[Closed] Old Skool Sports Kit

4 STRIPE!

SS Jumbo

Adidas Predators with metal tipped studs! And those Mitre footballs with the premier league logo in the middle.

Adidas Ivan lendl tops.

Man I really wanted one but we were poor up north!

SS Jumbo

Nods in agreement.

See also the Scoop.

The most glorious running shoes of the 80s...
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Jnr asked me to play for his 6 a side team a month or so back as they were short. I got out my trusty Asics moulded boots, the boots were last worn in anger 13 years ago but the sole had cracked and disintegrated.

Now I'm scared to check up on my beloved Puma Kings in case they have gone the same way (also last worn 13 years ago!).

Those heavy cotton rugby jumpers and ickle shorts in nylon that were 'in' during late '80s

Danny Dunlops. All the other kids were jealous. And by jealous I mean relentlessly took the piss.

This website is great for reminiscing... http://www.80scasualclassics.co.uk/

Mitre delta fireball. What a ball.

Wasn't the scoop a Gray Nichols?

Yep, GN100 Scoop and then the odd Twin Scoop and more variants.

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Used to walk past the gray nicolls factory on the way to my mates house. I'm guessing the don't still make them in a shed in Sussex anymore.

Airtex shirts
Dunlop blue flash for squash - anyone remember squash?
Adidas Flankers +1
Duncan Fernley
Karrimor Joe Brown rucksack, troll climbers "belt", hemp, Willans sit harness
Dunlop maxply fort x2 (tennis and squash)*
Cotton, not man made materials in shirts for active sport
atomic arc 203s
The original Helly Hansen navy fleece versus Javelin?
Prajapatti hockey stick *

* all still used for fun in past 12 months (ok not squash)

The global hypercolor t-shirt deserves an honourable mention surely...

Always fancied a scoop but was out first ball with first try and never went back

And not forgetting....

Wintergreen (and jockstraps!!)

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The Adidas rugby ball the the Frech played with - was it the wallaby?

Great to watch with a spiral kick...or in the hands of Serge Blanco

HH everytime.
Kids still wear black daps today.

I've been scanning a lifetime of slides and negatives recently. A windsurfer with a fluo sail, a fibreglass climbing helmet (and huge nuts), caving in a boiler suit, enormous pink and green plastic mountain boots and straight axes, a mountain bike with semi-slick green 1.95 tyres, a Bell triathlon helmet designed around a pudding basin (and kit coulours similar to the windsurfer sail), some very long and very straight skis, sunglasses machined out of curved perspex, Boréal Firé climbing boots and pink lycra climbing shorts, Selle Italia Turbo saddle, waffle-soled running shoes... .

Which should I post first? The pink lycra shorts are particularly fetching, modeled on the boulding on Sitges beach no less.

Nike Agassi pink lycra liner shorts (assuming not school sports equipment from the olden days - in which case it's pants and vest for the days you left your kit at home).

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Boreal Lasers

Dunlop Max200G, the first injection moulded tennis racket...

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I gave mine away, about 20 years ago; collectors items now apparently...

Adidas Copa Mundials for outdoors, Sambas for indoors.
Uhlsport Dino Zoff gloves
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Rock Shox Judy XL's.

The Adidas rugby ball the the Frech played with - was it the wallaby?

Yes, used to have one, may still be somewhere in the garage. Fair bit lighter than the Gilbert Match especially in the wet. First boots where the, sadly gone, Cotton Oxfords. Shop is still there.

Still have a Maxply, but not used. My Grays Karachi King from the early 90s is still used at Hockey practice, but crumbs the new stick are so much better.

Used the modern version of the scoop, in my view it is for sentimentalists as modern bat design has made it irrelevant.

Ladies and gents, welcome to the kayak section of this thread.

Firstly, we have the peerless Perception Dancer:
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Team with the Schlegel Extreme paddle (in de-riguer yellow and orange)
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Top with an Ace helmet:
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Accessories include a leaky nylon deck, spray top and fluffy Helly Hansen over a black rubber surface set of LongJohn wetsuit...

Yes, it is 1990 all over again. Yes it was chuffing cold. 8)

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North Cape fleece.
HiTec squash shoes
as above, Karrimor Hot Ice rucksack, bombproof
Karrimat sleep mat
skis - oof, too many to aspire to, what were the pairs made in Aviemore?

[ yes, I didn't really do team sports ]

Puma Match
Adidas Kick
Patrick Liverpool
Nike Tiempo turf

Puma King
Adidas World cup/Copa Mundial

I had a twin scoop from my uncle who played for Essex. Was ok with it but better with these:
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My great uncle played for WI in the 60s (and threw to the stumps to bag the first tied test against the oz at the gabba) and we have some of his kit in the family.

as above, Karrimor Hot Ice rucksack, bombproof

Ooh, that's what my rock climbing pack is (still) I think.

Nice bats Perchy, i loved my Ping 1 iron, i was happy knocking that 250 yards and barely ever missed a fairway.

Ping Anser II was my putter of choice too

Wooden framed tennis & squash racquets - and the squash racquets had round heads.
White tennis balls - before yellow became ubiquitous.

Fiery jack & dextrose tablets - used separately.

Gray Nicolls powerspot for me. Turned many a forward defensive into a boundary.

What were those utterly pointless batting gloves called? White with green pointy rubber bits I think.

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For slalom in the 90's
My god they were hot for skiing in the summer on dry slopes in this country.

as above, Karrimor Hot Ice rucksack, bombproof

Ooh, that's what my rock climbing pack is (still) I think.

Adidas Flanker? No ta, it was all about the Mizuno Timaru! I had a pair, low cut but like these...

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My son wore Mizuno Timarus last season, still great boots but have changed a bit.

GN Powerspot, just like David Gower, my hero.

Love those Slazenger Alan Knott gloves, but personally I had a pair of Kookaburra Silver (the all black ones like Jack Russell). No rounded cuffs or fancy shit, just a pair of old, classic gloves for a proper gloveman.

Mine weren't this shit though.

https://www.musicjinni.com/O4PEy-IgNBj/Robert-Jack-Russell-s-Cricket-Kit.html

I lost them after playing in a rep game. I made 99 and then got run out with a bowler deflection onto the stumps where I was backing up. Got really pissed and left them at the ground and never saw them again :sadface:

Never had such a good pair again.

For football. I had a pair of Hi-Tec boots with the big white tongues like big Nev
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but for gloves I was a Reusch man. Had a pair like Schmeichel's but with blue finger backs. And I had long shorts, bought from a sports shop in Bruges on holiday when everyone else was still in hot pants. I was the bollocks, I'll tell you.

jam bo - Member
Used to walk past the gray nicolls factory on the way to my mates house. I'm guessing the don't still make them in a shed in Sussex anymore.

They certainly do, well the top end ones at least. I was working on a project there a while ago.

You must be cough, 40ish Flashy, same bat, stick and boots were the ones to have in our school. I graduated to Puma Kings when I was made Scrum Half

Wouldn't have sniffed at one of these:

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And yellow Donnay Agassi rep racket of course..

re Karrimor rucksacks, are you me matt?
Alpiniste 65l (I think that's capacity) still in garage

Son still uses my dad's Karrimor Jaguar for knocking about at university to cart stuff.

kcal
The ski manufacturer from Aviemore was called Vielhaber.
My brother went to Uni with the Kurt Vielhaber the son of the owner.
Think he once went up to stay at there place in Newtonmore which had an en-suite nuclear bunker apparently!

Dunlop maxply fort x2 (tennis and squash)*

Old Skool sports kit?

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I met Dee Hepburn a few months back.

She sells stairlifts.

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Not being into football etc when i was a kid it was more like this

Vision Pyscho Stick

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I played for the same pre county home club as Jack Russell (Stroud CC) till I was 15 as WK. He used to coach me a bit, I liked the way he repaired his own gloves. That reminds me, he put on a match for the new pavilion named after his brother who passed away. As club lads we were allowed in the changing room, Bob Taylor talked to me for ages while Courtney Walsh and Malcom Marshal strode about without a stitch on!

Adidas Tango, post Mexico '86.

There was nothing cooler.

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Other than a Variflex skateboard, maybe.

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Just built this up for my lad,
deck and wheels (Kryptonics Slammers) unused, but have been cluttering up my dad's house since about 1988.

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I still use my MK1 hot ice (30l), lost the side pocket add one ages ago.

Brine M1, snapped it 3 seasons ago having a mess about.

Another popular combination at school. I wanted those ponys, but never allowed. I had the bag though! Some lads had full size head tennis bags.
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Ah, I'll see your puma bag and raise you a:

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I opened an account just for that! Didn't you get some stationery thing too? Seem to remember an account before that where you got a clear plastic money box and some other crap, Lloyds?

edit: Griffin savers! And a dictionary 😆

I had an adidas shell suit . It had a big purple flash across the front and stripes over the shoulders. I though it was shit hot. Which was somewhat ironic given their fire hazard status.

Thread does not disappoint!

Seem to remember an account before that where you got a clear plastic money box and some other crap, Lloyds?

And Barclays with a money box shaped like a bank, with a combination lock safe door on the back - I can't tell you how many times my toy soldiers robbed that bank.