- Bought these a couple years ago to get some extra practice on my starts on my free time outside of training. Solid starting blocks, never had an issue with them, only downside is that the images I provided are the lowest angle the pads go to, if you set your pads significantly lower than those shown in the image, I would not recommend this product. Besides a little bit of dirt/debris buildup on the pads everything is as good as new. (selling them bc I graduated high school and am done with track haha).