Louisa - I have become the queen of hockey wash....Pants, shirts, socks, hockey socks, unders, elbow pads (if they don't have hard shells) - all in the washer. Cold, active wear cycle - the wicking stuff means no softener. I wash all the ref gear (including the soft shin pads with the inner hard shells removed, and elbows) and the playing gear as above. I only wash the hockey pants occasionally - when they didn't get aired out... Same for the goalie chest protector - it gets hosed off outside. But, I have washed hockey pants (usually remove the hard kidney protector pad if you can slide it out) and definitely if it's a girdle - that gets washed from time to time.
But, the best hint I can give you is to use the Dishwasher for: Shin pads - (face up, inner down on the top rack) Elbow pads - fit them anywhere (usually top as well) Shoulder pads - stand them kind of in the lower rack Helmet - but not with any plexiglass visors - sits on top rack
Wash normal with NO HEAT dry, and use GEL Detergent (important). Works like a charm. They'll be dry on their own in about an hour or so.
Got this from a Little CAPS parent about 11 years ago, and done it ever since. Keeps the disgusting smells from growing, and clears up all that bacteria which starts to linger. My hockey gal-pals and I would probably do our stuff about every 4-6 weeks. In between the key is making sure it comes out to air dry. DH sets up a circulating fan near his rack of drying stuff.
Trust me - this works and is worth the cycle of the dishwasher. Those underneath pads tend to get really smelly with adolescent (and adult males). I also wipe out the helmets with anti-bac hand soap, and the chin cup, etc.
I and some friends use bicylcing headbands (very thin, also wicking stuff - I have a couple of Pearl Izumi ones. Most of the old bald guys use the skull caps!
Chiming in, DH started as a goalie at 13-14, but he's one of those clearly athletically pretty gifted types. And had been playing catcher on the town all-star team already, as well as defense on the town soccer team, and football. Ah - hockey point - while he started late - he did play DI at Cornell - which is kind of a miracle starting as late as he did - including beating out the Canadian recruit to stay on the team his sophomore year. And, could've done the "I play for hamburger money and ride the bus in the minors" if he wanted to - but we all realize his parents would've killed him with the Ivy League engineering degree. Nowadays, they start specializing by about 10 or 12 if they're serious. Sometimes we'll see a really gifted kid playing who had been a Lacroxxe goalie, or similar and made the switch on ice a little later. And, of course, the kids tracking for college $, etc - are also tracking as best as possible to the regional select teams, etc.
It's never to late - the big thing for the better goalies isn't just size - which can make up for some other limitations - but being able to work on the flexibility and quickness. DH can still do a split - though now we hope he'll get up - but when he was young he could do them the hard and easy way. He thinks noweadays a lot of the kids/training is kind of lazy, they don't learn to be as agile, get the view - instead relying on bigger pads, dropping down so fast to butterfly that they then are always yelling at the D instead. DH thinks it's his job to "be able to see" and direct some traffic. He loves, loves, being a goalie, and it is a definite mind-set - in terms of being under attack, and how you look at the game - and being able not to lose it when you lose - cause everyone does sooner or later.
Interesting but it can`t work for all ,,,,, it is a very private state of mind ,,,, and it needs some self conviction =3D some sort of delusion ,,, mirjam
So you found a way , to eat something and than Keep it as well , intact ???? In 60+ years of cooking , quite a lot ,,, i NEVER mananged to do that, What was eaten was eaten Never to be seen again !!!![well not at same place nore same form ]. But miracles maybe happening in your side of the world ????
We sure hope that this is the case !!!!
=A0>The mind in its original state before we
The mind can learn and can analize , if you are afraid of Pulloting it , Don`t learn ,,, In it`s original state the mind is a Bunch of nerves that have the possibility to make many elcric connections and thuis we can Function , Did yuo know that in order to say a word , you have to have 3 connections , when you want to translate this word , you have 4 connections !!! Thoughts are never a pullotion , it is how some people misuse certain thoughts , that `polluts them` ,
Well as a matter of fact when i see an Acorn i do KNOW it has part of it`s tree in it ,, after having planted many trees in my life ,, you sort of get this Feeling from acorns etc,,,, It is like looking at a baby and know it is a Grown Up in potential !!!!!! or an egg that has a Bird Potential in it !!!!!
With all due respect many Philosophical thoughts occured in minds of people who had the time and patience to LOOK and observe at their enviroment . This is not Unique to any one religion or culture !!!!
This idea, which of course is not sor realistic , but very Idealistic , appears in various forms in all religions and cultures. =A0This
And where DO YOU PUT the line to stop feeling compassion etc, after you are wounded? half dead ? bleeding , or before the first shot is shot at you ????
I know a person who OPERATED on peoples` injured heads , that is Science of the mind !!!! Budihism isn`t a science , it is an ideology a philosophy a religion , etc...
A truth isn`t something i can chuck in the dust bin , since i can`t HOLD it in my hand !!! Truth is an idea, an observation a thought , sometimesn can be written on paper to be kept ,. sometimes it is a story one can tell ,,, Any way a truth is relative , and never ONE . It is also fact that not all humans are the same we all have different quantities of abbilities ,,, thaus what might be wonderful and or easy for you , might be horrid and for another . In my life there are no One colored possibilities, there are all colors all measures of feelings and ways to live with them ... Unique to each person.
If you define your happiness as being delighted in the happiness of an other THERE ARE Strings , because your happiness still depends on His happiness , or ability to feel happiness !!!!
By not wanting your information i don`t reject your truth , i just say i am able to seek my own life according to my own philosophy /culture. It isn`t a matter of Believeing either , it is a matter of experiencing one`s life in one own`s capabilities and culture . I don`t think the Kabalah is a matter to be discussed here. It is another culture . mirjam
Thanks, I'll try that. DH built a drying rack for his stuff, out of old hockey sticks, oddly enough, and he has a fan going too. I think the time has come for DS to have his own drying rack! I'll pick up some gel detergent and give that a try.
If you want to impress somebody with your philosophy /religion, don`t jump to underestimate that other person with assuming he /she Not understanding you , And if you use that idiom as an example to your mind , than i can go and use it a bit further ,,,,, for my answer .. , >nd is vast and spacious, potentially.
I am sorry , but i am not impressed with Religious or Philosophical people`s ideas about the capabilities of Body functions.
Since both of us , You and me aren`t Brain experts i don`t think we should discuss , things we only read or heard from others ....
Are you a Brain expert ???? can you define Normal , for concentration ???
Are you a Ct expert?
Can you give some of the names of those people ???? Please None of us is a sceintist of that field , thus we can`t discuss this at all.
???????????????????????????????? I am not dealing with hypothesis that aren`t my expertise.
have it your way ,,, you will say i got your point only when i bow and say you are right , , your above talk is not so different from other philosophies , esp OUR EATSERN , of which my philosophy is one. >
It is a pity you aren`t aware of what other Religions/Philosophies teach or preach about . it would have made your choice a more . understandable one , since you weren`t born into Budihism . People should be more well read about their inherited cultures as well as other cultures before taking on a new culture ... Telling me or others , that We don`t understand what you meant , and taht if we Don`t accept your TRUTH ,,,,, than ..... is no better than any other Missionary or Cult talk ....
Well Victoria, i think that even your Leader never said such a thing ,, If you can have ANY compassion for terrorists , than you can`t be a Budihist ,,,, And to tell you the truth ANYONE who can feel Any Compassion for any Twerrorist , Should LOOK DEEPLY into their own soul... And see if YOUR KARMA is ok ???? MY compassion is for the Victims , for their families , for the many people who lost somebody ....... And obviously you don`t get it , that even thinking such a thing is UNHUMAN ...
NObody is battering you , i am curious , was curious , about this unbelieable to me Naive ideas.
Well i read enough and heard enough and i KNOW it is a religion ,,,
Victoria , There is nothing wrong with my understanding , you use an idiom , because that is the way They taught you to think about your religion /philosophy , but repeating OLD idioms isn`t making your religion truth , And when you use it [ not always correctly ] you think it is ok , but when i show you that your own words can be used to Not agree with you , you claim i don`t understand ,,,, Which is the MOST COMMON way Cult believers, retreat to when the listener doesn`t agree with them ...
Why does every discussion with you have to have this IF sentences or this BELIEVE ?DON`T BELIEVE Options ,, can`t people just ask questions , without being offered to convert .... >
The part where you claimed that HAPPINESS is something we all can make ourselves Believe we feel !!!!!>
You don`t want Me and others here , to call it a religion , so i call it philosophy or Culture , to at least speak on the same line as you want it..
It isn`t a Culture , the mere question, shows lack of wider background ,
As i haven`t met those people i can`t tell you what Exactly they study .. thus i can`t answer this. The whole phrasing is Foreign to the meaning of this part of my culture.
Victoria , generations of Jews have prayed to the MIZRACH =3Dwhere Jerushalayim is] , =3Dto the East ,,, The Term Middle East was coined by Europeans, who put Europe in the Middle of Humanity and hence they called the world East West Far east Middle east etc,,,,, If i remember my reading [in maps etc] it does appear in rather Modern maps of Western geographers . In Ancient maps all those relating to Israel , call it east ... If i remember well from my studies half a century ago , it was also connected to the borders of the Ottoman Empire , something in
1820 take or leave 1-3 years ,,, In those times `the Powers that were `, sat together from time to time , and sliced Asia , Africa , as if they were cakes , A piece for Turkey and piece for France and a piece for Britain etc,,,, This hasn`t turned Judaism into a Middle Eastern Culture, since this term was born a bit after Judaism . Middle East is a Geographical / political term .
In all the years i read your letters you have given Several cultural backgrounds, I don`t recall you telling growing up in a Budihist Background .
See my Above Comment , you are mixing Modern Geographical terminologies with Historical facts, Which has no Connection what so ever. And this is the First time i hear that President Bush`s Political statements define my culture !!!! But of course one can learn new things every day.
Sceince is not a matter of Belief , Science has to be prooved , in research etc, and your Calling me ignorant , doesn `t change the fact , that ceratin belief systems , try to use the word `Science` , to gain more believers and spread their philosophies.
If you aren`t aware of it , The world as we know it is under attack of terrorism , if they will have their will , we won`t be able to discuss freely our opinions. ANYONE who has Compassion for Terrorists , has taken a stand point that mooves him/her to the "other side ", I know too much about Terrorists and the Result of their Actions, Thus I am not interested in the WHY. And i think Many People , who Suffered from any result of a terror action , might think your compassion is uncalled for. I assume that you personanly were never in such an event. I advice you to read a bit what is going on arounf Paris , Brusseles and other European Big cities. Where `small scale ` terror is now arising ..
Don`t `play` with words , Life isn`t a Chemistry or physics lab ,, where one makes an experiment ... As much as we would love it , Historical [that affect our lifes] events aren`t Scientific Experiments,,,,, Many people can vouch and give evidence , how their lives turned and changed in a moment , with No reason at all ,=3D they didn`t CAUSE anything , they Just happened to be at a certain spot , when something happened ...Thus you might say that they are /were Victims of Circumstances !!!!!
Of course i didn`t understand you , Compassion for terrorists , is something i don`t understand . and don`t want to understand. I lost some close friends to terrorists, My late mother lost all her family to a terror regime. I don`t understand Compassion for any Evil . The more i read and research i understand less. As i translate documents related to `terror regime`. As i watch Tv and Listen to the kind of speeches their Leaders Show on Tv , i don`t understand any person who has compassion for those. It has nothing to do with agreeing or disagreing , it is a matter of Standing up for LIFE ... [ aren`t you saying that this your aim as well ?] and be against slaughtering Humans [ Shouldn`t you be against Harming Any form of LIFE ???]
Oh i take care and care ,,,, Every moment of my life !!!! I hope that you too will learn to Care About others , mirjam
Bravo the Ultimate way , you use when out of a reasonable answer .
I may tell you something , i think i hvae more respect for Budihism [the real kind , not your Western Light New Age version] than you have. But that is a different discussion.
Yes you are Right , you can`t see through my eyes ? but can you see through your own ? mirjam
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