How to string shooters on a lacrosse head

Want to be able to seemingly score goals at will? To snipe top right corner of the net? Well, learning how to string up shooters in your head are a vital part of wanting to achieve these goals (no pun intended). Shooting strings affect the flight of the lacrosse ball coming out of the pocket. It helps with accuracy and gives the player total control of the ball, rather than just a feel for it. Different players like their shooting strings strung in different ways. Usually people have two hockey laces as shooting strings, but sometimes people have one. Sometimes people use nylons instead of hockey laces which are much, much thinner, and offer slightly less control, but just enough for an added handle. In this case it's shooting strings, but with these step by step instructions, you could put in nylons too all by yourself.

Step 1: Begin with your standard head in hand just like this. As you can see there are no shooting strings, we will have to add them.

Step 2: From the very top, count down a few rows to establish which row you will be placing your first shooting string. In this case I string mine in the fourth row down. The small holes in the mesh are called "diamonds". With the shooting string, you want to string it through alternating diamonds, as shown in the picture below.

Step 3: You want to next take the slack from either the left or right side (I take the slack from the left) and take the string back through each diamond again, alternating over and under where the previous string was. This way you get a nice braided look.

Step 4: After you are done alternating the other string through each diamond, and have the nice braided look it should look like the picture below. Once you have both ends of the hockey lace, you are ready to tie a knot.

Step 5: Now you tie a knot, just a regular old knot. The tighter you pull the strings when you knot it, the lower the ball will throw coming out of your stick. Naturally, the looser you have the strings when you knot it, the higher the ball will throw coming out of your stick.

Step 6: Now you repeat the process, carefully following steps number 1 through 5, following the EXACT same rules, but two rows of diamonds down. Refer to the picture below.

Step 7: Once again, how tight you pull the strings when you knot it will really have an affect on the way the ball comes out. Especially when there are two rows of hockey lace shooting strings in your head.

Step 8: Make sure the knot is firmly secured so it does not come undone; it should look like the picture below.

Step 9: When all is said and done, your finished product should look quite similar to this. You should be able to notice the nice channel in the stick for the ball to sit and travel. It is truly a thing of beauty.

Be sure to follow these steps for a perfect head with excellent shooters that both throw and look good. Every team needs what's known as a "Stick Doctor". That one kid who knows how to tinker with a stick just enough to work out any kinks. They are a VALUABLE asset to a team, take it from someone who knows. Now you are ready to put in shooters of your own, for the smoothest throwing stick on the squad.