Heel to Toe or Toe to Heel
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Heel to Toe or Toe to Heel
which way are you really suppose to tape it
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Re: Heel to Toe or Toe to Heel
Wayne Gretzky taped heel to toe.dangla. wrote:which way are you really suppose to tape it
End of discussion.
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Re: post 8463
This is true. Wax makes this argument irrelevant.boblee wrote:Everyone waxes their stick anyways. So it doesn't matter.
The U invented swagger.
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post 8466
I'm guessing if you did a study and had great goal scorers use white tape half the games and black tape half the games you wouldn't see any significant difference. The color of tape has no bearing on scoring goals.
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post 8474
I played goalie in high school and tape color makes no difference in whether the puck goes in or not.
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Duh!! what a sucker!! deception is part of the game...it was a poster, and you got sucked in!! white tape all the way!!breakout wrote:lampthelight wrote:Black or white... hmm... what did Gretzky use? Last time i checked he scored a few goals in his day.
The Gretzky poster in my garage has him with black tape.........gospel
It's heel to toe!
In the old days black tape was that friction tape, and was very sticky on both sides so the edges of the tape wouldn't curl up and grip the puck, where as the white tape would.
And yeah, I've heard the hide the puck thing too, maybe.
Now all the tape is made the same so it doesn't really matter.
Wax seems to defeat the gripping effect of the tape, but IDK, maybe the wax gives enough grip, never cared for it myself, of course it didn't matter much on my straight blade Northland pro.
Once again, I feel like such a foolCan't Never Tried wrote:Duh!! what a sucker!! deception is part of the game...it was a poster, and you got sucked in!! white tape all the way!!breakout wrote:lampthelight wrote:Black or white... hmm... what did Gretzky use? Last time i checked he scored a few goals in his day.
The Gretzky poster in my garage has him with black tape.........gospel
Re: post 8474
boblee wrote:I played goalie in high school and tape color makes no difference in whether the puck goes in or not.
Right skate or left skate went on first? Right leg pad or left leg pad went on first?
Hockey, like a lot of sports have superstitious people. If you believe black tape will not work for you...........you are probably correct.
However, I do understand where you are coming from.
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