Adidas F50.8 Tunit [affiliate] has been the center of the soccer world buzz. It’s won two awards this year, Most Innovative Shoe, and also Best Looking too. However, what is it that sets this shoe apart from all the rest? As an owner of this cleat, I’ve found several different pros and cons the Tunit brings with ownership. I’ll start with the good.
Adidas Tunit F50.8
- First off, this cleat looks amazing. I always get comments on my shoes (White/Metallic/Gold) from both fans and the other team. I hear “Wow. Look at those cleats. I bet he’s a good player.” The shoes look brilliant and make you brag about them. It also has a new feature which also brings attention. The see-through heel. Good reason to buy the shoes.
- Interchangeable studs, chassis, sock liner, and upper. Lets you change it however you want, whenever you want. I’ve gotten to a deserty field and had softy ground cleats, and my feet hurt the entire game. Now with the Tunit, you can change your shoe to match the conditions.
- Very lightweight. 7.4 oz making it easier to lift your feet up off the ground. It doesn’t gradually drag your feet down after an exhausting 90 minutes, creating a feather-like shoe you barely even notice while running.
- Many famous professionals wear the Tunits (Lionel Messi, David Villa)
Now to the bad.
- Gave me blisters in two different spots on both feet. (Right behind my ankle and the left side of my heel) It may have not been broken in enough at the beginning, however made them worse after 2 weeks worth of wearing them.
- Only comes with 1 pair of chassis and sock liner. To buy the competitive versions, costs extra $50.00.
- It does not come with a string bag or ball sack, unlike Predators [affiliate] and T90 Lasers [affiliate].
- To buy another Upper it costs $80.00, when you could buy the Nike Mercurial Talaria [affiliate] for approximately the same price.
Altogether, it is a good shoe for the type of people who want to do tricks and have stylish shoes. To buy the F50 Start Kit [affiliate], it costs $169.00, a low price compared to other cleats. I’d say a resounding yes to most, to buy this shoe.
yo dude, u know what u talkin about. i have the tunits to, and they r sick. i seriously scored like 6 goals my first pickup game with these. u own dude.
I had last years model of the boot and it had its ups and downs. I just want to comment on the blisters. I got them on the left of my heel, and it screwed the skin there, turned black. The problem is that the back is very flexy and there is no support at the back which i think is really important. Up to you
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Umm then yall shouldnt be wearin tunits because, i have twelve soon to be fourteen pairs and i have never gotten blisters, and yess they are sick.
i wish i had them and i have the new safari mercurials indoor and there sicckk anyone tell me where i could get the f50 tunits plz let me know
i bought the f50.8′z and they were awesome…how ever i got blisters on the first finger..bt thts it…cn any one tell if i cn use f50i uppers with the f50.8 chassis…..and where cn i get the competition chassis and uppers in ”Saudi Arabia,JEDDAH!…thnx in advance!
hey had….both the f50 tunits…nd f50 i……found them quite heavy….changed to mercurials….nd nw i again wear f50s bt adizeroes they r nice….