All About Cleats in Football

Video Transcript

"VINCENT JAMAL: I'm Vincent on behalf of Expert Village, and we're going to talk about cleats. And cleats are important. It's definitely something that you want to take care and you want to have precaution to match your cleat to the conditions that you'd be playing on. The condition that we're on right now is an Astro Turf type of field. And Chris has a molded cleat which is exceptional for these conditions. The only thing with these is once they start breaking off on the bottom as the shoe gets older, you're on the risk of turning an ankle or doing something on an uneven surface. So this is good but you really want to be careful what you're doing. These, on the other hand, the screw-ins and these are replaceable so the shoe doesn't necessarily have to go once the bottom does. And they screw out easily in and out. The only thing that you really want to be careful with is the cleat length. You want to make sure that in extremely bad conditions, extremely sloppy and bad footing, you go to a longer cleat. Anytime you go to a longer cleat, you do run the risk of catching your ankle, catching a knee, having bad injuries due to your foot not being able to free itself, whether you're running and just cutting or being tackled. So make sure that you're careful when you're selecting your cleat for the conditions of the game."