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How Times Have Changed

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Long time hockey fans know that over the past four or five decades, there have been some massive changes when it comes to all the equipment in the game. Perhaps no equipment changes are quite as obvious as the pieces used by goalies; when hockey first began to be televised the goaltenders played with no face protection, hard as that is to believe! Today, of course, all goalies wear masks (or helmets, if you prefer) but even the style of these basic pieces of equipment has changed a lot over the past couple of decades. Let's take a quick look at some of the big changes when it comes to goaltending equipment in ice hockey.

Materials

Strides in manufacturing and newly invented materials have made a huge difference in the types of goaltending equipment that is available. Pads, for example, used to be made just from leather that was stuffed with hair. Pads have always had to be light enough for goalies to maintain their flexibility, yet not so light that a deflection causes a costly rebound. A good balance is found in today's use of synthetic leather and nylon on the outside of goalie pads and cell foams and plastic inside the pads.

Pads aren't the only piece of equipment to undergo some major changes over the years in terms of materials, either. Goalie sticks today are usually reinforced with synthetic materials and fibreglass, while they may be injected with foam in order to lighten the burden on a goalie's arm. Composite sticks, more durable than wood, are becoming more and more prominent among goalies at all levels.

Sizes

If you have followed hockey much since the strike and lockout of 2005, you know that the size of goaltender equipment has been the subject of a lot of debate. There are now official rules about how wide and long a goalie's pads in particular can be, in order to increase the shooting space at the net for players. The idea is to focus on the athleticism of the goalies rather than the equipment advantage.

The Mask!

We started out talking about goalie masks, and it's a good way to end too, because nothing really defines a goalie and her or his equipment like the mask. As mentioned, there was a time when masks were not used at all, but today they are standard. And what an evolution masks have undergone! The original metal with eye holes model was replace in the ?70s and ?80s with a cage and helmet style, but after the ?90s goalies began showing a preference for the full helmet again, incorporating the full mask style. Only a few goalies in the game today still use cage and helmet models.

The game of hockey may stay the same in its essence, but the equipment used by the players undergoes a constant evolution. Nowhere is this more evident than in the dress of the net minders.

How Times Have Changed

This journey is not what you think it is though. You may well think that you are already travelling this path of discovering the heart but unless you are moving in the immediacy of this “you" of you that is already flowing through the eyes of this mindbody that you find yourself flowing through, then you are not involved on this journey at all.

You will still be involved with trying to be who you think you are and that motion is one which bars the door to your already and immediate realization of “you". You will be on the gradual path of notyou-ness, saying “no" to the divine one from flowing through with the consciousness of itself.

Many say that not everyone is ready to be the immediacy of this one that is flowing through your eyes right now. The funny thing is, though, that all that say this are those who are not realizing and being who “you" are – these ones being very much involved in their refusal to leave alone who they think they are.

If you are adamant in the not letting go of who you think you are you are never going to stabilise in the realizing of this “you" of you that is already true of you. Another thing not seen by these ones is that the energetic and spiritual times have changed – humanity is no longer bound to its past spiritual history. The pain and suffering that was humanity’s lot is no more. Humanity is now free to walk in the freedom of the heart and self that it is – if it so wishes.

There is no one on this planet that is bound to the old ways of basically not being able to free up from what was never true of them - anymore. There is no one on this planet that cannot relatively quickly come to the clarity and stabilisation of consciously being this divine one that is already true of you, if you are so desirous – no one.

Those days of not being able to stand free are simply and truly over. The clause, of course, is if you so wish to.

Everything is in place on this planet, for anyone who truly wishes to be completely free of what till now has always been an imprisonment, bondage and blockage to the seeing and being of this “you" of you that is currently flowing through your eyes right now.

This “you" of you is the divine one itself. Your familiarity of being stuck; in misery and pain; trying to make yourself as comfortable as possible from within an uncomfortable position; is the only adversity that you truly have to contend with. This familiarity will have you returning again and again to this unconscious inattention of attempting to be something that is not true of who “you" are – this mindbody that this “you" is simply flowing through.

You however, have the energy and attention – if you so wish – to actually find this “you" of you that is flowing through your eyes and to stop right here as this one. This you now can do, if you so wish – it is entirely up to you and what you are willing to do to make this work for you.

“You" are not who you think you are; “you" are not the mindbody that you are flowing through; “you" are not the mind that informs this mindbody with its rather dubious guidance. This “you" of you is already freely standing from all of this arising stuff and it is flowing through the eyes of this mindbody that you find yourself flowing through.

Now, you may well need to spend a good deal of time in the company of one who is already living this clarity of this “you" of you to get you off of the ground of being stuck in the energetic vibration of the automaticity of trying to be this something that is notyou.

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