Tag: hockey

chillwhiskey:

chillwhiskey:

chillwhiskey:

…you guys wanna know abt the nerdiest thing i’ve ever done…

ok so i was in physics class my freshman year and my prof was trying to do a fun start to the lecture and she was like “who here knows what the secret to a perfect slap shot is?” and she obviously expected no one to know and someone from like the back of the lecture hall shouted out “swinging the stick fast!” and before she could even respond i blurted out “you make sure your stick hits the ice just behind the puck so your stick torques back and snaps forward just as you’re hitting the puck” and my prof was like “oh. yeah. how do you know that?” and i was too busy burying my face in my book to answer that my high school science fair project was “Taking the Perfect Clapper”

the project was so extensive and i literally made my brothers blow their arms out taking clappers as i sat and clocked them like,,,, i did one trial where put a camera above them and studied the distance between where their sticks hit the ice and the puck and what the perfect distance is and whether a slower swing from a more precise distance is more powerful than a faster swing from a worse distance i also studied stick height vs the “perfect distance”,,, by the end of it my brothers both wanted to die but the next year in bantams my baby brother lead his league in scoring, and like half of them were clappers sooooooo