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[shiftythrifting]

Would it be possible to get the BAD GENES design on the pet hoodies?

You got it! Including the size chart too in case you need it.

[csykora]

Gown req: Elvis Merzlikins!

Elvis Merzļikins

The Twiggy of goalies.

Goalie gowns gotta be big, this one’s gotta be blue, I’m feeling the ‘60s. 

I like this ‘64 Balenciaga, which is basically a big apron made out of stiff and shiny silk gazar cut on the bias so it could just about stand up on its own but clings and swings a little, with a big bow at the back.

My case for that back:

[csykora]

Howdy. I like goalies in general, as a concept, but don't know much about many of them. I'd like to hear about a favored goalie of yours.

I think Tretiak is just about the pure concept of a goalie. 

Honestly, I have trouble tracking NHL goalies sometimes. Color commentators will say it was a great save, sure sure, I need the replay to process a bit more than a white vinyl blur. But I go back to watching Tretiak and the fanning kicks and diving sweeps and angles are all there clean and clear. Everything he does I think, “oh I’ve seen that--and that--well of course he was going to do that there,” as if I’ve already watched the over and over. Partly it’s the old slim pads and jersey that make his movements easier to track, but it’s also that you really have seen all those moves, because most everyone learned them from him.

I recommend watching all of this, but especially about 18 minutes in, when Tretiak and a bunch of school kids teach Wayne Gretzky to do somersaults on ice, which he rehearsed so he could make himself fall--a very hard thing to make your mind allow your to body do!--and roll back up. (And then he tackles and pins Gretzky for possession of a beach ball, which is also very good.) 

At 22:50 Tretiak holds Gretzky’s hands and tries to make him do cossack squats, a move he personally adapted from traditional dance and turned into a smooth way to transition in and out of the butterfly. Balancing in a deep crouch on one leg with the other out stretched out to the side, you snap yourself up purely with the strength of one thigh and kick to the other side. ‘Cossack squats’ by that name and everything are in my general weightlifting curriculum today because of this guy, because of how they allowed this movement that the world then became fascinated by. Wayne protests at first because they’re hard as hell, but after practice you can see them perform the same movement to music as they dance, too, at the end. Watching Tretiak in net there might as well be a driving beat playing all the time. Goalies are dancers and I think that’s very neat of them

[shiftythrifting]

Hi there! Are you able to get the HAT hat available as a beanie/knit cap or is that not a style teespring makes?

Just added! We can do beanies! These are embroidered like the other hats, too.

https://teespring.com/hat-beanie