hi guys Ian from the Football Boots team
and today I'm going to talk about ID hacks
for your boots
that's ways to customize them so you
know they're yours other people know
they're yours and we're going to do it
just like the pros we're also going to
do some real budget ways of doing it so
that means that any of you can do it I'm
going to talk you through all the
different variations in this video
alright so if you've been playing your
game you've been wearing a pair like
this nobody else in the team has a red
pair of boots then you know you're they
are yours but what if you've just got
yourself the new Predator 18 so you turn
up to your game and look what everybody
else has got Predator 18, 18.1s
predator 18, 18.3 so when you
finish the game you've all thrown your
boots on the floor how do you know which
are yours or if you're lucky enough to
have a kit man how does he know whose
are which boots I'm going to tell you
how the pros sort them out I'm gonna
tell you how you can customize all these
boots so you know which are yours so one
of the things you'll see a lot of
players doing is having their name or a
logo or name a number on the boots a lot
of players will just have their
initials, I might have IE9 Blake might go
with BG12 all that kind of stuff just
different things on your boots that you
want to do to customize that your yours
and one of the ways of doing that is
with a stitching machine so there's the
original way of customizing boots is you
get this machine and it would lock onto
the boots and it would start stitching
all the words onto it just like you see
like the stitching on a football shirt
it would stitch directly onto the boots
The trouble with boots is they're
quite thick so it would have a little
bit of difficulty especially with
dynamic fit collars and things like
that I'm actually getting in and doing
the stitching right on the boots so
things have changed a little bit and
they don't use the stitching machines as
much nowadays it's a bit like football
shirts some shirts that don't stitch the
crest anymore they just do a transfer
because it's cheaper and supposedly it's
lighter and more performance but really
it's about the brands saving money
and this is about doing transfers
on boots cheaper as well and I've got a
really good way that you guys can do a
little boot hack of your own version
without having to get them in the shops
or from website as you can see from this
boot we've got our own personalisation
on it footballboots.co.uk going all the
way across the boot there and that's
been whacked on with those transfers as
I said if you're a big-name play either
likes to cr7 then you don't need any
this boot customisation anymore they've
just got their name and logo put on the
boots same as Neymar he gets his own
personal boots so the likes of Pogba
he's got his face on the boot at little
Twitter icon that he had before but
other players like Ozil has his own
logo maybe you've got your own logo
you want to transfer onto some boots
Dybala when he had his no
boot contract he was doing all sorts of
stuff with his boots, his black out
super flies with his logo on it now he's
moved on and he's got his adidas
contract that's only recently come
through but he did some great boot
personalisation so maybe you want to add
your own logo to boots and I'm going to
show you how to do that there's a few
different ways of doing it and we're
gonna go through those what we're gonna
do is I need something about that big
I'm gonna go and the good news with boot
customisation is you've all got some of
this at home when you buy your boots
so because we're doing a bit of detail
I'm actually gonna switch to this
smaller blade you definitely wanna make
sure your blade is sharp now I'm gonna
leave the middle of the A because I'm
gonna have to stick that on with some
tape later that's come out really well
again I'm definitely recommending shoe
box for your cardboard choice
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all right so there you got the I and
the A I'm gonna need a little bit of
tape in the middle of there I'm gonna do
the N and then we're gonna try
spraying this onto the boots and I
reckon we'll go onto the side of here in
the Red what do you think all right so if
you are playing for an academy or
something like that then you might find
that the kit man does this himself
and if you want to know which of your
boots are yours a real subtle way of doing
it is instead of putting your name and
logo on the boot on the upper is
actually to add it onto the sole plate
now it's difficult with these kind of
darker ones, you can find little bits
here so maybe here you could write on
your lettering and we'll do that later
in the video on some other boots but you
can see like how's a kit man when he
looks at these three pairs of boots know
whose is whose apart from the slight
difference in the damage and colouring
three different boots he turns them over
he wants to know whose is whose he's
gonna write your initials and your squad
number even just your squad number on
the boots so he knows whose they are and
then when he hangs them up in the boot
room you're gonna go in the right place
for you. Now to customise them, so bunch
of sharpies in my hand here it really
depends on what colour your soleplate is
as to what colour you're gonna go with
the black is gonna work on a red sole
plate but I was considering doing these
vapors that we've got here you'll see
throughout this course this video that
I'm using boots that we've done other
things too before so I'm not really
wasting boots by putting these custom
on they've already been used for a
variety of other things make sure you
check out our other hacks videos there's
going to be a playlist at the in this
video and you can watch those, this one
is all about IDing your boots
personalising them like a pro and one of
those things that pros do is have their
squad number on the bottom of their
boots so the kit man can work out whose
is whose and you might want to do it just
so you know which are yours.
So these are your boots Blake what's squad number
would you put on them, twelve, alright so
there's a couple of options is you're
going to use a bit of tape to put a line
on it so you know you're gonna do it
straight although the nice thing with
these is they've got little lines on
them for us already so I'm gonna use
some cover those lines and we'll just
put a nice big 12 I've got a fine tip
here there's also like a fat tip as well
you could use and it just really depends
I might start with a fine and then go
over it in the fat
after I think it's might even be ultrafine
bigger bit more one more maybe
and this isn't gonna last forever but it
is gonna last for quite a while and you
can just top it up when you need to happy
with that yeah looks really decent all
right so there's the twelve on the boots
Blake has those in the change room floor
he knows they are his when he picks
them up although you might recognize them
with pink laces, there you go
boom you know they're yours so you could
put your phone number if you want it to
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So there's my straight line to follow
but if you want to make sure they're the
right height then you want to put
another straight line here as well so
you know you're not going to make it
like ridiculous, okay so now you can see
like the area of the boot that I'm
looking to work in and I'm not going to
make it too high or too low
customisation for this one any things
which I put on there in particular maybe
we should custom this for Tom like it's
actually taken to it not too bad alright
so they see how I'm using my lines to
make sure I've gotten this same height
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So guys there's a poll card up there
right now top right hand corner if you
want to vote and tell me which you
actually prefer about putting on the
dynamic fit or actually straight onto
the Nikeskin I'm shocked but I actually
finally got a lot harder to do it on the
Nikeskin than on the dynamic fit I
thought it would have been the other way
around and you can add a squad number
too so what's Tom say 5 or 3 let's go 3
I think that's come out a lot better
just doing a straight off with this okay
and you've got all this flat area to do
don't do it in here because you're gonna
get all the bubbles and stuff but like
you can even put it like down here like
a lot of players would do it on the back
here potentially I could even do this
one dark blue so let's imagine
these were my boots and this is a really
good area to put it as well because it's
just not no contact yeah yeah so maybe
I'll do what I have on the back of mine
a bit more subtle on the same colour right
yeah it's a nice thing I mean if you
think about maybe those Beckham ones
that came out recently the 23 that's
kind of that putting that name and
number at the back or at least a number
and that's other thing is like I've got
like Ebbs 9 there but you actually
might decide especially you got a
two-digit number all you want to do it
nice and big is like imagine if I was
Beckham 23 which we go with the red and
here it sounds like it looks like like
so imagine the edges in the middle and
then I could have done a much bigger
kind of like squad number there how's
that looking? I prefer on the back so we
drop another poll card in the video guys
so if you were going to put it well it's
kind of there's a couple of questions to
answer here one would be would you put
it like on the side here or would you
put it on the back and then the other
question would be is do you like it
underneath or do you like it on top so
you probably should drop some comments
below let us know which you prefer but
the poll card I'll ask you is: would you
put your customisation here on the side
of the boot or would you put it here on
the heel? Vote in the poll code now top right
corner go for it let us know you think.
A couple more customisations to do so
let's crack on with those and we'll move
on to the next thing
another place that is quite common for
players to do it is on the tongue it
stands out quite well I've got my pink
pen already in with this boot I figured
that the pink would tie in nicely with
the laces so part of the tongue is is
hidden on these Vapors it's kind of the
all-in-one tongue but you can do on any
boot with a tongue I'm just gonna take
the laces out on this top bit, we've
got a couple of spots what we can do it
so let's do your LW over here for you
right and that could just be your
initials
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and that's the thing this video it
doesn't have to be this massive kind of
personalisation it's got a huge name
right across the boots can do if you
want to but you can make it really subtle so
just little things like that so you
know they're
your boots you know so the other thing
we could do here is a little bit more
like you could do your 12 that stands
out quite nice you know and so imagine
that could have been BG Blake Grice you
know
BG 12 sounds out really nice absolutely
subtle it's not gonna get any real kind
of contact in the game and that's gonna
last a long time on your boots like that
so now this what you can do it is across
the middle here so it will be seen a
little bit more and again you could put
your phone number across there if you
want it to, nobody is going to nick your
boots if you've written your phone
number across there and it really
doesn't matter but what you could also
do is just put your name so
there we go this is like ultimate set
for you alright alright so we're going
to move on to looking at the tattoo
aspect and how you can customize boots
with that
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and they've got these are these are
leather boots and that's the trouble
we are not doing leather boots so
they definitely stick to the leather but
these are like covered in tattoos so it
definitely works on a leather boots
these are some premiers well obviously
trying to do it for like customs it's
just like one little logo for your own
boots alright so we're going with
Blake's idea which is to dip this,
I'm gonna peel the backing off first okay so
I'm putting this in the water for 30
seconds
I mean it's definitely gonna be wet so I
gotta be careful not to touch, touch that
hey all right so we're hoping that we
can apply a logo like this and then
maybe you could just do the letters one
at a time so then maybe hold it on for
30 seconds and you know slide it off is
that what you're thinking? Oh hello! how's
that? It looks pretty good think that has come
out really good
here we go Ben without an N
or maybe BE right so 30 seconds
holding on
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you might be on to something there Blake
look at that
Qquality alright so I feel like
we're done with tattoos I reckon we need
to have a look at what these spray paint
boots come out like, all right so I've
got to head outside and spray my name
onto here and I had a thought that
actually you might be able to get away with
using a sharpie to do a background on
these boots and then write your logo on
top so obviously like a black or a red
on nothing's really gonna stand out on
here at the moment but I was thinking if
I taped off an area so I've decided
what size I wanted it to be so maybe I
started like this black line here and
like it tapes really good because it's
gonna give you straight lines wherever
you do okay you don't have to freehand
it now I've got a straight line there as
well but I'm just gonna tape it because
then if I go over it doesn't matter okay
so now the idea is with the sharpie I'm
gonna colour this in and then I'll try
and put my IE9
to see how I can go over the edge there
it doesn't matter
we happy with that might peel it off
so that's what it looks like before I
peel it off
yeah it's pretty good, pretty good
pretty square we're going we're going
with the gold
very subtle I'm not sure I'm a massive
fan of it we might play around with that
and try and make it a bit better I think
maybe the blue would pretty be the most
standout colour and I think that's the
problem it's just not standing out at
the moment that's good but I think
that's the key thing guys if you're
gonna put the customisation on your boot
make sure that you put it on a bit
of paper first and you know exactly what
it's gonna look like before you put it
on, like how do you want to do your I's
and your 9 is there like do you just
want like that or do you want what do
you want
make sure you know before you put on the
boot even like if you want to see what
it looks like on your boots and like
this is what's gonna happen in a minute
it's like we're gonna do this other side
of maybe the spray paint just Ian on there
you can really give yourself a really
good idea just put a couple of bits of
tape on your boot
and then purely like
this is what its gonna come out
looking like when I spray paint in a
minute and say that you know who what
your boots gonna look like make sure
you're happy with the design if you want
to draw like a picture draw a picture on
everything then you just know what it's
gonna look like by having a little
practice run first. All right so
let's get the spray can and give this a
whirl now there's a couple options you
could use an airbrush to spray them
you've seen a lot of our videos what we
do like nice little customisations and
designs and you can put a stencil on or
draw lines on and then you could fill it
in with airbrush but not everybody has
an airbrush everybody has or has access
to a can of spray paint and you can put
a logo on I mean you might not be
find tattoos with the right letters
and stuff to do your name or find the
logo that you want then you can
definitely spray anything your like onto
a pair of boots and so let's take a look
at that now all right so let's just do
the secret of doing the inside of the
letters now so on my name here I've been
able to worry about the A I'm gonna get
the fine tip sharpie and this is what
I'm just gonna cut out in a minute
and I'll have to stick this little bit
on to the boot at the point where I want
it, it's only a little bit so
I'm going to place
they don't feel a thing and they're just
for just give me an idea initially
where I'm gonna I do that like that
and the boot like that I still use a
little bit of duct tape you need to be careful
because this stuff can rip the paint off
boots if you painted them or anything
like that so I'm just gonna apply a
little bit here and there right so now
going to protect the rest of the boot
use like a plastic bag or something
okay what I decided to do is to put the
boot into the bag so I can cover my hand
and the boot and then
and I take tape that closed out of the way
so the important thing here is make sure
you get the angle right you don't want
to spray like this because I'm gonna
spray under the cardboard I always want
to be spraying down into the area I'm
just gonna lightly coat it over time
there's pretty light quick coat I'll let
that dry and we'll have a look to see how it
comes out. Right so it's time to get
this out of the bag let's take a little
look I'm just going to kind of cut my
way
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there it is you can see that little bit
of under spray that came through is all
about those angles but tighter you get
the cardboard on to there the better one
thing you guys can't see the moment is
taking off the middle of the A I'll use
my little Sharpie now I give it a go now
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if you do want to get them from a
website you can go to the likes of Lovell
Soccer you can get 10% off there with the
code BLACKORANGE and they offer free
boot personalisation with your name and
you can also add on a flag if you want
to which is a nice little detail.
OK guys so let me know which your
favorite is in this last poll card top
right hand corner have a vote is it the
spray paint do you prefer just using the
sharpie and writing on the boots doing
that number that kind of subtle
customisation like that all those kind
of differences did you prefer the
tattoos and those applications like that
or would you really just prefer to get a
pair of boots brand new and come with
the customisation already. So vote in
the poll card now, I hope you enjoyed
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