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 […]
Lacrosse Shooting Targets Beginner vs Advanced vs Corner
Most Players Buy the Wrong Shooting Target First There’s a predictable arc to buying a shooting target. You get the hardest one available, because you’re not a beginner. You hang it on the goal, take forty shots, hit the little triangle twice, and go back to shooting at the open net where at least something […]
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 […]
What a NOCSAE Certified Lacrosse Ball Actually Means
The Word for a Bad Lacrosse Ball Is “Greaser” Buy a bag of cheap lacrosse balls instead of a NOCSAE certified lacrosse ball 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 […]
What Size Lacrosse Goal Do You Need and What 6x6x7 Means
The Third Number on a Lacrosse Goal Isn’t What You Think Ask what size lacrosse goal you need and you’ll get one number back: 6×6. Then you start shopping, half the listings say 6x6x7 instead, nobody explains the difference, and most people land on the assumption that the third number is how deep the goal […]
Lacrosse Wall Ball Routine and How Many Reps to Do
You’ve heard it after practice a hundred times. Go hit the wall. Then everyone leaves, and you’re standing in a driveway with a stick and a bucket of balls and absolutely no idea whether you’re supposed to be out there for six minutes or an hour. A lacrosse wall ball routine is a structured sequence […]
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 […]