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 […]
Lacrosse Practice Balls vs Game Balls What Each Is For
The Ball in the Bucket Is Doing a Different Job Walk past any club practice and you’ll see two piles of balls. There’s the bucket everyone grabs from, full of scuffed ones that have been kicked around a field for two seasons. And there’s a smaller bag nobody touches, which comes out on game day. […]
Gifts for Lacrosse Players That Still Get Used in March
The Lacrosse Gift That’s Still in Use in March Every December, a lot of lacrosse-branded stuff gets unwrapped. By February most of it is in a drawer. The hoodie gets worn, sure, and the socks get worn. But the thing that was supposed to make them better at lacrosse is usually behind the recycling bin. […]
Lacrosse Goal Maintenance and Off Season Storage Guide
What Actually Kills a Backyard Lacrosse Goal It isn’t shooting. A steel goal absorbs a remarkable number of shots without complaint. What finishes backyard goals is much duller than that: standing water at the feet, a full winter under snow, and nobody ever looking at the thing between March and March. Lacrosse goal maintenance comes […]
How to Lace a Lacrosse Net onto a Goal Step by Step
The Job Nobody Warns You About Until the Net Is Out of the Bag You ordered a replacement net. It arrives folded into a package roughly the size of a loaf of bread, and it comes with no instructions, because the assumption is that you already know. Then you unfold it in the yard and […]