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Lifetime
Hockey Schools
What to Bring
The following list are our suggestions for equipment and other items you
may find useful to bring when you attend a Lifetime Hockey
School:
- Hockey
equipment including a game stick and a dry land stick (white
tape.) You need full gear and a helmet with at least a half shield.
- In-line
skates (if you stay at a hotel downtown you can skate to the rink)
- Lots
of T-shirts and underwear (lots of sweating)
- Lots
of socks (same)
- Flip
flops (lots of showers at the rink)
- Gym
shorts (dry land)
- Sweats
(to wear around the rink)
- Hockey
hats (cover our hockey hair)
- Duffel
(besides your hockey bag to carry around extra stuff)
- Personal
items (towels, shampoo, deodorant, soap et cetera)
- Medicinal
(ace bandage, icy hot, Ibuprofen/aspirin, plastic bags for ice)
- Light
jacket (you are in Minnesota and in an ice arena)
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Sunglasses,
cell phone (sunny here)
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Camera
(great pictures to be taken in the Twin Cities during the summer)
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Swim
trunks (for all that time in the hot tub at the hotel)
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Notebook (for taking down all the information from the chalk talks)
Flying with Hockey Equipment
Traveling
on the airlines with hockey equipment can be a little tricky but is very
doable. Generally, airlines allow each passenger two checked bags, one
carry-on bag and one personal item. They also have guidelines as to how
large the bags can be and how much they can weigh. If you exceed their
limits, they reserve the right to charge you additional fees to
transport your bags. Many airlines have some exceptions in place when
it comes to transporting sporting equipment. Your best bet is to go to
the airline's website and read their fine print on baggage allowances.
Northwest Airlines for example limits your first checked bag to 50
pounds. You would be surprised how much 50 pounds is. All of your
equipment including shoulder pads and skates will weigh-in between 30
and 35 pounds.
Carefully weigh and measure your bags beforehand so you know if you need
to be prepared to pay extra. To protect your equipment and to make more
space in your bag, stuff your shin pads into each leg of your hockey
pants and then put in your gloves down the legs from the top and put
your elbow pads on top of your shin pads. Stuff hockey socks into your
helmet and put your helmet into the waist area of your hockey pants.
Now you have a good base to stuff around with your skates, tape and
water bottle (you can leave your water bottle at home, Lifetime Hockey
provides one for you to take home with you). You can stuff more of your
clothing into a plastic bag and place it into your hockey bag. Remember
that you can’t take fluids on the airplane anymore so stuff all of your
toiletries and cosmetics (it’s hockey camp, just bring shampoo and
deodorant and tooth paste) into your hockey bag inside a zip lock type
bag.
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Hockey Sticks.
It is also a good idea to wrap your sticks with tape so that they stay
together and tape your identification information to your sticks.
Purchase a stick bag if you do not own one. They are inexpensive. The
Hockey Giant sells them for under $15. Don't be surprised if your air
carrier asks you to sign a waiver, that they will not be responsible if
anything happens to your hockey sticks. If you are concerned, you may
want to wrap them in bubble wrap prior to putting them in your stick bag
or take a hockey sock and wrap it around the blades to protect them.
All your baggage, especially your checked bags, should be adequately
labeled with your name, address and phone number. The Transportation
Security Administration (“TSA”), who is responsible for checking all
bags and passengers, has the right to inspect the contents of any bags.
They prefer that you do not lock your bags. If you are overly concerned
about your $300 pair of skates or $200 hockey stick, there are locks
available that are TSA approved. This means that they can open the
locks without having to cut them off. Most travel stores sell them.
The TSA also dictates what you can and cannot carry in your checked and
carry-on baggage. Nothing is worse than checking in for your flight,
and then in security, finding out that you can't carry your ice skates
onto the plane (which currently, can only be transported in your
checked baggage). Like sticks, they are considered a dangerous
weapon.
It is highly recommended that you consult the TSA website prior to
travel for up to date baggage restrictions and recommendations. Please
note that as air travel is gotten more expensive (darn fuel costs) and
as a result the airlines are starting to charge for a second bag (for
example beginning May 7, 2008 Northwest Airlines is charging $25 for a
second checked bag). The question is whether your hockey sticks count
as a second bag under the new rules. Check with the airline.
Recently we flew with hockey equipment. Our hockey bag (with extra
wicking t-shirts stuffed in it and an extra pair of shoes) with all of
our equipment weighed in at 33 pounds. The hockey bag and our stick bag
were checked without any extra charges. We carried on a duffle bag with
the rest of our clothes together with a briefcase, which had a notebook,
hockey books and Cliff bars (you are allowed one carry-on that you can
stuff under your seat or overhead and one purse or briefcase). No extra
charges were assessed.
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