David

If you spend more time hitting park features than carving groomers, finding the best snowboard bindings for freestyle in matters more than any other piece of gear on your setup. I have been testing freestyle bindings for over a decade now, and the difference between a binding that fights you on rails and one that … Read more

I bought my first lacrosse stick the summer before eighth grade, and the thing was a brick. Heavy alloy shaft, warped head, mesh pocket that had no business being on a beginner stick. I spent three months fighting the equipment instead of learning the game. That experience is why I built this guide. After testing … Read more

Picking the best field hockey sticks for your level used to mean driving to a specialty shop and trusting a single salesperson. I know because I have been on the receiving end of that advice more than once, and half of what I was told turned out to be brand loyalty, not fact. So our … Read more

Training wrestling on a basement concrete floor is how injuries happen. We learned that the hard way when a takedown drill put one of our test wrestlers straight onto tile with no padding, and the bruise lasted six weeks. That incident kicked off this review of the best wrestling mats for home use. Home wrestling … Read more

If you have ever thrown a clean cross at sparring speed and felt a jolt shoot through your knuckles, you already know why the right pair of gloves matters. After three months of rotating through eight different pairs of the best MMA gloves for sparring at our training facility, our team landed on clear winners … Read more

When I first mounted an EOTECH on my AR-15 back in 2019, I expected a typical red dot experience. What I got instead was a reticle that stayed crisp through recoil, a sight picture that worked even with the front lens partially obscured, and a target acquisition speed that fundamentally changed how I run my … Read more

I have been reloading for close to fifteen years now, and the press I trust on my bench is something I think about every single range day. When our team started talking about putting together this guide to the best reloading presses for ammo, I went into my garage and looked at the pile of … Read more

If you have ever tried to hold a rifle steady for a long shot without support, you already know why shooters chase the best rifle bipods for shooting. I spent the last three months rotating 10 bipods through my Christensen Arms Ridgeline in 6.5 Creedmoor, my AR-10, and a few hunting rifles. I logged group … Read more

Best Skid Plates for Jeeps matters the first time a rock catches your oil pan on a trail you swore was easy. I have crawled enough trails in my own JK to know the moment a stock skid gives up, and that is the moment you start pricing out armor. Our team spent the last … Read more

Pulling a 7,000 lb camper through the Rockies taught me something the hard way: not every truck comes ready to tow, and a 7-pin trailer plug alone is not a brake controller. After a long downgrade left my tow vehicle’s brakes smelling like burnt toast, I installed my first proportional brake controller that same weekend … Read more