How Grays Hockey Sticks Evolved Through The Years?
Grays hockey sticks have been around for quite a while, for a few decades in fact, and is a well known family enterprise that has remained with the family that started the business for five generations now. The company known as Grays International actually manufactures more than just hockey sticks and had in fact started with the manufacture of rackets for tennis in 1855.
The Grays hockey line got into full swing in the early 1940s and from then on, with the help of research and development, better and more innovative hockey sticks were produced by the company. In fact, the company was one of the few manufacturers of hockey sticks to use and introduce a line of hockey sticks made of composite materials, something that a lot of other hockey stick manufacturers were kind of wary to do. The innovations that were used by the company included the introduction of their famous Mulbery Indian heads in the 1960s and the colored toweling grips. The same decade also saw the introduction of the now-famous orange flash which is made for superior on pitch visibility.
In the 70s, the company introduced fiberglass reinforced sticks. The 1980s saw the development of what is to be used in the production of such heads as the hook, midi and maxi and this is the laminated head. Also introduced in the same decade were the hardwood and reinforced handles for their sticks. These gave the hockey sticks produced with such handles more powerful and a lot stiffer than others. The following decades, namely the 1990s and the start of the new millennium, saw ground breaking technology being utilized to make stronger and better Grays hockey sticks. This includes the latest GX series that is said to be the most extensive and most specialist type hockey sticks manufactured by the company to date.
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