What’s So Special
about a Goalie Jock?
While a regular cup and supporter is basically a jock strap with a pocket for the cup instead of a pouch, a goalie jock is a well-padded jock constructed of foam, nylon, plastic, and Velcro.

The Best way to wear
a Goalie Jock
The basic principle is to keep your balls snugly held to your body so that the cup can completely cover them and transmit any impact directly to your pubic bone. Eliminate anything thick between the cup and your balls; padding inside the cup is stupid. So, based on personal experience, here’s what I recommend…

If you like hockey stockings:

1. Start with an ordinary jock strap. This will hold your balls snugly in place.
2. Put a contoured cup in a pair of hockey tights like the WSI Hockey Joc and put that on. This will hold the cup firmly in place, and provide a convenient way to hold up your stockings.
3. Put on your goalie jock over that.

1. Put a contoured cup in an ordinary cup supporter. Put that on.
2. Put on your sweat pants.
3. Put on your goalie jock.

The best combination I’ve found is a Bike cup in a Hockey Joc and a Banana Cup in the goalie jock. The Bike cup fits snugly inside the Banana Cup. The Hespeler cup would work inside a Bauer Sport Cup.

The Ideal Goalie Jock
One of my favorite goalie jocks is the Heaton 4000. It’s well padded and quite firm. A firm jock—one with a large stiff hunk of plastic in it—will do a much better job of distributing the force of the impact than a floppy one. Its narrow belly pad lets me move without chafing, and it’s wide enough to cover my hips when I’m in my stance. My chest pad covers the rest of my belly.

Next best would be the older Heaton Pro 90Z, Easton, and Vic. The Brians Tarzan and Stitches seemed a bit floppy; they come with a Banana cup and comes in some cool designs, but I think it’s overpriced. The Miller jock is available in many color combinations, but it comes with a less comfortable Olympia cup. If you have a Banana cup, use it instead of the Olympia. The Bauer Reactor goalie jock comes with the wider Bauer cup, which is nice and deep. The Koho Ultimate is the most protective of any goalie jock, but the guy who designed it apparently points down and thinks everyone should. I prefer to point up so I’m never really comfortable wearing the Koho. If you point down and like a lot of protection, then you should consider the Koho.

I do not like the older Itech Jock Goalie. By itself it does not provide enough support, so you must also wear a jock strap. The cup is simply not deep or contoured enough, so it is inadequate at protecting you from the puck. The design does not do a good job of transferring impact to the pubic bone. The extra padding around the hips and inside thighs is nice, but it is not enough to make up for its other deficiencies. You could wear it with a SafeTGard or new Bike cup in its own supporter, but I do not recommend it.

The ideal goalie jock would have these features:

• integrated athletic supporter with cup pocket contoured to hold a Bike or Banana cup (or any cup of the goalie’s choice)
• integrated compression shorts
• hip and inner-thigh padding as on the Itech Jock Goalie and baseball sliding shorts
• hooky Velcro tabs to hold up socks (and fuzzy Velcro flaps to cover them when they’re not being used)
• choice of 3" and 6" waistband
• padding and another hard cup over the cup pocket
• little side flaps like those of the Koho Ultimate, but perhaps longer vertically
• a big contoured front pad like the Koho Ultimate that distributes the impact of a puck to the thighs and hips as well as the pubic bone

Do you have any additional suggestions for the ultimate goalie jock? Let me know.

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