About Gear & Kit

Sydney-based hybrid racer. I weigh, measure and price the gear before writing about it.

This site covers Hyrox and hybrid fitness racing in Australia, and the shoes and kit people actually wear on the floor. It's written from Sydney with Australian pricing, availability and race conditions in mind, because most gear coverage online assumes US retail and US shipping — and neither matches what you actually pay here.

The bar for a post

A post publishes only if it has something you can't already get from the first page of Google. At least one of these has to be true:

• a measurement taken first-hand — weight, stack height, sizing, a split time
• a price actually paid or listed, with the date it was checked
• an original photo of the item
• a failure, wear pattern or limitation found in use
• a comparison that doesn't exist elsewhere — landed cost from AliExpress against Australian retail, including GST and shipping, for example

If none of that applies to a topic yet, it doesn't get written up.

How it's written

Drafting is AI-assisted — research, structure, first passes and metadata are automated. The testing, the measurements, the photos and the verdicts are not. Every review is built around gear that's been used, and every price quoted is one that was actually paid or listed, with the date it was checked.

Affiliate links

Some posts contain affiliate links, and those posts say so at the top. A commission doesn't change what gets recommended or what gets criticised. If something isn't worth buying, that's what the post says.