Laceeze Blog
Laceeze is a lifestyle sports' brand known for its unique patented Laceeze Bands, as well as our range of Defiance Clothing accessories. We are passionate about youth sport and children’s wellbeing. Our blog is where we share our thoughts and that of other like minded brands and organisations. We’ll also share training tips from our sports’ partners and coaches from time to time. Happy reading.
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What we wish we’d been told sooner! As parents and children prepare for the new school year ahead, our Laceeze founder Emma Burke and fellow sports’ accessory inventor Cary Marsh from Bootclaw got their heads together to talk about what advice they would give to new parents starting their child’s...
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Read our article about the transition from youth grassroots’ football at age 16 to what happens next for young adults, who haven’t been scooped up by a semi or professional academy / club, but who still want to pursue their passion for football. Also hear from a parent Coach and a parent Manager about how they both feel about hanging up their boots for the last time this season.
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The act of Defiance – “to persistently overcome your limits, obstacles and challenges”. The brand Founder Emma Burke, is always on the look out for the latest trends and best in market products for her sport mad sons’ and customers. Despite sports’ clothing being a relatively saturated market, she felt very...
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Image: Maddison Stanbury: u21 squad for Arsenal WFC as a GK Celebrating inspirational girls in sport To help celebrate International Women’s Day this year, we wanted to help inspire girls to take up grassroots’ sport. Playing team sports, at any level, is so beneficial to build self-confidence, social skills and...
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Let’s talk about parental guilt. Many of us have seemingly never-ending demands on our time but still feel overwhelming guilt if we miss a child’s sports’ fixture. The expectation to work like you don’t have kids and have kids like you don’t work is creating a culture of perpetual falling...
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Many parents still ask us why children need grip socks and “is it just a fad?”. To help you decide whether your child will benefit from a pair of grip socks, here are the top 10 reasons why we think that Grip Socks for children are a game changer in sport.
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Choosing the Right Ball Each season you move up an age group, there are new rules and sometimes more players on the pitch, but also the size football that you will be using may change. The FA guidelines suggest the following balls are used for each age: Size 2 Football...
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In this blog, we will explore why children play sport and also, more crucially, why they choose to disengage and leave youth sport behind.
Guest blog written by Stewart England, Co-Owner of Football DNA & Experienced Football Performance Analyst
Tips for coaches and parents/carers to help counter disengagement in youth football.
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What exactly is HIIT training? HIIT stands for high-intensity interval training. It is a type of exercise that alternates short periods of intense activity with periods of low-intensity movement or rest. HIIT is widely acknowledged as one of the most effective ways to train and many adults use this as part...
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The benefits of wearing compression layers for sport. Once seen as something to keep the ‘snowflakes’ warm during winter sport many are now seeing the benefits of compression layers, also known as baselayers, technical layer, skins, under armour Compression clothing is often very tight-fitted sports clothing made from polyester and...
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With back-to-school shopping upon us and the new football season about to begin soon, many parents and kids get into the age old debate – laceless versus laced boots – which is better? We don’t have to keep telling you about the problem of laces coming undone during sport -...
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Why was the European Super League a bad idea? How can we use it to teach children the importance of diversity in sport?
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As parents and carers we play an important role in raising our children to be mentally healthy. But what if our children experience anxiety? What does it look like and how can we help them?
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Preparing our children to return to grassroots sports after the latest lockdown 2021.
Since the launch of our junior sportsperson ambassador programme in April 2017 we have had an incredible response. We now have recruited ambassadors across the United Kingdom, Sweden, The Netherlands, The USA and Australia. The junior ambassadors are rising stars in their chosen sports and span from football, rugby, hockey,...
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From Band to Brand.... Apparently, as I've just read, most bloggers don't know anything about the subject they're blogging about. They're just, well, good at blogging or maybe good at blagging is closer to the truth? Whatever the truth of the matter, blogging is great, apparently... So this is my...
Laceeze has just formed 3 new grassroots partnerships with local football academies namely, Junior Sports Coaching, Champion Sports Group and BRS Academy. We are thrilled to be partnering such high quality businesses. Our band to brand story takes another step in the right direction. A spokesperson for BRS Academy has...
Just seven months after conception, yesterday saw our stunning silicon Laceeze bands feature in Not just on one page but two and the wonderful people at the magazine showcased three of our colours, inferno, lime and ice at the foot of Tekkerz Kid's page! We are football mad here at...
Laceeze Shoots for Grassroots Jeremy Corbin has pledged in his manifesto to address the financial disparity in the world of football. The featured fixture being Grassroots v Professional. Politics and football meet again but who will come out victorious? I'm not going to give my political view, that's way too...
Bread now, jam tomorrow? Trawling through news articles this morning I came across a piece on grassroots funding, an initiative called 'Awards for all' commissioned by the National Lottery. Whilst it is to be applauded it may wish to reconsider its title as there are caveats, the main one, if...
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