ok so me and my coach are having this argument and i told him that these two shoes have the same upper and obviously different plates. but he is dead set that they are different. his only argument to me is color, but i said that other then color they are the same. please help us out and get this resolved. thanks.any specifics would help. i dont care if i am wrong i just want to find a way to back our info.
The plates are a world and away different, which makes the shoes, in turn, completely different. Saying they are the same based on the upper is like saying the Miler track spike is the same shoe as the new Rivals because they look the same (white with the red stripe). The plates are completly different to perform different functions, which makes them two distinct shoes.
Here is how the shoes are different:
The Lanang has the miler plate, which is an elevated forefoot and extends for only 3/4 of the shoe. This forces the runner onto their toes for more power and speed (like sprinting - since it was designed for mid distance races) and is obviously better for forefoot strikers.
The Vent plus, on the other hand, is non agressive and flat. The shoes was designed way before the development of the more agressive plates (ie miler, lanangs, and eldoret II) and the upper on the ST version was modified to make it a steeple shoe.
thanks i know that the lanangs and the vents plus are two different shoe, my point was that they have the same upper, that is what all of my questions were geared toward. as stated in my first post i said that they have different plates.
You didn't really specify that you were merely asking about the different in the uppers.
lil steepler 1 wrote:
i told him that these two shoes have the same upper and obviously different plates.
I'm not the original poster, but I will agree with him. It's pretty straight forward
Yeah... the uppers are made out of the same material. If that is what you're looking for.
RFXCrunner wrote:
Yeah... the uppers are made out of the same material. If that is what you're looking for.
Roughly. There's a few little parts in the upper that are made of different material, but the mesh is the same.
you guys are hopeless tools.
you guys are hopeless tools
the uppers are the same in design, but not in material...the lanangs have a more water resistant upper...obviously they are both open mess and drain equally fast, but the vents absorb more water into the material...