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hi Jacob unisport web TV and I'm here to
talk about the true Socks today and
joining me is Jim treski who is
president of true socks Jim thanks for
joining me thank you Jacob now could you
tell me what are the true socks uh true
socks are a performance piece of
equipment we don't even call them socks
they're performance equipment that stops
movement in your shoe they make every
boot fit better uh they grip your skin
and they grip the inside of the shoe and
they make it so that your shoe feels
like it's part of your body so when you
change directions you you maximize your
power transfer you're not losing
anything what what actually sets shoe
socks apart from normal football socks
well uh socks inherently are slippery
the material is slippery when you move
around inside your shoe uh it's an
unnatural movement and uh I would go
through uh many pair of shoes trying to
find the right fit and um I realized it
wasn't it wasn't the shoe it's the sock
uh we want to stop the movement cuz it's
the connection point to the shoe uh and
and so that's what we we sought to to
find a solution
for when did you actually start to make
the two sucks and and why what was the
reason well I was a professional player
in the US and I hated movement in my
shoe I absolutely hated it in my quest
to find a solution I tried Hospital
socks which have been around for years
the problem is they only have gripping
material on one side so my feet would
move inside the sock a lot I realize
what's unique about true Sox is that we
just put the technology on the inside
and the outside so it's like the the the
connection between your foot and your
yeah and that's what it is for me I mean
one of the most important pieces of
equipment I would think would be what
connects you to your
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shoes now Jim one of the standout
features of the true socks are the
performance panels the little blue
squares on the socks but why do they
prevent you from slipping well the
material is a fled material uh which
means it's got if you if you looked at
it under a microscope it's got uh real
small uh uh little like hair sticking up
in them and they grip to the pores on
your skin uh and as you uh as it as it
gets wet uh the material actually grips
even better um and that that same uh
flocked material will also grip to
anything that's porous so the inside of
a shoe is is is porous um and um the
materials it they they grip into
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them another thing about the true Sox
that I've noticed uh apart from slipping
is that it prevents blisters from from
from appearing uh which helped me a lot
did you have that in mind when you
decided yeah that wasn't the reason that
we uh we we we sought to develop the the
the product but it's become a great
byproduct you we've have a lot of people
saying hey this has eliminated my
blisters so that's great um and I guess
it makes sense because blisters are
caused from movement what about people
who prefer to play with two socks
whatever it is uh true that you cannot
combine true socks with another sock
because there's a point of slippage but
uh we have a lot of players even at the
highest level in in in in Europe uh
wearing two Thin pair of true socks and
the material does not slip against
itself so it provides a grip um and it
it still gives you that filled out
feeling of having two socks so some
players just prefer that and we have a
good solution for you just wear two Thin
parat
on what is the feedback coming from the
pro when we when we hear from them they
usually say that they just feel more
stable in their shoe they feel more
explosive when they change directions
and um the best testimony is that they
wear them um and they go through the
hassle of wearing them so um we we know
that they like
them who was the first player to wear
the two socks in the Premier League the
first player to wear them was uh Victor
Moses one club that took to him real
quickly was Queens Park Rangers and it
spread through the players there uh and
then it spread we we have uh something
like um 10 clubs in the Premier League
now where players are are wearing them
they generally speaking they spread very
rapidly through the
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teams now uh the two socks have probably
come a long way from from back when you
got the idea so so how different is it
actually from the Prototype yeah well
the prototypes uh the original one
worked really great uh well first off it
was uncomfortable it stopped slipping so
I say it worked really great uh but only
in dry condition so for the first 5 10
minutes it felt fine and then once you
started to perspire it actually became
more slippery than a regular
sock Jim thanks for joining me you Jacob
excellent and for you guys out there I
hope you enjoyed uh hearing a bit more
about the true Soxs and uh if you do
like them or if you actually happen to
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perfect nice and smooth that was good
very good yeah