These gloves are alright, but not worth the price Timeship charges for them. The pucks slide like butter, which is great but they wear down quickly. "Finger Dipped" is a little deceiving, the dip really doesn't help much and I still put holes in these gloves pretty quick. I thought mine fit pretty awkwardly, but they may have been too small for me.

If you are good at keeping your fingers off the ground, and don't mind dropping a chunk of change, these gloves aren't bad. Personammly they weren't for me.

A few months prior to buying these gloves, I had made my own slide gloves by taking heavy duty leather work gloves and gluing corian pucks on. Eventually, the pucks started to come off, and I grew tired of having to grapple with a puck coming off in the middle of a session. As such, I caved in and bought some legit, professionally made slide gloves: the Timeship Dipped Free Riders.

If you like gloves with no finger or thumb pucks, then you would love these gloves. They're super low profile and extremely comfortable, although the leather in the fingers isn't very durable, so if you put a finger down in a slide, then there will be damage.

Price: I wasn't too wild about paying $60 for a set of slide gloves as opposed to paying $10 on a pair of work gloves and nabbing some free corian samples from home depot. However, most other retail slide gloves are within $10 or so of the Timeships, so in the grand scheme of things, they aren't ridiculously expensive.

Performance: I love these gloves. I like a glove with no finger pucks because it gives my fingers a lot more mobility to not only perform basic tasks while skating, like tying shoes, buckling a helmet, carrying your board, adjusting your kingpin or hardware, or strapping your kneepads, but it makes it a lot easier to grab rail or early grab. My early grabs improved noticeably after getting these gloves, as opposed to my bulky homemades with finger pucks. The only complaint I have with these gloves is that the leather on the fingers is very thin, and the material they dip the fingers in does little against the pavement. If you accidentally put a finger down in a slide for more than a couple seconds, it would be easy to burn through the fingers. I put a couple wraps of duct tape around the fingers just below the blue material on the fingertips, and I haven't had any problems since. I recommend you do the same if this is your first pair of gloves without finger pucks.

Style: The design of these gloves, while it sacrifices a bit of durability, is amazing. The gloves are very breathable, and you can really feel the ventilation in the gloves while freeriding and going at higher speeds. As such, my hands rarely get sweaty anymore ever since I started using these gloves. They're very low profile and light, and the puck placement options are very practical and comfortable. It took me a couple slides to get used to the puck being closer to the wrist, as the pucks on my homemade gloves were positioned so that the top edge of the puck was almost in line with my first row of knuckles on my fingers, but once I got used to them, sliding with these gloves became very comfortable. The stretchy material over the knuckles and between the fingers does a very good job of conforming to your hand position, and I never feel like I'm straining against the glove, no matter what my hand positioning.

Fit: These gloves are sized based on the normal glove sizing you would use for a winter glove or the like. I wasn't sure what size I should use, considering my hands are pretty big for my size, so I just talked to my dad and I ended up getting a large. It fits me perfectly, and I have no complaints. In case if any of you guys are unsure about size, I measured from my wrist bone to the tip of my middle finger and it's about 8.25".

Puck Quality: The pucks seem to be holding up pretty well so far, I've had these for a few months and I haven't had to rotate the pucks yet. Timeship offers a puck upgrade to their "Pro Pucks" for $10 when you buy a set of gloves, or $25 if you aren't buying a set of gloves with the pucks, which are supposed to slide smoother and last longer than the stock pucks. I haven't tried a set of those, but the performance of my pucks so far is certainly above average, so I'd imagine the pro pucks would be slide very well. The puck size is perfect, and doesn't feel too small or overwhelm your palm.

Overall, I'd highly recommend these gloves. These are definitely more suited towards someone who knows they don't want finger pucks on their gloves, as they aren't very forgiving in terms of putting a finger down. Your hands are very mobile while wearing these gloves, which makes manual tasks as well as early grabs and grabbing rail a lot easier. They are very well ventilated and comfortable, which can be nice for long sessions. These are my favorite set of gloves to date out of all of the sets I have tried, so definitely take a look at them if you're looking for a new pair!