LaxCon 2019 Recap Featuring Nick Diegel, EastCoastDyes, StringKing and Bill O'Brien

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4.8 • 541 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The lacrosse world all came together this past weekend in the city of Philadelphia for LaxCon 2019. While we were there, we stopped to talk to Nick Diegel after he set a world record for the fastest shot [2:48-7:20]. After that, Greg from ECD talked to us about how much the lax equipment industry has taken off and what that ride has been like. [7:34-12:06]. From there we were joined by Sam from StringKing who talked to us about how they got to where they are and what they have planned next. [12:30-20:46]. And then finally we were lucky enough to be joined by Bill O'Brien, Thrilla Nation, to talk about what he's been up to these days. [21:16-27:51].

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0:00.0	I used to be a rolling stone, you know, If I cause a right, I'd leave to find an answer on the road.
0:28.6	What is up, Rose? Anybody care to lax?
0:31.6	Welcome back to the creistai presented by Barstool Sports.
0:34.6	I'm Jordy from Barstall, and today we got a little bit of a different episode
0:38.7	set up here for everybody. So this past weekend was Laxcon 2019 in the city of Brotherly Love. That is
0:47.0	right. The city of Philadelphia was the mecca for the lacrosse world this past weekend. So,
0:53.2	I mean, pretty much everybody in the lacrosse community was out there.
0:57.1	I mean, you had all the biggest names in professional lacrosse, both men's and women's.
1:02.1	You had some absolute legends of the college game. You know, you had all the media members.
1:08.0	You had Nick Deagle who set the world record for the fastest shot ever
1:13.2	recorded in the history of planet goddamn Earth at 123.1 miles an hour like a beast.
1:22.7	And then you had all the equipment manufacturers, all the people out there, all the stringers, all the people
1:28.8	who make the balls.
1:30.3	You had headstrong.
1:31.9	You had everybody in the lacrosse world in Philly this past weekend.
1:36.8	It was a great weekend.
1:38.2	If you couldn't make it out here, you know, you missed out on a great one.
1:41.9	But, you know, we're here today to kind of recap some of the sights and sounds from Laxcon 2019.
1:48.7	So, you know, I got just a few interviews banged out while I was there.
1:53.3	Figured I'd throw them all in here for a nice little recap episode for everyone there who, you know,
2:00.0	either couldn't make it to Philly this weekend or just
2:02.3	wants to, you know, kind of relive what went down this past weekend. So coming up on today's
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