Woman's lacrosse stick question?!?

Question

ok so i have a debeer stick its yellow and has the pocket with three big leather strings in the middle

i dont know if the strings have to do with this butttt

i also have another stick i like better, but with the debeer i have to throw about twice as hard to make it go the same distance as my other stick

sometimes the ball gets stuck in my stick and wont come out unless i bang it on the ground a few times

i thought it had to do with the leather strings so i tightened it til the strings were flat and i basically had no pocket now i can throw betetr but its veryy hard to catch

any suggestions on how to fix my problem?

Answer 1

loosen or remove the third or bottom shooting string . you have a traditional mesh , with too many shooting strings  you need the pocket in the middle of a womans stick . three shooting strings are for a very few select attack players . just have your coach remove the bottom string . loosen the second . slight error in tightining mesh . right idea . just a little too tight . good luck

Answer 2

First, regarding the gentleman's answer above me:

"loosen or remove the third or bottom shooting string" - There are not stacked shooting strings in women's lacrosse sticks. There is only one shooting string. That's it.

"you have a traditional mesh" - Women's lacrosse sticks do not have mesh pockets. They have leather runners similar to the men's traditional pocket.

"three shooting strings are for a very few select attack players . just have your coach remove the bottom string . loosen the second" - The three strings are verticle up and down, no across. And with the trigger pocket you cannot remove the runners without completely destroying the pocket.

With that out of the way...

Sounds like you have the trigger pocket. Great choice!

I tried recreating your problem with a couple of my sticks (debeer intuition, debeer tempest, and debeer impulse). I think that your problem isn't neccesarily your pocket, but where the ball is sitting in your pocket. I think (by what you said) is that the ball is getting stuck where the 3 runners go from synthetic leather to nylon. right before they go through the plastic and tie off at the bottom.

When you cradle or go to throw you don't want the ball to rest on that foam pad. You want the ball to be about 3/4 up your pocket, just before your shooting string, which is right where the stick starts getting wider--this is the 'sweet spot.'



Your stick probably also curves upwards when it gets wider; that is the perfect spot to develop your pocket.

First - Loosen the 3 strings a little (not too much), maybe so there's half an inch of nylon between the plastic and where the synthetic starts.

Next - Take a ball and pound it in the sweet spot. It should stretch your strings out in that spot. Every once in a while, hold your stick out (like you would for a pre-game stick check) and you should start to see the pocket forming there.

Once you have a pocket going there, try holding your stick at waist height and cradle, making sure the ball is in that sweet spot. eventually, the ball will stay there when you cradle normally.

You really want the ball you sit there in your stick, because you can get shots and passes off faster because there is less distance for the ball to travel to get out of your stick.

I'm really curious to know if I diagnosed your problem correctly, so can you let me know what kind of stick you have? And where exactly is the ball getting stuck?

Thanks! Hope this helps!!