Est. XL.
Forsport X was started by a 45-year-old who couldn't find training kit cut for the body he's actually got. So he made some, and wore every piece himself before it shipped.
I always wanted a sports shop.
As a kid I'd go to the sports shop in town and spend hours in there. The trainers. The rugby boots. The kit on the rails. I didn't need anything. I just wanted to be near it.
Thirty-five years on, I'm no sportsman. I'm not sure I ever was. But I know I need to move more. So I turn up: CrossFit, the gym, coaching the kids' rugby on a Sunday.
And I still love the kit. The problem is the industry stopped making it for me. It sells the dream of sporting stars and six-packs, advertised by kids and kale. Nobody's talking to the man who knows he needs to move and turns up anyway.
So I'm making the kit I'd have wanted on that shop floor. Cut for the body you've got. Tested before it ships. Built to last as long as you do.
Turning up.
In his head he's still 30.
Leon trains twice in the week, around a job and a family. Recovery takes longer than it used to. Niggles hang around. One bad injury now costs three months, not three weeks.
He stopped caring about personal bests and looking the part a long time ago. He still cares a great deal about being able to keep up. The kit didn't agree. It was cut for 25-year-olds, or it came out of an "active ageing" catalogue. Shorts rode up, tees clung, and every advert was a lad with a six-pack.
He wasn't the only one.
So he started with his own sessions.
Not athletes or influencers. Leon wore every Drop I sample he could through his own training, and the pieces he signed off carry his age on the tag. For Drop II, he's recruiting a panel of men who still turn up: the man who's been at the 6am class since it opened, the keeper, the one carrying a bit. Nothing ships until someone who trains like you signs it off.
MEET THE PANELWhy the X.
It's for the vets: the over-35s and the veterans of the game. Put an L next to it and it's forty, and the size Leon wears. And it's for men who no longer give a F(X) about how it looks, and still very much care about the next game.
"I'm not trying to make you feel young. I'm trying to make kit that fits the body you've got, so you keep playing a bit longer. If something rides up, rubs or gives out, email me. It comes straight to me, and we'll change the pattern."