I'm eager to try out one of these new designs myself but the pricing is just absurd for a beer league even if I'm playing in the top non-pro league in Colorado, and one of the teams I play against is all retired well known pros.
Like anything it'll come down as the process is refined and likely this approach is adopted from top-to-bottom. Excited to try one out for sure!
I think it was an F1 article when I was reading about it, apparently carbon fiber creates a lot of small particles that when inhaled get lodged in your lungs akin to crushed asbestos .
I wonder if this is something to worry about.
In F1 the body of a bolid would literally disintegrate on impact (thus absorbing a lot of energy) so that is a lot of shattered carbon fiber in comparison to a part of a hockey stick.
Just when in contact with fire, but you are absolutely correct.
Missed opportunity to talk about “hockey stick growth”
By the time my parents caved in and bought a wood stick, I was at the point of consuming one new stick nearly every time I was on the ice. At that point, the higher upfront cost ended up being worth it.
I'm curious, what penalty gets called here? I wasn't aware there was a "your equipment fell apart" penalty.
I would also say that the younger players are way higher aerobic conditioning and the speed of top amateurs approach pro level speed now in these top tier leagues. I track my speed on my Apple watch I regularly hit low/mid 20 MPH during these league games, and I'm probably the 3rd or 4th fastest guy on the team (and def the oldes - thank god for those REHIT sprint workouts I do). So when you add it all up, the ex-pros have their hands full for sure. It's a lot of fun though, and generally the ex-pros play hard but rarely get worked up/hot/chippy and our games against them tend to be the most clean, skilled games we have. And no, they most certainly don't win every games, they're in the top half for sure always though.
Even at the start, carbon oars were cheaper than wooden ones, possibly because of the shape of the material...
As an example of this (other than the new sticks being tested in the article), prior to the pandemic the NHL was set to introduce a new puck for the playoffs that would "will transmit data 60 times per second, including location, speed, acceleration and deceleration and distance travelled." There's similar tech ready to be rolled out for jerseys. The end goal being for advanced analytics to be able to map how fast everything is going and how the game moves, as well as to possibly aid in goal review (which is difficult with the shape of a puck, unlike say soccer/football with its round ball). They tested it at the All-Star game and teams have been practicing with it, but the league decided to hold off on it to reduce the potential point of failures during their return to play.
Source: https://www.tsn.ca/nhl-s-new-puck-will-premiere-on-opening-n...
If you haven't noticed, pro baseball players have mostly switched from ash to maple. Maple bats now fail more often and they fail catastrophically, with sharp fragments flying at high speed. Players and fans are getting injured far more frequently, such as a Cubs player getting impaled [1].
At least baseball is starting to catch up with hockey in terms of nets that prevent objects flying into the fan areas.
[1] https://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/20/cubs-bizarre-injur...
> Cubs rookie Tyler Colvin remains in the hospital Sunday night after a shard of teammate Welington Castillo’s maple bat punctured his chest during Chicago’s game against the Marlins. Colvin was on third base when Castillo broke his bat on a double down the left-field line. A larger piece of Castillo’s bat hit Colvin in the chest, with a sharp edge piercing his chest wall.
> Colvin is in stable condition at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. There was minimal bleeding, but doctors were trying to prevent a collapsed lung, according to MLB.com. If Colvin had been hit or cut in the neck, his injury could have been much more severe.
I am a retired college hockey player who transitioned to officiating at the NCAA level.
Aluminum and corked bats would ultimately give an unfair advantage to the user as compared to a wood slugger. It’s fine in minor league and collegiate sports as they do not follow the MLB’s stricter regulations but if they plan to aim for the major leagues, they should start training with wood.
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On second thought, I think the only time there would be a change is if there were a noticeable impact on the environment and the amount of word being cut to produce bats. But since America’s trademark sport is baseball, I do not see this happening any time soon.
Edit: maple is also one of the most prevalent commercial timbers in USA, is native in most parts of the country and bat usage is so small a percent of maple consumption as to be effectively 0.
Is there, in fact, a web-based reference copy of a mailchimp brokered mailing list ? Do all mailchimp campaigns auto-generate these pages ? I have never seen this before.
I've never considered a mailing list, or mailchimp campaign, for rsync.net but for some reason those same things with a bloggy web page backing store behind it weirdly appeals to me ...
I don't think an issue of a newsletter which contains a paragraph about one thing among lots of other things, plus promotional padding, really counts as an article about that thing for HN purposes. It seems more like an attempt to promote the newsletter than to share interesting information about hockey sticks.
The "view this in your browser" link was always personalized for tracking, not semantic, IIRC. It did include the actual content of "Hello, {first name} {last name}!" tags, which obviously wouldn't work here for every unique reader.
How long does this stick around? As long as you have a MailChimp account?
I guess I assumed that the URL was unique per-user and would be deleted after 30 days, because the primary use case of Mailchimp seems to be not-quite-spam "We're having a sale!" bulk campaigns.
