Sports are expensive. Getting that out of the way up front. There will be a many of episodes focused on the expected and unexpected costs of playing youth sports and one of those topics is: Equipment.

So today - I am going to walk through what to watch out for when looking for equipment, where you do not want to sacrifice performance for budgeting, where you can sacrifice performance for budgeting, how to max out the life time of equipment and lastly - why equipment eventually will matter in competition.