Starting Lacrosse Late and How to Close the Gap Fast
Nothing in the Rules Slows Down for a Late Starter A thirteen-year-old walking into their first lacrosse practice is standing next to kids who have been playing since they were six. Same drills, same expectations, same stick specification, same ball. Seven years of touches on one side and none on the other, and the session […]
Lacrosse Tryout Preparation and When Tryouts Actually Are
You’ve Probably Already Missed One Tryout Season Most advice about making a lacrosse team assumes tryouts happen in the spring. So a parent reads it in February, starts a six-week plan, and discovers the club their kid wanted held its tryouts in July, for a season that starts this autumn. Lacrosse tryout preparation begins with […]
Indoor Lacrosse Practice That Won’t Wreck Your House
The Ball That Makes Winter Practice Possible Can’t Do Wall Ball Every indoor training article tells you to keep working on your stick skills through the winter, then describes a session built around throwing at a wall. Which is a problem, because the moment you take a hard rubber ball into a garage you’re choosing […]
How Much Does Lacrosse Cost and Why Nobody Really Knows
Every Number You’ve Read About This Was Made Up Search the cost of youth lacrosse and you’ll get confident totals. Twelve hundred a year. Two thousand. Five thousand for travel. They’re stated flatly, with no source, and they vary by a factor of four. So here’s the honest answer to how much does lacrosse cost: […]
Practice Lacrosse Goal or Official Goal Which You Need
Same Size, Different Goal Two goals, both six feet by six feet, both regulation. One is a few hundred dollars and one is several times that. Nothing about the dimensions explains the gap, so it’s reasonable to assume the expensive one is a markup on the same product. It isn’t. A practice lacrosse goal and […]
Portable Lacrosse Goal Meaning and What You Actually Get
“Portable” Is Doing a Lot of Work in That Product Listing Search for a goal you can move and you’ll get pop-up nets that fold into a bag, steel goals that come apart into a long box, and full-size goals that weigh more than the person buying them. All three are listed as portable. All […]
Lacrosse Ball Bag Capacity and What to Actually Look For
The Two Specs That Decide Whether a Ball Bag Survives Everyone shops for these the same way. You look at the capacity number, pick the biggest one in budget, and move on. Then six months later the zipper has given up or the bottom seam has gone, and a hundred rubber balls are on the […]
Lacrosse Goal Replacement Parts and What Actually Breaks
Nothing on a Lacrosse Goal Breaks Except the Cheap Bits A steel goal frame is close to indestructible in a backyard. It’ll take a decade of shooting, a few winters, and being dragged around to mow the lawn. What fails is everything attached to it: the cord, the fasteners, the net, the small pieces of […]