Sizes of hockey gloves

Hockey gloves (hags) - an element of hockey player equipment. It protects fingers, joints and bones of the hand, as well as the lower part of the forearm from damage resulting from club hitting, falling on ice, collisions with other players and fences . Despite a carefully designed protection system does not reduce the mobility and flexibility of the upper limbs. Functionality is higher, the more correctly the gloves are selected according to the device and size.

Girdle Design Elements

Key Details:

  • protective plates (located on the outside, structurally vary depending on the model);
  • thumb amplifier (insert that protects against dislocation and shock);
  • protective cuff (responsible for the safety of the wrist joint and lower part of the forearm);
  • palmar part.

The grip of a hockey stick and puck depends on the last detail. The wear life of this element often results in the operational life of the glove itself.

How to determine the right size of hockey gloves?

There are several benchmark options. Most often they rely on:

  • by age;
  • height
  • body weight;
  • the distance between the elbow and the tip of the longest finger.

The first guideline divides products for hockey players into products intended only for children, for juniors and for adults. Children's gloves are oriented for elementary school students (6–9 years old). Junior ones are worn by those who are already 8 years old, but not yet 15. All other models are designed for adults with the appropriate parameters of the hand.

The height and weight of the athlete, in turn, does not always help to correctly determine the size of the cargo. Reason: The human body is sometimes disproportionate. So, in a short man of dense physique, his arms may be longer than the limbs of a taller person.

Important! To trust is not height and weight, but the distance between the tip of the index finger and the beginning of the elbow. Age will reduce the search time for your parameter in the pivot table.

To find out the distance, resort to a measuring tape . When applying it, make sure that it lies straight, without tilting in one direction or another. After taking the measurements, write down the result in centimeters. This length measure is suitable for the size chart used by Russian and some European manufacturers.

size table

To facilitate the search for your size, first pay attention to the age distinction. By age group, it is easy to find the distance connecting the index finger and the edge of the elbow pieces.

Tips - how to choose the size

Recommendations and useful notes:

  1. No need to blindly trust a table. The system that underlies it is often used, but not the only one possible. In order not to miss, it is better to use the metric presented on the website of a particular store or the information provided by the seller of the outlet .
  2. Due to growth spikes, the measurements necessary to purchase children's equipment must be taken every 2 months. Suitable will avoid the compressive load on the bones and joints of a teenage athlete.
  3. When trying on gloves, it makes sense to wear elbow pads . Thus, you can understand whether they are suitable for each other and whether a gap is formed between them.
  4. Although the gap between the elbow pieces and gloves is undesirable, but a snug fit of 2 elements of equipment will not lead to anything good. With such equipment mobility decreases, stiffness of movements appears.
  5. For a shortened pair of gloves, elongated elbow pieces should be chosen.
  6. When trying on, pay attention to whether the fingers touch the walls . With the right size, this does not happen.
  7. It is also worth remembering that any natural glove skin, no matter how well it is dressed, stretches over time . Therefore, never buy a pair of a larger size than you need (this primarily concerns parents trying to save money or athletes who do not like the normal fit of a hand with hags).