Flextoe

[The Champ]

I thought you guys would like to check this product out... FlexToe Home Page. It really works great and very durable too!

[sk2000freak]

What a great idea! I am surprised nobody had come up with that product sooner.

Originally Posted by The Champ

I thought you guys would like to check this product out... FlexToe Home Page. It really works great and very durable too!

[Cujo_64]

I am going to check that out this summer, my son will be going to the goalie camp where they will be sold.... looks like a great concept... Save some time in the locker room as well.

Rob

[Youthinstructor]

Looks like a great idea. I made some velcro attachments to the strings to help my younger kids do their's up without having to tie the laces...this looks even better.

At some point however...the skate and pad manufacturers need to get together and design an easier mating of the two right out of the box. It would be so simple for skates to have an attachment point made on the toe cap of the skate and for the pad makers to use a cord attachment to hook onto that attachment point.

[pmohornet27]

i like the v3s in the vid with the old velocity strapping system.

[Oddzilla51]

Spiffy idea. Will have to check those out.

[Stryker908]

Not bad.. I like my sliding toe bridge though ...

[wpgmax]

Originally Posted by Stryker908

Not bad.. I like my sliding toe bridge though ...

These would work with a sliding toe as well.

[Stryker908]

Originally Posted by wpgmax

These would work with a sliding toe as well.

Yeah, I guess it would seem unnessissary at that point though...

[goalies-r-us]

I came up with this fix for Dom's toe ties last fall after getting SICK AND TIRED of farting around with the friggin' laces. It took some "tweaking" to get it the way we like it, but it's *perfect* for him now.

I used "braided elastic ribbon" that I bought at a fabric store. A yard of it costs about 20-cents I think.

For the initial fitting/installation, I brought the elastic around the back of the bladeholder, pulled it fairly tight, and tied it in a double-knot at the front of the bladeholder. The tension is so that you can just barely pull it on/off the skate with one finger (or Hubster uses a lace-puller, b/c his fingers are pretty meaty).

After I have the tension right for the skate/blade portion, I fed each end of the elastic through the toe bridge holes (one elastic per hole). Then I left a little slack between the knot on the front of the skate and the toe bridge when I tied the two ends of the elastic together on the top/front of the pad. (It helps if you have someone/something that you can use to keep tension on the other side while you're tying it, so you can see how much it's going to "give" and how much slack you need to leave.)

With Dom being so little, he doesn't need much slack -- there's maybe half an inch between the toe bridge and the knot -- but that will stretch to give him plenty of "give". I would guess that an adult would want somewhere between 1"-1.5" of slack.

When we first started doing this last fall, I just had one big loop that went from the toe bridge, around the back of the bladeholder, and back to the toe bridge. But we found that sometimes if he rotated "just right", the elastic would pull off his blade and he'd run it over and slice it up. Since we started putting the extra knot in there to keep the elastic around the blade at a constant tension, he hasn't had the elastic pull itself off at all.

And now that we got him the zip-up C/A, the kid can do 100% of his gear all by himself. Not bad for a 50-pound 8yo, eh? (or not bad for a mom who is sick of hanging out in smelly dressing rooms, waiting to help her kid with his friggin' non-child-friendly goalie gear! )

[steele3311]

isn't this thing doing the same thing as a sliding toe bridge? prolly more durable though

[GreelyGoalie30]

With the amount of give the elastic has, as shown in the video, it seems that the elastic could slip under the skate, which, just like a toe tie under the skate, could really mess you up (no traction). Did anybody else notice that?

[Rixter]

The rivets from my Overdrives stick out and are rather pointy and sharp (even after I've filed 'em off a bit). They tend to make a mess of my toe-tie laces so I'm always adding tape.

I couldn't do this with the Flextoe or it would loose its elastic effectiveness. Does anybody else have problems with rivets from their ODs shredding up their laces?

[wpgmax]

Use a longer lace and have it go through the back of your skate and then up over the top to tie. Then it will never go near your OD rivets.

[wpgmax]

I decided to buy a set and give them a try. I'll do a review after a few games.