The supershoes are technical doping!

SUPERIOR COACH JS wrote:

On Swedish text-TV today: "The latest years we have seen a record slaughter at many running distances.

The Swedish researcher Toni Arndt, who are involved in designing a new regulatory framework for the supershoes,

want to tighten the boundaries for the shoes.

- If it just keeps evolving it`s the same as technical doping, he says in SVT ( Swedish TV).

The record races have been conducted in running shoes with built-in carbon fiber plates that provides a leverage power and thick soles that absorb energy.

Arndt checks the shoes on behalf of World Athletics."

+1 we are now waiting for news on your compatriot Emil de la Oliva (Adidas). He also uses super shoes but after suffering from Covid in March his form has never bounced back to what was expected from his personal best last year of 1329 and 2823. How do you explain this?. A friend of yours and it’s his family friends of yours?

+1 on the shoes being technical doping, imo they should be comp banned because of the feather-like construction that propels you forward. Regarding Millan, I’d assume he’s overtrained from 170-180k weeks in Kenya. He did alot of mileage last year as well but now maybe it was too much. He will be back.

cramberrys wrote:

+1 on the shoes being technical doping, imo they should be comp banned because of the feather-like construction that propels you forward. Regarding Millan, I’d assume he’s overtrained from 170-180k weeks in Kenya. He did alot of mileage last year as well but now maybe it was too much. He will be back.

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Hi Ghost1! :) Well, I don`t know him personally and have only chatted with his father who coached Emil before the Italian coach.

The fact that Emil got covid is of course the most truly main cause to his loss of results.

As we know from media info, covid can affect longtime after sickness.......we hope he soon will be back to normal levels...... :)

Do you believe Milan is suffering from long Covid as has been rumored in different areas? Hopefully not but it’s taking him a long time to recapture form and this track season has been an absolute disaster for him. 1329/2823 last year, and this year 2021 only 1354 and 2929. Very sad evolution.

Ghost1 wrote:

Do you believe Milan is suffering from long Covid as has been rumored in different areas? Hopefully not but it’s taking him a long time to recapture form and this track season has been an absolute disaster for him. 1329/2823 last year, and this year 2021 only 1354 and 2929. Very sad evolution.

That must be the cause I think, long covid suffering. I mean the Italian coach can`t be that bad coach, right? Overtraining? Naah....most probably long covid suffering.

In a lot of sports the material plays a hudge role.

Limiting the shoe too much, would extremly slow down future development. That would be very bad for shoe companies. China and other copy stations would just copy an existing top shoe and would completely destroy the market with a cheap shoe.

That would be the end of Adidas, Nike, etc. at least for the shoe market.

SUPERIOR COACH JS wrote:

Ghost1 wrote:

Do you believe Milan is suffering from long Covid as has been rumored in different areas? Hopefully not but it’s taking him a long time to recapture form and this track season has been an absolute disaster for him. 1329/2823 last year, and this year 2021 only 1354 and 2929. Very sad evolution.

That must be the cause I think, long covid suffering. I mean the Italian coach can`t be that bad coach, right? Overtraining? Naah....most probably long covid suffering.

Can't rule it out, but risks for and with long-term covid is very exaggerated. I also had it for 6 weeks and for me the biggest problem was that you had to start up training very slowly because of the risk of some kind of backlash. I got back into decent competition shape quickly, but getting back to my top level took some time because of the 6 weeks of total rest + 4-5 weeks of pretty slow progression. Could be something similar for Emil, or it could be overtraining. After all, he went from 50-60k /week in 2019 to 140-150 in (at least parts of) 2020 to even more in 2021. Could be hard on the body, but Emil knows that best himself of course and could share something about his buildup.

Maybe you are right in your speculations.It´s really a fast climb for him from 50-60 kpw 2019 to 140-150 kpw parts of 2020 and then even more 2021. And added to this what I have addressed here that he trains with already matured experienced pro runners and have to do their best training paces. Can be too much for a young body........

Doping refers to the use of BANNED substances.

For the term/phrase Technical Doping to hold any water the technology(i assume what he means by technical) would have to be illegal/banned.

FYI. Addidas invented the "Torsion System" in 1988 and since then, them and many other shoe companies have been inserting various ridged materials into their shoes midsoles to increase the overall bending stiffness of the shoe. Many fast shoes are energy zapping noodles without their midfoot shanks.

Also, since the beginning of the Midsole Foam ( 1972 ? ), shoe companies have been Continuously re-engineering & improving the midsole foam material. The latest high-tech foams will someday be replaced by the next, and so on.

Coach JS do you believe Emil Milan would benefit from a modified DANCAN system?

Emil normally posts on Instagram but for the past few days he has not said anything on Instagram so he has been very silent which is somewhat of a mystery?

Are you in contact with him and his family in Norkopping?