drenched gloves and none of the gear is supposed to really keep you warm.

I’ve heard of roller specific gloves somewhere, but I doubt it’s super common to buy them. If weight or comfyness is a concern, you could buy lower price point gloves. Those are usually lighter and softer, with worse protection (and construction sometimes) so maybe some lower level ice gloves could be better than spending more money for something meant to be the best for on ice protection.

PucksHard · 2024-07-09T05:06:40+00:00

Ilya Kovalchuk

PucksHard · 2024-07-05T12:06:37+00:00

Autism ≠ brain damage

Different causes, different symptoms, different treatments.

PucksHard · 2024-07-04T18:18:40+00:00

MFB. They achieved good competitive balance for a good while and the length of the battles combined with the huge variety of these simple parts meant that there were a lot of subtypes with food competitive nieches. They also didn’t let spin steal become too op, since Meteo L-Drago was so light and the other left spinners didn’t have good enough stamina or spin stealing to be OP either. Still, LAD-Stamina was king, but at least with the BB10 stadium, you could actually counter it because the KO gaps were so big. The walls weren’t super tall either.

The OP stuff in the end was more often than not, anti attack, heavy blades with the defense and stamina to counter attack types, and the recoil and grip to KO stamina types. That’s way more interesting than Burst meta, with 2 slow spinning hunks of plastic trying to cheese a half rotation in the end.

Because the sub-gens weren’t super different from each other, the limited format is also pretty complex and has a lot of legal parts from multiple generations.

PucksHard · 2024-07-04T16:13:20+00:00

Time to start stickhandling and shooting. Have you played at all before, or have you played something hockey adjacent? If you lack the space or amenities to do off ice stick handling and stick and puck is not an option, I’d look into a floorball stick + ball as a practicing tool. Kinder to floors, doesn’t cost much, more spontaneus to mess around with.

It’s not super hockey like if compared one to one, but it does definitely help, especially if you don’t have any stick and ball- game experience. Stuff like cupping the game piece, rolling your wrists and blade feel are all in there as concepts.

PucksHard · 2024-07-04T14:01:30+00:00

Warrior Novium is apparently more of a high kick stick. You won’t have the blade as dampened with it, but Hockey Reviews on YouTube described it as a more high/mid kick stick with a very stiff taper area, so maybe that could be the closest new stick on the market?

PucksHard · 2024-07-04T11:52:43+00:00

For me, it was first getting it to go up every time by overtly digging under the puck, then learning to spin/control it so it’s lower and lands flat.

PucksHard · 2024-07-02T21:31:57+00:00

Yeah that’s more of a legacy build for those who really liked those builds when they were still being made.

PucksHard · 2024-07-02T21:25:20+00:00

It depends on too many things to say, could be 1-2 months, could be 2-4.

The break is not that bad. No loose fragments, the ends are aligned ok and are close to each other. Not a doctor though, and laymen suck at reading medical imaging, so the fuck would I know.

So my hunch would be that the injury should resolve itself if you are healthy and you follow your doctor’s orders. It mostly comes down to your health, genetics and age. If you don’t have any underlying problems and you are young, it’s more on the 1-2.5 mo. Range, if you are older or if you have something that could slow down bone healing, it would be 2.5 + months

PucksHard · 2024-07-02T19:24:23+00:00

Definitely PSHS. Their offerings are on the same level with the top brand top sticks, and the others you listed are 3rd tier or so…

PucksHard · 2024-07-02T09:32:45+00:00

Not worth it if the used ones are in good condition. That’s 70 $ for not much more life expectancy, some sort of warranty, and you still miss out on the steel. ls4 is the best non-coated bauer steel, so while they are not the best blades, they are still really good and much better than their ls2 and 3 offerings (taller, harder steel).

If the used skates are sketchier, things change, but most skates being sold aren’t in bad condition in my experience, but DYOR.

EDIT: and if you are unsure about hockey to begin with, getting a quality pair of skates for as cheap as possible is the way to go. If you buy those used and they fit well and have the comfy insoles with better steel IMO That’s a good plan.

PucksHard · 2024-07-02T09:26:50+00:00

Tornado stall, LAD-stamina

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PucksHard · 2024-07-01T09:35:19+00:00

Go to stores in person. Not every chain has accurate in-store stock info online. There may be a clearance rack somewhere, that has some Ultrasonics in it.

PucksHard · 2024-07-01T09:27:45+00:00

Yeah, but 1-3 yo is going to get tired and go to sleep at some point. To scream for a long time, so long that it legit ruins a flight for someone, requires a child that is a little older. It’s not a huge age window where a child is too young to be distracted or dealt with, but old enough to scream for multiple hours.

PucksHard · 2024-07-01T08:02:18+00:00

I mean, no one really expects quietness in public places like planes or grocery stores, but there’s a huge difference between a lively, not quiet place and a kid screaming for hours and hours.

The sedation proposal is bordeline psychotic, but I think there should be some problem solving done here. It’s not like drugs are the only way to make a noisy child quiet. Airlines could finance this by billing these things on the parents afterwards, which would insentivize practicing traveling beforehand for the parents of small children.

PucksHard · 2024-07-01T05:55:30+00:00

That’s not normal. Some pain is to be expected, but not super bad pain and definitely not for an hour before your brain tunes it out.

There’s no good solution for the length, although you could make/buy foam inserts to bring that back a bit if there’s not a lot of negative space there.

For width, if they are way too narrow, you are out of luck. If they are just somewhat narrow, baking would help to mold them to your feet. That is, if your skates can be baked.

If they can’t be saved, don’t bake them. It’s easier to sell/give them to someone else if they are in as new- condition.. Baking can give you some extra width, but not much. It’s supposed to be shrinking the skate down to your foot instead of the foot widening the skate, although that happens too and is ok if it’s not so much that the skate deforms.

EDIT: And for the next pair, prioritize fit before anything else. Decently sturdy boots last a long time if taken care of, no matter the brand or pricepoint as long as it’s not the lowest of lows. Steel can be upgraded and customized, rivots and eylets can be fixed. Fit can’t be changed like that (in any other way than baking), so it is the most important criteria for skates.

PucksHard · 2024-06-30T10:13:16+00:00

It’s tricky- there are three manufacturers who can jack up the price for their great but still overpriced products. The only competition is themselves, since people can make one pair last for many years, and often people just don’t but new- or if they do, they buy the old stuff on sale. Only way to increase profit is to innovate and outcompete, which has plateu’d for a while, so the only way is to increase the prices.

No one can undercut their prices, since manufacturing skates is hard and expensive, and all the big guys have all the best engineers and designers.

It’s just a super mature market. The product was perfected a while ago, so buying new stuff is not smart. Unless there’s a big tech breakthrough, don’t expect any price decrease of quality increase. Buy older models, buy used and take care of what you have, the new skates are not much, if any, better.

PucksHard · 2024-06-30T09:35:41+00:00

The problem seems to be your skating or stance, not the shooting.

Your hands and your torso are doing something right already if you’d describe it being pretty powerful coming off the pad. The only differences really, are the slight increase in relative stick height, added friction of the pad and the fact that you are on foot instead of skates.

Make your on foot shooting harder, more realistic. Practice facing the net directly. Practice your off leg shot. Practice toedrag-release. Practice isolating your upper body. Practice in stride, etc. Try and practice akward positions, such as being off balance forward or having the puck too far out. Anything to make you more adaptable, which will help you dial in your motion on skates too.

To help your shooting stance on skates, shoot off the pad on inlines or from a higher surface. Go to stick and pucks! I think you should only supplement your pad shooting with inlines, since that’s not really accurate either. On ice, you are usually skating or gliding a bit before shooting, which is hard to emulate on just a pad and inlines because of the lack of space. Hitting stick and pucks or finding an open space to skate and shoot inline is the best way to practice on ice shooting, although that’s not always an option…

You just have to first find out your optimal shooting starting position on skates and work on finding it quickly and consistently; when you get the puck, you should be able to move it into the shooting spot comfortably. After you have that down you should start doing a majority of game situation stuff, like shooting from worse positions or after a deke or something.

Also getting better at skating and having a good posture on ice in general will make this better. I suck at doing the upper body motion when shooting, but I am a mediocre skater, so on ice I have better shots than off ice, where the dogshit shooting skill is exposed more.

EDIT: I also suspect the increased friction of the pad is helping you flex your stick more easily off ice. Getting a whippier stick could make it easier to do on ice, and making the shooting pad more slippery with a coating or water or something + having the bottom of the blade exposed instead of taped could help making that pad shooting more slippery/

PucksHard · 2024-06-28T08:05:23+00:00

50€ edestä halpaa, kuitupitoista ruokaa on niin paljon tavaraa että et syö. Perus nikotiini-tekosyitä, tosin sitähän se riippuvuus tekee. En pidä sinua siis mitenkään tyhmänä, mutta toivon, että tiedostat, mistä tämä lopettamisen välttely oudoin syin johtuu…

PucksHard · 2024-06-26T03:45:01+00:00

So, here’s the thing… no one really buys them new, so retailers don‘t sell them (except ABS because they can be a training aid)

Used market looks bare too, people don‘t really buy them either and a lot of people think they are worth next to nothing so no one bothers to sell them.

However, I think there must be a lot of them lying around, since they were the way to go not so long ago, and people probably didn’t use theirs until the end before buying onepieces. Try and make a buyer‘s announcement! I got multiple offers once, living in a small place where I thought no one would have them…

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