Guides

How to tape a hockey stick blade and knob, step by step, plus what color tape goes on a colored stick. Heel to toe or toe to heel is your call.

Hockey sticks are black because carbon fiber is black and the category never moved on. What black does on the ice, what color changes, and why ours aren’t.

No fiberglass, no wood core, no foam. What 100% carbon fiber on a hockey stick label actually covers, what it leaves out, and the specs that tell you more.

Three things ship with a Maila stick: the stick, a velvet bag and a regulation puck. What’s in the box, what isn’t, and what to check the day it lands.

A hockey stick as a gift: size, hand and color. Handedness is the one you can’t guess for someone else. Prices, timing and the 30-day return clock.

Nobody can give you an honest hours or games number. What our warranty covers, what fails first on a composite stick, and what actually shortens it.

Pull last season’s stick out of the bag: what to re-tape, what to check, and why the honest answer is usually that the stick is fine.

Yes, paint sticks to a composite shaft. What a paint job costs you in weight, grip and warranty cover, and the cheaper way to get the color you wanted.

One color leads, the rest goes quiet. How a colored hockey stick works with your gloves, helmet, tape and team kit, plus the eight colors we build by size.

You can’t feel flex through a screen. How to pick one anyway: the weight rule, your shot, the number printed on your old shaft, and what cutting changes.