Rob Blake

So I had back, and I had back-to-back surgeries.

Two on one, one on the other.

So within about four years stretch, I had three surgeries on my shoulders.

So I couldn't really hip with my shoulders.

That's kind of how I started turning around.

And, you know, whatever from that, that was kind of the evolution of that whole process.

Well, like the hip check type of thing?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And it was all due to shoulder surgeries and they were dislocated shoulders.

So what, what they would do in the old days, they put you in that little harness or whatever, you finish the season, but it would come in and out and everything.

So it just, you know, I got used to it, but I, but it wasn't an effective way to hit anymore.

Yeah, it wasn't, but it wasn't low hip checks.

It was, but somehow I, it would just the form I'd get almost turned around backwards.

But what I think it did is it surprised forwards too.

I don't think they were, you know, they see somebody coming kind of backwards.

They're like, oh, it's not going to get the hit.

But yeah, Cronwell took it to a whole

extreme after that i mean he he used to catch these guys coming it was all the timing right where they're looking back for the past and he'd he'd already be skating backwards at him and i think that era too so we had a lot of hooking and holding before the the rules came in and changed that the neutral zone was much slower so you could catch guys you could catch them off guard you know the other your teammate be holding them up a little bit and you can come from the other side did you find that you had to start fighting more because you were delivering these big hits yeah i learned early i i