Gloves or no gloves?

It depends, from my point of view.
Here are some reflections about why you should or shouldn't wear goalie gloves.

Since years have passed by and I have become more vise I might suggest you to wear gloves at least when you are a kid or youngster. There are some cases noticed and one goalie has shared its experience with me and admits, that because of not wearing gloves at young ages, it's sensitivity of finger-tops have been worse. It is in a matter of all shots your skin surface faces. The small nerves and skin receptors, which helps us to feel temperature, pain, texture of material, have been damaged.

In my case, I use gloves during the practice, but sometimes it depends if I use them in games too. Usually I don't. I play with bare hands and taped fingers. This decision of mine is based on two my experiences: Adrenalin and grip.

Grip. It will always be the best grip with no extra layer of cloth- just bare hands, but it also depends if you have been using gloves before all times or not. If you have never played without gloves, I guess you will feel safe and most comfortable by playing with gloves no matter what and opposite.

Adrenalin. In practices I use gloves, because the Adrenalin, which I get in situations in game and in game in general, never comes to same level as in practice. In practice I might feel irritation of shots more than in game. In game I kind of don't care. In game I am more focus just to take that one shot during the 3 periods of 20 minutes, but in practice there comes a lot of them. Maybe that's the explanation?

Distance and duration. It depends how close the shot comes and how hard it comes against you. Take care of your hands, goalie! Take care of your fingers! Players will never understand you, but we (goalies) do. And you have to understand you!

Dislocated knuckle (joints in fingers) is something I am dealing now, just because as a youngster I was shy to say to coach to change distance for players and kind of didn't have understanding about importance of protection for my fingers.
Here is coming a video instructions about how I am dealing and helping myself from practice to practice to stabilize my finger knuckles/joints. I hope it helps!

Remember, these are your fingers! I know you will make the right decision! Be vise. Just in case you haven't been thinking this way- You will need your hands when you are old too.
Take care! 

//Goalie Thinking

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