How to Tape a Hockey Stick

The Art in Taping Your Hockey Stick

Hockey is a wonderful sport, and it takes more than just skill to be good at it. Just like anything you do you need to have the right gear for the job. What I am going to be showing you today is a how to on taping your hockey stick. Taping your stick protects your blade from chipping the  paint away and also it makes the stick look nicer.

Step 1-  First of all you need to have tape for your stick, doesn’t matter what color as long as you have enough for the job. Also you will need scissors and wax if you want it.

Step 2-  Get your stick the place the tape at the the heel of the blade, which is the very back part of the blade and start to tape it, make sure you don’t leave gaps in between the tape, also don’t wrinkle the tape either because then the tape job will look messy. Make sure to go a bit beyond the blade at the end of the blade so it will have a nice finish.

Step 3-  Now it’s time to use the scissors. Since you went tape a bit beyond the blade you now cut of the excess tape from the toe or end of the blade.

Step 4-  This step is not really necessary but if you want you can get the wax it can be candle wax or actual stick wax for hockey to wax your blade. (Note that if you use candle wax and it is color other than the color of tape you used it will leave marks on your tape). All you do is take the wax and cover the whole blade,this helps from snow sticking to the blade when you are playing.