John Timms Blanch
(Session / Educator)

"I am proud to be a part of the Vratim family, supporting products created by drummers for drummers! After years searching for the optimum drumming shoes, having played with everything from barefoot running shoes, through climbing shoes to other more drumming centric footwear, it’s great to feel the response my pedals have to the flexibility offered by Vratim drumming shoes. The feel of control I have for Heel Toe playing and double stokes is phenomenal, offering the support of a shoe with the flexibility and sensitivity of barefoot drumming"

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Gear List:
Sonor Select Force Canadian Maple - Brown Galaxy Sparkle Finish (Left to Right)
14” x 14” Floor
14” x 10” Floor
10” x 6.5” Rack
12” x 9” Rack
10” x 8” Rack
14” x 12” Floor
16” x 16” Floor

22” x 18” Main Bass Drum
16” x 16” Remote Bass Drum

Snares by Phantom Drums Ltd
14” x 5.5” Steel / 12” x 8” Mahogany
10” x 4.5” Padouk and Walnut Stave Shell Aux Side Snare

Percussion; Tama 6” & 8” Mini Steel Timbales
Meinl Cajons & Bass Box - with Schlagwerk Heck Stick & accessories.
Marimba One and Adams Marimbas and Xylophones
Yamaha and Adams Glockenspiels and Vibraphones
Adams and C Mahillon and Co Modern and Period Timpani 
Various other Orchestral and Ethnic Percussion Instruments from; LP, Meinl & Gope.

Hardware:
Yamaha Hex Rack
Yamaha and DW Hardware and Hi Hat Stands

Pedals:
Czarcie Kopyto Double Pedal 
ACD Dynamic Bass Drum Beaters - light and heavy weight beater heads. 
DW9000 Double Pedal slave remote bass drum.
Vratim Drum Shoe II.1 - Red

Cymbals:
Paiste / Meinl / Zildjian
16” RUDE Crash / Ride
14” Custom Cut Stack from old Paiste Cymbals by Phantom Drums Ltd
4”, 6” & 8” Paiste 2002 Accent Cymbals
10” Zildjian Special Recording Hats
16” Meinl Gen X Safari Crash 
12” Meinl Gen X Safari Hats - used as X-Hat
12” Paiste Alpha Metal Splash
10” Paiste RUDE Splash
10” Paiste vintage 3000 RUDE Splash
12” Paiste RUDE Shred Bell
14” Paiste RUDE Blast China
18” Paiste RUDE Thin Crash 
14” Paiste RUDE Sound Edge Hats - used as X-Hat
12” Zildjian China Trash Hats on Right Hand Legless Pedal Stand
20” Paiste RUDE Heavy Ride
18” Paiste RUDE China
18” Custom Cut Stack from old Paiste Cymbals by Phantom Drums.

Accessories;
Cympad Optimizers
Cymlock products
Vic Firth Questlove Model Stick, as well as other brushes, mallets and fx sticks from Johnny Rabb, Vic Firth, Malletech, Adams & Chalklin.