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Equipment => Your Kit => Topic started by: Buzz on February 04, 2020, 09:09:20 PM
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Which bit of new kit do you think is the must have this season?
The stubby arm guard from TomTek or a particular new duffle?
Or is there a bit of kit you just can't love without (yup that will be my trusty sg thigh pad set then...)
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Perhaps everyone at my club is being tight this year but I haven't seen any new kit so far at nets. Obviously I am on here so have picked up a stubby arm guard (and also a stubby over all the new kit people have on here).
I'm thinking it might be the strettons i've picked up that will be my favourite... :D
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New Strettons when they become available I reckon.
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Going by the response now it's knocked in, the discount Chase bats aren't a bad shout.
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I think mine will be my adidas boost basketball trainers spiked up. Could be a game changer in reducing ankle pain.
Oh the new masuri thigh guards are also very good!
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I had the white and yellow Puma 19.1 spikes delivered today. It’s safe to say they look spectacular!
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For the first time in about 20 years a new box for me, carbon shock Dr.
My favourite new bit of kit is the Qdos duffle I bought it’s just a superb bag for the money
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I am loving my kookaburra charge 4.0 in nets that I bought end of season. Will be good to see how we go in match. A new duffle bag and pair of spikes are on wish list.
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For the first time in about 20 years a new box for me, carbon shock Dr.
My favourite new bit of kit is the Qdos duffle I bought it’s just a superb bag for the money
I got one of those too! The orange and black one. It really makes being smashed in the goolies slightly less painful, as evidenced at nets last Sunday.
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not bought much this year, managed to recover 3 bats that's I had lent to friends - one of which was in horrific condition and had to be sent straight to kookaburra.
so far only a set of surge pro pads and gloves and a tomtek stubby
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Having updated my softs this season my Neon Wheelie Duffle is my favourite new bit of kit! Another lad at my club has fallen in love with it too saying "it's the best designed bag I've ever seen" so that could be a contender.
I'm waiting for Mr Fox to release his new thigh pad set, I reckon that will be something that most CBFers purchase :)
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I got one of those too! The orange and black one. It really makes being smashed in the goolies slightly less painful, as evidenced at nets last Sunday.
I used one of those for years, but have moved to the hard cup
https://www.shockdoctor.com/products/aircore-hard-cup?variant=14354516607029 (https://www.shockdoctor.com/products/aircore-hard-cup?variant=14354516607029)
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Just me who feels that this thread is lacking in photos?
Can't contribute much as I have barely purchased any equipment for 2 years, shortly taking delivery of new adidas boosts but that might be it aside from Foxys new thigh pads whenever they drop.
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I used one of those for years, but have moved to the hard cup
https://www.shockdoctor.com/products/aircore-hard-cup?variant=14354516607029 (https://www.shockdoctor.com/products/aircore-hard-cup?variant=14354516607029)
Do you not struggle with the lack of ventilation??
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Hard to have photos of new Strettons when they haven't dropped yet!
The current new kit trend at my club is for sticks from a certain local source... there'll be 6 in the club across our two sides next year, can't wait for that. Here's the newest two, more pics will come when they're finished properly:
(https://i.postimg.cc/Z5jvd1Hz/IMG-20200204-162159-998.jpg)
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Do you not struggle with the lack of ventilation??
Decent reading on the scrotometer maybe, but given the compression shorts holding it all in place, I am not sure any ventilation makes a difference. Plus you wouldn't want anything caught/trapped in a gap...
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Arm stubbies might become the thing to have this year, followed by Strettons if they ever arrive.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49491402588_94de5f0291_o.jpg)
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Decent reading on the scrotometer maybe, but given the compression shorts holding it all in place, I am not sure any ventilation makes a difference. Plus you wouldn't want anything caught/trapped in a gap...
It’s a balancing act isn’t it. On balance I think I prefer ventilation and drainage to the unlikely event of testicle egress.
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For the first time in about 20 years a new box for me, carbon shock Dr.
My favourite new bit of kit is the Qdos duffle I bought it’s just a superb bag for the money
Picked one of these bags up myself. My only gripe is if the side pockets were a touch bigger you could put a pad on each side and have the main section free for other kit
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Arm stubbies might become the thing to have this year, followed by Strettons if they ever arrive.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49491402588_94de5f0291_o.jpg)
Where did you source the arm stubbies from? I’ve seen the arytek ones but haven’t managed to find the others
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Would love to know too
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Where did you source the arm stubbies from? I’ve seen the arytek ones but haven’t managed to find the others
Ayrtek do unbranded ones as well?
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https://www.prodirectcricket.com/products/ESCU-Arm-Guard-White-Protection-220323.aspx (https://www.prodirectcricket.com/products/ESCU-Arm-Guard-White-Protection-220323.aspx)
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wonderful thanks @Buzz I shall order when they are in stock
They make the ones the pros down under have been using right?
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Or for far less than 20 quid, buy a 6" sweatband and stick your arm guard in it?! No different to the Aero or any other arm guard really. The Ayrtek ones are much slimmer obviously.
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yes I was going to have a look at doing this ha but it properly wont be as good lol
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It would be too tight, which is why Ayrtek's use of D30 is the only real solution for a sweatband protector.
The other one I pictured and Buzz linked, is a New Zealand company that came to market in Nov '19, a few guy's on the telly have been using them.
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I made one a while ago and it was ok tbh. Cut up an old arm guard and placed it between the layers of a 6 inch sweatband, wasn't too tight and felt fine. That said the Ayrtek one (which I have too), is obviously far less bulky.