Try Kinesiology Tape by the Strip: 10 Strips for £4.90 Delivered

Every other kinesiology tape brand sells you five metres of tape and hopes you get on with it. We will sell you ten strips for £4.90, posted free, so you can find out first.

The problem with buying a whole roll

A roll of kinesiology tape is five metres long. That is twenty applications, give or take. If you have taped a knee before and you know the tape works for you, a roll is obviously the right buy. If you have not, you are being asked to commit to twenty applications of something you have never had on your skin.

And tape is personal. How long it holds depends on your skin, how much you sweat, where you are putting it and how well you prepped. The only way to know is to wear it.

So we cut the roll up

A strip pack is exactly what it sounds like. Ten individual pre-cut strips, each 5cm × 25cm with rounded corners, each on its own backing paper. Same tape as the roll, same adhesive, same everything. You pick the ten.

• Plain colours — 49p a strip, ten colours to choose from
• Black Talisman — 54p a strip, ten printed designs in white on black
• Beige Talisman — 54p a strip, six designs printed in black on natural beige

Mix them however you like. Strips from any of the three packs count towards the ten, so nine plain colours and one Viking design is a perfectly normal order.

Why ten strips post cheaper than one roll

This is the bit that makes the whole thing possible, and it is pure Royal Mail arithmetic.

A five metre roll is nearly 5cm across. Royal Mail's large letter limit is 2.5cm thick. So a roll can never go as a large letter — it travels as a parcel, and a parcel is £4.95 on Tracked 48. Ten flat strips in an envelope clear the large letter limit easily, which costs £1.55, and we make it free from ten.

That is the only reason ten strips can land on your doormat for less than a single roll. Nothing clever, just a thickness limit.

What ten strips actually gets you

Most applications take two strips. A pack of ten is about five applications.

At five to seven days of wear per application, ten strips is roughly a month of taping one area a week.

Feel the difference

Here is the honest reason we want you to try it rather than read about it. Most tape at this price is cotton, and cotton behaves differently on skin. It absorbs sweat and holds it against you, which is why cotton tape tends to lift at the edges by the second day.

Ours is 95% rayon and 5% spandex. It wicks moisture and dries, which is how it holds for five to seven days through showers and training. It is the same synthetic fabric the branded tapes use, and theirs costs £13 to £25 a roll.

You will notice it on day three, not day one. That is exactly why a ten strip pack is a better test than a single application. We have written up the fabric difference in detail in synthetic vs cotton kinesiology tape.

What it costs, delivered

Delivery on strips is £1.55 up to nine and free when you order 10 strips or more.

When you should just buy the roll

We are not going to pretend strips are always the right answer. Buy a roll if you already know the tape suits you, if you want the dispenser, or if you are taping regularly. Three rolls is £14.97 delivered free, which is 25p a strip — half the price of a strip pack and the cheapest tape we sell.

There is no dispenser in a strip pack. That is deliberate: the dispenser is what makes a roll a parcel.

Frequently asked questions

Kinesiology Sports Tape is a premium athletic support and comfort product, not a medical device. Always consult a qualified professional for injury, pain or medical concerns.