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so for each of these pro player hacks
that we're gonna look at I'll be telling
you which players are using them and
I'll be explaining the hacks or then
give you a rating as to how effective
the hacks are now you can see this first
one is to do with Mario Kart II plays at
PSG he wears the Nike phantom venoms now
he obviously had some kind of issue with
the boot because he's decided to go
ahead get the scissors out and cut off
the lace cover on here but how good of
an idea of this not too sure so one of
the things it's going to hold the
tension between the two sides of the
boot also you're gonna expose the laces
which i think is what Bacardi's trying
to do here you can see a pro player is
actually gone ahead and asked toots
boots to do it for them so Pro players
are doing this hack it car DS done it
and it will expose those laces but
personally because you're going to
expose those Flywire cables that are
holding the laces in as well and you're
not gonna have that same tension I just
think it's a bit of a bad idea even
though a car D likes it so the next hack
we're gonna look at is used by a whole
bunch of clubs it is the cleats pro boot
steamer so this is a device that has
been made and the clubs have bought and
it's for putting pro player boots in and
it steams them to soften them it softens
them up and its really good for players
with wide feet it's a really great hack
whole bunch of teams cost Premier League
MLS Europe use it now the next hat we're
gonna look at is used by whole bunch
players you got hazard Shaqiri toni
kroos all sorts of players now you might
be a tell from this what is happening as
you can see
smaller shin pad so this hack is to wear
considerably smaller shin pads so Thomas
Muller was really kind of known for
doing this but why would you do it think
players don't like wearing gym pads and
so they'll wear the smallest ones they
can get away with like a junior one but
the problem is it's gonna leave you put
a bit more exposed to injuries we don't
really think it's a great idea some
player is going to try and avoid the
tackles but if he can't wear shin pads
this next hack few players do it but one
of the biggest players known for it is
marko royce Britisher Dortmund it's done
it for Germany as well and if you can
tell from these pictures he's taken the
laces out of his Puma futures so he's
done it with quite a few different pubic
futures but the thing with this is these
boots aren't really designed for that
they're designed for doing customizing
lacing in all sorts of different ways
but I think you can only really get away
with it if you've got wide feet but also
consider that the brand potentially is
doing a custom boot for him in this
video a lot of players who were wearing
customized boots so he might have some
extra stuff that's giving him better
lock down that you're not seeing because
it's inside the boot and some of the
pictures will be to show you this video
stuff inside boots and you'll better see
a bit more what's going on right this
next hack we're looking at is kind of
connected to that boot steamer it's a
way of softening up your brand-new boot
so you can see a brand new pair of
fir'aun's here cutting the tags off I'm
going to take out the cardboard
completely brand new but this is
something you can do at home so the
concept is you fill the bath up you put
your socks on you put your boots on and
then you soak them in the bath no it
doesn't to be too hot you're not gonna
better make it that hot because you're
gonna be in it so you're gonna know what
you're doing and you wear your boots in
the bathroom
20 minutes and they're just gonna soften
up really nice then you can go out and
play with them just for a little bit
just get them going and just they'll
shape around your foot as they dry and
cool down as well now once you've done
that you want to make sure you put a
whole bunch of paper in them and
newspaper or whatever to help them dry
out properly afterwards because as you
can see there is gonna be a lot of water
in there and you want to get all that
moisture out before you wear them
all right we're looking at another pro
hac here few players doing this in fact
there's loads more players doing this PC
boots UK helped us out with some injury
of Ross Barclays boots as you can see
what's happened here this is a pair of
firm ground boots but quite often
players want to customise their boots
and change the soleplate and convert
those firm ground boots into soft ground
ones so what you can do is you can cut
off that plastic stud tip you drill a
hole you insert inside the inside of the
boot the class fit attaches in the
thread to the SG stud and then you put
that in so it goes through it's actually
a really great idea if you've got some
boots that don't come in soft ground if
you can get the boot so you want in soft
ground then go ahead and do it here's
some pictures of toots boots having done
some customizations often happens on the
special editions because they don't come
in soft ground and players want to be
able to get those boots and use them on
pitch whole bunch of boots you can see
there are ones that you just couldn't
get in soft ground so they've made it
for them right this hack another
interesting one really made famous by
Memphis depay you can see in that
picture jack Grealish you can see in
this picture as well perhaps you guys
are noticing that the difference in this
one is they are wearing really short
socks I can't really get my head around
this one it doesn't necessarily make a
lot of sense perhaps it's about players
feeling restrictions around the calves
now one thing they're going to have to
do is if you're wearing short socks
you're going to have to go and wear the
small shin pads already we said it
wasn't the greatest idea perhaps players
can avoid those injuries and maybe they
feel like they're getting kind of kicked
only in that area and it's not above or
below the ankle above or below the shin
pad so they think they can get away with
it but personally just don't think it's
a very good idea I found it quite
uncomfortable to wear that short shin
pad in that sock it was just kind of
almost felt like it was digging into me
alright the next hack we are looking at
is an interesting one so it is inside
this box and we are talking about
carbon-fiber now you're gonna run faster
you're gonna jump higher these are the
victory performance inner soles they
will they're popular in NFL basketball
but now they're soccer-specific as well
the idea of these is you can jump higher
run faster it's the first ever sports
insole design to return the energy an
athlete generates
an explosive power give you speed
agility so they take into account
athlete's weight foot size and what
sport they're playing use algorithm to
work out how much force can be exerted
and they'll then send you a specific
insole that will match you now I showed
you John stones there because he likes
to wear carbon fiber inside his boots
and some boots in the past have had
carbon fiber so plates as well but this
is slightly different it's actually
putting a carbon fiber inner sole in it
you get no benefits from your standard
in a sole but these are all about making
you faster and more explosive and being
in a jump higher as well which is great
for headers now this one is a bit of a
homemade hack again but it is trying to
work on that boot steamer that we saw
earlier on so this is the DIY boot
steamer you're gonna take a bucket and
you want to put it over these in the
bath and the concept is is you're gonna
steam those boots for 20 to 30 minutes
you've got your hot water there that's
rising up it's gonna be held in the
bucket and you want it to steam those
boots for 20 minutes to half an hour or
whatever and then once you take them out
you're gonna wait for them you can put
them on feet and then let them cool down
afterwards it's pretty much boots in the
bath trick but you don't actually have
to get in the bath wearing your socks
and your boots you're also not going to
soak them as much although be careful
that they don't fall over like this then
they're gonna get wet anyway but the
concept is is do not actually cook them
and soaking them in the water you're
just steaming them so it's a little bit
better and more similar to that cleat
Pro boot steamer
but it's just not quite as effective as
a professional version of course all
right this next hack made popular by
Jack British and what we got here is an
old pair of hyper Venom's as you can see
they're kind of falling apart a little
bit would you consider wearing these in
a game that Nike skin was obviously
known for coming off the hypervenom ones
would you wear these in a game well the
thing is Jack really went ahead and wore
boots in a game very much like this
boots that were completely falling apart
he wore them in the playoff final at the
end of last season he was wearing this
type of venom that's what they're
supposed to look like he's sort of
images and you can see what they did
look like for him the reason he wore
them is because there are lucky boots
each scored goals in them and got
assists in them and he just didn't felt
like he had to wear them in the playoffs
but it's not a good idea got sole
separation just wear some new boots
a lot of superstitions around jag rila
she's really got some interesting ideas
all right this next hack is one that was
made famous by Cristiano Ronaldo perhaps
the first-ever boot hack that we've ever
really kind of experienced so he was
well known for the hot water trick and
he really started doing it when he's
wearing the kind of super flies when
they were kind of a more plasticky boot
than they are nowadays so it doesn't
have to fly knit bit more of a plasticy
feeling boot and it really needed to be
broken in you use the hot water on them
to soften that upper and then they could
just be worn a lot quicker and in fact
it really worked really well as long as
when getting them to too hot that it was
something that was really good as
softening the boot up and being worn
nowadays players don't use it so much
you do have those professional cleat
steamers as we've talked about so you
can use those instead and obviously the
materials of boots nowadays just don't
require to be softened up as much
because out of the box they are a lot
softer but if you have a problem with
boots feeling a bit stiff through you
when you buy them then you can
definitely consider the hot water trick
and then wear them and break them in a
little bit and it just will speed up the
process you don't go to hot otherwise it
will damage the boots you don't want to
melt the plastics and then dry them out
properly afterwards using some newspaper
just to extract that moisture out as we
say moisture is the enemy of football
boots you want to get it out as quick as
possible once you've done these hacks
all right so this next hack we are again
looking at shim pads this time we have
got the carbon athletic here and shin
pads carbon fiber shin pads very pop
popular with pro players so these shin
pads themselves the Carbon athletics are
worn by Danny Alvarez Santikos Ola Tiago
Silva massively popular and why would
you wear these well if we get these ones
out of the bag and we're gonna throw
them on the scale that we have here
we'll show you that this large size
adult shin pad comes in at about 25
grams all right you then take a standard
plastic shim pad
and you're looking at 60 grams so that's
quite a big difference
it means that when you actually where
the shin pad you're not going to feel it
as much so those players who were
wearing the smaller shin pads they might
actually get away with going and
switching to carbon fiber and they'll
actually prefer those now the carbon
fiber is really strong as well so this
is a great option it's going to protect
your shins from the impacts in fact the
carbon fiber is going to be stronger
than the plastic all right this hack
something that we've seen Kasper
Schmeichel do recently as you can see in
this box we've got a pair of the Tati
tiempos but the thing to notice about
this is tot he used to love the tongue
elastic he would add it to boots that
we've given to him if it didn't already
have it on it he loved a tongue on his
boots the old-school manias obviously
came with the tongue as well but some of
the releases that we've seen recently
have come without a tongue elastic on
them so cashless Kasper Schmeichel went
ahead and he got the tongue elastic
added by two spoons thanks for top TI
interactive for the picture of him in
action and you can see here Tom he added
the elastic to his accelerators he got
because they didn't come with it either
so excellent hack for getting out the
way now this is an interesting one it's
called the runner's loop and if you have
problems with your boots kind of moving
around a little bit too much and getting
a bit of heel slippage or you're getting
blisters on your heel then you can go
ahead and you can lace them like this so
you go straight up at to the top and
then you make that loop then you go
through the loop and thread it through
like that so when you put it on foot
it's gonna lock you in just that little
bit more now Macy was actually known for
adding an extra hole in his boots to try
and do something similar to get that
really good lock in with the boots it's
an OK hack it just depends what most of
the time people don't need to do it
because the way boots lace up is good
enough anyway but if you really feel
like you need a extra lock in then go
ahead and give it a try see what you
think all right so plenty of big-name
players name our body Griezmann Ali
Suarez do this you probably do this as
well if you haven't done it already then
I definitely recommend giving it a go it
is grip socks stops your feet moving
around in the boots there's so many
brands out there you've got attack you
got tape tape n designs got true socks
which are the originals they've got the
grips on the inside and the outside
Suarez in action with those Ali at the
World Cup wearing those you got the
socks pro version well a lot of players
in Italy are wearing these we really
like the tape and design ones they just
seem to be quite soft and really
excellent anyway the hack is fantastic I
definitely suggest you go ahead and give
that a go and so don't want you feet to
slip around in your boots and one of the
reasons that you don't want that to
happen is because you can get blisters
another thing you can go ahead and do is
instead of wearing loads you could
actually wear two pairs of socks so
Jerome Boateng was well known before
kind of non-slip grip socks came out he
would wear two pairs of socks now you
can wear your sock over the top as you
can see here or you could actually wear
two pairs of socks right wearing two
socks friction doesn't occur in the boot
and it just means less pissed blisters
and you can also get away wearing a half
size larger if you want to
alright so Coutinho mats Hummels were
well known for this hack and it is
cutting holes in your boots so that's
how much did it because he had blisters
on his toes we've seen a few players
cutting big holes out the back of their
boots it's interesting we gave it a go
in a previous video where we made a hole
in the boots just to see what it was
like it does make the back of the boot
considerably less strong obviously it's
going to take the pressure off at the
back now we understand pootie do did it
because he has a Haglund's deformity
which is a bony enlargement on the back
of the hill so if you have that this
could be fantastic for you but for
everybody else it just doesn't make any
sense at all in fact it's interesting
that Coutinho now gets custom-made boots
thanks to BC Boots UK for showing us
these see how soft the heel is on his
boots so that's why he's not playing
holes anymore it's because he's not
feeling the pain at the back because
he's got his own custom soft boots
interesting a but overall we think this
is a very bad idea unless you are one of
those one in a thousand people who
actually have the Haglund's deformity or
something like that and it's really good
for pro players otherwise you're gonna
ruin your boots you know
all right this hack we're looking at
Neymar Sancho Walker Danny Rose they've
done it it was something that got really
popular at the 2018 World Cup because
whole bunch of players were doing it is
perhaps connected to Sox getting a
little bit tighter and players feeling
like they were cramping up near the end
of games so the concept here is to
release the pressure around the carbs
you can see that sometimes for players
it gets tighter in this area get out of
pair of scissors mark up mark up where
you want to make the holes then get the
scissors and just start cutting little
holes in your socks you'll have seen the
images it looks very interesting on
pitch and I think this is why some of
those players are wearing the short
socks because then you don't have to
worry about that pressure in this area
so this is kind of an alternative I also
think there's since then brands have
kind of listened to players and made
some of their socks not as tight in the
calf area to relieve that pressure is
obviously you can see here the holes cut
in the socks he was interesting to be
grips on that one it's interesting to
see what players have underneath their
socks they're still wearing stuff as
well Neymar was well known for doing
this at the World Cup a lot of pictures
of him falling over having seen it this
is what it looks like after we've put
the holes in and to be honest it
actually felt quite good I think if you
do feel really tight carves then it's
not that bad of an idea obviously gonna
ruin your socks but people are going to
wonder what you're doing but actually it
did feel good alright this hack we're
looking at is Vaseline or kind of an
anti chafe balm so what you do is if you
know you've got new boots and you're
wearing them for the first time you want
to break them in is make sure you put
vaseline in those areas where you
perhaps tend to get blisters or the anti
chafe balm and what's going to happen is
it's gonna mean less friction when
you're wearing these it's a fantastic
hack give it a go see what you think
guys let us know in the comments what
hacks you've tried what you thought of
this video any hacks you want us to try
it in the future thank you very much for
watching go enjoy your football