Adidas Crazyflight Review

This post contains my Adidas Crazyflight review, plus lots of additional info about the Adidas Crazyflight.

• About the Adidas Crazyflight
• My review of the Adidas Crazyflight
• Where to buy the Adidas Crazyflight

About the Adidas Crazyflight

Adidas Crazyflight is a line of volleyball shoes made by Adidas. They are non-marking shoes acceptable for indoor court sports.

Paul Coll, a former world #1 squash player, started using these shoes in 2023 (thanks Robert and D-Man).

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Unboxing the Adidas Crazyflight

Here’s an unboxing video I put together for the Adidas Crazyflight:

Adidas Crazyflight Review

Here’s a review of the Adidas Crazyflight I did after a few weeks of trying the shoes out on court. Linked below is a transcript if you can’t watch the video right now.

Pros

• Nice cosmetics
• Good grip
• Quality build and materials
• Removable insole
• Good cushioning

Cons

• Expensive
• Tight around the heel
• Laces difficult to secure

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Where to Buy Adidas Crazyflight

Here are the Adidas Crazyflight models I’ve seen from late 2022 / early 2023.

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Cloud White / Grey Three

Paul Coll started using this in 2023. Pay attention to the sizing as I believe this is a women’s model.

Spotted

Paul Coll is rocking these shoes since 2023:

Quick Look

Paul from PDH Sports has a clip about this shoe:

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Adidas Crazyflight Mid

Mid-top shoes with more ankle support. First saw these in late 2023.

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2020 Models

Spotted August 2020:

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Spotted February 2020:

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Black

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Transcript

What’s up you guys it’s Pierre and in this video I’m going to do a quick review of the Adidas Crazyflight. I’ve used these about a half dozen times by now on the squash court. And I have some feedback for you. These are the shoes that Paul Coll wear … wears. So I know that these are able to perform at the highest levels of squash but I’m going to give you my own personal feedback right now.

These run about £130 in the UK or $130 in the US give or take. They are one of the more expensive shoes in the Adidas range. I really love the cosmetics especially this black and white model. This is one of the ones that uh Paul Coll is wearing.

The grip on these shoes is really excellent. It’s got a very unusual sole pattern for a squash shoe. I’ve never really seen kinda grip like this but I had absolutely no issues going forwards backwards or left to right. Everything was uh was very … sorry … was very grippy.

The upper part of the shoe is just well-designed all around. It’s just got a quality build to the shoe. The materials feel nice. There’s good protection from toe drag. I didn’t use these enough to really test the durability yet. I may come back with a follow-up review on these. There is a removable insole if you want to put in some orthotics and the insole itself has some really nice cushioning to it.

These weigh about 385 grams on my scale. (I’m a US 11.5.) That’s kind of middle of the range as far as squash shoes seem to go.

I found the cushioning was very nice on my knees. No real um no real issue there. They feel comfortable uh as far as the padding goes.

The only real criticism I have of these shoes. Actually there’s two pieces to it. Inside the shoe where my heel sits it just feels like it’s sort of narrow right here where my fingers are. I can feel it sort of pinching my heel. I’ve never really experienced that before in any shoes I’ve ever worn to be honest with you.The toe box felt nice and like perfectly correctly sized for me — nothing, nothing pinchy there It was just at the heel. It was odd. That’s the one thing.

And then the other is this lacing system I gotta be honest I do not like it. It’s just got not that many lacing holes. I just felt like I didn’t have a lot of control over how to kind of tighten my feet. You can see that I didn’t use the last holes because those were like too high up on my ankles. But if I just left it down here it was like too low and my, my foot didn’t feel secure enough, um and also like these laces they kept coming apart… like I know, I know I could double knot them or whatever but like I’ve never really had that happen before where we’re just like in the middle of a match. I mean it happens sometimes. But it just, it happened several times with these shoes and I don’t get it. I don’t understand really why they’re like that but I really struggled to kind of feel secure at the point where my shoe is laced up in here. Those are my main criticisms.

Overall, I think this is a very high quality shoe. Adidas sent me these shoes to review for everyone so a big thanks to Adidas or “Adidas” for those outside the US.

You know I’m probably going to actually try these out on the padel courts or “padel” courts. They’re not specifically designed for, for that but I think the movements in padel might be a little more suited to this kind of shoe and I just kind of want to keep wearing them because I think they look kind of cool. So there you go. The Adidas Crazyflight. Hope that was helpful. Subscribe if you want to see some more videos — bye!

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Adidas Crazyflight X

Prior to 2020, the top-end Crazyflight models were referred to as Adidas Crazyflight X. There were also midrange shoes called the Crazyflight Bounce and lower-priced shoes called Crazyflight Team.

Adidas Crazyflight X3

Adidas Crazyflight X 3 are 2019 indoor court shoes from Adidas. They are part of the Adidas volleyball line of shoes. I post them on this site because they are non-marking, and therefore suitable for squash. However I’ve never seen any squash players using this shoe, and I don’t know how well they would work as squash shoes.

Men’s

Black

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White

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Mid-top Black

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Mid-top White

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Women’s

Pink?

Not ever sure what color this is. Spotted in 2020 but I think it must’ve come out last year.

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Black

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White

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Mid-top Black

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Mid-top White

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Adidas Crazyflight X 2.0

The Adidas Crazyflight X 2.0 (I’ve also seen it spelled Adidas Crazyflight X 2) are the second model in the Adidas Crazyflight X line of court shoes. These are designed for the volleyball market but they are non-marking, so they would be fine for other court sports. These first came on the market in 2018.

Although these are non-marking, they don’t look ideal for squash, based on what I see in the photos. I don’t see enough protection around the toe. As an aside, I’m annoyed how physical products are adopting the “2.0” style naming convention, though lots of companies seem to be doing that.

The Adidas Crazyflight X 2.0 only came in women’s versions, as far as I know. I never saw a men’s version of this shoe. The designs are nice, I think.

Yellow

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Black

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White

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Red

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Blue

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Adidas Crazyflight X (Original)

The original version of the Adidas Crazyflight X started coming out in 2017.

Reviews

Here’s a video overview from weplayhandball.de’s YouTube channel:

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Men’s Models

Here are some men’s versions.

Legend Ink / Hi-res Orange / Grey Two, spotted April 2018:

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Core black / gold metallic / solid grey, posted June 2017:

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Scarlet / silver metallic / energy, spotted June 2017:

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This also comes in a mid-top version:

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There’s also a mid-top version, the Adidas Crazyflight X Mid:

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Women’s Models

And here are some women’s versions.

Spotted a few in May 2018. Chalk Purple / Metallic Gold / Noble Ink:

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Yellow:

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Royal Blue:

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Black:

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Only saw this red version in December 2017:

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This women’s version is called mystery ink / blaze orange / ice blue: