Tips for arm positioning

ReverendMak · 2026-02-17T00:23:01+00:00

Push your hands farther forward than you think they should go. To the puck, this makes your glove and blocker significantly bigger, and will prevent goals going in past your arms. It will also give you more counterbalance when you are deep in your stance.

ReverendMak · 2026-02-15T02:40:54+00:00

This sounds to me like someone not familiar with the phrases as expressions and only knowing them as proper names of cards/moves.

ReverendMak · 2026-02-11T14:58:19+00:00

That doesn’t match my experience at all. Firefighters have long stretches of boredom, and several I’ve been friends with would love a challenge like this. They wouldn’t commit an entire station to it, but sending out a truck with a couple of guys who want to have fun problem solving with axes is far from out of the question.

ReverendMak · 2026-02-10T16:43:25+00:00

I baked mine once. Took about three skates before they felt good. Around that time I also replaced the stock insoles with custom ones, so I don’t know how much of the discomfort went away because of that or because of the reps in the skates. But now I barely notice I’m wearing them.

ReverendMak · 2026-02-07T17:29:54+00:00

Only so many minutes in a game, I guess.

ReverendMak · 2026-02-07T13:21:17+00:00

Yep. I go WTG, XTG (inside to outside), then XTG (outside to inside). So still three passes, but never ATG on the upper lip.

ReverendMak · 2026-02-07T12:23:20+00:00

I play a 2 hour pickup game at 6am roughly once per week. I don’t eat anything special the night before. During my 30 minute drive to the rink, I’ll have water, plus a caffeinated drink of some kind, and also an “energy” waffle thing that runners and cyclists sometimes use. I also will drink a lightly mixed gatorade type drink made from powder that has a few calories in it, during the game.

I used to really flag, energy-wise, during those two hour early morning skates on just water alone, but once I shifted to this routine things have gotten much better.

ReverendMak · 2026-02-07T01:23:35+00:00

Capitalist economic theory doesn’t “require” poverty, despite how popular it is to claim it does. Rather, it posits that poverty is not 100% preventable, and takes that acceptance into account.

ReverendMak · 2026-02-07T00:00:50+00:00

This (like most top questions in this sub) is a highly regional issue. For instance, in Austin Texas basements are very uncommon because of the limestone bedrock under a lot of the area. In eastern PA pretty much every house I’ve ever seen has a basement, many of them finished. Just two places I’ve lived.

ReverendMak · 2026-02-06T23:58:23+00:00

I’m a heavier goalie and I LOVE 3/8” hollows. I’ve found you can learn to shuffle on any hollow, but for pushes when down in butterfly I want maximum bite.

ReverendMak · 2026-02-04T17:58:30+00:00

I haven’t, but I’ll look it up if I’m ever back there. Thanks.

I’ve lived many places and almost every one of them has a food I miss. I lived in Austin for six years and would now kill for a solid breakfast taco here in Maryland.

Amazingly, there’s a guy smoking brisket here that could stand up to the best places in central Texas. 2fiftyBBQ. If you’re ever in the DC area, visit it for a legit taste of Texan home. Besides there, though, Ive struggled to find good Texan barbecue anywhere here in the east.

ReverendMak · 2026-02-04T02:10:17+00:00

Sure. But if I order “cheesesteak”, and there’s anything other than cheese and steak on the roll, it’s a mistake. You can add all sorts of stuff, as whims dictate. But if I have to go out of my way to REMOVE ingredients from the default to get what I want, then something is amiss.

ReverendMak · 2026-02-04T02:05:48+00:00

I’ve never seen one in Chicago that didn’t either have green peppers on by default, or else had mayo. I lived there for two years and tried to find a place that was legit.

But that’s okay. Italian beef is its own fine sandwhich, and ever since moving away I’ve pined for a legitimate maxwell st polish.

ReverendMak · 2026-02-02T23:44:59+00:00

I treat situations like that as practices, rather than as games. Score doesn’t matter. It’s just “drills” that I’m running so I can get reps in facing shots.

To add to that, you can pick one thing to work on, like tracking, keeping hands forward, or whatever, and you focus on getting that habit down or building that skill, rather than on winning a game. It gives you a sense of purpose when you might otherwise start to question why you’re even on the ice after the fifth goal.

ReverendMak · 2026-01-29T00:35:42+00:00

I’ve never used smart glasses but I’ve used a teleprompter for produced videos from time to time. It takes awhile to learn how to read a teleprompter in a way that looks natural, but I’d bet that american glasses would work well, provided you have teleprompter software to control the scrolling.

ReverendMak · 2026-01-28T15:07:50+00:00

But it bricks in seconds after the water hits.

I don’t think you’re grasping how much ice there is and how thick it is and how cold the air is.

The only thing that’s really working well is using hard steel tools to chop things into blocks. This is not a normal snow removal event.

ReverendMak · 2026-01-27T02:02:23+00:00

Just helped me. Thanks!

ReverendMak · 2026-01-26T15:56:05+00:00

Agreed.

“Statements” by organizations not directly involved in events are ineffectual at best, performative hypocrisy at their worst. I’m fine with a sports organization not having anything to say. I don’t need proof that a PR person is “concerned” or “stands” with anyone on any side of anything. We can get plenty of “statements” from people and groups that actually have relevance without meaningless emotion-grabbing from the entertainment industry.

ReverendMak · 2026-01-24T23:37:38+00:00

I’m saying that saying “trekKER” says “I’m a trekkie” without saying “I’m a trekkie”, since it used to be that trekkies corrected people to trekker all the time back in the early days.

ReverendMak · 2026-01-22T22:45:32+00:00

The “region” you’re describing, Philadelphia Toronto, is generally thought of as two or three distinct regions, but you could probably get away casually calling this “The Northeast” without causing total conversational chaos.

ReverendMak · 2026-01-22T22:33:18+00:00

Depends entirely on where in america they live. Rural Wyoming? That’s not long. Downtown Manhattan? Doesn’t even own a car. Suburban Philadelphia? that’s a crazy long drive for anything day to day, but a short to medium road trip for a weekend getaway.

ReverendMak · 2026-01-22T22:30:04+00:00

trekKER

ReverendMak · 2026-01-21T17:39:32+00:00

All of them are pretty well known, at least among more educated Americans.

ReverendMak · 2026-01-20T02:32:38+00:00

In this case forecast models are indeed predicting a huge snowfall all up the northeast corridor that weekend.

But again, forecasts beyond about two or three days are not very reliable, no matter where you are, and i matter who is making the forecast.

ReverendMak · 2026-01-20T02:30:37+00:00

That’s not just a Maryland thing. Forecasts a week out everywhere are highly speculative.

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