Fingers Up Glove Position

Originally Posted by ItechWarrior

I thought the same thing till I switched gloves.

Hmmm. How do you know what works for you without playing with all of them? Can I ask the guy in the store to fire some pucks at me for a while? Ugh this seems rather daunting... not that I have money for a new glove right now anyway. On the other hand (ha!) I really do have absolutely terrible hand-eye coordination. I'm working on that though, throwing tennis balls around and actually catching them once in a while.

Originally Posted by ItechWarrior

There's different angles of the break of the glove, that was the difference for me. Between a 60 degree break and and a 90 degree break.

Is there only two options (90 vs 60), or are there variations between the two degrees? What angle did you go from/to? I can see how it would effect stick handeling.

Originally Posted by ItechWarrior

Well I was having a ton of pop-outs with the fingers up position when I had my Itech 12.8 glove. I switched to Reebok P3, and it's very rare I let anything pop out. This is why I was asking what type of glove.

i switched over to a reebok glove not too long ago too and i seem to get alot less pop outs with it. not sure what model it is, the tag is gone, just says premeir series on the back of it.

well, I've been working on my pop-out issue. Since I cant just drop $250 on a new glove to "solve" the problem, I decided to work on keeping better focus and puck awareness. That and holding my glove in more of a "fingers vertical" position seemed to do the trick.

I usually do the Fingers forward technique shown by Niemi in this picture. I really dont like fingers up, i dont know why.



Whats the difference between a 90 and 60 angle? My old RBK had a 60 i think, and i could never tell what it was

I was lucky, a team mate was a goalie but had to give it up because of an injury so i picked up his glove for $50. i think i have been using a fingers up/cobra technique combo, lol

I will say, Luongo's reasoning for having his glove down beside his pad is that it only then requires one direction of travel to make a glove or left arm save. In the fingers up position that is show, there's 2 directions of travel you need to worry about. Out to the corner of the post, and down.
Also, I notice many goalies who use a fingers up position, while reaching for the puck when making a save, revert back to a more comfortable position with fingers horizontal, then back up again. Check some fingers up glove saves in slow motion, it's true

I would be curious to know how many NHL goalies use a fingers up position anyways, and how good of a glove hand they have. Pekka Rinne's stance is not fingers up, and his glove is great.

Also, fingers up doesn't feel natural...
Just my views on it, though I've seen goalies with great glove hands use this method.

Ill have to check that out if i ever have time. I dont think that one way is better than the other, its all personal preference. One nice thing is that if has made me realize that ive had my glove too far back. I have started putting my glove up in front of my body a little to cut down some of the angle. it also helps keep you from getting handcuffed. I still havnt decided what position i like better. The fingers up position doesnt seem to hurt my glove side but i dont know if its more effecient or not.