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cheapbag214s · Posted: Fri 0:23, 30 Aug 2013 Post subject: Shoes That Can Give Your Game A Lift

Shoes That Can Give Your Game A Lift,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
Back in 1986, shortly before the University of Kansas basketball season was to begin,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Larry Brown, then the head coach, motioned KU assistant trainer Mark Cairns out to the Allen Field House floor for a demonstration of something called the Strength Shoe. Cairns took one look at the footwear and wondered if Brown needed a new pair of prescription horn-rims.
Who could blame him? The shoes looked like a pair of white low-cut sneakers with small waffle irons attached to the bottoms. Each sole was about six inches wide and stretched from the tip of the toe to the middle of the arch,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. From the arch back there was nothing but a 1 -inch drop from shoe to gym floor.
Cairns thought,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], These weird-looking shoes are supposed to increase your vertical jump five to seven inches,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], lower your speed in the 40-yard dash by two tenths of a second, improve your flexibility and strength in the lower leg? C'mon.
Cairns has since changed his mind. "I thought it was just a gimmick, somebody trying to make a buck," he says now. That was before Marvin Mattox, a KU junior forward at the time,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], completed a half-hour workout in the Strength Shoe,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], laced up his regular high tops and then stunned Brown and Cairns by doing a 360-degree dunk-his first ever.
This is how the Strength Shoe works: Place the balls of your feet on the thickest book you can find. Your heels will dip down, and before long,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], you will feel a pull in your calves because, without support for your heels, you will stretch the Achilles tendon and overload the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles. Do that for a while in the Strength Shoes and you will lengthen and strengthen those same tendons and muscles, enabling you to run,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], jump and move better.
Of course, the shoes take a little getting used to. When you walk in them, your heels bump slightly against the ground, and running in them is even trickier. They feel clumsy and heavy at first,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but soon you are sprinting and jumping without thinking twice about them. Flyers, people have claimed that their sneakers make them run faster,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], jump higher. Paul Cox,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the inventor of the Strength Shoe, not only claims that his shoe (if used properly) increases speed and jumping ability, but he can also indicate by how much. He can click off success story after success story, dropping the names of such Strength Shoe clients as St. Louis Cardinals shortstop Ozzie Smith and outfielder Vince Coleman, Minnesota Twins third baseman Gary Gaetti and dozens of major college basketball players.
Cox, who began working on the idea in 1966,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], says he wanted to make a shoe that would help the average athlete. In 1972, after tinkering for a while in his Jackson,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Miss., garage, he presented a Jackson State sophomore running back named Walter Payton with the second pair ever made: They were black leather football shoes mounted on a prototype platform sole.
Cox sold the patent rights to Strength Footwear Inc. in 1986 and has since watched the sales grow, from next to nothing in 1986 to 7,000 pairs in 1987. According to David Bouza, president of the company,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], sales for 1988 were between 15,000 and 20,000 pairs. The shoes don't come cheap: $99.50 a pair, less if you buy in volume.相关的主题文章：

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