puckpilot
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- Oct 23, 2016
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Now that we are on the subject, has someone actually used a radar to measure the speed when shooting with different sticks. I swear I shoot harder with the high end Supremes than high end low kick Easton and Reeboks (flex and curve being equivalent) but I've never collected data. At least it feels harder...
I've done analysis on myself using high speed footage 240fps using my iPhone. Basically I used frame rate to calculate velocity of my shot using various sticks over hundreds of shots. The numbers I came up with have a margin for error, but it's good enough for me to know how each stick performs relative to one another.
What I came up with is basically the same curve p92/p28, same flex, various kick points and brands, on average didn't really make me shoot any harder. Ease of release differed and obviously feel, but velocity, not really. Sticks I tested were QRL, QX, HD3, xcore9,1x,1N, Supertacks 2.0, ribcor 44k,47k, CCM Superfast, and more.
With the 2.0 and superfast shots felt like they were coming off hotter but when I calculated their velocities, they were about the same as shooting with a QRL. What feels hard and fast isn't always the truth of it (that's what she said). Sometimes its just an illusion, especially if you go bar down. On the other side of things sometimes a shot didn't feel hard but the calculation indicated otherwise.
Like I said, there's a margin for error on my part, so I'm curious to get a hold of a radar gun to see if I'm off, and if so by how much.