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Most Unique Hockey Gear Ever Used!

SportAntic

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https://www.etsy.com/shop/SportAntic

Full Interview with Gip-Grip inventor Gerald Gibbons
Full Interview with Gip Grip inventor Gera...

Cooperall Song and video by Jodie Blue The Cooperall Song studio version
@thecanadiandrifter
https://open.spotify.com/artist/66Xro...

TRIANGULAR HOCKEY STICK SHAFT TRILAGE footage by Hockey Alley TRIANGULAR HOCKEY STICK SHAFT TRILAGE
@hockeyalley1

2022 - 2023 Return of cooperalls to warmups
Retro Cooperall video via Philadelphia Flyers twitter @NHLFlyers

BladeTech Video From BladeTech
https://bladetechhockey.com

Special Thanks to Gerald Gibbons of Gip-Grip (gibbonsgf@yahoo.com)

Special Thanks to Jeff Azzolin and Anthony Morra of BladeTech
https://bladetechhockey.com/pages/fle...

LaFontaine Hit video from MSG

LaFontaine Celabration in jaw protection from NHL

1924 olympic video by Archive of Canada

QMJHL footage from CBCHu

Calculator Video by olia danilevich: https://www.pexels.com/video/using-a-...

Nexus ADV Blues practice video from FOX sports Midwest

Blade Breaking Video From FOX Sport

Hockey Stick Testing video from Warrior

Pond Skating Video by Pavel Danilyuk: https://www.pexels.com/video/aerial-v...

MUSIC:
Cloud Chaser - Spence
Gemini - Half.cool
Cover - Patrick Patrikos
So Long Analog - Noir Et Blanc Vle
Catch me if I Fall - NEFFEX
Hyperspeed - Eveningland
Positive Fuse - French Fuse
X Ray Vision - Slynk
Dance Don't Delay - Twin Musicom
The Cooperall Song - Jolie Blue
Good Job! - R.LUM.R
Kickin' it with Aliens - Sarah, the illstrumentalist
Wild Pogo - Francis Preve
Trips - Topher Moher and Alex Elena

0:00 Intro
0:30 Slotted Sticks
3:59 BladeTech Spring Loaded Skates
5:45 Jaw Protection
8:29 Cooperalls
11:00 Stick Shapes
14:02 Thermal Skates
17:29 Honorable Mentions
19:11 Gip Grip
22:05 Outro

https://www.etsy.com/shop/SportAntic

20 Comments

@Lud__2 2 years ago

I used to use a sling until it got caught in the Zamboni door and the rest is history

@barwaz10 3 years ago

In the mid 1970's Koho had an oval or rounded hollow stick that never caught on because it would roll inthe players hand. It came in a black or navy with gold lettering.

@UntiltedName 1 year ago

I wore cooperalls to school one day during my senior year. good stuff, they smelled lovely too right out of the hockey bag

@sethverzinski7202 3 years ago (edited)

I remember when those Reebok O sticks were the absolute shit. Like peewee/bantam around 2009-2010.

@skyborne80 2 years ago

Wow, Tocchet wearing that jaw protector is the most un-Tocchet thing I can think of! Not surprised he would take it off in games to fight, of all things 🤣

@mdoneg 2 years ago

We won a squirt tournament in Providence RI in 1982 as travel team wearing Cooperalls. We were from a small town in Maine and sponsored by Holiday Inn. We were complete underdogs and had no business playing against these big city teams. It was incredible. Loved my Cooperalls!

@abrodeur 3 years ago

You kind of missed how clap skates works in speed skating. All they do is allow the blade stay in contact with ice for a longer time by allowing the heal of the skate to be detached from blade. The spring is only used to bring the blade back after the push is completed. This different from what it seam like the hockey skate dose which I'd load energy well you step down on blade and then release later.

@gayrambo4529 2 years ago

I had a few Lockjaw shafts. The concept was that you didn't need to heat up the shaft to insert the glued blade and didn't weaken it. I couldn't ever find Lockjaw blades so I ended up using the regular blades. Had that thing forever and it never broke. Ended up using it as a breaker bar for more leverage when working on my car!

@derick-smith 3 years ago

I'm amazed at how much I learn from your videos. It speaks to my inner child so much! I grew up in the 90s when you still had some real oddities. Petr Klima has always been a favorite of mine because of the wacky helmet and the rad tape job. I think that makes me your exact target audience lol. This is like crack for my soul and I appreciate it so much!

@jeffreyazzolin189 3 years ago

Love the video, definitely learned a few new things which was quite interesting :) thanks for the video!

@Graezar 2 years ago

I really can not understand what "visual obstruction" people are talking about with cages, u really just get used to wearing a cage after a few times on the ice.

@daronwojnowski5126 3 years ago

I used to use cooperalls when I played roller hockey. I remember most of these innovations while growing up playing hockey in Detroit. Thanks for taking me down memory lane!! Keep up the good work!!!

@GREENneonDRIVER 3 years ago

I've been using the Blade Tech steel for a few months and haven't noticed a real difference in power from my stride, but have noticed a bit more spring in edge work.

@chrism036 9 months ago (edited)

The gip grip I think he was advertising to the wrong players he should have put it on goalie sticks..I played goal I think it would have helped to lob the puck up and help with the force of a poke check. 19:41 even for defensemen but not as curved just slightly.

@ajjingunia 3 years ago

I had the m11 it looked european as hell 😂

@invertedsavage3978 8 months ago (edited)

Easton focus flex blade on a 2 piece composite was probably the wildest thing I ever used. Snap shots with that thing were insane, picked mine up from a pro shop at a tournament in London Ontario in the early 2000s strapped it to a z bubble shaft and it was my favorite stick for years after even better than my rubber response.

@krystenmontgomery4680 3 years ago

3:02 are last game for playoffs this kid had the same stick and tape through the hole to keep the hole

@dwaynemarling4004 3 years ago

I can definitely say that Koho pioneered a shaped hockey stick in the early 1980’s - I personally used (and still have) an OVAL Koho XL3 fibreglass stick as a 15 year old in the 1982-83 season.

@AdamSmith-kb7kt 2 years ago

You deserve a lot more credit for all of your work!

@BDUBZ49 1 year ago

Cooperalls were still really popular when I was in high school. (the normal version, not the full length.) We'd wear them under sweatpants for practice, but proper shells and socks for games. The Cooper Defender shoulder pads were big too. After high school I painted them silver and used them as part of a Robocop Halloween costume.