Lacrosse Net Repair or Replace and How to Tell
The Net Doesn’t Fail All at Once, Which Is Exactly the Problem A goal net rarely dies dramatically. It frays where the lacing rubs, opens a small hole low in a corner, and carries on looking broadly fine for another season while balls quietly trickle out the bottom during practice and nobody can agree whether […]
Backyard Lacrosse Setup and How Much Space You Need
Nobody Publishes a Minimum Yard Size, So Let’s Work It Out Properly The question comes up before every goal purchase: is my yard big enough? And the honest starting point is that no governing body answers it. There’s no official minimum for a backyard lacrosse setup, because rulebooks describe fields, not gardens. Every confident number […]
Lacrosse Ball Colors and What’s Legal at Each Level
Yellow, White, Orange, Pink: Somebody Actually Wrote Rules About This A parent buys a six-pack of lacrosse balls in whatever color was on the shelf, hands them over, and finds out at the first game that the officials won’t use them. It’s a small, avoidable annoyance, and it happens because lacrosse ball colors are governed […]
Is a Lacrosse Rebounder Worth It for Your Kid?
There’s a specific moment every lacrosse parent hits. Your kid has been playing for a season, maybe two. They’re into it. And now there’s a link in your text messages to a piece of backyard equipment that costs more than their stick, their cleats, and half their gear bag combined. A lacrosse rebounder is worth […]
What NOCSAE and SEI Certified Means on a Lacrosse Ball
Buy a bag of cheap lacrosse balls and there’s a decent chance that within a season some of them turn slick. Not dirty. Slick, like they’ve been waxed. The plasticizers inside the rubber migrate to the surface and leave a greasy film that changes how the ball sits in a pocket and how it comes […]
What Size of Lacrosse Goal Do You Actually Need?
Shop for a goal and you’ll see two formats used interchangeably. Some listings say 6×6. Others say 6x6x7. Nobody explains the difference, so most people assume the third number is how deep the goal is, and buy accordingly. A regulation lacrosse goal has an opening 6 feet wide by 6 feet high, measured inside the […]
How to Choose a Lacrosse Rebounder for Your Backyard
Most Rebounder Buying Advice Lists Features You Don’t Need Search for how to choose a lacrosse rebounder and you’ll get a list of specifications: adjustable tension, target markings, frame material, net tightness. It reads authoritative. It also skips every question an actual buyer asks out loud, which is usually some version of how loud is […]