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Gil may have worn lows, but to say he "made them cool" is nowhere near fact. He wore them, but there was never as big a push to market them like the Kobe's because that was not adidas campaign that year. Very few people outside of hardcore players knew he even wore low-tops, or even what player the shoes were for. The ankle insurance ads last year really started the phase I have been preaching for a few years: shoe height will NOT prevent ankle rolls, stable heel and forefoot fit will. That said, these shoes have terrible stability, no torsional rigidity, and the heel is made to "crash" compress in such a way that the foot is uneven on landing, with no support or device to assist the foot in returning to it's original position. I for one am glad someone with way more authority and knowledge than 95% of the people on this board have has stood up and said no to the hyped-up "performance" shoes Nike feeds us as the next "lightest, greatest" model. Kobe V, great, Hyperize, "turrrrible".Originally Posted by kidslikekix
Sorry my man but you are wrong on the Kobe making lowcuts "cool" to wear. It was GILBERT ARENAS that started the trend with the Gil-ZEROS, not Kobe.Originally Posted by Crazy EBW
Originally Posted by scarru
I've sprained my ankles in all cuts of shoes and honestly agree that rolling your ankles has nothing to do with the cut of the shoe and more with the lockdown for sure
Exactly. People have been playing in lowcut basketball shoes for years, it just took Kobe to make it "cool" and "functional" in many peoples eyes. I'm not mad at it at all. I still wanna try out some XX3 lows for ball.
Amazing how Nike can take such an awesome shoe like the Hyperdunk and turn it into such a dissapointment in the Rize. Tons of people are satisfied, but i've seen a lot more people complain about them in comparison to the Hyperdunk last year too.
If anyone of you guys know about biomechanics, you would know, ANY shoe that puts the heel higher up than the toes of the foot creates an unstable ankle. Period. Because the Talus bone is moved a few degrees out of the socket making the ankle unstable. Why do you think martial arts are mainly done barefoot? Balance and stability. Even the martial arts shoes have a heel lift of only about 3 mm. In basketball it is 10mm. In running it is 12mm. And this is 10mm higher than the toes. This is 12mm higher than the toes. So normally the forefoot of shoes are 10mm off the ground, so the heel of the shoe will be 20mm off the ground. The higher the heel, the more unstable the ankle. Ankles are NEVER sprained in neutral position. It happens in Plantar flextion (when you point your toes - heel higher than your toes). Now along with the higher heel, upper materials and the such also play a part.
Weight doesn't.
Peace.