@jimmybondy9450 no I think it does, cause I remember in 6th grade I went from a 7 minute and 4 second mile to a 6 minute and 36 second when bying vaporflys mid season
But, just as I’m as good a driver as Sir Stirling Moss - because we’ve both not won the F1 World Drivers Championship, you are as good as Asafa Powell because you’ve both not won Olympic Gold. How cool is that?
as much as I would like to see barefoot running in the Olympics, it is fisiologically very different from running with shoes and it would be even very dangerous for runners who have been using shoes.
@Nahanoo Not that easy. Let's just add jet packs while we are at it. It's an extreme case of course, but shows why having an anything goes mentality does not fly either. Sports must be regulated.
I'm sorry but this could have used much more research. 1) World Athletics never banned any Nike shoes during this period. The rule changes covered exisiting products. 2) Super spikes are nothing new. Puma had their 'brush spike' banned back in 1968 after it broke WRs in testing. Nike even shelved a spike with metal sandpaper instead of spikes back in 1985. 3) Carbon-fibre plate running shoes are not new. Fila did this with racing shoes back in 1996. They dominated world marathons for years and only stopped when the company collapsed. 4) The Viperfly may have had the potential to improve times (it was never proven) but almost all the tech except the decoupled spike plate (which the patent said would act as a second plate) made it into production spikes 5) Even with the super spikes of today, Usain Bolt's record has not been approached.
It’s funny how the video is 9:57 or 0.1 seconds better the 100m world record 9.58 while talking about how cheating could have beaten it with super shoes
As an avowed shoe nerd, I’d like to correct the beginning of the video. Kipchoge broke two hours in the Alphafly, a then brand new prototype. By that point the Vaporfly had been around for years. We can moan about supershoes all we want, but that shift happened long ago - for better or worse it happened, and we’re living in that world. Maybe most importantly, unlike in the early days, every company now has a carbon racing shoe and there’s not much between them. If anything, Nike is being left behind by many of its competitors, with On and Adidas arguably developing better racing product nowadays. Most Nike athletes aren’t running in the newest Vaporfly models, and many of its marathoners are still running in the first alphafly - a now 4 year old shoe. I think you’re correct to point out that the shoes can hurt the sport - I’d say from 2016 to 2019 for sure Nike athletes benefitted hugely from their innovation. Look at the Rio marathon podium or the US Olympic trials 2016. Nobody even knew about the Vaporfly prototypes beside the Nike athletes and that seems grubby at best. And although the shoes get a lot of credit for these world records, one underreported factor is the huge advances in endurance sports nutrition that have been made in about the same timeframe. When it comes to sprints, the benefits really aren’t very clear at all. The winning time in the Tokyo 100m would have been 5th in London 2012 for example. If shoe tech was that important in the sprints, I guarantee we would see a lot more 9.7 and 9.6 times. As it is, 9.8 which was good but not great 10-15 years ago is usually good enough to win diamond leagues, world championships and Olympic 100m races.
Agreed with the sprint comment. I don't think "magic" shoes will make a tangible difference for sprints. He mentioned the Viperfly having a carbon fiber sole, but sprint spikes have had carbon soles for years and super stiff soles for even longer. Plus in the discussion about compliance and energy return, compliance is about comfort. Sprinters don't really care about comfort, they're only running for less than a minute. Better believe they'll take a bit of discomfort to get that energy return number as close to 100% as possible.
It is because of Bolt and some other very talanted athletes that we are used to 9.7s in the 100m and expect the same from today's elite sprinters. Actually the 9.7 runs are quite rare just check the all time list! There are other examples for technologigal doping tho....look at the 400m hurdles, the 800 m for men and 400 m for women this year. We are now used to the 400m hurdles but the time of the last two mentioned disciplines are insane this year....I mean 4 girls below 49 secs in the 400m flat...that is insane!
@nexuslux Thanks for your feedback! Do you mean we should have shown the Alphafly instead of the Vaporfly throughout the video? We figured it's fine to show the Vaporfly since this is the shoe that started it and we talk about "super shoes" in general, but I get the confusion when you are more familiar with the topic.
You have no idea what you're talking about. A "marathon" is a distance just like a "100 meters" is a distance. A marathon is 26.2 miles or 42.2 km. It was a marathon that he ran. It wasn't record eligible for other reasons, but it was definitely a marathon. Why do so many id1ots post like they're an authority about something they know almost nothing about? I guess it's the Elon Musk effect.
the comparision with Formula 1 is overblown imo, if anything it is more like cycling where a great aerodynamic bike can give great benefits to riders as they have to expend less energy for the same speeds but ultimately the human is still the engine.
maybe because nike trade marked the technology behind this so other shoes cannot replicate or make it better. while in bike, every one has similar advantage because everyone has similar technological advantages, this is different.
@MudThought competitors are making very similar shoes that reach similar goals though and it's not like patents do not exist in cycling either. The main thing is that whatever people use, it has to be available on the market, which is the case. Just recently some Tour de France riders were complaining they were at a disadvantage because their sponsors bikes are quite a bit heavier than other teams bikes, so I think the situation is quite comparable in other sports. Arguably in cycling it's much worse if you look at the equipment of high budget vs low budget teams (or nations in the Olympics). But my main point was, even cycling is still far off the F1 situation, where you literally cannot win in a bad car even you are by far the best driver.
No this would be more like bike using advanced suspension and space age soft tire grip. Yea mechanical advantage is not the same as aero. Aero is limited by V² So the faster you go, the harder air pushes on you squared
Why not just make the equipment they use at the Olympics and world/national series events use spec shoes? One manufacture, one cost, one design for everyone. If one piece of equipment is the best then everyone gets that piece of equipment at the same price.
As long as it doesn't have Bluetooth the shoe should be legal. It's only logical that running shoes get improved further and further. No one is using those first generation of spike shoes anymore for the same reason.
Due to thermodynamic and laws of conservation of energy, the "supershoes" are not cheating at all. They are just well designed and it was only banned due to other manufacturers not being able to keep up and losing money.
this will also be unfair. People are different, have different shape of foot etc, so some people will gain by this and other lose. Different bodies, different ergonomy. Its like requiring for every cyclist to ride with the same saddle.
literally, if people tell me "ough. i hate running. its so exhausting. why would i do that" i always tell them "nah. you just havnt run in a good shoe yet :D"
Whil I see your point, of the three athletes depicted (Lyles- Adidas, Mcglaughlin- New Balance, Warholm- Puma) none are nike athletes, nor wore unbranded shoes at any point in recent years.
I'm personally shocked that carbon plates are allowed at all. It has nothing to do with comfort or weight. If the advantage is that the shoe is more comfortable than other shoes after mile 15 then that's fine. If the advantage is that it's functioning as a literal spring, that's not okay. Sure, they reduced it down to 1 plate but why is even the one plate allowed?
Think blade runner type advantage on a smaller scale. The murderer guy that looked like an average Joe physiologically (definetly not built like a normal muscular human athlete) that was allowed to run with those blade springs against real humans for several olympic cycles. I refuse to wear these cheat shoes with the blades inside.
If they all have access to the carbon plates it’s a fair technological progression and moreover will still be a fair race - what difference does it make if they all have access to these “springs”?
@PhimbleG-dis it's only unnaturally adding speed, then what's the point? Is there a legitimate reason for it other than performance enhancement? If it's shown to cause lower rates of injury then I'm fine with it. If the only benefit is adding a barrier to performance then it's only good to drive the commercial success of sponsors and not anything with legitimate competition.
@PhimbleG-d Because it ain't running anymore, it oingo boingo. It's like giving them all motorcycles and saying it's a running race still since they all have access to motorcycles.
I think, just make the technology open Or have a contest sponsored totally by Nike so everyone can wear the shoes and we see just how far they can perform. That would be fun.
I hate when they do stuff like this. Player get to good ban this move ban that move. Ban a shoe. What happened to people stepping their game up instead of trying to handicap a better player smh
This video is closing in on 6 years late. The discourse about the super shoes peaked just before Tokyo, when super spikes were just hitting the market. Also, I really hate the clickbait title. The IOC never banned any shoe. World Athletics provided guidelines. The IOC simply enforces the rules of the governing body for each event.
@mikatuThey don’t follow the boxing rules, because they’re arbitrary. They literally used the “we can disqualify you at any time” rule to remove Imane. Not the extremely arbitrarily geared towards europeans “gender” rule they added the year after. Olympics being more politically involved than actually being about human skill is embarrassing. I can maybe tolerate Russia not being allowed a flag, but competitors disqualified for being too good is actually bewildering.
Imagine being a sportswear company that _actually_ enables significantly better athletic performance for their customers, only for a stupid thumbnail on youtube to call it 'cheating.'
On the other hand, there is so many injuries of Achilles tendon in sprint events and events that include sprinting, since carbon spikes started to be trend.
I just like watching how these companies are competing by trying to figure out and then bring to life the best physics. At least money motivates people to do a bit physics. It's just sad that in the end we will have super shoes wearing mediocre feet.
Not really, since most people who are gonna spend that money on a shoe know about all the other supershoes from competing brands. Nike is not even the one pushing the technology anymore
The fact that the stipulation of the shoes must be available on normal retail channels reminds me a lot: "Supershoes for everyone!" "Loud cheers from generic crowd". I am also optimistic that these innovations will be refined and fine tuned for non athlete purposes - the materials advances can be repurposed for shoe comfort and endurance walks too.
If these shoes help as much as marketing keeps telling me, then Dennis Kimettos 2:02:55 in 2014 was the best marathon effort ever. Or maybe Abebe Bikila 2:15:16 in 1960 with NO shoes.
I put on my pair of Vaporfly's for the first time and it felt like the whole back of the shoe disappeared under a cloud. It was bananas. I'd ban them too.
Springs, yes. Wheels, no. If somebody wants to run with pogo sticks, let them. But no rollerblades. We can revisit the issue when we can't distinguish springs from wheels.
In ancient Greece, competitors completed naked. Let's go back to that. No shoes. No pants. No nothing. That way the swimmers can't use supersuits. Runners don't get supershoes. I guess we could allow competitors to shave themselves, but aside from that...
I was living in Jordan era. We believe we can jump higher when using Air Jordan shoe ! Wearing it , give us boost of confidence, respect from peer and opponents and feeling you're Jordan who can fly.
Having people heavily dependent on equipment technology is never good for a sport. We don`t want to see a second round of the Speedo swimsuit in the 2000s.
It’s funny to me that if an athletes gets a good shoe from his or her brand that other athletes have an issue with it. If your brand doesn’t make a shoe that makes you fast, you’re with the wrong brand. Technology will keep improving, since the time of shoes I’m sure as they developed, times got faster, so just because this is a giant leap, it shouldn’t be seen any differently
They should just make them all use the same equipment to offer an even playing field where only the athlete’s ability/physical prowess determine who wins
It's interesting when you look at a sport like MLB that requires wooden bats even though companies have researched other compounds and technology. I'm surprised running hasn't done a similar standardization for shoes.
This guy remembers more of the Media Pulse and the exhibitions themselves having been a 9yr old than I do having been a 14yr old. I call 🐂💩 on the 1st Hand Recollections
I mean, there clearly needs to be a line drawn on what is acceptable footwear. Otherwise, people would just ride Segways and call them running shoes. But I never really thought finding the exact place to draw the line would be that hard.
I would have known a kittle bit more about the two air-polsters named"Air Zoom"on the ball of the foot which is the most resiliated spot.Respectively rather important for most efficiant energy return
The other thing I never see mentioned abt the distance shoes specifically is that most of that 4% is actually prolly due to the 1-2 inches of height gain from the massive midsole. Usually extra height (therefore longer stride length) is countered by the fact that ur heart has to work harder to pump ur blood. These shoes give u the extra advantage with no drawback which is pretty unfair. An inch or two doesn’t sound like much but it means a few more inches per stride which really adds up over 26 miles. It’s not super unfair if all pro athletes have them but it ruins the amateur level bc then it becomes pay to win essentially.
I got an idea. What if the Olympics team up with countries to make their own official shoes so they don't have to worry about brands making one shoe better then the other. I mean think about it. All they need is like 10 Million from each country that's apart of it (That's about $1.8 billion). And they can just develop shoes made for olympic track running.
🥇What's your favorite track and field event at the Olympics?
Come on, of course it's 100m
@zillavale what about pole vault? Or javelin should be interesting this year :)
@AthleticInterestwomen's 400mh is the only thing which comes close in my opinion
@zillavale What about the men's 400h? Could be just as exciting.
The Thiam and Johnson-Thompson rivalry
A 4% improvement would take me from not qualifying for the Olympics to still not qualifying for the Olympics…
No one improves 4%
That's all marketing nonsense.
@jimmybondy9450 did you not see that Strava index? It could just be placebo effect tho
@jimmybondy9450 no I think it does, cause I remember in 6th grade I went from a 7 minute and 4 second mile to a 6 minute and 36 second when bying vaporflys mid season
@jimmybondy9450 . . . Who's gonna tell bro🥀
But, just as I’m as good a driver as Sir Stirling Moss - because we’ve both not won the F1 World Drivers Championship, you are as good as Asafa Powell because you’ve both not won Olympic Gold. How cool is that?
If shoes are tech doping, then make the sport barefoot.
Let’s do it Greece style , no shoes , no clothes
@gizmonovack ah, a man of culture
Apparently, they banned that too. You are not allowed to run barefoot
@corvusglaive5769 conseslious kipruto run and won barefoot
as much as I would like to see barefoot running in the Olympics, it is fisiologically very different from running with shoes and it would be even very dangerous for runners who have been using shoes.
Can we also have a competition where this is not banned?
Just to see how far this technology can go
Yeah. They are inevitably going to be used at some point.
It makes no sense why it’s banned. If it’s up in retail, every athlete should just buy them
@Nahanoo Not that easy. Let's just add jet packs while we are at it. It's an extreme case of course, but shows why having an anything goes mentality does not fly either. Sports must be regulated.
Think metal vs wood bats in baseball. Little kids through university all use metal, but the pros use wood bats.
@Nahanoo then you would have people using a version of the blades Pistorius used and it would be pogo running
Usain Bolt after wearing the shoes : Insane Bolt
Shoepain bolt ⚡
Can the sun explode alredy🥀
lol, they're the completely wrong kind of shoes. He would use spikes as a sprinter.
BG music is loud.
Thanks for the feedback, we'll try to mix it better next time 🎧🕺
no it isn't
@AthleticInterest nah the volume mixing is fine
@tpsam are you okay? Do you need some hearing aids
@HSLuther350people reply just for the sake of contradicting others, don’t bother
I'm sorry but this could have used much more research.
1) World Athletics never banned any Nike shoes during this period. The rule changes covered exisiting products.
2) Super spikes are nothing new. Puma had their 'brush spike' banned back in 1968 after it broke WRs in testing. Nike even shelved a spike with metal sandpaper instead of spikes back in 1985.
3) Carbon-fibre plate running shoes are not new. Fila did this with racing shoes back in 1996. They dominated world marathons for years and only stopped when the company collapsed.
4) The Viperfly may have had the potential to improve times (it was never proven) but almost all the tech except the decoupled spike plate (which the patent said would act as a second plate) made it into production spikes
5) Even with the super spikes of today, Usain Bolt's record has not been approached.
Just a nike ad
exactly, thanks for posting this. video is kind of trash.
It’s funny how the video is 9:57 or 0.1 seconds better the 100m world record 9.58 while talking about how cheating could have beaten it with super shoes
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That 9:57 would be the world record for the slowest 100m sprint.
@WarrChan - I'm sure he means in seconds, not in minutes.
@chrismitty_plenty yes. I know what he thinks he means. He means 9.57 but thinks it's ironic that 9:57 looks similar.
As an avowed shoe nerd, I’d like to correct the beginning of the video. Kipchoge broke two hours in the Alphafly, a then brand new prototype. By that point the Vaporfly had been around for years. We can moan about supershoes all we want, but that shift happened long ago - for better or worse it happened, and we’re living in that world. Maybe most importantly, unlike in the early days, every company now has a carbon racing shoe and there’s not much between them. If anything, Nike is being left behind by many of its competitors, with On and Adidas arguably developing better racing product nowadays. Most Nike athletes aren’t running in the newest Vaporfly models, and many of its marathoners are still running in the first alphafly - a now 4 year old shoe. I think you’re correct to point out that the shoes can hurt the sport - I’d say from 2016 to 2019 for sure Nike athletes benefitted hugely from their innovation. Look at the Rio marathon podium or the US Olympic trials 2016. Nobody even knew about the Vaporfly prototypes beside the Nike athletes and that seems grubby at best. And although the shoes get a lot of credit for these world records, one underreported factor is the huge advances in endurance sports nutrition that have been made in about the same timeframe.
When it comes to sprints, the benefits really aren’t very clear at all. The winning time in the Tokyo 100m would have been 5th in London 2012 for example. If shoe tech was that important in the sprints, I guarantee we would see a lot more 9.7 and 9.6 times. As it is, 9.8 which was good but not great 10-15 years ago is usually good enough to win diamond leagues, world championships and Olympic 100m races.
Agreed with the sprint comment. I don't think "magic" shoes will make a tangible difference for sprints. He mentioned the Viperfly having a carbon fiber sole, but sprint spikes have had carbon soles for years and super stiff soles for even longer.
Plus in the discussion about compliance and energy return, compliance is about comfort. Sprinters don't really care about comfort, they're only running for less than a minute. Better believe they'll take a bit of discomfort to get that energy return number as close to 100% as possible.
There will always be innovation and advances technology, inevitable.
We will have to slowly adapt, at times, adapt quickly.
It is because of Bolt and some other very talanted athletes that we are used to 9.7s in the 100m and expect the same from today's elite sprinters. Actually the 9.7 runs are quite rare just check the all time list! There are other examples for technologigal doping tho....look at the 400m hurdles, the 800 m for men and 400 m for women this year. We are now used to the 400m hurdles but the time of the last two mentioned disciplines are insane this year....I mean 4 girls below 49 secs in the 400m flat...that is insane!
how can you watch the video when he keeps showing the wrong shoes? i just stopped.
@nexuslux Thanks for your feedback! Do you mean we should have shown the Alphafly instead of the Vaporfly throughout the video? We figured it's fine to show the Vaporfly since this is the shoe that started it and we talk about "super shoes" in general, but I get the confusion when you are more familiar with the topic.
He didnt run a two hour marathon. he ran a marathon distance in less than two hours. There are certain rules he didnt meet to be classed as a marathon
You have no idea what you're talking about. A "marathon" is a distance just like a "100 meters" is a distance. A marathon is 26.2 miles or 42.2 km. It was a marathon that he ran. It wasn't record eligible for other reasons, but it was definitely a marathon.
Why do so many id1ots post like they're an authority about something they know almost nothing about? I guess it's the Elon Musk effect.
I don't know what shoes Armin Hary was wearing in 1960 Rome Olympics , but it got him down the Gravel 100m track in 10sec flat.
the comparision with Formula 1 is overblown imo, if anything it is more like cycling where a great aerodynamic bike can give great benefits to riders as they have to expend less energy for the same speeds but ultimately the human is still the engine.
It's also the same with the prosthetics para Olympic runners use. Some of those blades are super advanced and give the athletes a mega advantage
maybe because nike trade marked the technology behind this so other shoes cannot replicate or make it better.
while in bike, every one has similar advantage because everyone has similar technological advantages, this is different.
@MudThought competitors are making very similar shoes that reach similar goals though and it's not like patents do not exist in cycling either. The main thing is that whatever people use, it has to be available on the market, which is the case. Just recently some Tour de France riders were complaining they were at a disadvantage because their sponsors bikes are quite a bit heavier than other teams bikes, so I think the situation is quite comparable in other sports. Arguably in cycling it's much worse if you look at the equipment of high budget vs low budget teams (or nations in the Olympics). But my main point was, even cycling is still far off the F1 situation, where you literally cannot win in a bad car even you are by far the best driver.
The difference in performance is about the same though. Supertimes for all teams vary by less than 5%.
No this would be more like bike using advanced suspension and space age soft tire grip. Yea mechanical advantage is not the same as aero. Aero is limited by V²
So the faster you go, the harder air pushes on you squared
Why not just make the equipment they use at the Olympics and world/national series events use spec shoes? One manufacture, one cost, one design for everyone. If one piece of equipment is the best then everyone gets that piece of equipment at the same price.
As long as it doesn't have Bluetooth the shoe should be legal. It's only logical that running shoes get improved further and further. No one is using those first generation of spike shoes anymore for the same reason.
If Equipped:
+4 Speed
Due to thermodynamic and laws of conservation of energy, the "supershoes" are not cheating at all. They are just well designed and it was only banned due to other manufacturers not being able to keep up and losing money.
I've never seen any infographic story telling video as cool as this. Its like watching avengers age of ultron
I always find it weird that sport equipment in competitions are not standardised.
this will also be unfair. People are different, have different shape of foot etc, so some people will gain by this and other lose. Different bodies, different ergonomy. Its like requiring for every cyclist to ride with the same saddle.
On the bright side, it looks like the consumer is getting better shoes as time goes on.
Running with unlimited restrictions on shoes is called cycling.
Sooo..I am not slow..I just dont have the right shoe😂😂
yup
literally, if people tell me "ough. i hate running. its so exhausting. why would i do that" i always tell them "nah. you just havnt run in a good shoe yet :D"
Whil I see your point, of the three athletes depicted (Lyles- Adidas, Mcglaughlin- New Balance, Warholm- Puma) none are nike athletes, nor wore unbranded shoes at any point in recent years.
No better advertising then banning ashoe for being too good
I'm personally shocked that carbon plates are allowed at all. It has nothing to do with comfort or weight. If the advantage is that the shoe is more comfortable than other shoes after mile 15 then that's fine. If the advantage is that it's functioning as a literal spring, that's not okay. Sure, they reduced it down to 1 plate but why is even the one plate allowed?
Think blade runner type advantage on a smaller scale. The murderer guy that looked like an average Joe physiologically (definetly not built like a normal muscular human athlete) that was allowed to run with those blade springs against real humans for several olympic cycles. I refuse to wear these cheat shoes with the blades inside.
If they all have access to the carbon plates it’s a fair technological progression and moreover will still be a fair race - what difference does it make if they all have access to these “springs”?
@PhimbleG-dis it's only unnaturally adding speed, then what's the point? Is there a legitimate reason for it other than performance enhancement? If it's shown to cause lower rates of injury then I'm fine with it. If the only benefit is adding a barrier to performance then it's only good to drive the commercial success of sponsors and not anything with legitimate competition.
@only1sn1not1taken goggles aren’t natural. The speed suit swimmers swim in isn’t natural. SHOES aren’t natural.
@PhimbleG-d Because it ain't running anymore, it oingo boingo. It's like giving them all motorcycles and saying it's a running race still since they all have access to motorcycles.
“Without the athletes, super shoes would just be very expensive slippers”
Quote of the day 🔥
I think, just make the technology open
Or have a contest sponsored totally by Nike so everyone can wear the shoes and we see just how far they can perform. That would be fun.
Wow IOC worried about athletes wearing shoes but not worried about men beating up women in the competition 🤦🏻♂️
Not a coincidence, my RUclips showed Adidas ad before this video.
Even with the super shoes, this year 100m finalists only got 9.79 the fastest..what a letdown
This feels... really similar to a video I saw a couple years ago
I hate when they do stuff like this. Player get to good ban this move ban that move. Ban a shoe. What happened to people stepping their game up instead of trying to handicap a better player smh
I think every runner should be forced to run barefoot at this point
That outro hits deep
This video is closing in on 6 years late. The discourse about the super shoes peaked just before Tokyo, when super spikes were just hitting the market.
Also, I really hate the clickbait title. The IOC never banned any shoe. World Athletics provided guidelines. The IOC simply enforces the rules of the governing body for each event.
wrong. boxing IOC ignored all the rules regarding female athletes who failed gender exams.
@mikatu there is zero evidence that any proper tests were actually conducted
Hey, we all need to justify our sponsorships SOMEHOW.
@mikatu Lol, you got conned by Russian fake news
@mikatuThey don’t follow the boxing rules, because they’re arbitrary.
They literally used the “we can disqualify you at any time” rule to remove Imane. Not the extremely arbitrarily geared towards europeans “gender” rule they added the year after.
Olympics being more politically involved than actually being about human skill is embarrassing. I can maybe tolerate Russia not being allowed a flag, but competitors disqualified for being too good is actually bewildering.
if everyone wears them how are they an unfair advantage
Them trainers be comfy tho ngl
Imagine being a sportswear company that _actually_ enables significantly better athletic performance for their customers, only for a stupid thumbnail on youtube to call it 'cheating.'
On the other hand, there is so many injuries of Achilles tendon in sprint events and events that include sprinting, since carbon spikes started to be trend.
For competition, the company that runs the competition event should supply the runner with the same shoes.
I just like watching how these companies are competing by trying to figure out and then bring to life the best physics. At least money motivates people to do a bit physics. It's just sad that in the end we will have super shoes wearing mediocre feet.
The shoes doesnt make you better, is your quality ❤❤❤
Shoes won't move on their own. Banning them is pure BS. Technology advancement in every sport should be welcomed.
this has got to be one of the greatest ads for Nike
as far as sponsored content goes, this is pretty mid
LOL
Not really, since most people who are gonna spend that money on a shoe know about all the other supershoes from competing brands. Nike is not even the one pushing the technology anymore
should have do a competition that everyone wears the same shoes
How about banning all shoes.
At this point, runner should just run barefoot to see who is the true fastest
It's wild that passive apparel would be banned.
The fact that the stipulation of the shoes must be available on normal retail channels reminds me a lot:
"Supershoes for everyone!" "Loud cheers from generic crowd".
I am also optimistic that these innovations will be refined and fine tuned for non athlete purposes - the materials advances can be repurposed for shoe comfort and endurance walks too.
If these shoes help as much as marketing keeps telling me, then Dennis Kimettos 2:02:55 in 2014 was the best marathon effort ever.
Or maybe Abebe Bikila 2:15:16 in 1960 with NO shoes.
I put on my pair of Vaporfly's for the first time and it felt like the whole back of the shoe disappeared under a cloud. It was bananas. I'd ban them too.
"Really expensive slippers" 🤣 love this line!
For so long the innovations that mattered for speed were on the track itself helping all runners. Better running surfaces etc
Dont see anything wrong as long as all have same equipment
I couldn’t do a 2 hour marathon on rollerblades
Did the shoe companies just call Bolt out of his retirement?
Now we will have to subtract 4% from each world record in carbon.
They said that the viperfly would undermine previous historic records
Without people, it is just an expensive slipper
Complaining about new shoe technology is a sloppy sloap as every single generation has benefited from this
Unless they start running barefoot the equipment has been playing a role in the overall performance all along.
Puma RULE BREAKER LAUGHING 😆😆
When i wear Headphones music is a bit distracting...
I feel like I probably just watched an ad profligated by NIKE.
Springs, yes. Wheels, no. If somebody wants to run with pogo sticks, let them. But no rollerblades.
We can revisit the issue when we can't distinguish springs from wheels.
In ancient Greece, competitors completed naked. Let's go back to that. No shoes. No pants. No nothing. That way the swimmers can't use supersuits. Runners don't get supershoes. I guess we could allow competitors to shave themselves, but aside from that...
Exactly.
the athletes and their DRUGS make the records possible
2:06 Yeezy as an example of running shoe 😆
yeah that is an instant dislike on this video. I don't think he knows what the H he is talking about !!
Yeezy is and always was TRAAAASH
lyles ran 9.81 in sp3 which are super spikes
I was living in Jordan era. We believe we can jump higher when using Air Jordan shoe ! Wearing it , give us boost of confidence, respect from peer and opponents and feeling you're Jordan who can fly.
My brother in Christ, it's literally just a shoe......
8:55 wow im surprised runners' shoes have their own version of homologation
Thanks for the final message !! Love it!
Having people heavily dependent on equipment technology is never good for a sport. We don`t want to see a second round of the Speedo swimsuit in the 2000s.
It’s funny to me that if an athletes gets a good shoe from his or her brand that other athletes have an issue with it. If your brand doesn’t make a shoe that makes you fast, you’re with the wrong brand. Technology will keep improving, since the time of shoes I’m sure as they developed, times got faster, so just because this is a giant leap, it shouldn’t be seen any differently
They should just make them all use the same equipment to offer an even playing field where only the athlete’s ability/physical prowess determine who wins
Wow... you have predicted the 2024 Olympics 100m Gold winner as well...
Sprinting is becoming formula 1 💀
Real 💀💀
This feels like when Speedo came out with the super suit, that dropped times massively. These did end up getting outlawed by fina.
They started with a Kenyan. Great people we are!! 🇰🇪
It's interesting when you look at a sport like MLB that requires wooden bats even though companies have researched other compounds and technology. I'm surprised running hasn't done a similar standardization for shoes.
This sounds like both the script and voice were generated by AI
Yes, by *A* thletic *I* nterest :)
All the impressive shoe designs but they don't make it wide on your toes
Loved the endnote
What happened to the records made in the shoes that got banned? Because surely without the shoe, the record would be unbeatable
This guy remembers more of the Media Pulse and the exhibitions themselves having been a 9yr old than I do having been a 14yr old. I call 🐂💩 on the 1st Hand Recollections
The spikes is where the real rebound technology is but it is TOP SECRET. Opps! I just revealed it.
I mean, there clearly needs to be a line drawn on what is acceptable footwear. Otherwise, people would just ride Segways and call them running shoes. But I never really thought finding the exact place to draw the line would be that hard.
"Which is why most of the super shoes have this ridiculous look" 😆
I would have known a kittle bit more about the two air-polsters named"Air Zoom"on the ball of the foot which is the most resiliated spot.Respectively rather important for most efficiant energy return
Shoes, like all sporting gear, have been evolving through all competitions over centuries.. It's always a combinaiton of gear and athlete.
The other thing I never see mentioned abt the distance shoes specifically is that most of that 4% is actually prolly due to the 1-2 inches of height gain from the massive midsole. Usually extra height (therefore longer stride length) is countered by the fact that ur heart has to work harder to pump ur blood. These shoes give u the extra advantage with no drawback which is pretty unfair. An inch or two doesn’t sound like much but it means a few more inches per stride which really adds up over 26 miles. It’s not super unfair if all pro athletes have them but it ruins the amateur level bc then it becomes pay to win essentially.
I got an idea.
What if the Olympics team up with countries to make their own official shoes so they don't have to worry about brands making one shoe better then the other.
I mean think about it. All they need is like 10 Million from each country that's apart of it (That's about $1.8 billion). And they can just develop shoes made for olympic track running.
Sounds like the tech suits in swimming during the 2000s. World records fell like flies
And they still do...
I feel bad for kipchoge, they praised the shoe instead of him
I just love this channel, everything about it is so professional and makes me addicted to it, thanks for the amazing work and keep it up please 🙏
I mean if you're going to ban certain shoes then you might as well give the olympians all the same standardised shoes.
So Nike wasn’t banded to only certain Nike shoes.
new tech is always an issue, in every sport. For example, at what point do things like table tennis rubbers become too OP?
Usain Bolt likes Irn Bru... youve made my day!
Ok, lets all run barefoot!