I wasn’t really thinking of posting a blog about the lower of the three Ritual ranges. The reason being that I felt it wouldn’t be a fair review given I’m used to top end sticks and to compare 95% carbon sticks to 45% would result in inaccurate views. However a stroke of good fortune meant that I was forced to try the lower ranges and the results were incredibly surprising. …

The 2016 Ritual Specialist Origin 95 completely blew me away. The first chance I had to use it was at the first of my Stickwise summer camps at Reeds back in August. I’ve always preferred the Specialist out of all the Ritual ranges. Partly because as a drag flicker I love the bow, but more so as I believe it has the most power of the ranges. I used the …

So where to begin, I’ve been using Ritual almost since their inception. Three years ago my sponsors, Barrington sports sent me one stick from each of the four new ranges. I arrived at the pitch, plucked out whatever stick happened to grab my hands attention, which by pure chance was the specialist 1. The first thing I did was have a quick wobble and was impressed with the weighting and …