Partnership Overview
Hackees describes its product as padded lacrosse sticks for players of all ages and skill levels to enjoy offensive and defensive dynamics in fun, creative, and competitive ways.
Forge partnerships are selected to support the complete athlete: training, preparation, confidence, standards, and real-world development.
Why Play Still Matters
The best development environments do not remove joy from the game. They use joy to create more reps, more creativity, and more confidence. Young athletes need structure, but they also need room to play.
Forge x Hackees fits perfectly into that belief. Hackees creates a lower-friction way for athletes to experience the offensive and defensive dynamics of lacrosse in fun, creative, competitive formats.
That matters for youth development because confidence often starts before formal instruction. A player who loves the game is more likely to pick up the stick, compete in the yard, bring energy to practice, and stay engaged long enough to build real skill.
How Hackees Fits Future Ballers and Youth Development
Forge’s youth development approach is built around fundamentals before over-specialization. Young players need movement, coordination, stick comfort, spacing, ground balls, simple dodging, simple defending, and competitive confidence.
Hackees can support that pathway by making lacrosse feel more accessible and playful. It gives athletes a way to compete without turning every touch into a formal practice environment.
The result is exactly what youth lacrosse needs more of: kids moving, competing, laughing, dodging, defending, communicating, and learning the rhythm of the game.
From Backyard Play to Better Athletes
Some of the best athletes are built through unstructured competition. Backyard games teach creativity, problem-solving, toughness, and improvisation. Players learn how to find space, protect the ball, react to pressure, and compete without waiting for a coach to script every rep.
Forge will always teach fundamentals, but it will also protect the value of play. Hackees gives the ecosystem another way to keep athletes connected to the game outside traditional training.
That is premium youth development: serious standards without killing the joy that makes athletes want to come back.
The Forge Takeaway
Forge x Hackees is about growing the game the right way. More touches. More confidence. More movement. More creativity.
For young players, that combination can become the spark that turns interest into commitment.
Brand descriptions are based on publicly available brand positioning and product information reviewed at the time this site package was prepared. Forge does not make medical, treatment, injury-prevention, or guaranteed performance claims through these partnership articles.