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RockandRollTroll
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My lacrosse stick is throwing really low right now. I'll stand 25 feet away from someone, totally aim at their stick, and miss 5 feet infront of them on the ground. The pocket is located on the lower 1/2 of the head. It's probbaly the maxium depth a pocket can have. I know a bunch of you guys play lacrosse, and how did you guys solve this problem if you had it? Is It how I throw, or is it my equipment? I dont want to waste 25$ restrinning a head if I could fix it myself for free.
Jan 12 2007 5:31PM
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wAy2sTeEzY4u
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tighten the bottom string or whatever to shallow the pocket, also loosen the shooting strings if they are really tight or tighten them a LITTLE if they are too loose. and lastly you could try to move the pocket down a little bit and it will release later.


you need the lax cult to!
Jan 12 2007 5:34PM
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Elijah.
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It's your shooting strings. Loosen them if your hooking.
Jan 12 2007 6:02PM
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zepscratch
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loosen your strings... if you know how to string a stick going and getting new mesh wouldnt be a bad idea, otherwise i would take out my shooting strings and putting then back in differently, change is always nice.
Jan 12 2007 6:55PM
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ECGove
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join the official lacrosse cult
Jan 12 2007 7:52PM
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CBROOKS
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Loosen or move your shooting strings.

post a picture of the head.
Jan 12 2007 7:54PM
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gorillasteeze720
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make you top shooting string really tight and then decrease tightness as you go down
Jan 12 2007 9:01PM
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mark.p
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make sure the ball isn't hitting the plastic topwall when you throw it
Jan 13 2007 12:14AM
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Capt.Flannel
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actually, if you suck at stringing pockets, making it hit the plastic will actually give you a more consistent shot (though it may be hard to get used to at first).
Jan 13 2007 12:17AM
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bigwhite.steeze
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exactly what i was going to say. itll probly take a few attempts to get it right(by tightenging strings more or less) but thats what you gotta do. dont have an strings be too tight though or itll shoot too high
Jan 13 2007 12:18AM
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wAy2sTeEzY4u
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yeah but thats sketchy because a little bit of moisture will make it deepen and catch completely. but it can make you shoot faster.
Jan 13 2007 12:19AM
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steezymcneezy
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possibly restring it and shallow the pocket for sure
its always harder to throw with a deeper pocket. but its easier to cradle, so just like put it in the middle of shallow and deep, like meh deep. then just kinda get used to it and you should be good. I played around with a d stick for years and that pocket was soooooo damn deep and it was harder to throw, not just cause of the shaft length, but how deep it was.
Jan 13 2007 12:19AM
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Piste.Off
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dont play lacrosse because your a gay field fairy
Jan 13 2007 12:19AM
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Capt.Flannel
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actually it's not sketchy at all. A pocket getting wet will make ANY pocket, whether it's strung properly or not, throw differently.

Here's what you can do:

Put the top shooter at the very top and tighten as much as you can and then put two more shooters under that one, slightly looser than the last until it's a fixed plane, therefore making your your angle of throwing out of your pocket straight over the shooters, instead of getting caught on a shooter.


www.e-lacrosse.com has tips too.
Jan 13 2007 12:21AM
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Capt.Flannel
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comprehensive outline on how to make the perfect mesh pocket, including tips on shooters.

http://www.e-lacrosse.com/stech14.html
Jan 13 2007 12:25AM
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bigwhite.steeze
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yeah when the strings get wet for the first time, expect your aim to be extremly off. during a practice it started raining and my mesh/shooting strings got wet and it messes everything up. i had to readjust all my shooting strings to make them good again and it took 45 mins
Jan 13 2007 12:35AM
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Capt.Flannel
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thats why you immediately soak the head after you string it, in hot water, and stretch the shit out of it. THEN you go back and make adjustments so it throws properly. Then you won't have to worry about excessive stretching, beyond the normal rain stretch.
Jan 13 2007 12:37AM
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Capt.Flannel
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and if it's rainy and muddy, as soon as you get home, put the muddy head into hot water so that it won't dry in an awkward shape and it will go back to normal once it's dry.
Jan 13 2007 12:38AM
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wAy2sTeEzY4u
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umm are you serious? what do you play basketball? dont run at a guy too fast youll get a technical foul. douchebag.
Jan 13 2007 12:38AM
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Sean...M
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would kinda help if you showed us a pic of how its strung. but other then that. do what a guy up there said tighten the stop shooter and then go down, make sure you have a low enough shooter as well. also tightening the sidewalls will help and tightening the lower a lil will also.
Jan 13 2007 2:05AM
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TheQuailman
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no no no, its you not the stick.

same thing happened to me, i had a stick with a pretty shallow pocket and I moved to one with a deep one and i threw to the ground, it like whipped down. but after a while I got use to it and re-adjusted my aim. I threw higher then I usually did and it got to the person fine and eventually it became normal.

now when i use one with a shallow pocket, i throgh up.

so dnt change te string
Jan 13 2007 10:10AM
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Capt.Flannel
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haha, actually, if a kid can't throw, a properly strung pocket can help. So, if he changes his pocket the way we (and I) told him to, it'll make it easier to throw properly.
Jan 13 2007 2:27PM
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ECGove
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shut the fuck up noob
Jan 13 2007 2:41PM
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RockandRollTroll
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thanks guys, I pretty much made the whole pocket more shallow, loosened the shooting strings, and the thing throws fine. I have an indoor session tomorrow, I will see how it actually preforms during a game then
Jan 13 2007 3:48PM
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chrismoJBEATS
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u dont have to make ur pocket smaller, u just gotta take the lip outta ur strings^^
Jan 13 2007 4:21PM
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GnarBurger
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i dont know hahahaha
Jan 13 2007 6:24PM
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skogenjake
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you could make the pocket smaller or tweak your shooting strings lower
Jan 13 2007 7:38PM
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steezymcneezy
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so lacrosse players are gay field fairies huh? what the fuck do you do? wrestle? and touch guys asses and balls? thought so.
Jan 16 2007 5:01PM
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T*Ski
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you got too much wip, move your pocket up to the middle of the head, yours seems like its way too low man i had the same problem, also tighten the top strings and that should do the trick
Jan 16 2007 5:03PM
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wAy2sTeEzY4u
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no dude you want to always be able to follow through and throw how your comfortable.
Jan 16 2007 5:04PM
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