"Indestructible" Shoes Compared!

yeah this video is gonna be a little bit different Oh what's going on guys this is James White with freakin interviews bringing you ask seen on TV product reviews gadget reviews and more not your likely to see in this video please consider subscribing for more videos like this but today I'm comparing three types of so-called indestructible shoes there's a type of shoe that are called indestructible shoes there's also a brand called indestructible shoes so sometimes we referring to all of them is indestructible sometimes I'm referring to this one but this is the indestructible shoe brand and all these shoes have a metal shank in the sole steel toe and they're supposed to be good for outdoor use for workplace environment and they're supposed to be indestructible this is the Rocket beat indestructible shoes same features and these two cost me approximately $70 the indestructible and the rocket V I've also got a popular choice at Amazon this is the SWAT X sometimes I refer to it as the Amazon shoe as well but this one also has the same features and this was about 45 bucks and finally about halfway through the video you'll see this Brahma pair of steel toe boots appear and I bought these at Walmart so sometimes I refer to them as the Walmart boots these do not have a metal shank in the sole but they do have a steel toe now I started this off like a normal review in fact here's the original intro it's not today I've got three pairs of indestructible shoes they've been heavily advertising online but somehow this evolved into something a lot bigger than a normal review for me so without further delay let's get right to the indestructible shoes compared all right so my son and I are at the parking place in basketball we're gonna try all three different pairs of shoes on and see how they work as far as comfort goes for an outdoor shoe because all these advertise does not just being their destructible but also being shoes you can wear them for regular everyday use they show people hiking we're gonna play some basketball and see how they hold up that's next how do they feel at first views huh a little weird though weird all right are we gonna shoot some hoops and our shoes now and see how they go [Music] this one's for you Brook Lopez [Music] all right so we had some fun playing basketball let's talk about each one of these real quick just as now this is just the first part of my test this is just the comfort and use as an everyday type of shoe so let's talk about the rocket beast first what are your thoughts about those Brandon I think I think they felt pretty good like the inside material was pretty nice I mean I this one you feel like you're stepping on a piece of metal too but it's not as evident as the indestructible shoes yeah I feel like this one was a nice balance between the three I felt like I could feel the toe piece more like the the it seemed like right there might I would I would feel that when I jump so I'm not sure about any of these for basketball really but just as far as walking goes I felt like I felt that oh the most on these all right now the indestructible shoes would you thing with these I thought those were the least comfortable to play basketball in for sure I did feel like they were very heavy not really good for running or basketball necessarily they're very sturdy though but I don't know if they shouldn't even market us as an outdoor type of shoe because it seems like it's too heavy for any kind of running or anything like that yeah for running it's not really good but I feel like these are like design-wise they look these look the best and ah and they feel the best made of the three yeah I feel pretty well laid alright let's talk about the Amazon SWOT X next how's that look yes no okay so what do you about these these were definitely the best ones to play basketball really okay what do you think I felt like they had the least arch support they had the least arch support among these three however he didn't have as much resistance going down like you did with the indestructibles and you didn't feel that much in the toe like you did and these one so I'm a little bit torn on these as far as which one works the best for outdoor use so I don't know we have a lot more to go though it's tough to say at this point in time which one is the best of the three right but I got my friend Justin you know Justin right yeah so anyways I figured the best person to ask when it comes to trying to destroy something as someone who can build something and Justin is the wizard at building things so I'm heading over to Justin's next to see if we can put these to the real extreme test it sounds good alright alright guys so I enlisted the help of my friend Justin from the fabrication series and he is gonna help me break down these shoes and see what's really underneath the hood so I'm gonna go inside and see what Justin can do to help me out let's check it out all right guys I'm here with Justin from the fabrication series and Justin is going to help me deconstruct these shoes and see what's really underneath the hood like this machinery like a SHOP full of tools here yeah let's tear them up as soon as I saw the the commercials for the instructable shoes I thought about you because I knew this shop would be the place to see if they're accurate or not so it'll be fun alright let's get right to it [Music] [Applause] take a few of these stick it on that now we've got a that's gonna be savage we got overdone seriously hardcore board would yeah that's the next level over the wood yeah oh yeah I guess we'll find out soon enough make sure you're not going down extra pretty well just set your hand on it I don't think so now it's gonna be hot npointing oh it is smoking yeah indestructible shoes we shall find out the tree are gonna make sure my accuracy accuracy is good here we go that's gonna be good okay this is a this is a control chute by the way this is old Nike Dunk II old night all right thank you for not having smelly shoes you're welcome okay here we go yeah oh they come through yeah I got it oh he came through okay went right through the bottom a little force yeah not much oh wow I went right through it yeah yeah I'm not the strongest guy in the world but you woman oh no really no oh wow we that metal shake it just peeled back yes sharp - yeah yeah whoa you even really I think it actually did worse than the Nike okay so what the pressure whoa no yeah pressure okay oh wow I just right through it that felt a little harder than I key though okay it's a lot less pressure than a 200-pound guy stepping on something yeah well good news it doesn't leave any uh-oh anymore yeah yeah resale value is incredible with this okay are you doing what are you doing these hard that I don't think so oh don't move that's over there in the corner there okay I think it's through like right there just can't get past this little composite alright well that's kind of a plus one I think yeah Wow I was actually lifting myself up that's yeah look at the strain that's Wow oh yeah it's a little door now it bent my freakin nail actually dulled your nail I think it did Wow I mean we got it pretty sharp again now I mean okay sweeper test indestructible shoes yes yeah here we go you wait you got through yep there it is oh I did go through and this one did you see a little bit of metal sticking through there too yeah now with these more sharpened nail let's try to get our fish in our fish and it just went through another shoe so oh wow woah oh one of them all the way through Hey I like how you gave me that the Dole mail so I look like a weakling on there let the weakling try this now sorry well your physique you look way better on camera than I do I mean you go like muscles coming out right through huh oh yeah okay well okay so no did any of them pass the test do you think I mean they all did it about the same I think well we get more tests to do so let's see what else we can come up with all right [Music] so now what we're going to do we have the the homemade nail on this base we're gonna try some nail a nail through a piece of wood with a little bit softer it's a huge it's a big nail and then we're gonna see if maybe the different surface a different type of material gives us different results this looks like a workplace hazard right here yeah this is the this is the as seen on tv definition of workplace hazardous like stepping on stuff right that's that's the epitome of ID be shoes for Justin doing the control old Nike on the nail in the wood right through it well oh geez yeah one shot right through it Wow I think we'd bet the nail though oh that was nothing no almost no pressure and that's okay yeah oh that's not a good sign all right through the same sprite sir there he goes mm-hmm but I'm certainly more pressure than the Nike though yeah well this is the shoe the shoe shank redemption oh yeah I went through that went through it through the same hole no wow look at that thing fold I don't know I don't think it's gonna it's not going I can feel like go into this rubber and this stops yeah that's where the shank is yeah let's try again just checking the shoes now there we go geez in your foot right there that's all the way up into your ankle sciatic nerves yeah trim those off for you how do the workman's comp for that one really that just went through yep I just feel like it's I can't get that one to go through [Music] we're gonna try one nail step test and we're gonna use a piece of metal so we don't hurt our feet this good after smashing them down I don't really trust it so the way I see it this will be your load it's nice first right right so if even if it goes up and hits the steel that means it went through your foot right since I don't dare step on any one of these yeah no kidding for those first test I can trust an inch inch thick of steel so okay this is like you know 200 pounds of guy on stepping on a nail did it go through no went through the tongue [Laughter] definitely got through this oh yeah okay as expected that one didn't do too well oh we went through I heard it I heard it go through this is scary man look at dad here we go oh oh yeah we got it you go through oh yeah yeah okay time for the indestructible shoes indestructible shoe yep you fell thinly yeah immediately went through yeah Wow yeah there it is yep so did any of these pass this test no but I'm not a scientist pretty sure that's what the infomercials look like well the infomercials have a whole bed and nail so of course you're gonna not penetrate it's like it's like the old parlor trick a bed of nails I mean we could always try it yeah I always have if you've got a whole bed of nails it's not much different than stepping on some concrete yeah you're not gonna go through there's low dispersant that through all of it brings me back to the you know the old trick we got the bed of nails and one dudes like smashing a like a cinder block over another dudes ass with it with a with a sledgehammer right and right he doesn't he doesn't get stabbed or whatever through the back because there's so many nails that's where he's spread across all that's all right that's an old like fifth grade science all right all right so we were about to start the Steel Toe test and we both realized that there's a standard which I can't remember the name of right now I'll put the standard right there right there but there's a standard that the steel toe shoes and boots have that I'm not sure if any of these indestructible shoes actually meet I didn't see them on that website or the Amazon description so while Justin is actually preparing the test to drop a 50-pound block of steel on his shoes I'm at Walmart here I'm gonna get a pair of shoes or boots that actually adhere to that standard and see how the indestructible shoes and the Amazon shoes compared to those someone picked those up and head back and hopefully Justin's done cutting that big slab of steel to drop on the steel toes alright so while James is out buying the boots I gotta come up with a drop test here now per the ASTM standards those boots that he's buying it turns out that we need to get a 50-pound weight drop from a height of 18 inches and we should have no more than a half of an inch of compression or what their end result would be on a pair of men's shoes so this big old chunk of steel here this is solid steel it currently weighs in it 53.9 pounds according to my scale so we need to do after some quick math we chopped off about 3/4 of an inch and that should bring us right to 50 pounds so this is gonna take a moment but we'll get it down [Music] so Justin right now is welding an eyebolt onto this steel block and we're going to drop those on the steel toes of all four of the shoes we have the test weighs 50 pounds do a chest drop and see what it sounds like all right Wow whoo that should shoes underneath that should do it that should do it [Music] all right so now it's time for our steel-toe test and what we decided to do is we're gonna cut the steel toe completely off of these shoes and drop a 50-pound weight on them exactly 18 inches up we've got some slo-mo setup here to see how it really looks so Justin's getting prepared right now and soon we're gonna do the drop test indestructible shoes [Music] [Music] we're gonna do the boot next with the tag still on there so Justin is getting very technical he wants to make sure it's exactly 18 inches from the top of the shoe so he's getting a fancy here measuring it out yeah we've determined that the 550 paracord when it's actually hanging with a 50-pound weight it'll preload it roughly about half to 5/8 of an inch so I'm just making sure that we set it up just right I've already measured the shoes so that way when uh we set up underneath there and I'll get all this locked up in place and ready to roll they should sit exactly 18 inches above those steel toes it's a little primitive not the most scientific world but 18 inches is 18 inches I'll take his word for it the inches we're good yep for the two inches for all right so we've got this 50-pound weight exactly 18 inches away from the steel toe of the rocket beef shoe whoa [Music] [Applause] [Music] it looks like it all it did was flatten this piece a little bit the toe test is looking pretty good for the rocket beast all right just this work in the slo-mo cam over here whoa Wow [Music] flat as a pancake look at this [Laughter] that's the steel right there oh wow that's blown out that is this is flat flat what oh man goodbye toes man yeah we don't need those supposed to have a half inch of clearance still left in here that's almost touching that's like an eighth maybe yeah that's lowest point Oh these fared better yeah [Applause] I'm impressed those are actually still there they're a little a little inflated are the other ones do so bad I don't know basically doing is making sure that with this straightedge the tip of the shoe lines up with the actual weight itself yeah side to side it's got to be pretty close just that way we don't have like too many variables but the most important thing is that the shoe actually lands the same place on the weight itself and right now we've got it there yeah and that's good and we've done this with all of them - yeah they've all been lined up the same way and then we go over the high-speed look at the field monitor real quick yep so they're all coming out within the crosshairs here on the monitor you know so we know we're right on so that's how we've been met lining these up so there should be much variation as far as placement goes [Music] [Laughter] [Music] well you see a little bit of a bulge here on the side like it was hit it's a little bit much you got there oh yeah I trust my telling that I mean it's not science there are variables that we can't control but not a laboratory oh I guess that 18 inches is 18 inches 50 pounds it's 50 pounds and if they all lined up to this straight edge I mean it's a drop right what we're gonna do now is cut the toes in half take a closer look inside this is the indestructible destructible okay yeah indestructible thing you see there's some deformation for sure whoa that is your toe on steel you should be used to be your toe wow what the other one uses like a hardened steel and this one's like a cheapo steel or something it seems like the rocket be in the indestructible shoes were harder to cut than the Amazon SWAT X and the boot really so it seems like the SWAT X were easier to cut and the toe smash down more so you get like 200 some odd dollars where the shoes sitting here pretty much just cutting open this part numbers the same on those too ya know 125 en 125 68 oh there is a 6 it's like it's almost the same steel toe I'm gonna say right that's almost the same part number in the same spot with the same font as on these though now see that Amazon versus rocket be this it looks learner doesn't look inner you find out 58 foul 75 76 77 thousand err yeah that's why it smashed down holy Wow yeah I think these are the same steel-toed be honest I think those are the same they probably are and what about people about the boot um 7th out there 7 Eva so so those 3 the rocket be the indestructible and the boot those three are about 7 these thousand right yeah well just call it in the 70 range just a little bit bigger than a sixteenth of an inch this like officially 50 South yeah so thinner than the others the Amazons just kind of fell off their off the cliff on this one yeah and they were doing really well up first - I'm kind of blown away yeah alright measuring the shanks here what do you think 17 this is the indestructible shoe yeah those indestructible really good glue on this one by the way that's the only one I had to cut out of there how I stay together pretty well with it good yeah good a longevity their SWAT X now 10,000 okay so that's seven dollars so smaller and smaller rocket be now rocket be about ten two or so okay so the initial shoes a little bit thicker maybe it could just be you know I mean the difference is like could be the glue could be uh you know the coating on it something like that but it's coming up solid pretty much yeah it's pretty consistent yeah that seems like it's a little thicker well how did it do so terrible on the furniture on the shank - I think that I think that I think that this thickness just isn't good for stepping on nails yeah perhaps that'll save you $50 the cardboard that was pretty fun what do you think about these shoes what are your opinions after after tearing these things apart I need more toes I need more toes for sure so tell us what you think about the Amazon SWOT X shoes I had hope for them in the beginning right they were bending the nails up and yeah you know they seem to hold the most but at the same time when it came down to crushing those toes and we actually measured them out and find out that a thinner like that's kind of scary I don't know if I would keep my life eating these or not oh if I'd want to you what did you think about the rocket Me's seem like the exact same shoe as the indestructible shoe but the indestructible shoe had more glue they would they would stick together or hold together longer yeah for you know maybe that's the only price difference but they looked identical like me the part numbers are practically the same the construction on the same everything I was very similar I have a feeling that maybe some factories may have made some of the parts at the same place I mean that's conjecture I don't know for sure but that's that's a guess the Walmart yeah I mean for $23 it was 23 really really at $23 yeah I mean they kind of just can't really step on anything yeah so if you had to pick between the three not forget the Walmart one if you had to go if you had to pick between the three which one would you pick indestructible indestructible shoes I think so I I would go the indestructible shoes also because they the to the toe was as good as the other three it was better than the Amazon the shank was as good as the others the glue was the best so I think that it overall I think that it was not by a wide margin wonder about put them on my feet I mean would you would you buy any of those you know I might go for the indestructible ones over the Walmart ones right well I I mean this is not scientific but based on what we could figure out that seems to be by a small margin the instructable shoes I got one more chesty back at home and I want to wrap things up all right thanks man appreciate it Joe all right for sure all right I know those videos getting pretty long here but I got one more quick test to do now the rocket be promotional video says 100% waterproof fabric I think the SWAT X also says it's water-resistant I'm not sure if the indestructible shoes mentions being a waterproof but I want to see if these are all waterproof now since Justin I kind of destroyed one shoe of each I have to put one different shoe on each foot I only got three left's and a right so I'm not to figure that out but I've got my pocket hose Silver Bullet back there I just fill with water put these on and see how waterproof they really are and how skid-proof they really are that's next I got the rocket DS and the SWAT X's right now yeah my feet are wet my feet are wet that didn't take long their other wet oh that is not waterproof sorry guys all right let me switch the other ones no all right I'm still wearing the SWAT X this is only right I've got so let's try it Instructables oh yeah right through it right through it just for some comparisons sake let's see if these Brown with Walmart ones hey that's waterproof what do you know and my foot sweat again let me try the anti-slip now whoa this is the SWA Dex that does not feel anti-slip it feels very slippery how about the Brahma oh that isn't slip at all now these SWAT X's are very slippery indestructible shoe it feels better than the SWAT X for sure and rocket bees that that feels pretty good and doesn't not flippin I'm gonna say no to the waterproof fabric I mean maybe the fabrics waterproof but when you have a tongue in there the water is going to go around it so even though their promotional video she says waterproof with a hose spraying on it I'm gonna say no but the indestructible shoe and the rock can be both the will and on slip test SWAT X not so we'll actually pretty good pretty bad and then brahma-bhutah also did pretty well so once again the SWAT X is kind of way in the rear the other three did pretty well as far as a non-skid test those none of them are waterproof so that's all I've got guys first I want to thank my son Brendan for his help with the early part of this video and my friend Justin from the fabrication series for his part and let me take over shop for the second part of the video both those guys have YouTube channels I will link them below please check them out now I already know what the keyboard warriors are out there gonna say as they say with every review as you should have done this or you didn't do that but I did check the advertising claims all the shoes so a nail being used but they usually show a bed of nails I used one nail which just seems more realistic in a workplace environment and I found that I now can penetrate these Souls even with a metal shank in the soles all of them show the steel toe being tested out I found that the rocket beat and the indestructible shoe actually hang with an ASTM standard work boot but the SWAT X did not they all seem to indicate these are good for outdoor use I found the playing basketball even light basketball running around walking they're kind of heavy and not as comfortable as an athletic shoe they're more comfortable than the average work shoe but I don't think that I would use this in place of a regular tennis shoes and finally the rocket we showed it being sprayed with water I sprayed all them and none of them were waterproof so really I think the rocket be an indestructible shoe are actually better than an uncomfortable work shoe but I think that the advertising claims are a little bit overhyped I can't duplicate some of the things they show there to me they're a durable shoe they're not indestructible if I had to pick one of the three that I tested out I would give the slight edge to the indestructible shoe because it seemed like it was better made it had better glue I think it's gonna hold up longer over time have you used one of these so-called indestructible shoes tell me what you think in the comments below please follow my social profiles for progress pictures videos as I go and please subscribe for more product reviews of me James white just freaking reviews

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Length: 30min 48sec (1848 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 07 2019