Stable shoes, one of the most common shoes, provide reasonable support and shock absorption, provide more stable performance in sports, and make your feet bear reasonable mechanical distribution in the direction of shoe design, which is more suitable for friends with knee injuries or friends who need more support when wearing normal feet.
The most common running shoes with shock absorption place too much emphasis on shock absorption between support and shock absorption. The relatively stable running shoes have better foot feeling, but poor stability. The degree of support has decreased, which is suitable for friends who have high requirements for shock absorption, and is suitable for varus feet and normal feet.
The relatively rare variety of controllable running shoes is generally suitable for people with flat feet, and the domestic monopoly is quite rare. It may be available at professional running shoes counters such as HK.
Cross-country type is a common variety, suitable for general mountaineering with uncomplicated terrain conditions or poor road conditions. Generally speaking, due to the uneven external force, this kind of shoes emphasize and isolate the impact from the sole, so their feet feel hard and are not suitable for flat roads or good roads (insufficient grip and serious wear). Domestic monopoly is more common.
The lightweight and stable variety born in the last two years is typically ASICS' famous Jinsai Jinxing series, whose essence is a running shoe with both shock absorption and stability. Such shoes are available in BROOKS and Sokoni, but only Venus has them in China, so they are the most famous. This kind of shoes is more experimental, such as the design of Venus generation.
ASICS latest K 15.
What is the so-called shoe last?
General professional running shoes brands will have different shoe last widths. The famous NB-* * * has six final widths, and ASICS has five final widths. However, due to the current national conditions in China, most ASICS franchisees in China will only provide one last width, which is usually called normal last width. The case of NB is better, and most of them can provide two final widths, one is normal and the other is widened 2E. Generally, the width of NB shoe last (normal shoe last) is slightly wider than ASICS, which may be caused by NB's insufficient collection of Asian foot types. Running shoe counters in foreign countries or Hong Kong generally provide all the width of last for customers to choose from, so many runners I know will go to Hong Kong to buy several pairs of shoes with suitable width of last at one time, and then bring them back to China to wear. If you find your feet are wide, then I suggest you buy them from these better counters in Hong Kong if you have the chance! So far, NIKE AD's running shoes have not adopted multi-tops in China, so they are basically only suitable for ordinary tops.
How to choose different running shoes according to your own feet
When choosing running shoes, it is generally necessary to choose one of shock absorption type and stable type. The simplest and easiest test is the so-called wet foot test.
First soak your feet in water, then dry them with a towel and step on the floor to make a mark. Observe this mark, and you will find three situations.
1 There is little or no contact between the front and rear areas of your feet, which means that you belong to high arch, usually varus foot, and you need a pair of cushioning running shoes.
Your footprints are C-shaped and have a certain arch, which means your feet are normal. You need a pair of stable running with certain support and shock absorption, and jogging is also suitable for normal feet.
You can hardly see the arch in your footprints, which means you have flat feet. What you need is a pair of controllable running shoes. It is rare in China. However, it is also a good choice to choose a pair of good stable models in China.
After introducing the above basic knowledge, I believe everyone has a certain understanding of how to choose running shoes. Here, I will introduce some common people's misunderstandings when choosing running shoes, and make my own explanations.
1 The softer the running shoes, the better.
Running shoes are definitely not as soft as possible. The most important thing for running shoes is an accurate understanding of ergonomics, because the running action is monotonous. During running, the process of landing on the ground is quite repetitive. Simply put, the force on the foot is regular. In this way, the manufacturer of running shoes can place supporting or damping materials in a targeted manner according to the different forces on different parts. Therefore, all good running shoes are not simply the softness or hardness of the whole sole, but different materials are placed for different parts, so that the feet can be properly supported and buffered during exercise, thus protecting the knees and spine from periodic pressure.
2 Training shoes = running shoes
This is probably the most common mistake people make when choosing running shoes. I have seen many people classify the so-called training shoes as running shoes when choosing running shoes. This is also completely wrong.
In fact, training shoes are a fairly broad concept, usually for a certain kind or a certain sport. For example, many training shoes designed by Nike for MAX are born for sports like basketball or tennis. Because training shoes usually can't be used as confrontation in actual combat, and their strength is much smaller than that of ordinary shoes, there are also many less protective measures. Training shoes rarely adopt high-top styles, and many of them add breathable synthetic mesh materials, which can make many people mistakenly think that training shoes are running shoes.
As one of Nike's most successful training shoes, NIKE FREE is misunderstood the most. According to its design idea, NIKE FREE is only used to exercise athletes' leg muscles. I believe all friends who have bought Nike free training shoes will know that all free shoe boxes contain training manuals. Many of the above have been written clearly. FREE is actually a pair of training shoes suitable for professional training. Generally, you can only do low-intensity running training with professional athletes or ordinary people (I remember that the longest running can't exceed 30 minutes). For ordinary jogging, FREE really can't undertake this task. Due to the limitation of free function itself, there is almost no shock absorption function setting, and the support effect is very poor, so running for a long time will cause great damage to the knees and spine.
Africans can win the championship by barefoot training, and running shoes are not important at all.
This may be the question you want to ask after reading my criticism of free, so I will answer this question next. First of all, let's make it clear that the running shoes we are discussing now are jogging shoes, not competition shoes. In fact, the general marathon shoes are generally simple in structure, and generally only need to reach two points. The first is thinness and the second is breathability. The requirements for shock absorption and wear resistance are generally not high.
Why do professional athletes have low requirements for shock absorption of sports shoes?
Because the muscles and tendons of the general professional long-distance runners are well developed, there is generally no excess fat, so the pressure on the spine is relatively low. Even if you are barefoot for a long time, muscles themselves can counteract many harmful forces. (In the NBA, Kobe LBJ is less injured, largely because their muscles are relatively developed, so they have a good protective effect on bones and muscles. Therefore, for them, the weight brought by excessive shock absorption is completely unnecessary during the game or process. For ordinary people, it is impossible for muscles to reach the level of athletes, so if the inertia of fat is not offset by good sports shoes, it will hurt the relatively fragile tendons and bones of ordinary people. The injury in running is mainly chronic, which means that when the problem is highlighted, it is already serious or incurable, so please pay attention to your own protection in running.
What I want to talk about here is LN's ultra-light running shoes. In fact, these running shoes are closer to horse shoes for marathon. Its shock absorption and support are basically zero, and the rest are basically breathable and lightweight. Judging from the spokesmen that LN Company found, it seems that they also know the actual position of this pair of shoes in the running shoes family, so they specially found a marathon runner to speak for them.
The more expensive the running shoes, the better.
Running shoes are definitely not as expensive as possible. General professional running shoes manufacturers will make many grades of running shoes. For example, ASICS' optical stabilizer has been from 65,438+0, and 400 yuan has been in 500 yuan. So many running shoes, in fact, only the one that suits you is the best, and the price is not an absolute factor to measure the quality of a pair of running shoes.
Why are running shoes so expensive?
In fact, the development cost of running shoes is relatively high in all kinds of shoes. First of all, because of the periodicity and repetitiveness of running, it is necessary to grasp the rules when developing running shoes, and it is necessary to conduct repeated experiments, collect a lot of data and analyze them. This will cost the running shoes company a lot of time and money. Therefore, the price of a pair of good running shoes is usually higher than that of general signature basketball shoes.
The development cost of basketball shoes is relatively low, because in basketball, most of the forces are irregular, so generally speaking, basketball shoes only need to resolve the impact of forces from all directions on the human body, so few basketball shoes adopt the same regional shock absorption as running shoes (the lost Tianzu technology is like this, which is why many old shoe fans are obsessed with Tianzu), and the same shock absorption technology or materials are adopted on the whole foot surface. The design of basketball shoes is also suitable for a relatively small range, and the feet of general professional athletes can be used. Instead of running shoes, we need to analyze the feet of many ordinary people (men, women and children) and get the results. The development cost of general signature basketball shoes is low. Many signature basketball shoes usually only take a sample of one athlete, as long as the shoes are specially made for this athlete. If they are sold, someone will naturally pay for the shoes. (I believe anyone who wears Kobe shoes will find that Kobe shoes (whether nike or AD) are narrow at the back and wide at the front, with low instep. In fact, this fully reflects the characteristics of Kobe's foot shape, but as for whether this conforms to the characteristics of most people's footsteps, sports companies will not pay more attention. )
This is a complete decomposition diagram of a pair of K 13. It can be clearly seen that the distribution of gel glue is uneven, and the distribution on the outside is obviously more. This is called zone buffering.
6 Retro running shoes are also equivalent to running shoes.
Many friends like to wear some retro running shoes, such as AIR MAX series. This kind of running shoes is actually closer to the trend shoes. Since computer technology has been widely used in the design of sports shoes, those relatively old running shoes have fallen behind in ergonomics. Although they are all running shoes, the technology has fallen behind too much, and they are certainly successful as fashion shoes, but no matter how classic they are, you can't compare them to the same height, just like the relationship between AJ 1 and AJ22. AJ 1 is of course classic, but AJ22 is undoubtedly better than AJ 1 in performance by more than one grade.
What are the five good running brands that everyone can choose in China?
At present, because there is no good running environment in China, many world-famous running brands pay little attention to the market in China. There are generally four brands of good running shoes in China, ASICS NB Mizuno AD.
It can be said that ASICS is the best running shoes for Chinese people in China, because its biggest competitor NB in China is mainly retro shoes, which basically gives up the direct conflict with ASICS in running shoes, and ASICS has a relatively complete product line in China. An ordinary ASICS store will basically have a full range of stabilizing and cushioning products. Mizuno is the second largest running brand in China after ASICS. Its basic running shoes have a good mass base among the public, the audience is much wider than ASICS, and the price is much cheaper. As the second largest sports brand in the world, AD's running shoes have made great progress in recent years. Although it can't compete with the products of the four major running shoes brands in the world for the time being, judging from the current situation, it is undoubtedly the biggest advantage for AD to get the highest brand recognition of the above brands in China.