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Equipment => Other Gear => Topic started by: FvanN on January 30, 2014, 08:34:29 AM

Title: Asics Advance 3 thoughts?? Please...
Post by: FvanN on January 30, 2014, 08:34:29 AM
I managed to pick up a pair of Advance 3's at what i believe to be a very good price and in doing so saved a few £s which have increased my new bat fund  :D (happy days)

But there is a snag I cant wear them in the house (wife will kill me) and I cant wear them outside as I want to keep them clean till the season starts.

So would appreciate a few peoples thoughts. 

Thanks
Title: Re: Asics Advance 3 thoughts?? Please...
Post by: GarrettJ on January 30, 2014, 08:39:06 AM
take the spikes out and wear them in the house
Title: Re: Asics Advance 3 thoughts?? Please...
Post by: FvanN on January 30, 2014, 08:42:06 AM
take the spikes out and wear them in the house

Yip doing that tonight  :)
Title: Re: Asics Advance 3 thoughts?? Please...
Post by: AlanB on January 30, 2014, 08:42:49 AM
Assume you are referring to breaking them in?

I have had Advance 2 and 3, both could be worn comfortably straight out of the box, taking an old pair of shoes as a precaution or wear for half a match at the outset.

Quality socks help, too.
Title: Re: Asics Advance 3 thoughts?? Please...
Post by: gdb19 on January 30, 2014, 09:28:40 AM
Wear a decent pair of socks and you'll be fine, the asics I've had have been extremely comfy straight away and didn't need breaking in. Not like when I was a kid and each new pair of mitre spikes needed plenty of plasters all over ankles/feet to avoid blisters.

I've always found the kookaburra socks to be good. Others rave about 1000 mile or horizon too (I had the horizon test I think but wasn't that impressed)
Title: Re: Asics Advance 3 thoughts?? Please...
Post by: FvanN on January 30, 2014, 12:54:30 PM
Thanks lads, not got any cricket socks as yet so will have to use my thick winter walking socks. :)
Title: Re: Asics Advance 3 thoughts?? Please...
Post by: WalkingWicket37 on January 30, 2014, 05:45:19 PM
Instead of ivesting in an expensive pair of cricket socks just wear 2 pairs of normal socks
Title: Re: Asics Advance 3 thoughts?? Please...
Post by: FvanN on January 30, 2014, 05:55:45 PM
Instead of ivesting in an expensive pair of cricket socks just wear 2 pairs of normal socks

Yea I have done this in the past but found when putting the 2nd sock over the first it pulls the first to tight. And £10 for two pairs of socks seems a drop in the ocean when compared to the money I have spent over the last few weeks for cricket.