How is a hockey stick made?
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Most modern sticks are made from fiberglass/aluminum or carbon fiber.  These come in either one or two-piece.  Two-piece sticks allow you to snap the blade and replace it without scrapping the whole stick.  The blades are made of wood, fiberglass, carbon, or any combination there of.  The most common wood used today is White Ash and Birch.\n\nOne piece carbon sticks are made from the inside, out.  They layer carbon fiber over and over.  Each layer gets a coat of epoxy.  This is what makes it hard.  The epoxy has very little strength and the carbon is strong but flimsy.  Think of carbon fiber as fabric and the epoxy as peanut brittle (stay with me).  If you took a slapper with just an epoxy stick, it would shatter.  If you took a slapper with just a carbon fiber stick, it would flap in the breeze.  The combination of the two gives it unbeatable strength yet still allows it to flex a bit.\n\nOld wood sticks are still around, but the preferred wood (Rock Elm) is becoming scarce.  Dutch Elm disease has wiped out most of the supply.  So now manufactures are turning to White Ash.  It's not as strong, but it's about 1/4 the price of Rock Elm.
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wood. the head is made of wood. These clubs will send your ball further than the irons do.
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Try here:\n\nhttp://jayisgames.com/archives/2005/12/stick_arena.php
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I used to make them as well..if you hold up three of your fingers.. this is the shape to put the sticks to start...Then insert the other two sticks horizontaly between the other ones. There is also a kite version..but its very hard to describe how to make it.
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I practice doing stickhandleing, wristing shots, slapping and snapping shots, and deking. I practice stickhandleing without looking at the puck to develop how to make more acurate passing and have more puck control. Get a mirror and put it in the end of a hall way stand back and look at the mirror and stickhandle away looking at the mirror. After you master this take the mirror away. Practice your stickhandleing around people in tight areas by putting 2 pucks in the drive way a little bit apart and stick handle in a figure 8 between them. Then put them closer together... For wrist shots practice your aiming without looking at the puck and also stickhandleing up to the goal and deking and then wristing a shot...repeat with snap shots and slap shots... Work out also. I lift weights and do situps. Go to hockey camps that do off ice training. Have fun doing this stuff!
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Lumbering stick with am England shirt on
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They made weapons from buffalo bones.\nhttp://www.itvs.org/homeland/lakota.html\n\nThey used bows and arrows.\nhttp://www.franklin.ma.us/PPT/Lakota.ppt \n\ns
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This depends on your style and position to play....\n\nTypically offensive players play with shorter sticks (cut to their upper chest) since this allows them to bring the puck into their body when going around players.\n\nDefencemen like their sticks a bit longer to poke check the puck away from opposing players.... I play D and I like to cut it just below my chin... \n\nAgain cutting it at your nose is OK.... What I would do is start long and before you butt the stick try it out... If it feel confortable, at a certain length, then your done.... If not cut it a bit shorter....
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It's a short stick with a really ornate end cap. It's about the size of a stick of Dynamite. Use is a mystery to me I suspect it is used in hand to hand fighting.
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I have seen a model of Sydney opera made of wooden ice loly sticks.They are cheap and can be easily modifing material.\npick ur best answer.
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tradition\njust like when they hit their sticks against the goalie's pads \nafter he makes a good save. that was originally done to make the pads bigger, because when they were made of leather in the earlie days, htey would shrink after absorbing water(from the ice)
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Artificial rinks can  be made in cold climates by enclosing a level area of ground, filling it with water, and letting it freeze.\nWith the pipes cold, a thin layer of water is sprayed on the sand or concrete to seal and level it (or in the case of concrete, to keep it from being marked). \nThis thin layer is painted white or pale blue, for better contrast; markings necessary for hockey or curling are also placed, along with logos or other decorations. \nAnother thin layer of water is sprayed atop this. \nThe ice is built up to a thickness of 2-3 centimetres by repeated flows of water onto the surface. \nPeriodically after the ice has been used, it is resurfaced using a machine called an ice resurfacer. For curling, the surface is 'pebbled' by allowing loose drops of cold water to fall onto the ice and freeze into rounded peaks.
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Bauer and CCM for skates get either bauers or maybe vectors Vectors are nice. For stick, go for one made of fiber glass.
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Go to a sports store that sells skates & sticks.  Try on a pair of skates that are similar to yours.  (Make sure the height of the blades is the same as yours)\n\nhold a hockey stick so that you are in a comfortable position to receive a pass, and the bottom of the blade of the stick is completely touching the ground.  \n\nNow, mark where your top hand is, that is the length of THAT particular stick that you need.\n\nDO NOT BELIEVE ANYONE WHO SAYS TO CUT A STICK AT YOUR NOSE OR CHIN!!\n\nEvery stick uses a different "lie".  This is the angle that the blade comes off the stick.  The greater the angle, the longer your stick might need to be.\n\nAs for the type of stick, since you are a beginer, I would recomend a LOW COST, composite stick with replaceable blades.  These shafts were designed for hockey.  A wood shaft was not, it was cut from a tree.  You wil have a better shot with it and it is cheaper in the long run because you only have to replace the blade, not the whole stick.\n\nI recomend replacing the blade when the bottom begins to crack, don't wait for it to brake.\n\nGood luck
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The roots of hockey are buried deep in antiquity.\n\nHockey-like games involving sticks and balls have been played for thousands of years by people such as the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Irish, the Scots and the Indians of South America.\n\nHistorical records show that a crude form of hockey was played in Egypt 4,000 years ago, and in Ethiopia around 1,000 BC. Various museums offer evidence that a form of the game was played by Romans and Greeks, and by the Aztec Indians of South America several centuries before Columbus landed in the New World.\n\nThe National Archaeological Museum in Athens holds a square marble slab measuring 60 cm x 20 cm with four bas-reliefs of ancient sporting events. One of these shows Athenian youths playing field hockey. These bas-reliefs date back to 514 BC and show that a type of hockey was being enjoyed in Greece at that time.\n\nThis type of hockey, called "ÊÅÑÇÔÉÆÅÉÍ" (Keritizin) in ancient Greece, was very popular. Called such names as "paganica" by the Romans, "hurling" by the Irish and "shinty" by the Scots, the name "hockie" seems to have been first recorded in Ireland in 1527 and probably comes from the French word "hoquet" meaning "shepherds crook".\n\nHockey in England in the 17th and 18th century consisted of whole villages playing the game with the objective of hitting the ball into the opposing villages' common ground. Teams often consisted of 60 to 100 players and games occasionally lasted several days or so with injuries such as broken arms and legs not uncommon. Umpires could only arbitrate a decision if called upon to do so by a player from one of the teams. (a situation that sounds familiar even in these days!)\n\nIn 1852 the sports master of Harrow, an English Public School, advised his pupils that, among other things, no more than thirty players per team were allowed on the field at any one time. In those early days, team formation consisted of having more forwards than defenders, a situation that persisted up until the late 1800's.\n\nThe game that we know today emerged at Eton College in England in the 1860s when the first rules were written down. Further rules were written in 1875 when the first Hockey Association was formed. The game was played on a field nearly 200 metres in length and all players chased the ball for the whole of the game. In 1886 the Teddington Cricket Club effectively lead a movement which resulted in the British Hockey Association being formed which included amongst its rules a striking circle for hitting goals.\n\nChanges in rules and play quickly developed from this beginning and by 1889 the pyramid system - five forwards, three halves, two backs and a goalkeeper - became the accepted method of playing hockey.\n\nIn 1890 the English, Irish and Welsh hockey associations formed the International Rules Board and umpires were given power to make decisions without waiting for players to appeal for a free hit - something that a large number of players have yet to learn. See 1892 Hockey Rules .\n\nHockey, or "Field Hockey" as it is also known, is now played in every continent with many nations competing in the three major competitions - The Olympic Games, The World Cup and The Champion's Trophy.\n\nHockey was first played at the Olympic Games in 1908 when men's teams were included. Women's hockey was not included in the Olympics until 1980. Hockey was played at the Commonwealth Games for the first time in 1998 (until 1998, the Commonwealth Games were mainly individual sports - swimming, athletics, boxing, etc.. 1998 saw the introduction of four team sports and hockey was one of the four.)\n\nThe first Olympic Hockey Competition for men was held in London in 1908 with England, Ireland and Scotland competing separately. After having made its first appearance in the 1908 Games, hockey was subsequently dropped from the 1912 Stockholm Games, an
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I've seen a pretty decent replica made of rolled poster board (for the bottom) with an aluminum bowl taped to the top.  Wrap the whole thing with aluminum foil, and ta da, a replica Stanley Cup.
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Hockey (A PUCK IS A BALL)