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The KNKG PLUS Backpack is this Past GYM OWNER's Best Gym Bag!
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Feb 12, 2025
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hey guys thanks for jumping over here at
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gear 43 today we're going to check out
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the KNN kg or King Kong plus backpack
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and I got to tell you I'm pretty excited
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for this one the the company did gift us
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this backpack and uh um this is the one
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I actually reached out to them to get
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and test so um at the end of the day I'm
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super happy with this one but I'm going
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to give you my full review on it I've
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been testing it now for two weeks I've
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also tested out another one of their B
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backpacks it's called The Edge it's a
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great backpack uh for the gym it was a
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little overkill for for me but for
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others it's going to be perfect these
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things are built with great quality I'm
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going to tell you what I like and what I
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don't like about this gym bag and uh
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let's jump right into what this gym bag
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actually is first of all like I said
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it's from King Kong comes in three
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colors uh this is the charcoal comes in
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a redwood and I believe a black you can
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get it in three different colors it has
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two water bottle Pockets one on each
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side uh you're I think you're really
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going to like the closure on this one at
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least I did does have YKK zippers all
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the way around so as you're using these
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zippers this is one of my favorite ones
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you get a nice clean feel and pull
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that's even and doesn't snag I'm
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absolutely in love with these zippers
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and even the the plastic claps that come
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on the the tethers there for the zippers
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has four external pockets and five
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internal Pockets uh that might be
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opposite actually but check it out but
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uh yeah you have your you you actually
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have your main compartment right here
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you have your kind of your uh it's not a
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middle compartment it actually accesses
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the main compartment in a really cool
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way one of my favorite features we're
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going to talk about that here in just a
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little bit you can see they got really
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nice branding rip stop material on the
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inside and the outside is 1000d nylon so
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nice thick durable heavy resistant
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materials and also I think this bag
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looks absolutely amazing I'm in love
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with this bag you do have the fidlock
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quick disconnect right here let me show
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you how this works this is sweet
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and uh going back together is even
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easier it really just kind of pulls
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itself back in with that magnetic lock
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which is amazing this is the front shoe
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compartment we'll just pull it down here
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and the front shoe compartment can close
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in a really clean way which I think you
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might really like I really like it and
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uh if you open up these again YKK
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zippers on the side still got a clean
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look but that's where it opens up and
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your shoes can fit right in that
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compartment it's got a nice big open
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space in there and uh you can thr those
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back on if you're not carrying extra
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shoes you zip it back up and it keeps
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that nice clean Sleek aesthetic on the
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outside this pocket right here actually
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comes it's got some organization with it
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it's got a lot of nice stuff right in
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there it's like this is my favorite po
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pocket absolutely and when you open this
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guy up you have the pockets on both
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sides you have an interior and an
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exterior pocket right there which is so
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nice you see this guy right here I love
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this right here it's like a quick access
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um this keeps you really well organized
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one thing that caught me off guard is
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your main compartment actually I thought
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this was the main compartment when I
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first got it and then I I I saw this one
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opened it up I'm like what is what's
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this all about and then I realized oh
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yeah it comes with a clamshell opening
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for flat packing so you can open up this
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part and it's going to work like luggage
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let me just show you really quick right
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here there we go let's take a peek at
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the inside of the bag right here you
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have a laptop sleeve it's got a nice
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material on the inside and just a
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classic clasp closure right there it's
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got a kind of a microfiber material on
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the inside in this pocket goes not quite
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all the way to the bottom which I really
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like if uh you carry laptops around you
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might like that too it's not going to
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hit the ground when you set your
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backpack down uh the closure works
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really well on this and on the inside
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you can see we've got nice good
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organizational mesh zippered Clos
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Pockets right here and you got two of
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them which I found to be really nice I'd
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put my gym gear in here whatever I had
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that I don't want just falling around or
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floating around all right well let's
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look at one more thing these straps I
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think you're going to love them at least
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I do they're nice and wide gives it a
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sturdy feel uh it also comes with this
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kind of coated protective material on a
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lot of the edges and uh different parts
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like the the handles uh the handle right
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here on top comes with that it's going
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to give it a nice water protective I
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think and uh comfortable feel to it also
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it's a goodlooking aesthetic well with
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that let's look at what I like and what
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I don't like all right well let's talk
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about what I like and what I truly think
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you're going to like too if uh if you're
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looking for a just a good solid
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well-rounded gym bag let's jump into the
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top this is my absolute favorite I've
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used this so many times over the past
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few weeks my gym sit my my bag is
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sitting at the gym I need to get gum or
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earbuds or whatever and it's this top
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compartment right here um I love how
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this guy opens up check that out and you
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have the two pockets on either side so
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you could have stuff that's not readily
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visible on that pocket right there and
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then this one that uh just keep your
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everyday stuff and I throw my car keys
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whatever I need right in those they open
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and close quickly and you are back to
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your set the second thing I like about
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it is just check out this exterior this
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1000 D nylon exterior on the outside is
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absolutely incredible I like the feel I
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like the texture of this material I can
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lay it down so you can kind of see it on
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the front and the back side here that
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1,000 D you know you can get it in 250
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500 lots of variations um and that's
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just really the thickness of the nylon
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and uh kind of how tough it's going to
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be over time and uh this one is
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excellent I love the feel the look
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everything it's a tough bag let's also
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talk about the next thing that I like
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and that is the water bottle holders
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right here you know these come in like
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so many different ways I've tried them
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um just about every one of them and this
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one is really nice because you can get a
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full uh blender bottle or or uh N Bottle
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like right in there and it's not going
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to fall out you can carry them on both
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sides it's a nice closure it's a clean
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look when you don't have anything in
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there and it's a nice closure opens up
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really easily you're not again you're
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not worried about stuff like falling out
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at least I wasn't and that's going to
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take me to one of the last things there
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are more I really like this bag is the
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shoe compartment it has the fidlock
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quick slide disconnect and it really
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just sort of connects itself just by
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doing that right there but uh yeah I do
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not like dirty shoes in the gym and to
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be able to take an extra pair of shoes
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to the gym is amazing and how they just
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put it on the exterior I really like
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it's not in with your clothes stuff like
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that I'm going to touch note on one more
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thing that I like and that is the size
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of the straps you can see they're a bit
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wider than your normal straps and uh it
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gives it a nice sturdy feel when you're
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taking it off throwing it back on the
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front does have this claster here right
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it's just a typical plastic uh clasp I
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would like to see some sort of fidlock
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magnetic clasp on that I think that
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would really be a small thing but would
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change the whole experience with the bag
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other than that the nice 30 straps I
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have no complaints about I really like
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them it does come with the hypalon uh
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trim that goes on it's sort of this
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rubber material that goes on the handles
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here and it's sort of threw out in other
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places right here to protect the bag and
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uh also gives a nice clean clean look
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with that let's maybe jump over to what
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I don't like about the bag well hey guys
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thanks for sticking with us this long
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let's talk about what I don't like about
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the bag and I'm going to be
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straightforward and honest with you I
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had to I had to search I had to really
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think about it to give a review there's
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not a lot of things I would say that
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would improve this bag it's excellent uh
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I wear a size 10 and 1 half shoe so my
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my shoes fit in here really nice but um
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I have one pair that's a little bit
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bulkier and uh in the shoe compartment I
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found that like it was kind of tough to
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get them all the way down to the bottom
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and I think it's because that
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1,000 uh D nylon material which is
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really great and it's really but it's a
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little stiff so you can see so I had a
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little harder time fitting the shoes
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down in there now maybe after a few
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weeks the bag is going to loosen up a
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little bit and uh disclaimer I did load
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this with a lot of stuff to test the bag
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up and out and it it held up really well
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so not complaining just it's something
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to know about like if you have a bigger
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shoe this might be a big of a tighter
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compartment the other thing that uh I
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kind of didn't like about the bag was I
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I wish it had just a little bit more of
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a footprint uh for the bag to actually
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stand upright you know having a a
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backpack that you can set down and it's
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not going to fall over and uh it's going
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to stay up is really like invaluable
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it's incredible and uh when your shoes
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are in it it sort of balances out the
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bag to sit upright but if you take your
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shoes out this is what I found I should
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say is it would start to tip over and uh
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that just get get a little bit annoying
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but again I was overpacking it it was
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probably a little topheavy just to test
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it out so just know great bag I this
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might be my gym bag for the next 10
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years I don't know I like this bag this
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much I think if you get this bag you're
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going to be happy with it all right guys
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well let's talk about who the king kong
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plus bag is for and I'll just say this
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I've been going to the gym for a very
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long time I was a gym owner for a long
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time and if you just want a simple bag
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that's going to stand the test of time
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look good and perform well I truly
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believe like this is your bag because
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this is my bag if you're looking to
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carry a lot of gear you should probably
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check out one of the reviews the other
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reviews that I did on King Kong's Edge
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backpack that man that thing can hold
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just about anything uh and travel work
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all that stuff this one is really like
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uh it's versatile but you're not going
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to put a lot of stuff in there this is
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like your everyday to the gym back and
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forth bag this bag is definitely for you
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if you like having shoes in a clean
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space uh I tell you as a as a previous
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gym owner nothing would aggravate me
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more than people coming in with dirty
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shoes cuz they just spent $5,000 on a
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brand new state-of-the-art treadmill and
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then you walk in and somebody wore their
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muddy Farm boots and their spraying mud
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across the floor not a lie all the time
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it would happen the rest of my day would
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be spent cleaning the treadmill pulling
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the motor apart cleaning it up calming
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people down in the gym because there's
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mud everywhere so I greatly appreciate
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King Kong thank you for putting this on
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your bag well hopefully this helped you
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decide whether or not the plus is going
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to be your go-to gym bag and I think it
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just might this isn't your budget gym
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bag I've definitely tried those out
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before but um I'll tell you this if it
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helps at all if I lost this bag today uh
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even though this was gifted To Us by
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King Kong for review um I would be
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spending uh my own money to go get this
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it's it's I believe in this bag that
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that much it's that good of a bag if you
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just want to carry your basic stuff uh
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it's that good of a bag so uh thanks for
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sticking around to the end of the video
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King Kong bag that's coming up for
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review so make sure to keep your eye out
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