Minor hockey players required to wear bottom layer to dressing room

[TheIronMaiden]

Originally Posted by Bandwagon Surfer

People go fully nude in minor hockey change room?

Back when I was in minor hockey the dressing rooms were always swarming with parents, coaches, and who knows. Heck, most of the time to door to the room was propped open. There was no privacy in there, and nobody was ever fully naked. Bathroom stalls were for privacy.

When we were in Peewee there were no parents allowed in the room. When we were in Bantom the coaches only joined in the last 5 minutes.

Coincidentally when we were in peewee we started showering after games.

[3rd liner]

As other posters have indicated, this likely won’t be an issue for U13 and under age groups. Most kids don’t smell yet at that age, I don’t think anybody on my 12 year old’s team showers. Parents aren’t allowed in dressing rooms past U11, but pretty sure no kids are getting fully undressed, past underwear anyway. And U11 and under would be the same.
It’s U15 and up, especially if suits and buses are involved, where this could complicate things.

[Wastedyouth]

Maybe get rid of the whole suit issue too. Dumb.

[TheIronMaiden]

I might be totally out of touch, but I think it is healthy for teenagers to see their peers naked. If my only frame of reference for what a normal naked body looked like was pornography, it would probably #### me up for life.

[indes]

What a stupid rule. My son is 7 and sweats like crazy - there is no way he's wearing his hockey base layer home in the car, it would be disgusting.

Were people asking for this? Was this on anyone's radar or is this just some virtue signalling from an organization that got a pretty big black eye right now.

I can't remember what age I started showering at the rink in minor hockey, but by 13 there was a 0% chance of me leaving without having a shower and I highly doubt that's changed among youth today. Nothing says 'inclusion' like excluding everyone.

[GullFoss]

It sounds like you can't even be in your boxers in the dressing room. At a maximum you can change down to your base-layer, so kids have to arrive and leave the dressing room in their jock strap?

That is so weird. Im sitting on a beach in italy right now and topless women and men in banana hammocks are everywhere. Hockey dressing rooms about to be more prudish than European family oriented beaches.

[habernac]

I coached my kid all the way through midget hockey. None of the kids ever showered at the rink. Son did when he got home. If it was a tournament, back at the hotel.

[rhino]

Originally Posted by GullFoss

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-...licy-1.6985217

lmao

So you have to wear your sweaty bottoms to and from the rink. And can't shower after the games? Am I understanding this correctly?

Is this Canada wide or just Halifax?

Will be able to ID teens that play hockey from their acne and backnie. Actually "kinda" gross from a hygiene perspective

No…. They can change in a stall or wear those items under clothing when they arrive or leave. My son always did either when he played, he was uncomfortable changing fully in front of everyone, actually most the boys did.

[RyZ]

Nobody is killing hockey participation in Canada more than Hockey Canada.

[habernac]

Originally Posted by GullFoss

It sounds like you can't even be in your boxers in the dressing room. At a maximum you can change down to your base-layer, so kids have to arrive and leave the dressing room in their jock strap?

That is so weird. Im sitting on a beach in italy right now and topless women and men in banana hammocks are everywhere. Hockey dressing rooms about to be more prudish than European family oriented beaches.

North America has always been uptight about nudity. It’s ridiculous.

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by Wastedyouth

Maybe get rid of the whole suit issue too. Dumb.

Its not an issue though. It is dumb, but not an issue.

[TurdFerguson]

Originally Posted by habernac

I coached my kid all the way through midget hockey. None of the kids ever showered at the rink. Son did when he got home. If it was a tournament, back at the hotel.

As the alternate anecdote, everyone on my sons U13 teams showers after every ice time. Same thing last year.

Very much a case-by-case thing, I think.

[GioforPM]

no one on any of my kids' teams never showered after practices or games. They just smelled a bit and then showered at home.
They weren't in high tiers - maybe there's a difference.

[rhino]

Originally Posted by RyZ

Nobody is killing hockey participation in Canada more than Hockey Canada.

Yea not being able to be full frontal nudity in the dressing room will lower participation

[rhino]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

no one on any of my kids' teams never showered after practices or games. They just smelled a biut and then showered at home.
They weren't in high tiers - maybe there's a difference.

This rule applies up to the U 18 tier… so minors. I bet the people who hate this policy also say kids shouldn’t be at pride parades because of various states of clothing

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by rhino

This rule applies up to the U 18 tier… so minors. I bet the people who hate this policy also say kids shouldn’t be at pride parades because of various states of clothing

This was pre-rule. I'm just saying the rule would have made zero difference to my kids' teams because the kids all showed up with their base layers on anyway (and left the same way).

[fotze2]

This "reaks" of Hockey Canada being called to task on their multiple rape cover ups. They don't give a flying fata about trans.

This is Hockey Canada saying "this is what you guys wanted when you took us to task, this is the result of you holding us accountable barely, see, if you only let us run stuff, its PC culture, if you have a problem take it up with them".

I hated being naked in locker rooms growing up so I went to the stall. But you know what, that was my hang up. To make every other person adjust because I was a puss is gross. I would go to the stall and change.

Never would have we would progress to puritanical archaic practices instead of the opposite direction.

Wonder if rugby Canada goes this direction?

[GullFoss]

Originally Posted by rhino

This rule applies up to the U 18 tier… so minors. I bet the people who hate this policy also say kids shouldn’t be at pride parades because of various states of clothing

I haven't seen a single person hate the policy. I think it's hilarious; like its a really funny joke.

Apparently, kids can't see other kids in their boxer shorts lmao. Jockstrap, no problem. But boxer shorts...then straight to jail. Right away.

Person in boxer shorts vs jock strap:

[TheIronMaiden]

Funny enough, our goalie at beer league is a woman, and we all change in the room together. She choses a spot where she doesn't have to look at the shower, and we try and hide our cocks when changing, but no one cares because we are all there to have fun and play hockey.

[Bonded]

Goes way beyond this but this really reinforces the weird dichotomy between violence being okay and nudity being bad in Canada and the US.