 Welcome back Lakeland Sports Intermission Break here with Leo Fitzgerald sophomore forward Bemici State talking about the the specs of a hockey stick and Leo I just I was back in here a couple weeks ago with Toby the equipment manager and I was looking at the blades first of all and I know I just I'm really thick at the heel on this blade and then this one's thin and what's the deal and you can tell me why maybe. All players like different preferences and some are thicker some are thin and some blades are a lot longer than others and obviously the curves are different too so for my my stick I have here I'm starting with the shaft it's a grip there's a grip texture on it that you can get and I offer my flux I have an 85 which is a medium flux a lot of guys like stiffer sticks some guys like a more whip your stick for more torque on the puck but yeah for the blades I like a long blade I think it's the longest blade you can get I'm not 100% sure what how long it is but it's called max length so it's the longest you can get a blade and as you can tell it's it's pretty long if I compared to another stick back there but I like sandpaper on my stick it's called it's like a sandpaper texture which puts more grip on the puck and yeah you kind of you can send in different curves and such like that to the company and they can make it for you and form it for you exactly how you want it so you're talking about the sandpaper grip on your stick what does that do when you put tape or toddler um I don't think I don't know a lot of people think it makes the tape a lot it sticks better I feel but if people don't tape their whole blade they can have grip where there is no tape okay and yeah very good and how often do you tape your stick up I tape it almost once a period once a period yeah before every period okay so what you're talking about I remember the lie of the stick to explain that it used to be there would be a five or six on the back well tending would be about 14 explain explain that all right well the lie is how it sits on the ice so I think I have a lie five so it depends on taller are and how how you sit your position on the ice so for my lie on five and I just felt like from using different curves in my day that five is the right lie for me for how I'm positioned on the ice so that's how it sits so I believe a lie six would be more of a higher lie and I hide the lower you go it's sits lower right actually and you take a gold tenders you know like this and it you know it's really it's up right that's about a 14 probably okay so we take a look at like I think Bodrie's stick here that was really thin at the at the heel of the blade that's just personal preference I guess yeah just personal preference and he just likes a basic no sandpaper finish and yeah it's just a normal blade that's that's a normal blade for and this is more mine's more of a medium as you can tell by looking at mine mine's a little bit longer than his if you look at it have you maxed out pretty much you said the length of the blade and even if the heel through to know the I've done the length but not the height if you see at other sticks like for example this is Ruslan Bidens and he's got the highest blade you can get right here as you tell on the heel almost looks like a paddle so if you compare those two not a bad idea for defensemen not gonna miss many pucks of that I guess another question for you is as far as the the stick goes how many different types did you try until you got to this point with Bemidji State I've tried quite a few yeah it's hard to finally exact when you want you like and I don't know a lot of people like to change but yeah I don't know it's fairly hard but it took me a few tries and I found the one I like and curves I mean they don't measure for curves anymore that gets the manufacturer does that no they don't but for curves this like for Bedin he's got just a basic it's not a huge curve but it's just I don't know kind of like a medium curve and then mine mine curves right on the toe as you can tell go straight and then little hook on the toe so it all depends who you are and how you shoot the puck and some people shoot from the heel some some players shoot from the toe so all depends well thanks for this it's been educational no problem very good Leo Fitzgerald sophomore forward the Bemidji State be back in just a moment I like the sports