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- Hi guys, Ian from Football Boots Team,
and today, I'm gonna be showing you
what is inside fake football boots.
I am gonna be using the knife,
this scissors, matches, blowtorch.
We're gonna cut these up, so you may have seen
previous videos before, where we've taken apart Superflys.
This is a Superfly collar. It's off the top.
And I will be cutting the top off these
fake ones, and we'll be comparing to see
if they're the same, if there's any differences.
The most interesting thing, though,
is once we get inside the boots,
and we can find out if the inside of a Hypervenom
actually is the same as the inside of a fake one.
Now, fake boots are boots that are not made by the
official manufacturer, so these boots have not
been made by Nike or in a Nike factory.
But you will see cheaper scale-down boots, like a Phylon
or a Fade or something like that, and those are
real, genuine Nike products, so they're not fakes.
They are just lower-grade boots.
These are actual fake boots, not made by Nike,
and I'm gonna take a look inside them
to find out what is really going on inside these boots.
So the first boot I'm gonna do is the Hypervenoms,
then I'll move on to do the Magistas,
and then I'm gonna wrap up by looking at the Superflys.
So, we're gonna cut these up.
Has it got three metres of Flywire in these?
We are gonna find out.
First off, let's have a look at what I did
to the Hypervenoms, and here is what's left over.
And I really wanna compare and see what's inside
these areas here, these Poron parts, wanna cut into that.
And I think the first thing is probably just
to use some scissors and cut into these and just see
what we find out inside these boots.
Then, I will get the hot knife going,
and we'll take off this sole plate
and be able to compare it to the sole plate on those.
I'm just looking at the way I cut these before,
and it was kinda going down, all the way through,
cutting open the upper through there.
So, let's do that on these, and let's see
what is inside of these boots.
Pair of scissors will go down through here.
So, first off, it's very easy to cut through.
Sometimes, I have a lot of trouble cutting into
football boots, but not with these today.
I mean, at the moment, I'm going through the soft parts,
so that's gonna be part of it.
Alright, what I think I'd like to do is hot knife
all the way around here, and we'll take this all off,
and then I'll be able to compare these two together.
So, let's head outside and hot knife this.
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So, let's take a look at what's happened with the
heel area here, 'cause this is something that's really
important for comfort in your game.
Look at this massive section here, which is foam
padding around your ankle for comfort,
and in the fake ones, it's just not there.
I mean, there is some very, very thin,
like that's the thickness of the foam in there.
It's tiny, it's not gonna do anything for comfort.
And this has been put in here, specifically,
to make sure that these boots are gonna
feel comfortable around your heel.
Then, you've also got this much
thicker, plasticy bit, just here.
Again, not really evident inside, 'cause they've got
the outer part, but there's nothing in the inside in this.
Well, maybe just a tiny bit of plasticiness here,
but again, it's not the same, and that's the protection.
So, you're actually gonna get a bit more protection
from this harder heel area on the real ones compared
to these fake ones, which just don't have it at all.
I'll try and turn this inside out. There we go.
It can't be good when you can snap a heel,
kinda like, on itself like that.
Can't ever be good.
Let's turn this inside out.
Now, remember, we're gonna carry on.
We're gonna look at the Magistas,
and we're also gonna look at the Superflys soon.
Texture's very different then.
You're not seeing any of these Poron pods here.
It's almost the inside looking of, like, a Magista
or something, the way that this is going on.
This is whole, like, area here for, like,
holding the boot together and for comfort in and around.
So, the forefoot, nothing going on there as well.
On the originals, you can see the signature
of the people that actually made it for quality control.
Nothing down here.
And then, what is going on with these little dots here?
Is this, oh right, oh interesting!
So, they actually have gone to the,
it was just kinda interesting.
I mean, I think actually, it might actually be,
goes all the way through.
Do you see that? That's the flywire going through.
There's red lines here, like if you guys can see,
like through here, through there.
So, it'd be very interesting to
try and get a bit of that out.
In the past, I've done that with other boots,
so what should happen here is I should get a hook
onto this and pull it all the way through.
No.
So what happened with the other ones,
with the real ones, is you can actually pull
the Flywire through, because it actually does something.
For the Flywire to be effective,
you have to be able to pull it and move it,
and that's what's helping adjust the fit.
So, this is just for show. It's not actually doing anything.
Whilst you can see that they've bothered
to put it through the boot, it's just glued into place.
There's no movement, and you can't pull it out,
so it's actually not gonna lock you in in the same way
or give you the adjustments that the genuine Flywire will.
So, in the other video, when I cut apart the Hypervenoms,
you could see me take out the little bit of the pod.
So, let's cut this out now so you can see.
I mean, I'm guessing that there's nothing in there.
I mean, maybe I could be wrong.
Just looks like it's a transfer to me.
Let's see what's going on.
Okay, so, yeah there's nothing in there.
This is just a bit of material,
like one side and the other side.
There's actually nothing in there at all, and
you'll see on the clip that you
can even still see a yellow here.
And you guys can see on the replay of me doing it.
Again, I'm not gonna show you.
Right there, you can see that yellow,
and obviously we took the piece out, and
you're seeing it on the screen right now.
Alright, so we should move on to another boot.
Let's do the Magistas, and after the Magistas,
we will look at what is inside the Superflys.
So, let's speed along, and let me find the other pair
of Magistas that we have that we'd taken apart.
Let's move all of this outta the way.
So, these were the original Magistas,
these with the longth cut away,
and I'm gonna compare across the same again.
And I think, perhaps, the first thing we could do
with these is cut these down the middle as well.
We will just speed up as I take the laces out.
Alright, what I'm gonna do to start off with the Magista
is I'm gonna do the same as we did with these ones.
I was gonna cut it straight down the middle,
and then we can have a like-for-like comparison.
I mean, first things, like looking at this,
they've done a pretty good job with mimicking the colour,
and they've got the bits where it pops out and stuff.
Like this pretty nice job there.
So, we're gonna try and cut all the way down
through the middle here, very easy to get through there.
And then we'll just, well, that
cuts quite easy for an upper.
Gets a bit tighter, once you get
into these little spaces at the end.
Alright, let's have a little look inside.
It's not gonna rip on me.
So, this is the inside of a real one.
And this is the inside of the fake one,
and I can already see, like, what's going on there.
Can you see that?
Can really get my hand in through here, so it's a bit weird.
It's not glued down properly.
If you can bring it round that way,
you can see, like, in through there, like,
just the light coming through.
Shows you how thin that sole plate is.
Not a good situation at all, and dramatically different
to what the genuine one looks like.
Yes, you can see the light coming through this one as well,
but they're completely different beasts.
I mean, this one has, like, a kind of weird meshness to it.
And like a super bendy, flexible,
like I'm not sure you should ever
be able to do that to a football boot.
You can just fold that up, and away you go.
Now, that's just strange.
See if I can do it to this one, too.
Now, look, see how, like I'm really
having to force that back on itself.
There's just a difference in the strength to these boots.
Alright, so let's cut this one open a bit more.
I am tempted to hot knife off this
side bit here, just so we can get a good look into the side,
and we'll come back and dissect it a little bit more.
Interesting, look at this ribbing
in the inside of the genuine one.
Not there at all on these ones.
Lot of plastic in and around these lace hole areas.
Clearly not the same on these again.
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Right, so let's have a look at
the differences between these two.
One thing, on the original ones, is you can see
this nice thick plush material.
Quite a lot of padding in there,
and, well, you guys can see what I can see.
There's just nothing going on here. Where's the padding?
Are these gonna be so less comfortable than these?
So, you guys, who get looking at fake boots,
you're gonna get a boot that might have
a similar look to it, but it is not gonna feel the same.
Like that's just so super thin, nothing going on there.
And then even up into, well, I took out
the other bit of this boot, but see,
this padding is what I'm talking about.
It's just not there. Look at that bit of foam and stuff.
You're not getting that on the fakes.
There's just nothing in there at all.
The other thing with this upper
is, even here, you can see this nice material.
It's almost kinda like the back of leather feel.
And this is just cheap plastic
and really not much going on at all.
Plus, you're getting around those lace hole
covers again, so that's to stop them.
They've obviously tried to make them
look like they're genuine Nike by putting the tag in.
That's not the real deal.
Okay, let's move on to the Superfly.
This is the last one you guys wanna see.
And the thing with these is I am gonna cut them
down the middle, so we can look inside the sole plate,
and just see, because obviously with the Superfly flyers,
it should have the nylon chassis.
These are the AG version.
Doesn't really make any difference between the AG
and the FG for the comparison of the fakes.
The ones I do have are the FG version for the other ones,
but let's go and take a look at these and cut them up.
And I think the first thing we wanna do
is slice off the collar, and then I can compare
the collar to the last one, 'cause obviously,
that's an important aspect of the Superfly.
So, we're gonna cut that off first,
and then, we will just go literally down the middle
of the boot, exactly the same as we did with these.
And you'll see me do that in a second,
so we'll go straight down the boot.
I'll split it open, and we'll compare it
like-for-like with the genuine ones against the fakes,
so you can see what's going on inside of that.
Then, at the end of the video, you guys can tell me
which one you were most interested in seeing.
Do you prefers in seeing the Magista,
the Hypervenoms, or the Superfly inside?
Right, so let's grab the knife,
let's cut this one, let's get on with it.
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Alright, we'll take a look at that in a minute.
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Alright, and so let's have a little
quick look at the collars here.
And it's kinda hard to tell that much
difference between the two from this point.
I would say that this one,
maybe it was the heat of the knife.
It was just a bit harder to cut through this.
Obviously, there's like the patenting and stuff on this one.
But, I mean, to be honest, there's nothing that
really jumped out at me differently
on the collars at this time, even like the way
that they put the heel width together,
so let's just carry on from that.
Obviously, one thing you guys really wanna see is
inside the Superfly, so here we go.
Alright, so that's inside the fakes.
Let's bring in a real one, and we'll just put that on top.
We can start looking at the differences.
Definite difference on the sole plate here.
Now, one thing I'm just noticing straight away,
is that this is just, look at this thick plastic.
There's just pure like TPU, and on
this one, you really can see the layers.
It's melted a little bit in these points here,
but they are, and it's a lot thinner.
So, the genuine one is a lot thinner in the sole plate.
But interestingly, this was a lot easier,
I thought, to cut through than this.
No SpeedGrip stuff going on with the sole plate on these.
Obviously, that's cut quite clearly different again.
So, looking at the front parts here.
Note you've got this bit for holding the boot together here,
and making it wrap around the forefoot a little bit better.
Nothing used in the fakes at all.
And looking at this, what is the point
in this line of stitching here, if it's not
actually connecting to the boot here?
Like it's like they've missed out this,
they've missed out this whole white layer.
It's just not there on these.
Alright guys, so you have seen
the inside of three different fake boots.
Which were you most interested to see the insides of?
Is there anything else you wanna know?
Drop a comment below if you do wanna know
anything more about these boots.
That's the inside of the fake boots.
We might do inside of fake Adidas boots
at some time, if you would like to see it,
so let us know in the comments about that.
Two, vote in the poll card which was
your favourite to see the insides of.
I am a little bit shocked by the plastic on this Superfly.
Thanks for watching, guys. Go enjoy your football.