[Music] Hi guys Ian from the Football Boots
team and in today's video we're going through a whole bunch of tips
tricks & hacks for your football. Things that you can test out & try we're
going to test them out for you. We're going to let you know how good they are
and whether you should give them a go or not and we're going to break things down
with all these different ones and I'll give you a rating on each of them now
the first one we're looking at are these... These are covers that you can put over
your boots and the idea with these is it means that you can get in the car
without getting mud everywhere or you can walk on concrete without damaging
the sole of your boots they are boot covers and they're just this silicone
material these ones are called Cleat Skins and
the plastic just fits around your boots obviously it's going to keep your car
clean or your mum and Dad's car clean it's going to keep them very happy and
overall a pretty good hack although they're a little bit hard to find
nowadays. Now the next hack we're going to look at is this and as you can see
smash goes to ice but actually we're looking at the Shin Pads here, these are
personalised shin pads they do have this impact absorption technology they're
nice and soft they move around it's not like your hard carbon fiber shin pads
nice and soft give you great protection personalisable with your own photos all
that kind of stuff on there and they also come with these little kind
of velcros that stop them sliding around in your sock.
They are fantastic if you want to use the code BOOTS20 you can get
yourself a pair for 20% off the link is in the bio
and the description and in the top right hand corner as well but overall a great
Shin pad to protect your feet and also with your own personalisation and photos
Really good all right we're going to move on to these grip socks but they're
not any ordinary grip socks these are special grip socks they've got
asymmetric pads on them and these are a patented design they're even better
than the Silicon ones that you see on many socks and they've got these little
dots in there as well they're optimally positioned you've got 96 on
the inside 96 on the outside and that asymmetric positioning means it covers
your foot in all of the really important places they give you some fantastic grip
in your boots they feel really comfortable and if you want to get a
good deal of these then again hit the link in the description or the link on
the screen to get yourself the Wefoot socks there are some great deals
available on these and here you can just see those little kind of
textures to the pads and it means that the wet feet or
sweaty feet they're still going to work really well so give them a go all right
Give this a go as well if you are troubled by getting all those black
marks off your boots from playing on artificial pitches now best off to do it
kind of regularly stay on top of it rather than trying to get rid of a whole
bunch when they get really bad but just a simple eraser is all you need to get
rid of some of those troublesome black marks from playing on artificial
pitches, it does an okay job as I say you've got to stay on top of it though
rather than having a white boot go all black Now if you want to add a little bit of
customisation personalisation to your boots then this fifth hack is for you.
You can get boots with ID on them when you order them but if you don't you can
go ahead and you can put your own personalisation, just by rubbing on these
kind of transfers using a pencil you can also do Emojis and letters and stuff
it is a little bit tricky to get it on and lined up and a little bit fiddly
so that's why it's not a great hack but it does work and can work well for you.
So this next one we're looking at is grip laces these ones in particular are
the laceXpro and it adds a silicone coating to
your laces now first thing you can replace your laces so if your laces have
got broken easy switch with your laces but also it means that they're going to
help them from coming undone but also give you a little bit of
grip on the ball in that lacing area so if you're controlling the ball in and
around your laces striking around the laces then you can switch them out it's
a pretty good hack a nice little switch up if you want to try something with
your laces. Now if you don't have laces or you're having trouble getting your
boots on then this is a very simple hack one of my favourite hacks but definitely
worth having a go it's very cheap to get yourself a hold of a shoehorn and it
makes it so much easier to get your boots on especially if you're wearing
grip socks and it is quite a tight fit with your boots then it's very easy kids
can put the boots on themselves it's definitely a super simple boot
hack but one of my favourites the shoehorn just makes it so much easier
for anybody laces or laceless to get their boots on their feet.
Right the next hack we're looking at are these Hot Shot gels
two things; one they can protect the top of your foot and two they can add a bit
of a cleaner strike a bit of a more powerful strike
to your foot, so you can either put it under the laces
on top of the kind of sock or the tongue area should I say of the boot or
you can put it underneath I prefer it kind of in the middle there stops it
from sliding around moving easier to get them on it is a bit bulky though but if
you've got bruises on the top of your feet and you want to keep playing or
kids want a bit of more protection on the top of their foot that it is a good
option to try. All right another good option to try is this, this is the Boot
Buddy you may recognise it from being on the Dragon's Den in the UK and it is
used for cleaning your boots. Now you can do it at the pitch you can do it when
you get home you can do it anywhere you want. We're cleaning it the sink here but
the idea is you just fill the reservoir of the Boot Buddy with water
and then you can clean your boots anywhere so you can clean them before
you get in the car if you want to it doesn't have to be just your boots you
can clean anything with these as well the bristles are pretty good for
cleaning the sole of your boot and also giving a bit of a wipe down around the
top of the boot they're a little bit harsh though you wouldn't want to do it
on those softer materials all. Right the next hack we're looking at is
a really good one for kids who have trouble with the laces coming undone so
if you haven't gone with the grip laces then you could go with this is the grip
7 lace covers and you slide it over the top of the boot and the idea being
is when they're playing the laces aren't going to come undone so if that's a
problem for your kids definitely look to do that or you can also get that
slightly cleaner striking area as well by putting it on. One thing they do feel
a little bit tight on foot for some players so some players may not
appreciate that and that's why we're just giving that an okay hack. Right the
next hack we're looking at is all about getting your brand new boots so if
you've got your brand new boots they need a bit of a break-in well this is
your Cristiano Ronaldo hack it is the hot water trick now this isn't going to
damage your boots it's not warm enough to damage the glue or anything like that
but it will allow your boots to soften up nicely speed up that process of
breaking in your boots so if you have got synthetic boots they do need to
speed it up a little bit definitely try this and give it a go please don't do it with
leather boots, leather do not like that much water and you don't want to be soaking
your leather boots but synthetic boots absolutely a nice hack to be able to
break in your boots. Okay 12th hack we've got and this one will really speed
things up if you've got your muddy boots you want to clean them off just turn the
hose on them and it will blast the water off whether it's dry or wet
it should work even better when the mud is still wet but if it is dry it
might just take a little bit longer obviously the issue could be that your
boots get a bit soaked try and be careful about how you spray them they
will come up nice and clean but I'll give you another tip later for drying
them out in the video. Alright this hack is all about being able to play on firm
ground soft ground artificial pitches with one pair of boots so you don't have
to buy three pairs of boots what you do buy is the Adidas TPU studs they're
plastic studs that you can take out the metal ones and put these plastic ones in
their place different versions you can get yellow ones translucent ones black
ones and these are switched out for those metal ones so you can then go
ahead and play on artificial pitches or you can also play play on firm hard
grass pitches and then obviously when it gets to Winter the pictures get muddy
and soft you take out the plastic ones and you put in the metal and away you go.
All right the next tip is Dubbin and this product is fantastic for looking
after your leather boots so if you've got leather boots it does a few things
one is going to protect the leather two it's going to soften
the leather and three it's going to stop water from getting in there but also it
adds a lovely shine to the boots it makes them look fantastic that black
leather just pops so nicely please look after your leather boots. All right the
next hack here as you can see we're lighting the candle but it's actually
not about burning the candle this time just showing you that it is candle wax
that we're going to be using and we're going to apply the candle wax to
the knit area of your football boots so whether it
be the collar whether it be that kind of tongue area as you can see it goes on
white but then when you apply heat to it using
a hair dryer or something like that it'll melt it down but it will then give
you this waterproof coating to your knit layer so as you can see when we pour
water over there the water isn't absorbed into the knit instead it washes
off and over so this is fantastic if you're playing football in wet pitches
and you're having trouble with the water soaking in as you can see there on this
one it is no longer soaking in it is just pouring off and over. Okay another
little quick and tip to try is the Boot Claw now so super cheap a great idea
doesn't work so well as you can see when the boots are really kind of wet mud but
if it gets a bit drier a bit harder it's so easy just to then scrape off all the
extra mud or obviously you can kind of bang the boots together as well to try
and get off the excess and the cool thing is this as well is there's a stud
key on the other end so you can use that to change your studs two in one.
Right the next thing we're looking at is the Nike adaptive sorry Nike anti-clog
boots so they've got this adaptive polymer layer on the bottom and it means
that when you're playing on really poor quality pictures really muddy pitches
then the mud isn't going to stick to your boots it repels the water which
repels the mud not so good for pro pitches the quality of those pitches
obviously is much better. Now this is what I talked about, drying out your boots
all you do is stuff them with some newspaper leave them overnight and then
take out the newspaper in the morning it will have drawn out any kind of moisture
that's in the boots and the newspaper itself will probably be a bit wet but
the boots themselves will be dry. Another tip for goalkeepers Glove Glue
so you don't want to do this with brand new gloves you don't want to do that but
when your gloves get a bit older you can spray it on to make them a little bit
more sticky give you that little bit more grip when you're trying to catch
the ball & for ball handling, so you spray it on you can do it before the game you
can do it at half time and you're just a bit of rub it in you better feel it on
the gloves and it just gives you that nice extra little bit of stickiness a
great tip for those older goalkeeper gloves.
All right couple more hacks to show you so stay tuned I want you to tell me what
your favourites are as well now those muddy boots I talked about if you get
mud on the knit area one of the best things to do is just allow it to dry out
if you let it dry out then you can use a vacuum to get all of the mud off if you
get it wet then it gets really hard to get it out of the knit area but it's
very easy to vacuum off another good tip you can use this on your sneakers as
well and then the other part of the boot you can then get wet to wipe off the mud
because that's the easiest way to get it off. There okay we're going back to the
candle wax but this time it's an alternative to those grip laces that we
saw you can apply the candle wax yourself to the laces and it will make
it possible to stop them from coming undone a nice cheap and easy tip and if you've
already done the lace area or the knit area of the boot with the candle wax
then you can try that as well. Another tip that you can try is if
you've got frayed laces and you want to try and get them back into the boot then
you can melt the end of the laces that way you can then get it back in through
the eyelet as you can see here using a pair of pliers is just to kind of mould
it into the right shape but ideally you probably want to just go and put some
new laces in you can use some of those grip laces that we talked about but if
you are wanting to keep those that you've got then give those a go. Right
guys let me know your favourite hacks in this video.. Thanks for watching go enjoy
your football!