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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
How did the teams with alternate bumper material feel about their ability to defend (namely "friction pin") other teams?
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Just as it was harder to lock us up, it was definitely harder to friction pin teams. We "tried" to play more of a positional defense on in-bounders and scorers to not let them get to their desired spot...but once they got around, we had a hard time holding.
It didn't effect us too much, since we were usually playing defense while waiting for the ball to advance or get scored, so we were only doing it to try and add time to cycles...not completely shut teams down.
My opinion (as a mostly offensive team) is the slippery bumper could help give that little edge to save a split second to get into position to score quickly. I subjectively feel they are more of a benefit to an offensive team, than a detriment to a defensive team.
If I wanted to build a defensive machine, I would stick with the Cordura. Cordura on Cordura seems to be like velco "hook and loop" on the field.
Just my $0.02