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Sneaker Technology: NIKE Impax Relies On Technology To Break The Limit.

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< p > from the mid 80s of last century, NIKE started the air cushion implant movement < a target= "_blank" href= "http://www.sjfzxm.com/" > shoes < /a > bottom, and the technology of sports shoes entered a golden age of rapid development.

Under the trend of relying on science and technology to break the limits and enhance the ability to exercise, the major sports brands have spared no effort to bring forth the new and bring forth the new.

In the past 30 years, countless new ideas have been pformed into new gimmicks and new technologies under our feet, improving the performance of sports shoes and improving our athletic ability.

But there are also many technologies that have been abandoned by brands for various reasons.

It failed to be used and disappeared in the long river of history.

This front will let us take stock of NIKE and Adidas's two brand lost sports shoes technology.

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< p > < strong > NIKE Tuned Air < /strong > /p >


The air cushion of < p > NIKE has become the pronoun of the midsole technology of sports shoes. As the originator of slow motion technology, it still plays a mainstay, and its continuous innovation and reform is the key.

From the initial Air Sole which was filled with air into the bottom of the hollow, it has developed to many forms such as Max Air, Zoom Air, Total Air, Vis Zoom and so on. Among them, the Tuned Tuned, also known as "Sole", was the most special and the shortest life form.

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< p > at the time when Max Air was already very mature and the new Zoom Air was also popular, NIKE wanted to develop an air cushion between the two and had the ability of extreme shock and quick response. A chain of thermoplastic hemispherical balloon was implanted in a large capacity gas chamber similar to Max Air, and the cushioning performance of the air cushion was adjusted by using a more resilience hemisphere and higher internal pressure to provide more stable and simultaneous performance of shock and feedback.

Tuned Air has been a great success in improving the performance of sneakers. The representative works of the year Air Big Flyer and Air Garnett III have become the classic selling styles.

But due to the high cost and the great influence of Shox technology in the future, NIKE soon abandoned this small and personalized air cushion technology.

Although NIKE launched Air Max TN 10th running shoes last year, it is only limited to the 10th anniversary commemorative significance of this technology, and there is no new product in the field of basketball shoes.

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P > < strong > NIKE Morf < /strong > /p >


< p > mention NIKE Morf may have many shoe fans, but when it comes to "shoes in shoes", you can immediately think of the three pairs of shoes that were born in 1999, such as Air Pippen V, Air Zoom GP III and Air Air. The short-lived technology is only a flash in the 3 products.

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< p > actually, the design of shoe covers was first used by CONVERSE on its helium balloon shoes, but it was soon abandoned.

Up till now, I don't quite understand why NIKE was going to walk a road that others had proved to be failing. Perhaps in the era of pursuing the grandiose design, attracting eyeball gimmicks is far more tempting than the actual functions in the market.

Even though the life of the shoe can be extended by changing the coat, the design of the separation between the coat and the inner shoe is inherently unstable.

The slippage of the inner boots in the shoe covers will cause a serious hidden danger of stability, and can not solve the problem of overshoes.

Based on these two points, Morf technology proved to be unsuitable for the design of basketball shoes, and was soon abandoned by NIKE.

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< p > < strong > NIKE Impax < /strong > /p >


< p > 2004, NIKE launched an innovative midsole mitigation technology Impax without any warning. The aim of the technology development is somewhat embarrassing to make up for the defects of Shox technology.

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The technology of P > Shox has passed the initial stage, because the defects of poor stability were criticized at that time. NIKE was inspired by the archaic shock absorption principle. The elastic material was made into a shape with pverse circular holes and placed on the heel of the sneakers, so that the heel formed several arch structures, and the elastic deformation of the structure itself was used to cushion the impact in motion. This is the working principle of Impax.

The technology is relatively simple and has low cost and is mainly used in middle end products. It is called "cheap Shox".

But the actual wearing feeling is not much different from that of Shox, and it also does not solve the problems of too high ground, poor stability, excessive weight and so on. The appearance is not flattering, and is eventually abandoned by NIKE in the field of basketball shoes, but it can only be seen occasionally on running shoes.

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< p > < strong > Adidas HUG three dimensional encircling technology < /strong > /p >


< p > in most of the short-lived sports shoes technology, the most short-lived is probably the Adidas HUG 3D encircling technology introduced in 2004, because this technology has many fatal defects, and it has been applied to T-mac 4 pairs of sneakers.

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< p > no matter what the result is, the original intention of each technology is of course positive.

ADI's < a target= "_blank" href= "http://www.sjfzxm.com/" > designer < /a > gets inspiration from ski boots and designs HUG's shoe upper locking technology which omits shoelaces.

Use the cable to connect the shoe cover with the knob locking system of the heel, adjust the package tightness of the shoe cover by adjusting the button of the rear button, so that each wearer can get a proper degree of wrapping.

The T-mac 4 equipped with this technology features a pair of future mechanical boots, a metal bracket behind the back and a complicated knob lock.

However, there are many problems in the actual use process. First of all, the complex mechanical system is the serious weight exceeding the standard of the sports shoes. For T-mac 4 such guard shoes, it will cause fatal injuries. The built-in cover of the shoe upper will hurt the feet in sports, and the shoe cover after locking will lack the elasticity of the traditional shoelace, so it can not adapt to the movements of the feet better, and cause the package to be too tight or too loose. A series of mechanical devices make the whole pair of shoes feel strong, slow vibration and lack of flexibility.

In short, the gimmick HUG system is not suitable for basketball shoes. The requirement of basketball for the flexibility of both feet and the requirement of skiing locking the feet must be poles apart. The failure of HUG technology may be doomed from the very beginning.

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< p > < strong > Adidas Feet You Wear "Tian foot" < /strong > /p >


< p > talking about the technology of vanishing sports shoes, perhaps the most regrettable thing for Adidas fans is Adidas's "You" Wear technology.

In the last few years of the last century, a pair of sneakers using the technology of "foot and foot" had strongly stimulated our visual nerves by relying on the unprecedented bottoms of the shape of the shoes. "The" technology of "the foot of the foot", which has been built in the past 90s years, has been strongly stimulated.

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"P > has experienced thousands of years of evolution. The human foot shape has proved to be the most suitable" natural equipment "for sports. The" foot foot "technology is based on the principle of bionics, making the sole of shoes the same shape as human sole.

And the shape of the shoes is therefore unique and extremely visual impact. In those days, the endorsement of the new generation idol player Kobe made the success of the "foot foot" technology become more powerful. Several pairs of "foot feet" shoes represented by Kobe's first three generation signature shoes and Walker's Real Deal have become the classics in the future.

Helplessly, "sky foot" technology is not a patent of ADI itself. After the patent contract expires, ADI can no longer launch the "foot foot" sneakers.

In this way, the "foot" technology with excellent appearance and performance has been deplorably disappeared.

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< p > < strong > Adidas A3 < /strong > /p >


< p > today the Adidas A3 (also known as A Cube) technology we are talking about is only for the initial form, and the later A3 Structure has become another independent slow shock technology because of its complete morphological change.

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< p > the arrival of the new millennium NIKE Shox technology is red hot, so that old rival ADI also started the exploration of this material mechanical shock mitigation technology.

Soon they had their own technology in this field -- Adidas A3, a kind of heel damping technology made of elastic rubber.

The first pair of sneakers, Adidas A3 Basketball, which used this technology, came out at the beginning of the year. People marveled at their heel modeling similar to Shox. After Shox, the circular cylinder became the cube of A3, and the gap between the cube damping units provided space for the elastic deformation of the material, and the motion and impact were relieved by the deformation and compression.

The new technology of ADI is similar to Shox, but it has its own characteristics.

Just like the way that Shox technology is developed from the back palm to the whole palm, ADI also introduced the tennis shoes of the whole palm A3 in 2003, Adidas A3 Superstar Ultra, the hard and soft palm A3 with the old adiPRENE a href= "http://www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp" > technology < a > excellent performance.

But it soon came to light that the recall of the safety of the heel was recalled and the A3 technology was hit hard.

ADI immediately changed the technology and evolved into the A3 Structure technology. The traditional A3 is gone forever.

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