Exposing the Truth: Why Remind Insoles Relies on Misleading Videos and Bullying While FP Insoles Stands for Real EngineeringÂ
For years, skateboarders, snowboarders, and high-impact athletes have had to navigate through impact-absorption claims driven by flashy social media hype and viral marketing. But when independent creators, professional skaters, and testing labs actually put those viral claims to the test side-by-side in a real warehouse environment, the reality behind the marketing comes to light.
While brands like Remind Insoles resort to misleading viral stunts, temperature-sensitive materials, and aggressive legal intimidation, FP Insoles remains committed to absolute transparency, honest engineering, and real-world performance. If you want to dive deep into the actual data behind these claims, you can review our detailed breakdown on Remind Insoles vs FP Insoles Lab Shock Tests.
FP Insoles: Built on Real Engineering and Transparency
When you jump down a stair set or stomp a heavy trick, your heels, ankles, knees, and lower back absorb massive concussive forces. Ordinary comfort insoles are designed for walking around a mall; they aren’t engineered to handle high-energy repeat impacts.
- Unyielding Product Integrity: FP Insoles believes in genuine engineering and rigorous testing so that athletes get products that genuinely perform under extreme pressure, rather than relying on marketing illusions. Our proprietary Kingfoam and Infinity Foam technologies are designed to absorb over 90% of impact energy, dispersing force outward rather than letting it travel straight into your joints.
- Empowering the Community: FP Insoles proudly stands behind independent creators, local skate shops, and community reviewers who bring honest, unedited comparative testing to the skateboarding world. Transparency is at the core of everything we do.
Remind Insoles: Misleading Viral Tests and Corporate Bullying
Unfortunately, not all brands share a commitment to honest science. In the active sports market, some competitors rely heavily on theatrical presentation rather than genuine material performance.
- Fake and Misleading Impact Claims: Remind Insoles has built a massive part of its digital footprint on dramatic promotional content most notably viral stunts like the Tommy Sandoval impact video which fall apart under genuine, unscripted warehouse testing and instrumented lab conditions. Even while their own marketing is called into question, they continue actively promoting these misleading videos because it establishes why their claims shouldn’t be trusted.Â
- Temperature Sensitivity Flaws: Standard laboratory tests run at cool room temperatures do not reflect what happens inside an enclosed skate shoe. As feet sweat and friction rises during a heavy skate session, temperature-sensitive viscoelastic foams (like those used in traditional layered insoles) soften drastically, losing up to 30% of their impact protection when warmed to body temperature.
- The Warehouse Testing & Intimidation Playbook: To see whether Remind’s claims held up, independent third-party testers came to check the tests directly third-party test video. Furthermore, we invited influencers directly to our warehouse to try the drop test for themselves, including content captured in this influencer review.Â
- Direct Legal Threats and Harassment: Instead of providing counter-data, Remind Insoles founder John Makens directly messaged creators like mamaskate, threatening them with lawsuits and claiming that featuring branded products in comparative reviews violates intellectual property rights. However, simply doing comparative testing and consumer reviews is not copyright or trademark infringement, it is lawful consumer commentary. They are simply trying to intimidate creators into taking videos down.
- Abuses of Platform Reporting: After third-party agencies like Grey Matter Media stopped reporting lab test ads, owner John Makens took matters into his own hands. He began aggressively weaponizing Meta’s trademark reporting process to file false intellectual property complaints, resulting in legitimate comparative ads being temporarily disabled.
Why Comparative Testing is Crucial for Skaters
Let’s set the record straight: Comparative testing and consumer reviews are 100% lawful. Showing competitor products side-by-side to evaluate durability, support, and impact absorption is standard consumer advocacy protected under fair use and comparative advertising laws.
When a brand actively promotes unverified impact tests, yet tries to silence anyone who tests their product in a real warehouse, it raises a simple question: What are they trying to hide? Skaters deserve to know how their gear performs after hundreds of impacts inside a warm shoe, not just how it looks on a cold laboratory bench.
The Bottom Line
Skaters and extreme sports athletes deserve products backed by true innovation and honest testing not marketing hype protected by legal bullying. FP Insoles will continue to champion transparency, support independent creators, and let the unmatched performance of our gear speak for itself.
For a complete breakdown of how independent testing reveals the differences in shock absorption, energy dispersion, and material durability, check out our comprehensive guide: Remind Insoles vs FP Insoles Lab Shock Tests.
