Nokona Baseball Gloves Are CRAZY Expensive... Are They Worth It?
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The Nokona glove review vid I’ve been waiting for. Thanx man!
Thanks for posting this. Love Nokona mitts (my sister, D1 catcher, used them all through high school, college, and “senior ball” after NCAA eligibility (2008,) then passed one down to my daughter who has yet to find anything she liked better. Just grabbed her a new X2-V3250 while we get my sisters old mitt relaced. Single break break in. I use a Nokona 1B mitt for men’s league ball and love it.
Since I have a problem with buying gloves I don’t need, I’ve been curious about their gloves - this answered it fairly well (though I only play 1B and RF.) Good to hear they’re improving.
I game a Mizuno Pro Select 12.75 that I absolutely love, and picked up an A2K 1775 this year because why not.
I grew up a Wilson fan although little league, pony league, high school, always loved the A2000 , was my favorite even over the a2k I just love the 1787 11.75 Wilson . But I had gotten a mizuno my 9th grade year as a back up glove and secondary cause I lost my Wilson for a week or two and that mizuno was the only glove I loved as much if not more than my A2000. It ended up replacing my a2000 as my gamer the following season (10th grade) and I used it until I graduated as my everyday glove .
Keep pumping out great content. I look forward to your vids every week
I've been using the same nokona glove for over 20 years now. Originally bought it for baseball but I use it to play slow pitch now and I love it.
I've switched positions lately, from 2d to first. I used to wear this nike japanese kip leather for second and I have a very traditional style Nokona mitt now. Nothing fancy (not giraffe or elephant), just top grain steerhide, super high quality material in my opinion. Still in breaking process I love it already. My new fav brand.
Day 11 of asking for more first base glove content, specifically a top 3 list on the website
Good luck I swear this dude doesn’t answer his subscribers
Yes please!!
Working on it!! Currently catching up (no pun intended) on catchers mitts. Then 1st base is up next
play a better position
@@aidanking9621 he probably gets more play time than you do, benchwarmer
I love this channel. Would like a top three list from the major brands as far as best, mid tier, and budget level. Hard to know if you can't afford the best what is the next best option
Twenty years ago I was reading a magazine article about Nokona. Best part was reading about low income local kids waking up to find a Nokona glove in their front yard.
I got a NOKONA Walnut last week and I love it. Idk the last time you tried one but the shape and feel is great
Your content is great brother keep it up !!
I grew up using nokona, my son has a few. He prefers his rev1x but my preference has always been nokona. He's had his 1st nokona for about 7 years and it's still in great shape
You should tour their factory sometime. It is pretty neat.
freshly cleaned batting gloves feel so good. used conditioner cause i got a blood stain on my franklins and i wanted to clean them. after a day of drying they felt brand new
Nakona gloves r so good. I had an 11.25 inch glove for over 4 years and it still held it shape. It recently broke but they still are very good gloves. It starts very stiff but becomes very soft after you start using it
Let’s goooo been living the videos recently
Do u mean loving LOL😂
@@Andyritchie2 oh yeah my bad
Been waiting for this I’ve been wanting to pull the trigger on an edge X for a while
My buddy has a new one for sale. They're so nice and worth it. They're beautiful. I'm neutral in the matter but I like the edge x and the all grey Kip series
my nakona. from when i was 10. kangaroo skin was stolen from me.... sad day. That was about 10 year ago. i miss it to this day. I got a rawlings HOH trapeze 12.75. RIP
Chris the glove guy with another banger
its funny watching this as a former PO, i loved only being broken in pocket and squeez. i never thought about infielders behind me hating tbh
The Japanese calfskin Nokona uses is really nice. Haven’t had a problem with my edge x… mine is also an H web
How much did it cost?
@@Johnnybravo2160 more than $1000 crazy right 😂
Also may I add, homie rocking the Sandlot P.F. Flyers as well!!
I recently ordered a custom Nokona classic with Japanese calfskin throughout with extra padding and tight on the wrist. Will be interested in testing how well it cradles a hardball and slowpitch
Hi, great commentary buddy. I have a Nokona super soft 11.75 alpha with a H web. I was wondering if you have ever caught with this glove and what do you think.
I'm not a fan of the I web either. I also have a heart of the hide wing tip Rawlings that has that web though it has a tighter spacing than the Nokona and I have not had a ball get stuck in the web yet but close.
Thanks
I’d love to see a comparison between a regular HOH and a Horween HOH. I know ballgloves sells the Horween ones. Thanks man!
Damn! Ya that's exactly why I only have one glove with an I-web and I use it on rainy days
Hopefully they do some more slow pitch stuff too. I’d love to see a 13” H web slowpitch glove made by Nokona
Same gotta show us comp slow pitch players love 😂
@@ejluna4451 for real 😂. Just give me what I want Nokona. 😂
w videos looking forward to some more mlb players glove vids
Can you please review the B45 gloves? They're pretty well known for their bats but interested in what their gloves are like as they're also a 🇨🇦 company
Really rooting for Nokona
I had a Kangaroo catchers mit by them that was absolutely unbelievable. I'd love to buy another glove by them sometime
I take it you never caught anything over 60 mph?
Please do a vid on the Rawlings breakout series
I would love to see a review of the bloodline edge, im considering of buying one.
Also would be nice if you could not skip stuff like tightening the web and do it on camera
I remember when they were like $100 back in the day, pretty wild!
I'm just a pitcher but my nokona 2010 AMG 1200 Bison is still as good as they day i got it. Just had to do a relace but nothing else in terms of repairs
Yes. They’re phenomenal.
Be curious to know what your opinion is of the Marucci C2
100% worth it for anyone not on the pro level. You see a lot of pitchers use it at the MLB level because they're comfortable, and they don't see a lot of action when it comes to catching high velocity balls.
But for us filthy casuals, the gloves can and will last a lifetime. They're super comfortable, easy to break in, SMELL GREAT, and are just so well crafted.
Get one if you want to treat yourself.
can you do a review on the Shoeless Joe 1957 or the 1949 model baseball glove?
I modeled my first 44 pro glove after the glove you shot
Love it 😂
@@ballglovekingthank you
I’m annoyed it takes so long to make
@@ballglovekingcan you shout me out in the next video
What do you think? It’s a really good travel ball 12 U glove
which Wilson model is that that you showed when you described the glove getting bullied?
Ya thats been my complaint about nokona. The flext back. Maybe stiffer inserts are needed? I love the brand though. Where apuld you rank it on a aa aaa mlb
I’ve just made a custom with them that addressed a lot of my minor dislikes with previous model. Stiffer felt in thumb and pinky. More palm padding and a more structured calfskin leather. Kangaroo in the back to keep it light. Tighter wrist. Let’s see!
Nokonas are great for Pitchers and youth players... but they need to change things if they're gonna play with the big boys Rawlings/Wilson
Nokona Fan here, the reason they are so popular & expensive is because they are mostly made in America. You can be happy that the money you are spending is going right back into pockets of families who work on them. I have 3 gloves from them now including a dropped edgeX and they are great! They have a passion for American Baseball and position their products correctly. People now do not understand that American Made products are simply more expensive because of how our economy works. I would rather spend money knowing its helping my neighbor instead of it disappearing into china.
I got a firstbaseman mitt from nokona and i've only had to replace the laces once in my years of having. Used it through all of highschool and my summer and fall ball. Used it in practice too.Would recommend
If I'm not mistaken these are all hand made, so the laces being a tad loose from Nokona, I really don't think tightening the laces is that big of a deal, to me that's like "tuning" or "tailoring" a glove to your liking.. idk thats rhe only part that I didn't agree with really, like I said hand made glove anything is possible, and I don't think they are catching baseballs with every glove they made so who knows maybe it seems tight at factory but once you start putting pressure on the laces is when it starts to come undone, idk just seems like a small issue that would have a logical explanation, and its really not that big of a deal at the end of the day to tighten the laces
I miss the old school nokona style
Any videos of 1st baseman gloves???
It’s satisfying seeing the edge x fail. I hate that nokona tried to charge this much for gloves.
A lot of labor goes into that glove. That’s why it’s so steep
As crazy as the price is I don’t think it’s all that dramatic when you consider what goes into making it. They are paying an American “leather expert” to put it together. It cost like 40x as much money to do that in the US than some other common countries that have glove manufacturers
@@ballglovekingI think it’s more that an edgeX is an art piece. It’s like those Wilson omaha gloves that people buy and never use em. No American craftsmanship is THAT much steeper than Japan and Vietnam. If you look at other markets like furniture, the American made furniture at least has to be competitive to other pieces of the same type. The thing here is there is nothing of the same type. It’s exotic leather and the price extortion represents that more of cowboy boots made from different animals than boots simply just made here in the US. Exotics just cost several hundred dollars more than plain leather boots
@@ballgloveking the fact that it falls apart after a couple catches though…. That’s really what I’m saying here. If it held up amazing, was durable, and lasted longer than other gloves, hell yeah by all means. I think the point I’m trying to make is they are charging this much for the glove to fall apart and the ball to shoot through the webbing in a couple catches….. that’s bs
Nicole would be OK if there was no rollings Wilson or a bunch of those Japanese brands. Even Jack is awesome. We also have to like the look of the Nona gloves. I’m not really that dark brown leather. Kind of looking to me.
The Nokona Edge X I tried out at Charlie Rose was pretty dang cool, I have to admit. While $1,000 is pretty steep I understand why a company like Nokona may have the leverage to charge for a glove with that kind of craftsmanship
Nobody has the right to charge $1000-2000
@@mattcoffin3776hush up lil bro
@@mattcoffin3776 well people obviously buy it
There's nothing they can do to make it worth over $500. There's zero reason to charge that much for any glove. But people are always gonna flash the cash and buy them just for the status symbol.
@@damienirvin777 Oh I agree, just because a company may have the “leverage” doesn’t mean it’s worth that price. Most I’d give on a glove is $600 and that’s a Mizuno Pro Limited. Felt those and they’re the best hands down
Do you think it could be that the I web is too skinny at the top? The square that the ball is going through is too big. Not every glove company makes their I web the same. Maybe that could be it
I think the web in general is big. Like it doesn’t fit the glove perfect
@@ballglovekingnever had an issue with a Wilson or rawlings I web on their flagship models. Seems smaller brands are the ones who struggle
Nokona was always a super popular softball glove company trying to succeed in the baseball space and couldn’t compete.
Zero truth behind this. In the states nokona is super popular for youth and high-school athletes
Can you please try a R2G catchers mitt from Rawlings please please please or any r2g
idc what position I'm playing, H web and Trapeze are always my go-to web options. they feel so much more stable than any other web.
I’m a big H web guy as well
For me it was H in the infield Trap in the outfield
Can you please do a video of the absolutely ridiculous icecream glove
Yo I have a dirty soft 44 glove do you think you could work on it?
You should get a nokona American bison
Can you review warstic gloves?
I remember when Nokona gloves were $180 for the kangaroo skin gloves
I love my walnut nokona :(
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Austin Riley review pls
What's the advantage of the I web?
3:37-3:42 Thats what she said !u can jus slide it in without even thinking about it,Lets Go ! 2 in the pinky!
Do you have video on jl glove co.? Link appreciated
Infielder will look pretty with the $1k EdgeX... then look pretty bad as the balls go through him. Dreams of owning a $1k glove were just decimated. Also, I thought top middle infield prefer stiff gloves for quick transfers?
Try Bradly gloves
I just bought one from walnut series and it was $400. Worth every cent. When you want quality go Nokona.
The walnut series is not exactly super durable. It won’t fall apart but it will get super floppy. Hopefully you like that!
A lot of people think that buying US made means it is higher quality. In the baseball glove world that sadly isn’t the case. Nokona makes solid gloves but they are factually lower quality than the gloves made by the best craftsman in places like Japan, Philippines, Korea…
Would a different web-style help the EdgeX?
That would help the ball to not go through the web… it wouldn’t make a large difference for the glove slinging backward
When is the next video
What’s the gray glove at 11:40?
please try the BMC brand its made in korea
Only glove I will buy
Remember when the only people who wore dirty hippie sandals in socks were grandpas??
I love my nokona
I have a question about 44, I saw your video about you comparing the ex10 to the A2k and saying the A2k was better, but do you think that the ex10 44 is better than the a2000
a2000 has much better leather and will definitely be just a little higher quality. 44 has the ability to get whatever you want though so I use my 44 and a2000 pretty evenly
@@matthashobbies ok, thanks
@@Johnnybravo2160 no problem! if you get the ex10 from 44 it'll help balance out the quality a little but the a2000 will definitely still be just a little better
@@matthashobbies yeah, I still will probably get a 44 because I really like all the customization options for the price
Yo man, I ordered a 44 custom glove because of your videos. 15 weeks later and still no glove and they won't answer any emails 😢.
Yo mine is on the way and it’s been like 7-8 weeks
@@Shorty_baseball Mine has said "ready for shipment" for about 6-7 weeks now.
@@MrJimfriedmanthat sucks
Was never paying that much for a glove 😂 I can do the same shit with a 44 pro
18 years ago I bought a 12" closed web Nokona, needless to say I still use it to this day. These things are forever-gloves.
Nakona is just too expensive I'd probably buy Rawlings Or save up and get a Wilson
Day 1 of asking for u to review rico gloves
Bat Bro Will is starting a company?
Any recommendations for youth baseball gloves. His single A league uses a pitching machine. My son is 6 years old but tall for his age. 10.5 seems like a good size for him. We tried an 11 Inch glove, but it seems too big. He also had difficulty closing the 11-inch glove. But I don't know which glove brand to go with. Any recommendations, please ?
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@imn8 Sorry, I was writing this while on a work Zoom call, lol. thank you for pointing it out to me. I updated the comment. If anyone can recommend a good 10.5-inch glove for a 6 year old , I would greatly appreciate it.
Mizuno prospect youth
@@Jordanslife3 thank you. I'll check that one out now
My son really liked the Rawlings Highlight 10.5" with the basket web (comes in red and blue, maybe other colors as well). The Rawlings Mark of a Pro gloves are similar and come in a couple of other colors.
Mizuno Prospect and Wilson A500 are also good gloves for younger kids.
Wait, what's the glove at 11:40??? You say it's one of your favorites then don't tell us what it is?
Can you do a Acuna Jr glove video
It is just a 303 pattern pro preferred, lots of reviews on it!
I had a nokona 11.5" and after one season it turned into a pancake and I ended up getting an A2000 instead
2 in the pink, 1 in the stink. Amen.
We looked at these for my son but for $1000? Nah.... Maybe in High School if he's still loving baseball. $300 is kinda the high max for us atm.
They’re art pieces, not gameable gloves. If he’s rocking high school get him a pretty looking A2K or something. This isn’t the play for a glove to be gamed
Was never a huge fan of Nokona. I had one in high school and used it for one season and that’s exactly what happened to it. It softened up way too quick and for a first baseman’s glove taking hard throws constantly I didn’t like it. I used strictly Wilson A2000 after that for my regular glove to pitch and my first baseman’s glove.
Its japanese calf skin in the palm im pretty sure. not american kip
Imagine paying $1200 for a glove just to have the ball go straight through. Ouch.
Put a basket weave web on it
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And I love this guy
Thought a custom 400$ glove was expensive😂
It is it’s just this is crazy expensive
U da best
I've never been a fan of Nokona gloves. I would love to support American, but they just aren't stiff enough for me. I'd rather spend half the price and get a custom pro preferred
Sooooo is 2 in the pinky better in junction with 1 in the stinky? Or should you leave the stinky alone and just shove 2 in the pinky?
Fly out to center field we lose!!!😂