Protects My Son The Best: Adams Adult Football Shoulder Pads
Written: Jun 06 '02 (Updated Jun 06 '02)
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Pros: Protects, Lightweight, Durable, Flexible
Cons: Black color attracts heat
The Bottom Line: Adams Adult Football Shoulder Pads are extremely protective, durable, and lightweight allowing for great flexibility during play or practice.
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| sweetcece's Full Review: Adams Adult Football Shoulder Pads |
Now it may seem rather crazy for a women to write a product review about football shoulder pads. After all, there probably are not a lot of women football plays, and especially not that many my age! However, I am very familiar with Adams Shoulder Pads because they were a part of my life and my son’s life for three years and I feel qualified to relay to you why I am impressed with this product.
Protects Someone I Cherish
As a mother of a son who has been playing football for over five years, it just makes me cringe when I see those bone crunching plays that these guys do over and over again. Knowing that my son would be on the front lines didn’t really soothe my nerves much either even though I knew he was really strong enough to protect himself (and the quarterback) from harm, I knew that football players got hurt quite often.
However, I have to say something about Adams Football Shoulder Pads. I’m impressed. My son wore this particular brand of pads for almost three years and in that time he wore these pads, he was never hurt, in fact he was never even bruised on that part of his body. These shoulder pads were the reason because I will tell you that my son always gave 110 percent out there and took out as many guys as possible when playing!
The Adams shoulder pads took the impact, allowed him to bounce off tackles and generally just do what he wanted to do – crunch heads!
Fit And Wear
Because my son is a big guy, it was really hard for him to find football equipment to fit him properly. The coaches had to special order him a larger than normal helmet, and finding cleats is a joke because he has wide feet. However, the Adams Shoulder Pads offer a fit that is ideal.
With this product, my son is able to show a wide range of motion and does not feel constrained or cramped. With his 20 inch neck, he was able to feel comfortable wearing the pads, but insulated enough to be able to be protected. Overall this is just a fine quality product well refined to fit a wide range of sizes and body types and flexible enough to allow the player’s to feel able to move without extreme constriction.
Since he played offensive and defensive line, he was constantly being double teamed. So, two people were coming at him from two directions and he was expected to take both of them out. The ability of the Adams pads to protect and allow him to move quickly allowed him to be able to protect the quarterback or kicker, and to storm the opponents on defense.
My son wore these pads for over two years. In that time, these pads were worn in extreme heat, in extreme cold, in pouring rain, and in one game that was eventually called the “Mud Bowl” because of the extreme conditions of the field. After that game you could not even tell what team was what because the colors of both were red mud! With clean up with some disinfectant, the Adams Shoulder Pads were easy to return to a good playing condition after every game.
One of the things though that I think showed a good durability to this product was not the fact that they were used in the practice and the games. That issue was when the kids would carry these items around with the helmet inside the pads, to carry their gear around school before going to their lockers. These pads were thrown on hard concrete, tile floors, and nothing fazed them.
My Experience
As a joke, my son decided to put these pads on me one day to see how funny I looked! I was impressed with the padding of these pads. It was soft and comfortable, and even though the darned things were at least two sizes too large, I was impressed with the construction, protection, and flexibility. And yet this produt was lightweight! I really thought the darned things would weigh me down because of how big they were, but I was wrong! (laughing)
My kid decided to hit me on the top of these pads so that I could see that I wouldn’t get hurt because I was a worrywart. I was impressed to find out that I didn’t feel anything when he did that but some mild pressure!
Features
Adams Adult Shoulder Pads have the following features:
Pre-drilled for accessory attachment, front & back.
140 gauge, high density polyethylene fiber.
Closed & open cell foam for optimum fit & protection.
Clavical channel provides better fit & protection.
Water resistant nylon cover.
Pre-drilled for neck roll.
Large neck opening for better range of motion.
Urethane coated cantilever, cap, and flap hinges.
We did not attach any accessories to our shoulder pads, but I know that other players on my son’s team put rib guard attachments, other attachments to the back side of this product and neck roll assemblies. This product is very flexible and can accommodate whatever needs the player may have for additional protection beyond the basic pad unit. As I mentioned this product gave my son a wide range of motion even though he has a large neck and upper body. I’m really impressed with the flexibility of Adams Shoulder Pads and they are continued to be the #1 brand used by my son’s high school team.
Drawbacks
Personally, I don’t see much of a drawback to this product. The only thing I could say is that since the pads are black they are more likely to absorb heat than if this product was a white color as other brands are. That would be the only change that I would make in this product to “improve” it.
Recommendation
My son has worn other brands of shoulder pads before when he was at other schools in the past. However, these pads did not have as high of quality as Adams has with their shoulder pads and I could tell the difference myself! In my opinion if a football team wants to truly protect their players from injury they should invest in the best product possible and in my opinion that is Adams. I am impressed with this product and highly recommend it for purchase.
Additional Specifications
Available Sizes from Medium to XXXL. Those size ranges include neck sizes from between 17 to 22 inches.
Recommended:
Yes
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