The ball sits in the center of the pocket in the center of the head, creating perfect balance and optimum versatility. The pocket feels deep, yet adjusts easily to release the ball lightning quick. Great for all levels and positions.

This pocket was first marketed in 1987, patented soon thereafter, and has endured with only minor tweaks and changes. This pocket magnifies the things that I first hated and liked about the pockets that came in the first sticks I ever owned. I hated the ball rolling around in the pocket, and I hated the sidewalls sliding around. I hated this for two reasons: (1) they wore out in about two weeks of sliding through the holes on the head, and (2) loose sidewalls confused the adjustment issue. I wanted individually adjustable shooting strings so the pocket would have the ultimate fine tuning capabilities. I loved the feel of a stick when you got the leathers in the pocket "just so."

I wanted to track and lift the ball as it rolled up the pocket so that the ball would always come out the same, and you would never have to look at your pocket after a play, bewildered by what had just happened on that last pass or whatever. I wanted the pocket itself to rock, not just the ball. I felt and still feel that good cradling and a Rock-it Pocket will sort of hide the ball in the pocket without making it illegal.

When I first started watching the game of lacrosse, I noticed good players who would run down the field cradling their stick, thinking they had the ball, not realizing that the ball had been dislodged from the pocket and was about 15 yards back. I vowed that this would never happen to me, that I would be the first to know when the ball was out of my stick, not the last.