When I type matumbo into google translate, it generates "intestines" in Swahili. What the hell is Nike trying to push on us?
Can someone please help me!
When I type matumbo into google translate, it generates "intestines" in Swahili. What the hell is Nike trying to push on us?
Can someone please help me!
They are supposed to leave the competition "gutted". A dumb expression left over from British occupation of Kenya.
I remember hearing they were named after some sort of Kenyan ceremony named "matumbo."
The "matumbo" is a special part of the cow. In Kenya they have a tradition where they cut up the cow and cook all the different parts of it, and they all have different significance. The matumbo is the cut of the cow that includes the place where where the intestines exit the cow's body. Yes, the butthole.
The matumbo spike got its name because one of the Kenyans who runs for Nike--I think it might have actually been Lagat--christened the prototype the "matumbo" because the circular hole that replaces the heel counter reminded him of the matumbo of the cow.
all true, except you need to swap cow for goat.
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The "matumbo" is a special part of the cow. In Kenya they have a tradition where they cut up the cow and cook all the different parts of it, and they all have different significance. The matumbo is the cut of the cow that includes the place where where the intestines exit the cow's body. Yes, the butthole.
The matumbo spike got its name because one of the Kenyans who runs for Nike--I think it might have actually been Lagat--christened the prototype the "matumbo" because the circular hole that replaces the heel counter reminded him of the matumbo of the cow.
False. The shoe is named after baseketball great Dikembe Matumbo, who was also an excellent 400 meter runner.
Track Timer wrote:
False. The shoe is named after baseketball great Dikembe Matumbo, who was also an excellent 400 meter runner.
I doubt, these are mid-distance spikes, not sprint shoes. Differently spelling name too: Dikembe Mutombo.
I don't want to accept the urbandictionary result, but I guess I don't have another choice.
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