Agree or disagree?
Agree or disagree?
Agreed.
But also agreed that we wouldn't be here in the first place if not for Boost. Boost scared the crap out of Nike, and they turned up something better, only needed to stabilize it with a plate, which they then found to offer 'bounce,' and here we are.
So all anyone can talk about is Kipchoge's shoes. No, not the ones where the insoles couldn't stay put, the ones he wore the other day in Vienna that had foam, a plate, foam, a plate, foam, air, foam, and sort of an outsole. Funny that after all the hot air they end up going with what the Daybreak had in the late-70s.
But it's the plate that's the issue. This never really became a thing in track shoes, since the stack height was never enough to offer physics. But now, with Nike shoes towering into the sky, the sky IS the limit, as long as the pronation factor doesn't wipe too many of them out. Kipchoge didn't just go under 2, he set a world record for a man running on his ankles!
If Nike decides it can't make enough money with a product, they just lay everyone off , and end that product line . Like they
did with the Golf division . If they like a design idea from another manufacturer , they just use it, then fight it out in court.
Disagree. I think in an old interview with Brad Hudson he talks about the fact that there have been a number of shoes (across a number of companies) that have toyed around with the idea of a carbon/graphite plate in the past. The real change that happened with Nike is that they shelled out the money to conduct a study on the actual benefit and then marketed the hell out of it. Brad even says in the interview that every shoe has a certain "percent" for a certain runner and no one talks about it because it isn't marketed that way. Asics makes racing flats that are a certain percent faster than their trainers but they don't market them as being "X%" faster. USATF/IAAF can't attack a company for conducting a study and marketing the results they paid for.
Adidas and others have been playing around with carbon plates for 20 years plus - I think people under estimate the Zoom X foam. it's supposedly the same/very similar to that used in Reeboks Float Ride range and considering Reebok is owned by Adidas (and therefore have access to the same foam), I find it surprising Adidas haven't come up with something similar to the Vapourfly as yet. Although the rumours are there's something in the pipeline, the 'Pro Plate' range I think? (could be wrong).
The door for energy return shoes was opened when they allowed blade runner into the Olympics
Carbon fiber plates have been used in sprint spikes forever. There’s no way they could ban it.
disagree.
RIP: D3 All-American Frank Csorba - who ran 13:56 in March - dead
RENATO can you talk about the preparation of Emile Cairess 2:06
Running for Bowerman Track Club used to be cool now its embarrassing
Hats off to my dad. He just ran a 1:42 Half Marathon and turns 75 in 2 months!
Great interview with Steve Cram - says Jakob has no chance of WRs this year