TOP 5 STUPID FOOTBALL BOOT TRENDS

I don't know how you wear those low cut boots , man , I couldn't play without the extra ankle support .

Somehow people have convinced themselves that the sock material , literal sock material attached to the opening of their football boots is going to provide some kind of ankle support .

This was never an ankle support element and neither is this .

In fact , it's worth noting that every brand ever to produce a pair of mid cut football boots , Nike Adidas , Puma , whoever you want to name have never come out and said that the reason why their boot is mid cut is to provide extra ankle support .

In fact , when mid cut boots were first introduced in 2014 and popularized , they really want to stress in the marketing that this would not restrict the movement of your ankle .

And if it's not restricting the movement of your ankle , it's not providing ankle support .

That is essentially what ankle support is preventing your ankle from moving mid cut boots with the sock like material do not do that .

But if you've noticed no brand has actually come out and said our boots , in fact , do not provide ankle support because people really like it , they make more of it .

Therefore sell more boots and you end up with products like this designed as low cuts and then with socks attached to the opening to be fair , there's nothing wrong with mid cut boots .

You can really like the way that they look .

And if you regularly play on artificial grass , the collars typically can prevent those annoying rubber pellets from getting inside of the boot .

But if you're buying mid cut boots with the expectation that they're going to provide ankle support , you're just wrong .

Dude .

I can't believe you still wear boots with laces .

I don't even think I know how to tie my shoes anymore .

I know this is a losing battle but I'm going to keep fighting it .

Lace boots are not better , they're just lace , which is not better .

Again , there isn't anything wrong with lace boots .

If you currently have lace boots and really like them , that's great .

Good for you .

But as I've stated many times on this channel before , there is no inherent performance benefits to removing the laces on football boots .

In fact , most brands making lace football boots , Adidas being the main culprit here .

They produce a lace version , then they produce a lace version .

That is exactly the same thing with the addition of laces for less money and result being a boot that fits better offers better lockdown ends up being more comfortable and ultimately performs better as Well , so if you want to spend the extra money to get a lace inferior product , absolutely .

Go ahead and do that .

But just realize that lace is not better , contrary to popular belief , how are you even wearing leather boots ?

Have you tried flying ?

It ?

It's just like socks and they don't even have ankle support , knitted upper are great .

I really feel like it's one of the best new materials to be introduced in football boots over the last 20 years .

The issue that I have with it is because of how popular it has seemingly become pretty much everything is now a knitted upper .

With the end result being a lot of boots that end up feeling very similar as great as knitted uppers are , there's still something very special about boots with a leather upper or even certain synthetics that we've had in the past that we no longer get anymore .

It's great to have knitted boots as an option , but it's becoming that knitted boots are pretty much your only option , which for the consumer I don't necessarily think is the best thing I'd like to see more variety rather than less .

Hey , man , nice boots .

I got the same ones except I took the laces out and they're way better .

Now , if your boots came with laces , there's probably a good reason for that similar to the ankle support theory .

People have taken it upon themselves to realize that a lot of these new boots now have one piece uppers .

I have a Super fly six Elite as an example here .

And because it's a one piece upper , if you take the laces out , the upper still holds its shape , you can still put your foot in and wear the boots .

However , just because you can do this does not mean that you should just about any boots that come with laces come with laces for a reason .

They are there as a lockdown element .

They're there to secure your foot inside the shoe , they're there for structural integrity , they're there for support , they're there for the sake of comfort .

There are various reasons as to why the laces are there .

So the logic behind completely removing them and thinking that you have now made the product better is so backwards .

I don't even know what to say .

I thought of something .

It's stupid .

It doesn't matter if the boots are high end or low end .

If the boots have laces and you pull them out , you have instantly made the boots worse .

And for those that make the argument that their boots are more comfortable with without laces , try putting the boots on and then not tying the laces as tight .

Right .

Hey , man , those are pretty cool boots .

But I just got these new ones and they have AC C , my touch is like 100 times better .

Now AC C all conditions control .

The name is basically all we know about this technology , but people have made it out to be the best thing ever created .

It's not , this is a technology that Nike introduced years ago .

And while I have nothing against it , it's something that has become a staple of their top end model .

And people have really bought into the concept of this invisible coding or something .

That's a part of the material .

We don't really know , he has never really specified exactly what AC C is .

But a lot of people seem to believe that this invisible element is going to allow their touch on the ball to be better in dry and wet , in storms and rain , in tornadoes , in earthquakes .

It doesn't matter what the conditions are .

It's all conditions control , it's in the name .

As long as you have it , you're good to go .

Now , I'm not discrediting that AC C is at least something .

But the fact that it's fully invisible and really the argument that I have is that if this has AC C and the hypervenom have AC C and the Mercurial and the have AC C , then why is the grip on the ball and dry and wet weather different between all of them ?

Shouldn't the grip levels be more standardized ?

If they all have the same AC C , all conditions control technology , I don't really know the answer to that question .

I can just tell you what I've personally experienced .

If you want to believe that AC C is really helping you out .

That's perfectly fine .

But don't feel the need to only buy Nike top end models for the AC C feature because I really don't think it's something that does much of anything at all .

And that concludes the five worst football boot trends of 2018 .

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