Aixo

Colour-Clash Grips. Bold Printed Sportswear. The UK Independent Racket Sports Brand for Pickleball, Padel and Tennis Players Who Rather Refuse to Look Like Everyone Else.

AIXO is the UK independent racket sports brand built around a properly straightforward idea: there's no good reason for a tennis grip to look boring. Bold printed grips. Properly distinctive sportswear. A name — The Colour Clash Club — that says rather more than most brand straplines manage. The range covers printed grips, multi-pack grip bundles at a friendlier price, a unique clothing range, and (rather imminently) pickleball gear, padel kit and rackets.

The Colour Clash Club approach runs through everything. Loud prints. Pattern combinations that wouldn't last five minutes in a traditional sports brand boardroom. A clothing range that doesn't quietly blend in with the centre-court whites. Properly distinctive — which is rather the point of independent. AIXO makes sportswear for the people who'd rather stand out than blend in, and grips for those who'd rather their racket said something on the way to court.

For more from AIXO and other makers like them, explore our Sportswear collection at Söstter, browse our Sport & Outdoors directory, or pair with our Accessories. For makers chosen by values, see our British Makers, Family-Run Makers and Independent Makers directories.