Your lacrosse stick is the most important piece of equipment necessary to play the sport! Like any tool, it needs attention and upkeep to perform at its best. Too often, players wait until something breaks before making changes. The truth is, if you want consistent performance, you need to plan ahead. Here’s a simple seasonal guide to keeping your stick in top shape.
Beginning of the Season: Start Fresh
There’s no better feeling than stepping onto the field in spring with a brand-new stick. A fresh head, new mesh, and a clean shaft give you confidence and consistency from day one. Starting the season with new gear ensures you won’t be fighting with stretched mesh, warped plastic, or fraying strings while trying to focus on your game. Top vendors are always dropping new products around the season to make sure you can have the most up to date gear going into the spring season! Our managers are trained by the best in the business to make sure they are full equipped with proper knowledge to find the perfect stick for each individual player and their tendencies!
Pro Tip: Check out the STX Stallion 1k Head or Evo QX2 Handle
End of Spring / Start of Summer: Time for a Restring
By the time spring wraps up, your stick has seen a lot; rainy practices, muddy tournaments, and hours of wall ball. Mesh stretches, sidewalls loosen, and your pocket just doesn’t throw like it did on day one. That’s why the start of summer is the perfect time for a restring. At Lacrosse Unlimited, our expert stringers can bring your head back to life. A fresh pocket ensures better hold, accuracy, and release heading into those summer tournaments. Our stringers continue to blow our minds everyday with the consistency and unique pockets that they can whip up at a moments notice. We treat our motto, Always Custom, as a lifestyle. Fully customize with an colorway imaginable! Did you have you school colors this spring? Make sure you get your club colors for the summer circuit!
Pro Tip: Our customers love Hero 4! Go grab a piece of all white, black-or throw some wow into your stick and get a colored striker pattern to get the summer season going!
End of Summer: Upgrade Your Head
Let’s be honest; summer lacrosse is brutal on gear. Between back-to-back tournaments, hot weather, and long days of play, your head can start to warp, crack, or lose its shape. By the time fall rolls around, it’s smart to replace your head entirely.
A new head means you’ll have the stiffness, accuracy, and durability you need for the fall season, without fighting against a warped scoop or uneven pocket. Going from hot to cold can be an adjustment for any aspect of life; in lacrosse-that isn’t something you will want to test! Usually, after bearing the summer heat, a head isn’t ready to go into the cold months and maintain its shape. More times than not, you will see your head break early into fall ball due to the temperature change. Get ahead of the game and get that fresh new head going into the fall tournament circuit!
Pro Tip: Stop by your local LU for the latest top heads of the year, whether you’re a goal scorer or lock down defender-we got them all!
