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- What's up guys?
Matt from the Football Boots team
and what we've got for you guys today
is something a little bit different.
We're going to be showing you 10 simple speed hacks
to make you quicker and give you better acceleration.
So, let's go.
Hack number one, and to be fair,
this is probably the most simple of all of the hacks
we're going to be showing you today
and that is wearing lighter football boots.
Now, wearing lighter football boots, in general,
can make you 1% quicker.
Studies have shown that 100 grammes difference
on each foot can make 1% difference,
so if you are someone at the very top of the game
like Ronaldo, that could make all the difference.
Now, when we look at some of the lightest weight boots
on the market, of course, we've got the Puma Evospeed SL,
incredibly light weight.
We've also got the Nike Mercurial Vapour 11,
again, a very light weight boot.
I think to class a boot as light weight, it has to be
under about 180 grammes, and trust me,
comparing these to the old school T90 Lasers by Nike,
massive difference, so though they might make a little
difference on your feet, they might make a big
difference in your head.
How many times have you guys heard the words
lock down used on football boots
used the last couple of years?
Now, there's actually a really good reason for this,
because it's very important.
Lock down affects your responsiveness, and in turn,
responsiveness affects how quick you can actually
move around the pitch.
Lock down comes from a boot feeling very tight
and wrapped around the foot.
When I think about the boots on the market,
which do this the best, you have to go to
Nike football boots, because of their fly wire cables.
On the Superfly, it's either side, which modulated
to the soleplate and that's exactly the same on the
Hypervenon Phantom 3.
This time, it's actually got exposed layers and hoops,
so I think you can pull these even tighter
to give you a more wrapped sensation.
But, alongside Nike, we've also got Adidas
with their new Nemesis 360 agility bandage,
does exactly the same type of thing,
wraps around your foot nice and tightly to give you
lock down, to give you responsiveness, to make you faster.
Next hack, let's talk about stud configuration,
because that affects traction.
Now, traction is so important to how fast
you move around the pitch, because traction
is essentially grip.
Now, when you really want the best level of traction you can
on the football boot, you really have to go for
a bladed type of stud configuration.
The perfect example is on the Nike Mercurial boots,
the Superfly V and also the Vapour 11.
We've got those chevron shape studs all across the boot,
and trust me, I have never felt any more traction
compared to these boots right here.
You can also go for an Adidas model,
which come with these half teardrop shape styles,
like on the Nemesis and also on the Purespeeds,
but you can also get some conical shape ones,
although they won't give you the best traction,
they will be more comfortable under foot,
but if you want the highest level traction
to make you a bit quicker, give you better acceleration,
you have to go for bladed studs.
This next one, I know, is controversial.
There's probably going to be so many of you guys
digging me out for saying this, but if you really are
interested in making yourself a little bit quicker,
what you guys can do if you play on AG pitches like this one
quite regularly, you can opt to choose FG soleplate
with a bladed stud configuration.
Now, we've mentioned it already about traction.
If you want the highest level of traction,
which is going to make you move a little bit quicker,
then you can opt to choose bladed studs on a 3G pitch.
Little disclaimer, if you do wear FG boots on a 3G pitch
and you get injured, do come for our heads.
Guys, one speed hack that you simply can't buy
is how hard you actually work in training.
Now, if you truly want to become quicker,
you can't be doing what I'm doing now
and sitting on my bum.
You have to work hard in training
and one of the best types of training methods
you can do are speed-resistance parachutes.
Now, it's preseason time at the moment,
so you might see a lot of pros out there,
who have actually wear parachutes on their back,
so what you do, is you sprint with them on
and it gives you a little bit of resistance,
makes your legs really powerful.
So, if you can get your hands on a speed parachute,
this is going to be a great addition
to your training programme.
This next hack is going to be for all those boot nerds
out there who want every piece of technology made available
in a pair of football boots.
Now Storelli has just released a new product
called the Speed Grip insoles and what they essentially are,
are their own version of a sock liner.
Now, what you need to do, is take out the original ones
that came in your pair of boots, cut these down to size,
because they come available in small, medium or large,
and once they're inside the boot,
you feel very, very grippy, snug, locked down, responsive
inside the boot itself, which is going to aid how quick
you feel around the pitch.
Now, once you put them in, this is how they look.
So they've got this heel tab as well,
just to make there's no heel slippage whatsoever.
What Storelli say is that 90% of the athletes they tested
feel faster on Speed Grip.
Now, I think that's probably the case,
Although they might not make you faster,
they might make you feel a little bit quicker.
We've mentioned it already,
if you guys want to become quicker and more powerful,
you're going to have to train hard.
Now, one of the best exercises that you guys can do,
which a lot of professionals do, is squats.
You can just squat by yourself, no weights,
or you can use a bar as well, to increase the weight
to make your legs stronger, which will make you quicker
and more powerful.
I can promise you that.
If you keep doing your squats,
one day, you can play like Lukaku.
This next hack came from one of my favourite stories
of all time and it's the story of Christiano Ronaldo.
Now, when he was back at Man United, his teammate
Rio Ferdinand said that he used to train with ankle weights
around his legs, which made his legs feel very heavy
when doing sprint training and also any skills
like step overs.
- When he does step overs, he used to put these mad things
on his feet, the weights, and do mad step overs.
I said, "Are you mad? What are you doing?"
Until he started bamboozling people.
- Now, what this does, is make your legs stronger
in the future, but also when you take
those ankle weights off, your legs would feel
so incredibly light weight, you'd feel you could run
faster and also do those those skills so much more easier.
One hack that you can't buy, but you can definitely work on
is your running technique.
Now, when I think of some of the fastest players
in world football, I think of CR7,
Gareth Bale and Ian Robbin.
Now, they're all so electric quick and they all
share some similar running techniques.
First off, they're going to use their toes a lot more
compared to the rest of their foot to sprint.
Secondly, they're going to use their arms
to really power through.
And thirdly, they're going to lean slightly forward.
So, those three types of techniques are ones
you could use in your training to then use in your matches.
I can almost guarantee that some many of you guys,
before kickoff, have a load of water or smash down
an energy drink just before kickoff,
but what really is the best drink that you guys can buy
to help performance?
Well, it's not water and it's not energy drinks.
The best thing that you can drink is caffeine.
Now, I know that might sound a little bit controversial
and you probably shouldn't do it if you're too young,
but if you do want the best performance, then you want to
drink a caffeine-based drink about an hour before kickoff,
so not right before, not early in the morning,
but one hour before kickoff and it's scientifically proven
to give you a slight edge over opponents.
So guys, that's about it.
Our top 10 simple hacks that make you quicker
and give you better acceleration.
But in the comments section below, what I want
you to tell me is, what other speed hacks
that you've personally tried yourself,
and also, from our 10, what are going to be the ones
that you're going to try in the future.
But guys, that is today's video all around top future.
Thanks for watching.
Hope you enjoyed it. Cheers.