I needed a new shaft as the shorty i was using needed to go back to the guy i was borrowing it from, fortantly for me and not so much for my teammate he managed to break his D pole howister quite close to the head end of the stick, so with a bit of cutting and glueing and taping, i've now got probably the only Howister Goalie shaft in the world... The bottem end of the howister where the end butt was is now where the head attaches, i've cut off the butt and glued/taped it on to the fat shaft where i had cut it before the break. I'll measure it up also (something i haven't done).
I feels nice to be special...
I'll throw up some pics later tonight when i get home.
The nice fat shaft means i'm not having any problems with gipping the shaft, and i'm let to have the shaft rotate in my hands when taking a shot on the edge of the netting/head - which i got with the shorty.
The shaft is also very very light, so much so that the head weight has unbalance the weighting of the stick (its top heavy - just takes a bit to get use to) i'm not sure of the head i'm using as it was given to me by anouther goalie, but no doubt you can tell me from the pics i'll post up.
The extra length over the shorty has helped me alot with saves and also intercepts from X (getting about 2-3 a game now).
Overall i'm very very happy with it.