Composite, or 1 piece sticks are actually made of 2 pieces. The shaft is hollow, and the blade is inserted into the shaft, then a coating is applied to the stick, making it look like it is made in one piece. The inside is wood and it is fibreglass reinforced. (meaning it is "coated" with fibreglass) The stick is made of fibre mat and resin in a mould, then allowed to set. It is built up layer by layer until roughly finished, then sanded or cut down to the smooth final shape. It is capped at the end and then painted.

The circumference of a hockey puck is approximately 9.5 inches.

It all depends on the quality you r looking for... Stick can range from $50-$250. Skates are the most expencive ranging from $100- $800. Most protective equipment is cheeper. Pants range from $60-200. Shoulder pads max at $150. Shin pads and elbow pads are 80 bucks max. Most gloves randlge from 50- 150 but there are some HQ gloves can be $250. A helmet is one piece of equitment that u don't want to skimp out on. A quality helmet is worth it for comfort and protection, the higher ranking helmets also include form fitting gel and anti-concusion padding. These typically cost $150 give or take... There are also extras like a mouthgaurd ($40 for a dentist made one) compression gear(top and bottom for less than ($100))

For more info go to different sports stores websites prohockeylife.com if you live in Canada

an NHL sized rink is 85 ft wide and 200 ft long. the ice is appx 4-6 inches thick and is put in using 12-20 layers of ice. the process is to build up the thickness of the ice slowly at first, then thicker. the first few layers are only fractions of an inch in thickness.

The area within which a goalkeeper may usually legally handle the ball is called the penalty area, and measures 44 yards across and 18 yards deep. The goalkeeper may leave this area, but is treated like any other player while outside of the penalty area.

Yes but it is harder to do. I use street ones its kind of hard but you get used to it.

A full set of pads for AA adult player may be up to 10kg (about 22 pounds), but it depends on the actual equipment used. The kickers and legguards, for example, weigh about 2-3kg total, and a helmet could be somewhere between 0.5 and 1kg. You could try and measure your own equipment to get a more accurate answer.

Bauer hockey gear can be purchased from Bauer's site. Bauer offers a variety of hockey gear, including sticks, skates, goalie gear, pants, gloves, and helmets.

Tell them that's it a good exercise, its healthy, you'll be getting some fresh air, and you won't be stuck at home sitting on the couch watching tv or playing video games

The length of the stick is important. Make sure your stick of choice reaches your hip bone area while holding the stick upright on the ground, against the side your leg. Hockey sticks that are too long or short are uncomfortable to play with. Also make sure the stick's grip is very firm between the hands, better grip means better control of the ball.

Its usually best to ask some field hockey players what kind of sticks they like and then maybe go out and try some to see if it suits you.

Sticks are designed differently with many different makes like Grays, Malik, Mercian, TK, Slazenger, Dita, Gryphon and even Adidas now...

If you can go to a hockey outlet and try the sticks before you buy them, then that is the best way to go as buying a hockey stick is like buying Trainers or Clothes, it all depends on how comfortable you feel with it.t depends on what you want. If you want a stick for dribbling then any lightweight stick with a good head will do fine.

If you want one for flicking, aerials and so forth get a stick with curve. The more the better. However the more you have then it can become less good when dribbling.

If you are a big hitter then you want a stick that is strong and durable with a good amount of curve. grays are probily the most durable of all so you might want to go for one of them.

Before you buy your stick know what you want. I strongly recommend going on all the major makers:

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When you choose your stick i very strongly recommend you go to barrington sports (just type it in on Google) As when i got my stick that website saved me a fortune!

The Zamboni 560AC weighs 9750 pounds when it is empty. It weighs 11,350 pounds with water. The Zamboni 525 weighs 6,930 pounds when empty, and 9,530 pounds with water.

It all depends on the stick that you buy. There are wooden sticks and composite sticks. The Wooden sticks are much heavier than composite sticks so most goalies prefer composite. Usually the Composite sticks are about 600 to 700 grams.

Hardness is a characteristic of a solid material expressing its resistance to permanent deformation. Hardness can be measured on the Mohs scale or various other scales. Some of the other scales used for indentation hardness in engineering---Rockwell, Vickers, and Brinell---can be compared using practical conversion tables.

When testing metals, indentation hardness correlates linearly with tensile strength. This important relation permits economically important nondestructive testing of bulk metal deliveries with lightweight, even portable equipment, such as hand-held Rockwell hardness testers. [1]

Hardness increases with decreasing particle size. This is known as the Hall-Petch relationship. However, below a critical grain-size, hardness decreases with decreasing grain size. This is known as the inverse Hall-Petch effect.

It is important to note that hardness of a material to deformation is dependent on its microdurability or small-scale shear modulus in any direction, not to any rigidity or stiffness properties such as its bulk modulus or Young's modulus. Scientists and journalists often confuse stiffness for hardness,[2][3] and spuriously report materials that are not actually harder than diamond because the anisotropy of their solid cells compromise hardness in other dimensions, resulting in a material prone to spalling and flaking in squamose or acicular habits in that dimension (e.g., osmium is stiffer than diamond but only as hard as quartz). In other words, a claimed hard material should have similar hardness characteristics at any location on its surface.

In mineralogy, hardness commonly refers to a material's ability to penetrate softer materials. An object made of a hard material will scratch an object made of a softer material. Scratch hardness is usually measured on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness. One tool to make this measurement is the sclerometer.

Pure diamond is the hardest readily-available natural mineral substance and will scratch any other natural material. Diamond is therefore used to cut other diamonds; in particular, higher-grade diamonds are used to cut lower-grade diamonds.

The hardest substance known today is aggregated diamond nanorods - a nanocrystalline form of diamond. Estimates from proposed molecular structure indicate the hardness of beta carbon nitride should also be greater than diamond (but less than aggregated diamond nanorods). This material has not yet been successfully synthesized.

For a list of materials harder than diamond, see Diamond#Materials harder than diamond.

Indentation hardness tests are primarily used in engineering and metallurgy fields. The tests work on the basic premise of measuring the critical dimensions of an indentation left by a specifically dimensioned and loaded indenter.

Also known as dynamic hardness, rebound hardness measures the height of the "bounce" of a diamond-tipped hammer dropped from a fixed height onto a material. The device used to take this measurement is known as a scleroscope

In solid mechanics, solids generally have three responses to force, depending on the amount of force and the type of material:

They exhibit elasticity---the ability to temporarily change shape, but return to the original shape when the pressure is removed. "Hardness" in the elastic range---a small temporary change in shape for a given force---is known as stiffness in the case of a given object, or a high elastic modulus in the case of a material.

They exhibit plasticity---the ability to permanently change shape in response to the force, but remain in one piece. The yield strength is the point at which elastic deformation gives way to plastic deformation. Deformation in the plastic range is non-linear, and is described by the stress-strain curve. This response produces the observed properties of scratch and indentation hardness, as described and measured in materials science. Some materials exhibit both elasticity and viscosity when undergoing plastic deformation; this is called viscoelasticity.

They fracture---split into two or more pieces.

Strength is a measure of the extent of a material's elastic range, or elastic and plastic ranges together. This is quantified as compressive strength, shear strength, tensile strength depending on the direction of the forces involved. Ultimate strength is an engineering measure of the maximum load a part of a specific material and geometry can withstand.

Brittleness, in technical usage, is the tendency of a material to fracture with very little or no detectable deformation beforehand. Thus in technical terms, a material can be both brittle and strong. In everyday usage "brittleness" usually refers to the tendency to fracture under a small amount of force, which exhibits both brittleness and a lack of strength (in the technical sense). For perfectally brittle materials, yield strength and ultimate strength are the same, because they do not experience detectable plastic deformation. The opposite of brittleness is ductility.

The toughness of a material is the maximum amount of energy it can absorb before fracturing, which is different than the amount of force that can be applied. Toughness tends to be small for brittle materials, because it is elastic and plastic deformations that allow materials to absorb large amounts of energy.

Materials whose properties are different in different directions (because of an asymmetrical crystal structure) are referred to as anisotropic

I use (and love) the xxxx because it has a lower flex point than most sticks, making it good for wrist shots and slap shot. Not sure what the x60 is good for.

Most NHL coaches are not paid a salary and make little to no money during the year as it is considered pompous. Many have jobs during the summer like Darryl Sutter who is a farmer or Ken Hitchcock who is a food tester.

they are a bit lighter than the new vapor 60's which is hilarious . so you can tell all the rich kids that your old 40s are lighter than the sixties.

The 'C' stands for "Captain" or the leader of the team. The 'A' stands for "Alternate", meaning the alternative captain of the team.

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Ice hockey rinks are either hand plowed and watered or it is done by a zamboni.

The same way people make candle wax. Hockey wax and candle wax are the same thing. And if you are thinking about using stick wax do it. You will see a big different in your puck control

dependes on the size and shape of your stick

1-get control of puck

2-aim/look where you want to shoot

3-stick handle to trick up goalie then just let it rip(hit ball hard)

once you can do the basic goal you should try the one timer.it is real fun but you only have a 50% chance of makin it cuz you may miss the ball.

You cant. The cheap ones you find wont be real "aggressive" skates. I suggest you get some good ones, like my first ones were razors, look into razors, nimh, remz, and if youre really cheap, roces.

2 lbs. 2 ounces or 964 grams each skate for size 9 skates.

stick wax are not very difficult to get