You're looking for better traction on indoor pickleball courts so you've
invested in a pair of either volleyball shoes or basketball shoes. Some type of
indoor court shoe. However they're still kind of slippery. What can you do?
I've got a new product that I'm about to try out. You're gonna want to stay tuned.
Hey everybody it's CJ Johnson. Back a couple of videos ago I talked about the
different types of shoes for pickleball and one of the things that I mentioned
was indoor versus outdoor shoes.If you're playing indoors, volleyball or
basketball shoes which are specifically built for the indoor court surface can
give you additional traction. Now unfortunately not all gym floors are
created or maintained equally. It's not like you just resurface a gym floor and
then it's done. It has to be maintained on both a yearly as well as a weekly
basis. If it's not that surface is going to become slippery and that's exactly
what's happened to the courts that I play on. And because of that I've taken a
couple slips and I'm very aware that I could pull a muscle
or that I could fall. The solutions that I've used till now haven't really worked.
One is to wipe the shoes with the bottom of my hand and I know that sounds awful
and here's what my hands will look like after a day of playing pickleball. But
that's the only way I'm going to get traction. It's gotten so bad at the gym
that I'm at that they've added a sticky mat. It's a temporary solution and as you
can see this mat is extremely dirty already. Then I ran into this product
on Amazon. It's a product called court grabbers. It was 24.95
there were approximately 50 reviews and it got four and a half stars. It's a
device that attaches to the top of your shoe and it holds a traction gel so you
can wipe the bottom of your shoes on the traction gel. I haven't tried it yet. I
thought what I would do is open up this box put it on my shoes use it and give
you my own review because my guess is I'm not the only one who
this problem. So let's open up the kit. There are three things in this kit.
Number one I have a traction grabber gel. Let's see what else is in here.
I have two clear pads. These attach to the laces on your shoes. And then I have the
traction gel pads so the gel is put right on to there. Lastly I have a set of
instructions. Here's one little word to the wise they're pretty small so if you need
reading glasses I put those on first. So these are my indoor shoes they're an
Asics volleyball shoe. If you missed my shoe resource guide make sure that you
click up above and it'll take you to the video that will help you pick the best
pair of shoes for you. But this is my indoor shoe. A lot of dirt has
accumulated from the floor that I play on so the very first thing that I'm going
to do before I put the court grabbers on I'm going to take these over to the
sink, use a little Dawn dish soap and wash them so they are nice and clean.
All set let's go play some pickleball.
So how did it work? Pretty well and look at this no dirty hands. What you will see
is this is really dirty and that's only after one use and we played for just a
couple hours, What they say you can do or should do is pop this off. The little
black part pops off so you pop that off and you wash it after every two times
you play. The good part is the part that you put on the shoe, that stays on the shoe
so you don't have to go through relacing it.
I give court grabbers a thumbs up! So what I'll do is I'm going to put a link
down in the show notes below so that you can find them where I did. I got them off
of Amazon they're about twenty four dollars or so I think. If you got value
from this video if you wouldn't mind giving it a little thumbs up or share it with
your pickleball playing friends because together we can
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