Bruising.
This is the first problem we are solving, and the one I know best.
There were so many practices where I took shots I never wanted to see coming. Someone cranks one on you from the crease, it hits you, and it affects your form.
In my experience it makes goalies flinch and builds bad habits and bad form. That leads to more injury, and a lot of deep bruising that carries over into games and into your lifts.
When you have a huge bruise on your leg, you do not want to get hit in the same spot again. It changes the way you play.
Deep bruises can change the way you play. Flinching can too.
"I have personally gotten hundreds of bruises playing lacrosse. Maybe thousands."
Getting hit in practice can make you flinch. Flinching builds bad habits and bad form, which can lead to more injury.
Deep bruising from practice carries over into games, into your lifts and into your next practice. It changes the way you play.
With a huge bruise on your leg, you do not want to get hit in the same spot again. So you protect it, and your game changes.
Our goal is to have our first product, aimed at protecting goalies from bruising in practice, finished by then at the latest.
More coming.
Bruising and hand injuries are the two we are starting with. We plan to solve a lot more problems for goalies in the future.
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