Soccer Boots - Blades Or Not - Move If Wrong

yop

Move if this is in the wrong place but I could not think of anywhere else more suitable

Lads

What do ye think of blades, I am hearing varying reports that since we place a summer league and there is fairly dry ground I should avoid like the plague.

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Roddy23

Ye, I've been using baldes for the last 4/5 years. They're great during the winter as they stop you from sliding as much as the studs. During the summer i find that I get soem amount of blisters. SO if you are going to be using them during the summer prob stick with the studs.

yop

Cheers Roddy, I might do that alright, Is there not a shorter blade which is suitable for harder ground?

Roar

get a pair of poots with moulded studs for the summer.. quite the job..

Thanx 4 The Fish

I had a pair of blades when playing in summer, like studs, you can get both long and short blades. I had a pair of short blades which were fine. Believe ya can get em in stauntons.

Johnny_the_fox

is there not calls for blades to be banned..

scuba steve

ya i heard there was.
I used to always wear studs but i got a pair of predators with blades and i dont think ill ever go back to studs. Theres types for hard and soft ground, moulded on for the hard surfaces

wheres me jumpa

Dry ground/summer = mouldies.

I prefer blades as I always found the studs to come through my boot and blister even in softer ground. The more you use blades the more they wear down, after a while they are ideal for astro.

yop

Thanks lad, Wheresmejumpa - You say u prefer blades, did u use them during summer?
ThanX4Fish - Is that the short blades that Stauntons have? I prob will buy on internet or ebay as much cheaper, at least if I can get the short blade there that will do the job

wheres me jumpa

Never really played over the summer. Although the beginning and end of the season the ground can be very hard. Even so I have wore blades in the past on this ground but you really need a pair of mouldies for this time of year.

Buy your blades now and buy a pair of mouldies later on. Mouldies can be very cheap.

mayordenis

some lad got a kick in the head off someone wearing blades in a match and the mother blamed the boots,
too be honest a proper kick with normal studs would do as much damage.
I have 2 pairs of cheap boots one with blades one with studs, i tend to use the blades more.

iregk

Well I have two types of studs that i use. Below is a pic of the boots I wear and from experience of different boots these are by far the best grip for soft ground. I never loose footing in these.

As you can see from the sole they studs are screw in (philips screwdriver needed) but they come off in sections. You get much smaller and rubber sections for summer as well. With this the weight is spread over the foot rather than at focused points as with normal boots. The advantage here is that you are also playing all year around with the same boots so no chopping and changing causing blistering or anything. The major comfort factor!

If you are playing on rubber based astro however do not under any circumstances use bladed boots. Always always use proper molded studs.

Roddy23

Sorry ye meant to say mouldies instead of studs for the summer months. I have a pair of blades, umbro's. I find that during the summer I get blisters all on my feet, from wearing th blades. I suppose its a case of different horse for different courses.
Just a thing with the mouldies, some ref's won't let ye play in them, ye'd want to check that ye are allowed to wear them first.

wheres me jumpa

A handy tip is to pile tons of vaseline on your feet before putting on your socks. Helps reduce the blisters.

Roddy23

Would your feet not be slipping all over the kip. Sounds like a good idea though.
Now just to wait till the summer comes to try it out.

yop

iregk - what sort of boots are they?

Don't know about the vaseline, think I might have to go and get mouldies alright.

wheres me jumpa

Roddy23 wrote:

Would your feet not be slipping all over the kip. Sounds like a good idea though.
Now just to wait till the summer comes to try it out.

trust me, i was at trials one day and this guy handed me a tub of vaseline and said do you want some? i didnt know what he was proposing! eventually he explained it helps with the blisters. i ave since tried it out and that crazy bas***d was really on to something.

Roddy23

trust me, i was at trials one day and this guy handed me a tub of vaseline and said do you want some? i didnt know what he was proposing!

ROFL

iregk

yop wrote:

iregk - what sort of boots are they?

Don't know about the vaseline, think I might have to go and get mouldies alright.

Yop, they are Uhlsport L650 EXG TC. Not the easiest to get over here (i got mine when i lived in Germany) but they are one of the best boots on the market. I think Satelite sports do them, not sure.

Also Vaseline is great for blisters but there is also a cream you can get called Compeed. If you use it after matches and after training is strenghtens the skin and brings back the elasticity of natural skin and trust me, using this you will not get blisters. This way you dont need vaseline before matches or that.

cournioni

I always go for the studs in the winter. Blades are just uncomfortable. But I have some moulded blade type preditors for the Summer, they are some job.