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.:Care Instructions for your Lacrosse Equipment:.

Caring for Your Head

A head is a very important piece of equipment, maybe even the singular most important thing you need to play this sport we all know and love. Many people care for their head better than themselves. They pamper it constantly, toiling with it, and then take it out on a field and use it as a weapon for swinging at others, than take it home and pamper it. An odd cycle, to say the least. A good way to keep a head visibly clean is to soak it in soap water and then wash it to remove dirt. This will keep dirt and grass stains off. But, if you use a traditional pocket, or aren't comfortable putting mesh in water, just wash it thouroughly. To minimize scoop scratches (attained from scooping against a hard surface, i.e. concrete), simply try not to scoop on concrete. An idea I've seen tried is wrap the scoop in electrical tape, this way the stick will glide across the concrete as it would on grass. But, this might alter the throwing of the stick, so you may want to just run a few pieces of tape along the bottom side of the scoop across the face of the stick, so when you scoop the tape touches the ground and not the plastic.

Gloves

Another highly used and abused piece of equipment, the glove. Inevitably, you will get dirt and mud on your gloves, causing the palms to smell and turn brown (this is assuming your gloves use leather or synthetic leather of some sort as a palm and not mesh). To counter this, place a sponge inside your glove, and blast away at it with a garden hose. Let it air dry (takes a while) or you could try and put it in a dryer (i don't know what will happen to it don't blame me if it melts i've never tried it, a low heat setting for only a couple of minutes might work) or blow dry it with a hair dryer (the best way).

Arm pads and Shoulder pads

Not really a big problem, they do start to smell is used extensively. You could wash them, but its not that big a deal to leave them alone.

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