Sports Equipment - Used Sporting Goods

Sports equipment, called sporting goods where sold, is any object used for sport or exercise. Examples are listed below.

Player equipment

Footwear

Footwear for sports includes:

• Boards for surfing, skateboarding, wakeboarding and snowboarding
• Skates for sports like roller skating, ice skating
• Skis for skiing and water skiing
• Football boots and separate Soccer cleats (Outdoor soccer cleats have studs but indoor soccer shoes have a flat bottom)
• Cricket spikes
• Golf shoes
• Track spikes
• Prosthetics like the Cheetah Flex-Foot running blade
• Running shoes
• Walking shoes

Protective equipment

Protective equipment is often worn for sports including motor sport and contact sports, such as ice hockey and American football or sports where there is a danger of injury through collision of players or other objects. Protective equipment includes:

• Football helmet
• Jock strap
• Mouthguards
• Shin pads
• Ski suits
• Elbow pads
• Shoulder pads

Training equipment

Examples for training equipment include swiss balls, weights, chin-up bars, equipment for the gym. Also protective equipment such as weight lifting belts and bench shirts for weight training and powerlifting.

Miscellaneous

Vehicles

Vehicles (sometimes specialized) are used as equipment for some sports, including motor sport, cycling, aeronautics, sailing and hot air ballooning.

Small vehicles with flatbeds are often used to carry injured athletes off the field, most commonly in American football.

Various sports

History and development of sports

Historically many sports have developed their sporting equipment over time. For instance, the use of a soccer ball dates back to ancient China, between 225 BC and 220 AD. As soccer remains a popular sport in twenty first century, the material of the ball has completely changed over the centuries; from being made out of animal skin, to being lined with multiple layers of polyester or cotton.

As the sporting equipment industry improves, so does the athletes performance. This is due to the fact that the equipment is more efficient, lighter and stronger it forming a bio-mechanical system, interacting with the athlete.

Since the massive adoption of wearable, new sport equipment tend to be electronics and connected to deliver data performances.