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Congratulations! your son or daughter has chosen to play hockey,
well you're now hockey parent. There's a few things are gonna need to learn how to do;
number one you're gonna have to learn how to dress your child.
We're gonna start with the entire lower half of the hockey equipment, that way
our upper body is still gonna be free to move properly
and it's a lot more comfortable for the child.
your gonna have a lot less trouble with them being fidgety. Now I want to make sure
that we get those skate liner socks on properly.
The best way to do it is to bunch them up a little bit and then roll them onto the leg,
and what we want to make sure is that, that heel is sitting in the right spot.
If there any wrinkles in that sock, once you put that skate on
it's gonna be a little bit uncomfortable and can actually cause blisters if it's
just not in the right spot.
For the shin pads they are right and left specific, there's a slight curvature to them.
With everything with protective hockey equipment, we want it to fit snugly
so that it stays in place. So with the shin pad, the number one thing is we get the knee
centered in the kneecap.
Once you have the shin pads firmly in place, what we're going to want to do now
is slide the hockey socks over top. You're just gonna basically roll it up over top of
the shin pad
and when you do that, that's gonna hold the shin pad in place and when you get
right to the top
make sure it goes all the way up to about halfway up the thigh and that's going to
attach to the jock short. It usually has a little piece of velcro
and that's gonna keep that hockey sock from falling down during play.
The next step, we're gonna look at putting on the hockey pants.
Once we have the shin pads and the socks on,
sliding the hockey pants on isn't too tough. Once they've stepped both legs in
now we can just raise the pads up around their hips.
You want to make sure that the belt sits on the very top of their hip bones.
Tie the laces how you normally would in a simple bow, and then snug
the belt around the hips. Once we have the pants in place
we're gonna have that child sit down one more time. Now comes probably the most
important part of all the hockey equipment.
We want to make sure those skates go on perfectly,
so have them sit down, get them comfortable, so that you can work with their feet,
and make sure they're not going to be fidgeting around, so that your going
be able to get that skate on straight and snug.
Once we have the lower body done, with the completion of the skate tying,
now we're going to move to the upper body. The first thing you wanna put on is that neck guard
some on the neck guards have a bib, and when you put the shoulder pads on over top
it's gonna hold that down.
We want to make sure that those straps around the upper bicep
aren't too terribly tight because we want the elbow pad to be able to slide up inside that.
They're gonna feel a lot more comfortable, less chance a bruising.
The elbow pads will be slid onto the arms
what we want to do is make sure that those straps
that are on the elbow pad
are fit quite snugly, so that, that elbow pad isn't moving around on impact.
That's the area of the body that's most exposed when the child is falling or falling into the boards.
The jersey is the next step in the operation
you want to make sure that, that jersey will go over everything very smoothly
we don't wanna catch any velcro on anything. Placing the helmet on the
child's head is very important to be done properly.
This is probably the most important piece of equipment to keep your child
safe during hockey.
So when we slide the face guard towards the child's chin
you want to make sure that their chin rest nice and comfortably, but firmly
against that chin cup. That's very important, and then you want to make sure
you do up both side straps
to hold that face guard in place, and the chin strap. All helmets must have a chin strap,
it is mandatory. The last step is grabbing your gloves
and putting them on securely. You just want to make sure that when you slide the
child's hand into the glove
that the figures go all the way to the end and make sure that thumb is in there properly.
Head safety is something we take very seriously at Source for Sports,
please come into any Source for Sports, no matter where you got your helmet
and we'll make sure that helmet fits them properly. If there are any issue with that
helmet, we will help you out.