GOAL TENDER LEG PAD

摘要

A goaltender leg pad providing profile adjustment, toe attachment and/or toe thickness adjustment. The leg pad can include an adjuster element that configures adjacent pads at a user selected angle or configuration to provide a desired front profile of the leg pad. The leg pad can include an optionally elastic toe attachment strap joined with a foot pad and/or boot, and a redirection element slidably engaging the strap. The strap can secure the foot pad to the user's skate, and generally centrally locate the foot pad over the user's skate when the user transitions to a standing position and/or a crouching position. The leg pad can include a foot pad configured to engage the top of a user's skate. The foot pad can define a cavity within which a secondary pad can be selectively installed or removed to alter the toe thickness of the foot pad and provide desired performance.

主权项

1. A goaltender leg pad comprising:
an upper leg pad adapted to cover at least a user's knee; a lower leg pad joined with the upper leg pad below the upper leg pad, a foot pad joined with the lower leg pad below the lower leg pad, a boot extending from the lower leg pad, the boot adapted to receive at least one of a user's skate, a user's lower leg and a user's shin; a longitudinal axis extending through the upper leg pad, lower leg pad and foot pad, generally separating the leg pad into a lateral side and a medial side, a toe attachment strap joined with the foot pad, the toe attachment strap including a first end, a second end and a central portion extending between the first end and the second end, the toe attachment strap adapted to join with a user's skate, thereby securing the user's skate to the foot pad, a redirection element joined with at least one of the foot pad and the boot on the medial side of the longitudinal axis, the redirection element engaging the central portion of the strap, allowing the central portion to slide freely relative to the redirection element, wherein the strap is constructed from an elastic material so that the central portion stretches and retracts between the redirection element and the second end, and between the redirection element and the first end, wherein the strap generally centrally locates the foot pad over the user's skate when the user transitions to at least one of a standing position and a crouching position.