if u guys are in england watch bbc 1, watchdog are documenting on blades, some pics they showed of injuries are awful, scars and calves hanging loose.. pure gruesome, that has put off my love on blades

In terms of someone doing it to you (ie. them cutting into you with the blades) or the blades themselves causing injury to the ones wearing them due to their different grip than studs)

im from england and watching it and i've got F50+ fg. but i've always had blades and never had or known anyone who has had an injury because of blades

kinda both, u can break your leg if ur foot is planted on the ground, cus blades dont give u a turning circle then it is more likely as well. but they never really sed anything about that. alan pardew and the sheffield united coach was on it quite scary, they are tryin to ban it. united has banned it completely, they are tryin to convince people like o'shea not to wear them.

Now that I think about it, the injury I suffered last week was due to my foot staying put at the place where I stepped at, and my body kept going.

It was also wet and soggy and I was wearing hard soil blades, but you made a great thread without even knowing it.

It is very true that as a player I have worn studs until I bought the New Dragon Pulses 2 months ago. I have noticed great grip with these cleats, and I had nothing but good things to say from the K-Leather monsters I had purchased.... but that fateful Sunday mid-afternoon my ankle turned all kinds of purple...

I'm still out of comission, 1 week and counting, and I don't ever recall twisting my ankle this bad. I think BBC is on to something, ver interesting.

This same point was brought up years ago when the first boots with blades were released (Cica i think). There were loads of doctors saying that you could do some serious knee injures by your foot not being able to twist and turn in the ground. Ive never had any problems due to wearing blades but it does make sense.

You can injure yourself by using blades.If u play in a fast position and try n turn quick you can injure yourself easily bcoz the blades are not round like studs and can get caught in the groundmuch easier

how can plastic blades cut open a calf
they arent realy sharp?

If they catch a stone a tear slightly they can get a sharp egde. It doesnt have to be sharp to touch but raked down a shin or leg they can tear the skin open easily. The same however can happen with standard plastic studs if they get damaged as well.

People walk on concrete with them on, or a hard ground which will sharpen the metal blade up. I was out playing football at the time but my Mum said something about this programme, I had heard somewhere that alot of Premiership clubswere banning their players wearing them. I know at the back end of last season referees were starting to check the studs on our football boots to see if they are sharp.

The issue has come up a lot as other people have said. The Sunday Times published an article around a year ago about how Man Utd had banned their players using blades. The Mirror needed some filler last week so they re-hashed the article but it's actually bollocks. Off the top of my head O'Shea, Richardson and Gary Neville use Adidas blades.

I think it's blown out of proportion - these injuries could happen with any sort of studs.

This has just increased my urge to get some Legends FG...

...but it has also just boosted my resent for buying F50+ SG...I am finding them very uncomfortable.

Copa Mundials amigo, copa mundials.

its mainly the metal adidas blades that are being villianised here, but IMO the twisting etc injuries are generic to all blades.

ya with blades their is an increase in the possibility of injury. but it seems highly unlikely to me. i use both blades and conical studs and there is a slight difference between the two, but nothing that will jeopardise my health. so i guess until one of us breaks his leg cuz of his blades well just be talking about the CHANCE of injury. ps. i don't do very much running, ie goalie lol, so i guess blades are safer if u don't need to do as many cuts and sprints etc.

another reason to get the vapors in sg. though sg hurts too. i wish they made the vapors with the t-90 cleat. that has a nice ball feel.

I was playing with some FGs (blades) last Thursday and I injured my right ankle... my foot stayed in one place whilst I turned to the right. It's been swollen and blue, and I'm still limping. Interesting read.

i want to see some of these pics of the injurys if possible
anybody have any?

Cisse broke his leg and he wore f50's plus the player didnt touch him so i guess he twisted awkwardly
oh yeh the goalie in my uncle's football team snapped his tendon and he wore predator prcisions but dunno if the boot caused it, its likely cus no 1 was withing 50 yards of him. he simply walked backwards.

i have some predator pulse sgs which are blades and i love them... havent had a problem with them yet and i hope to never have a problem.

my school team plays on field turf so i obvisouly dont wear the blades on that but i have had many shoes blow out on the sides because of the torsion

Same thing happened to me!

surely its not blades to blame if your foot is stuck, that just depends on the legth of the stud, to me blades are fine but i understand what your getting at

Actually playing with HG cleats on soft soggy grass was to blame...

My best mate is out of sports for the rest of his life at the grand old ago of 14, from his knee downwards was 180 tot he rest of his body, i was watching as i am too old for that age group, was sick man and it was the first time he had worn blades... just found out that why!

I play as a striker or winger, because of this I turn at high speed quite a lot and stop and start quite a lot and I only ever use blades, be it dry or wet and I have never picked up an injury through theses, however everyone is different.

I ahve always worn blades (bar my vaps)and have never injured myself while wearing them. However, in december last year, when wearing my vaps (sg) I put my foot down and tried toi turn, but my foot was caught in the ground. I tore ligaments and was within millimetres of a badly broken ankle. My Ankle swole to the size of a medium sized grapefruit (no joke)

poor kid!

I got legends at the mo, but my last 4 pairs of boots were FG preds, and i never had a problem with my blades catching the turf or anythin. I uderstand the way some of you are commming at this, but i just dont get how the shapes of the studs can have such servere consiquences!

United have tried to ban baldes? What about, Miller, Ronaldo, Heinze, Edwin van der Sar, Park?

Wouldn't you think that United's trying to ban SG blades, not FG.

I have the F50 FG and I don't like my blades. They never seem to dig in fully, so I don't know what's wrong. Maybe my field is too hard?

watchdog on bbc recently investigated the effect of blades. many premiership clubs are banning them and some of the post-match injuries are gruesome
no doubt that boots with blades look a lot better than wit studs or moulds

i have the manias and those studs are HUGE! and 2 weeks ago we played on astro and my nees hurt like crap after the game.

Why would you wear cleats on astro?
You must wear Turf cleats for that one...

Fun Fact:

The harder the surface you play, the harder it is on your joints... the bones, not the fun kind of joints.

bcs we had no idea what the pitch was gonna be like..or else i wouldhave.

all is [pardoned then. haha ya i h8 it when u can only like bring one pair of boots, but u dont' know waht kind really.

but almost all adidas shoes have blades:s

Blades are always gonna be worse than a normal shoe because blades have less surface area, creating more pressure on your knees and ankles.

I never even thought of that, but that is a very valid point. In my blades, I'm not even all the way in the ground anymore, my heel is always up. Hurts my heels as well. Gonna get some T90s next.

I heard that man.utd av banned ther players from wearin blades n only can wear studs which i fink is a gud idea

I watxhed it too. very intresting. made me feel sick though. the injurys were bad. see my team walsall banned blades, loved how mark bright said about differant stud surfaces and how he said "we all cant afford these differant boots so what do we do?" i smiled as i can. i got firm ground soft ground hard ground and versetract studs.

What about vapour sg's are they bad... do they have "blade" studs

I dont get why they're all bad mouthing adidas, Vapors (with the exception of the SG's) have blades, and if your gonna say the T90 3's are better, just look at how many people say the have horrible grip nad all; even players after Euro 2004 complained about the traction, so I highly doubt adidas, etc. would make boots that could potentialy injur players

i just got home from a game today and we have field turf for our home field and i wore my SG pulses and my ankles and calves are paying for it... it just puts a lot of pressure on them i guess

Does it matter if the blades are plastic/metal?

But the blades should be cutting into the surface and therefore the weight is distributed onto the sole of the boot too (because the blades would be sunk into the ground and the top of the ground will be touching the bottom of the boots). I would also argue that Adidas SG blades have more surface area than traditional studs because there are more blades than studs, and in any case the surface area of one Adidas SG blade is still the same as a stud.

If there is less surface area it won't have an effect on knees or ankles. It might affect your feet but less surface area only makes a difference to how the blades or studs go into the ground. The force hitting the ground is the same, the force or your foot stopping suddenly as it hits the ground. There is no really difference to your joints.



That was printed in a newspaper (either the Sunday Mail or the Sunday Times, I can't remember) months ago, then The Mirror picked up the story again a few weeks ago to fill up some column space. Finally Watchdog had an item on it recently.

However... it's a load of bollocks.

http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/se...0%7c0&p=2&tag=1

There you will find pictures from Sunday. In the third row down you can clearly see Richardson wearing SG blades and on the bottom row you see O'Shea with the same boots. Van Der Saar also wears SG blades.




That's more to do with the fact that you were wearing SG on a hard surface. That would have happened with normal studs too.

Well, this is quite relevant to me i think. I was playing just 2 weeks ago with my F50+'s, which have the metal blades. During the game, i felt pain in my ankle/achilles area, which got worse and worse. However i was fine after the game, until the following week when i was in the park, having a kick around, when i hurt my achilles. Damn it hurt, i just sort of pulled it and i heard a twitch as i felt it giving way. I dunno why but im guessing it was due to the metal blades, so i've decided to invest in b3ans's air legends for firm ground. Hopefully that should settle the problem. But seriously, this injury sucks, i felt sharp pain all the way up my leg, and 2 weeks on i think i may have hurt it again, i dunno for sure yet, but i was playing indoor and i hurt another twitch so i promptly came off. Hopefully it'll heal quickly, but im gonna rest for a few days just in case.