Eye squash shoes! Eye shoes were first spotted on Paul Coll, and over the past couple of years, Eye has signed more players to wear their shoes, including Greg Marche, Diego Elias, Karim Abdel Gawad, and Declan James.
Eye S.Line 2.0 Squash Shoes
Here are the new shoes for 2019/2020, which were released as part of Eye’s rebranding. They are calling these Eye S Line 2.0.
Reviews
Here’s my first impression of these shoes:
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What’s up squash players I’ve got a pair of shoes I’m gonna start reviewing. These are the Eye Rackets shoes. This is the 2019 model that’s part of their second wave of shoes. I think this is called Night Storm Navy. Big thanks to PDH Sports who gave me this pair of shoes to review. This is a popular shoe on the pro circuit. A lot of the Eye players use this. A lot of a lot of players that use their rackets and also that don’t use the rackets and just use their shoes are playing with these. I’m using a US 12 because they don’t come in 11.5 US and I guess that’s the standard approach for Eye. I’m not sure how far down the sizing chart that that goes. These have a dark sole but it’s non-marking and obviously they’re designed specifically for squash so of course they’re non-marking. They have kind of eyelets so you can cinch up your shoes pretty tight so we’ll see I might have to use that. Because they’re a little bit they’re half size bigger than my normal. Although Paul from PDH Sports said that these do run a little small. So they have removable insoles. I’ve already actually worn these today on court and have some very quick feedback that I’ll give you in a second. So the the Eye Rackqets logo has already worn off in my first day. Got the new Eye logo on the side there. These come in a bunch of different colors and but they’re all I think the same shoe other than the fact that there was an initial version that came out a few years ago and this is the updated model that pretty much you’re gonna get everywhere you go. There’s the front here has the Eye logo. It’s kind of got this like plastic sheen over it but it’s just covering normal kind of absorbent mesh all around the shoe. When I first put these on I noticed that coming from the shoes that I was wearing these had very little arch support. It feels very flat inside the shoe. The sizing seemed seemed pretty good maybe a little bit large so I’m gonna have to see how it goes as I as I break it in whether it feels too large. The grip was immediately very very secure. I didn’t have any slips at all throughout the throughout my day today and so it’s a good start from that aspect. One of these I just put on the scale and it weighs 395 grams so maybe a touch on the heavier side compared to some other shoes. It doesn’t feel super padded, it feels kind of like a stiff sole, and it feels sort of higher in the back as far as I can make out and kind of tapers down to the front so you feel like you’re pitched forward which which is good for those hunting on the T. We’ll have to see about the durability. This is my first first day’s scraping there on that this is my left foot where I drag my toe on the way into the front and I’ve already got some sort of an initial coat of paint has been scraped off there. First impression was decent. My foot was moving around in the shoe maybe a little more so I think I’m gonna go out and maybe a little more than I would have liked so I think I’m gonna go out next time and make sure these are tightened up nicely with these eyeholes here and we will see how they go over time. I just wanted to give you an introduction to these while they were still while they were still reasonably fresh out of the box . So again that is the – these are called the Eye S-Line squash shoes and I’ll be back with a follow-up video on these in the future to let you know kind of how they they wore over time. Hope that was helpful. Thanks a lot.
Atomic Peach

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Release year: 2019
Price: $135 / £100
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Release year: 2019
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Lucy Turmel had these at the 2020 Windy City Open:

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Racket: Eye V.Lite 110
Location: 2020 Windy City Open
Rui Soares at the 2021 British Open:

Hot Pink

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Release year: 2019
Price: $135
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Release year: 2019
Price: £100 / $135
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Release year: 2019
Price: $135
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Search:Nightstorm Navy

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Price: $135
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Price: $135
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Paul Coll was rocking these at the 2020 TOC:

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Racket: Eye V.Lite 115
Location: 2020 Tournament of Champions
Mathieu Castagnet had these at the 2020 Windy City Open:

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Racket: Black Knight Ion Cannon PS
Location: 2020 Windy City Open
Eye S Line 2018 Squash Shoes
Eye are releasing some new colorways for 2018/2019. Here’s a trailer:
Hot Pink
First saw these in March, 2019:

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England’s Lucy Turmel wears these:

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Nightstorm Navy

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Greg Marche in 2018:

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Racket: Tecnifibre Carboflex X-Speed 130
Location: 2018 Nantes International
Karim Abdel Gawad in 2019:

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Racket: Harrow Vibe
Location: 2019 Tournament of Champions
Olivia Blatchford Clyne at the 2019 World Champs:

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Racket: Eye V.Lite 125
Location: 2019 World Championships
Nour El Tayeb:

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Racket: Dunlop Hyperfibre+ Revelation 125
Location: 2019 World Championships
Declan James:

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Racket: Dunlop Hyperfibre+ Evolution
Location: 2020 Windy City Open
Carbon Black

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Here’s an unboxing from PDH Sports:
And a review:
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Diego must’ve liked the reviews:

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Racket: Dunlop Precision Ultimate (Diego Version)
Location: 2019 Tournament of Champions
Joshna Chinappa too:

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Racket: Tecnifibre Carboflex X-Speed 125
Location: 2019 Black Ball Open
Piëdro Schweertman has these in his closet (and a bunch of other colors too):

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Tinne Gilis wears these too:

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Racket: Eye V.Lite 110
Location: 2019 US Open
Atomic Peach

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Miguel Angel Rodriguez wears exactly one of these:

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Racket: Tecnifibre Carboflex 125
Location: 2019 Tournament of Champions
Paul Coll has these:

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Racket: Eye V.Lite 115
Location: 2019 Tournament of Champions
Fiona Moverley:

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Racket: Eye X.Lite 120
Location: 2018 Nantes International
Eye S Line 2017 Models
Here are the prior year’s models.
Ice White

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Greg Marche was wearing these at the Nantes International in 2017:

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Racket: Tecnifibre Suprem SB 125
Location: 2017 Nantes International
Paul Coll:

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Racket: Eye V.Lite 115
Location: 2017 US Open
Lisa Aitken at the 2019 TOC:

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Racket: Eye V.Lite 130
Location: 2019 Tournament of Champions
Mostafa Asal was wearing the white (and black) at the 2019 British Open:

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Electric Purple

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Here’s Paul Coll at the 2017 World Championships:

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Lightning Blue

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Greg Marche:

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Racket: Tecnifibre Carboflex X-Speed 130
Location: 2019 Tournament of Champions
Nour El Tayeb:

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Racket: Dunlop Hyperfibre+ Revelation 125
Location: 2019 Tournament of Champions
Mariam Metwally:

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Racket: Harrow Vapor Ultralite
Location: 2019 Black Ball Open
Neon Yellow

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Borja Golan had these at the 2020 Windy City Open:

Reviews
Joey Barrington’s video overview:
Here are some comments from Squash Source reader JLB:
I have now had the eye shoes for approximately 5 months. They are more durable than the salming, in the fact that the sole is still holding together, however, the plastic type covering around the toe has now been torn through (this went after about 2 months of playing 2/3 times a week). I shall hopefully send a picture through to show the damage. But they are comfy, tight at first as i’ve got quite wide feet, but they are wonderful to move around in. Similar to the salming viper.
Eye X.Lite shoes
This was a previous model, spotted back in May 2016. There’s also an Eye X.Lite series of rackets, so the naming choice was a little strange. I’m glad they switched it up for the later models.

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Thanks to Will, Bernard, Teariki and Carlos for the tips!





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