ТЕСТ клюшки BAUER NEXUS ADV. Клюшка за 30000 рублей. / Stick test ( English subs ) - YouTube

Hey there. It’s Hockey Stigg and today we will take a look at new Bauer stick which made a splash in social networks.

Wile we are preparing the stick, subscribe and have a nice watching. Here we go.

Let’s see what we will get from the stick.

Well, we start preparing the stick for ice.

There is a lot of fancy ways of taping this stick in the Internet, but I will not show off.

I will go with classical way. As I do it normally, I will tape the stick from the toe to the hill fully covering blade.

As a bonus I will answer an interesting question if the tape rips up at the blade hole.

I think Bauer should anticipate it but let’s try and find out themselves.

let's try

It’s some odd filling because fingers get into the hole.

this is a feature of this hook

And one more essential detail that I will tell you about later.

It is motto: Money don’t score a goal.

Get the stick longer.

I bought a composite end plug.

It is lightweight and should not affect overall stick weight.

Let’s try, hope we won’t need tape.

Nope, we need tape anyway.

It will be tighter.

Get a mark.

But I will cut it off crookedly as usual.

The final stage before to go on ice is a handle taping.

Not everyone likes my way of taping but this is my choice and it is comfortable for me.

Well, we are on ice. Will check its features.

I don’t doubt that 430 USD stick, and it is its main minus, it is really expensive,

will give you maximum. We will try and find out.

We will start from passing.

I have ridden opinion that pass can be affected due to hole in the blade.

I doubt it but let’s see.

Some passes.

Stick give and take passes but mainly it depends on your hands.

But first impression, as I said about flex, it is some soft for me.

And maybe it will be pro for wrist shots and con for slap shots.

Let’s do some wrist shots.

I have seen a lot of sticks surveys where accuracy was measured by hitting of a top corner but if we face a truth accuracy depends on your skill.

Of course stick gives you some advantages but they are not such sufficient.

In sake of interest I set 5 pucks, let's see how many times I will hit the top corner.

My aim is left top corner.

One, two, three

oops

3 hits, one puck I could not rise and once I missed.

3 hits in total, but again, if it is 50 dollars stick or 430 dollars stick mainly it depends on your hands, but about it later.

If I check out characteristics of the stick carefully, the stick is hard in the middle and it has 2 flex points,

but I can mistake. I think, we will see on slow-mo that bottom part is flexing during wrist shot.

Finalizing I can say that it shots. It’s soft, 87 flex, I some enlarge it and the stick got some softer.

Now flexes tend to get lower, many professionals take lower flex; amateurs, what seems logical, take lower flexes as well in order to study a wrist shot.

The lower flex, the simpler to make a shot. Of course it should follow common sense.

Thus it allows to make a nice wrist shot. Now we get to one-timer. It is very interesting for me how the stick works for it.

And I need some help, Vlaaad…

Maybe you payed attention, it's written on my stick: Money don’t score a goal.

I don’t give a dig to Bauer, it is just a lesson for you.

The most expensive equipment doesn’t make you stronger, only due to hard work you will get stronger.

Just work!

Would I buy a stick for 430 dollars? Of course, I wouldn’t.

Everyone likes Ovechkin, but I place myself into Kucherov’s office – left face-off point.

Vlad gives me a pass and I will make a snap shot, element which we studied in the video with Panarin.

Here we go.

*almost killed me

We’ve made quite enough shots but general conclusion I will make some later.

Now I will do some stick handling drills to see how it is good in puck control.

I remember, I am doing it in a mask, I don’t have peripherical vision and that why I have to drop my head. This is for comments

Puck control is adequate, I did not reveal any new perceptions.

Speaking about one-timers, it was snap shot, variation of wrist shot, the stick reacts properly.

The main issue is if a blade reacts properly, whether there is blade deformation during shooting or not, if the shots are nice.

The answer is: yes, they are nice.

But I say once more, a lot depends on your hands. Generally, the blade keeps load.

And now there is the most interesting part for me, slap shot one-timer.

This is maximal load and how the stick will work with its features

flex 87 and a hole in the blade.

Before to make any conclusion let's do one more series of one-timer slap shots considering situation when a defenseman plays power play time and gets a countermoveing pass.

Nice shot

So, slap shots are finished, there were shots from a blue line, in the movement on the net. And as I said, it was the most interesting for me now the stick works in hard conditions.

Frankly talking the stick cope with it.

I was afraid that a puck would outhustle a blade, that the stick is too soft for a slap shot but it coped with this.

Surely there is some technologies in the stick that were designed for a such hockey stuff as a slap shot.

It’s really nice slap shot and this stick is quite good for a defenseman.

We spent enough time to check the stick, almost an hour we shoot and can derive some conclusions.

The first point is weight, is it lightweight? Yes, it is really very lightweight and perhaps it’s one of the lightweights sticks I have ever used.

The second point is a novel pentagonal shaft. As for me, after shooting and stickhandling it was not very comfortable for me.

I cannot say that it was the most comfortable stick. No, it wasn’t.

. I had more comfortable ones, thus, if pentagonal a new level is? Perhaps it is so for someone, but it is not mine.

How does it work for wrist shots and slap shots?

It is predictable that the stick with that characteristics will be very sensitive. Wrist shots are sharp, very powerful.

Slap shots. My main disturb was how the stick works them due to low flex as for me and I some enlarge it.

The stick reacted well, pucks did not outhustle the blade. It coped with all slap shots.

I relay on my experience because I have used sticks with the same flex and it affected slap shots badly.

Therefore the stick reacts on wrist and slap shots nicely.

In term of taping, if the hole in the blade affects on a tape?

I taped the blade fully from the toe to the hill. It’s obvious that top side of the blade is almost dry.

So, it is not likely the tape rips up whe n you use classical taping.

Its’ not likely that opponent’s stick gets in the blade hole.

But there is good marketing, I would say excellent one. I admit, the stick is very bright and remarkable.

The hole in the blade does not affect on a game badly.

How it will work on the long term, how durable it is only that remains to be seen. If you wander to find it out, subscribe my Instagram.

I will tell about it for sure.

Finally let’s give a grade.

Wrist shots – “B”

Slap shots – “B” as well (although I was gonna give “C” before I got on ice).

Comfort, how it is comfortable for hands – sorry, but it’s “C”.

Stickhandling – “B”.

Marketing – “A+”

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