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PUMA NITRO FOAM Released the Brand-new Colorways

In the beginning of 2021, PUMA released the brand-new NITRO FOAM technology running shoes to satisfy different runners’ request. The brand-new NITRO FOAM insole running shoes offer the runners excellent running experience.


NITRO FOAM technology is made of high quality material. It creates lightweight and high cushioning resilience characteristics. It uses foaming mould as insole and offer more pliable cushion, more sensitive resilience and lighter foot feeling. It combines the comfort and energy feedback together.
PUMA just released the brand-new 4 colorways.

ELECTRIFY NITRO SP
ELECTRIFY NITRO SP running shoes is suitable for different distance running. It has the NITRO FOAM insole to offer comfortable cushion to the runners. The vamp has multi-azimuth reflective tape design which improves the security when running in the right.


ELECTRIFY NITRO SP uses PUMA GRIP outsole which is made of high-effect rubber hybrid material, it offers great traction performance.
VELOCITY NITRO SP
VELOCITY NITRO SP uses NITRO cushion, which can offer comfortable cushion and flexible feedback. It has several reflective design.

MAGNIFY NITRO SP
MAGNIFY NITRO SP also uses NITRO insole and PUMA GRIP outsole. It offers excellent cushion performance and traction performance. It uses reflective design on special positions which improves the security when running in the night.


DEVIATE NITRO SP (carbon fiber shoes)
DEVIATE NITRO SP running shoes is made for long-distance running ormarathon runners.


The insole of PUMA DEVIATE NITRO has built-in PUMA INNO PLATE which is a piece of elastic plate mixed with carbon fiber material. The stiffness is softer than VAPORFLY and HYPERION 2.We can see the INNOPLATE from the hollow-out sole.
The shoe tongue and shoe heel has reflective tape design. It’s clearly visible at night.

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ASICS UNPRE ARS Performance Review

For basketball shoes, most of people will choose the shoes by its cushion performance, resilience, traction performance and stability etc. This Summer, ASICS released the UNPRE ARS. It’s hard not to be attracted by its side convex structure at the first look.

The characteristics of ASICS UNPRE ARS:

  1. Theoutboard insole uses high density SPEVA material to reinforce the horizontal stability.
  2. The heelpiece insole has built-in GEL to offer cushioning protection.
  3. The half inner sleeve structure improves the fitness.
  4. The forefoot sole has X groove to offer multi-directional flexibility.
  5. The outsole uses N.C. Rubber which is durable.
  6. The unit weight of US9.5 ASICS UNPRE ARS IS 435g.

Normally the basketball shoes has outrigger design to improve the stability.  ASICS UNPRE ARS makes more stable structure based on the outrigger design.This piece of outboard structure is made of high density SPEVA which can offer great stability and anti-rollover performance.

Except the reinforcement of outboard high density material, the design of outsole also offer better flexibility to the forefoot. ASICS uses X groove to divide the forefoot sole to be four parts, so that it can have multi-directional bending range. Some parts of UNPRE ARS outsole pattern is similar to NOVA SURGE and INVADE NOVA, which has longer durability.

The ‘Sunrise Red’ colorway is the first released colorway, and it’s on sale a week before Tokyo Olympics.

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UNDER AMROUR Havoc Clone Performance Review

A pair of suitable basketball shoes is very important to the basketball enthusiasts. But different people have different foot types, even you choose the right size, but the shoes may still don’t fit you, the foot would be easy to move in the shoes, then it will cause the hurt when exercising. UNDER ARMOUR has released the brand-new vamp technology ‘UA Clone’ which is flexible and stretchable for all types of feet, in order to provide the most suitable basketball shoes for all basketball enthusiasts. UA Clone was firstly used on the brand-new UA Havoc Clone basketball shoes.  It’s to offer the most comfortable feeling for each basketball enthusiasts and reduce the foot friction and slide in the shoes. With UA HOVR insole technology, it offers excellent jumping power.

The combination of two creative technologies UA Clone and UA HOVR makes the personalized basketball shoes UA Havoc Clone.

Normally, the longtime usage of traditional elastic material on the vamp will wear down its resilience, then the material will be soft and effect the fitness. So Under Armour developed the brand-new UA Clone creative vamp technology. It uses Auxetic material which has the characteristics of tension and expansion. When the upper of the shoe is stretched while moving on the court, the four directions will be stretched at the same time, which can perfectly fit the feet, adapt to the footsteps to change to the flexible switch and provide the flexible foot feeling like personalized customization. UA Havoc Clone also uses UA HOVR insole technology which can offer excellent energy feedback. You can feel the resilience when moving.

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Nike Zoom Freak 3 Performance Review

I have worn Nike Zoom Freak 3 to play basketball games about 15 hours. Today I want to share the performance of Nike Zoom Freak 3 with you.

Personal info: 180cm/76kg

  1. Traction Performance:

The traction performance of Nike Zoom Freak 3 is excellent. The outsole of Nike Zoom Freak 3 is easy to absorb dust. After absorbing dust, the traction performance declines. If the traction performance without dust is 8.5 scores, after absorbing the dust, the traction performance will decline to 8 scores or 7.5 scores. The abrasive resistance is good. I haven’t found the abrasion on the sole after playing the basketball games about 15 hours. Some lines of the outsole is thin, so it needs to pay higher attention when playing basketball on outdoor court. If playing on outdoor court, the outsole is easy to be abrased.

  1. Cushion Performance

The cushion configuration of Nike Zoom Freak 3 uses two pieces of separated Zoom Air cushion on the forefoot sole and Phylon foam on the rear sole. The cushion performance of forefoot sole is good enough. The Zoom Air cushion is elastic. The feedback of rear sole is not good enough. The forefoot center of gravity is a little high, so the overall feedback and speed is not good. The outsole is separated type.

  1. Fitness:

The vamp of Nike Zoom Freak 3 is made of engineering mesh fabric. The fitness is not great, but the air permeability is good. The cross-strap design doesn’t have actual usage. I think it’s a decoration. The cross-strap of Nike Zoom Freak 3 is not the same as KD7. It looks like a decoration, but it doesn’t have good usage.

  1. Supporting Performance:

The ankle support is disqualified. Nike Zoom Freak 3 almost don’t have any support. The outboard heelpiece is foaming material and foamed plastic padding. They are soft material. It’d easy to deform when playing basketball. There is only a piece of small TPU plate which is hidden on the heelpiece. The ankle doesn’t have any support, so I’m worried about the safety. The supporting performance of ankle position is worse.

The lateral support is bad. The lateral plastic TPU plate is on an awkward position. It doesn’t have good usage. The center of gravity of Nike Zoom Freak 3 is a little high. So the strength of Nike Zoom Freak 3 vamp is not good enough. I’m unsatisfied at the supporting performance of Nike Zoom Freak 3.

  1. Stability:

The stability of Nike Zoom Freak 3 is worse. The center of gravity of Nike Zoom Freak 3 is a little high. Normally we hope that the center of gravity of basketball shoes is low, if it’s high, it will affect the anti-rollover performance.  The anti-torsion performance of Nike Zoom Freak 3 is worse. Although it’s said that Nike Zoom Freak 3 has the insole supporting plate, but I haven’t felt the exist of the supporting plate. The sole of Nike Zoom Freak 3 has many grooves, so the overall area in touch with the ground is reduced. The shoe heel doesn’t have widened design. So it’s unstable.

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The Configuration of NIKE ZOOM Freak 3

NIKE Zoom Freak 3 has been released. The price is cheap. Many guys hesitate to purchase Zoom Freak 3 and Kyrie 7. What about the performance of Zoom Freak 3? Let’s have a look at it today.

The design of Zoom Freak 3 is similar to Zoom Freak 2. But the appearance of Zoom Freak 3 is more complicated. It adds a piece of Verclo design on the forefoot. It uses reverse Swoosh logo as Freak 1 on the shoe collar.

From this angle of Verclo, it looks like Kyrie 7.

The shoe heel has pull-tab design which is convenient to put on. The pull-tab design looks good.

The shoe-tongue has Antetokounmpo’s personal logo.

The upturning design of insole is a characteristic of Zoom Freak series shoes. Giannis Antetokounmpo require good stability of the basketball shoes.

The wave ripple pattern outsole has great traction performance, it already have good feedback in the market.

Zoom Freak 3 VS Kyrie 7:

The overall performance of Kyrie 7 is great. Although it doesn’t have anti-torsion plate, but the strength of the shoes can offer good supporting performance to you when exercising. So I think that it can’t judge the anti-torsion performance of a pair of basketball shoes by with or without anti-torsion plate. Although it doesn’t have new conception, but the performance of Zoom Turbo cushion is good. Kyrie 7 is suitable for lightweight defenders.

Certainly, the upgraded ZOOM Freak 3 is great. The Zoom Freak series basketball shoes are always the same. But the design and configuration have been improved.

You can choose the shoes by your request.

What about the configuration of ZOOM Freak 3?

The rear sole of ZOOM Freak 3 has double-deck Zoom Air cushion, and the forefoot sole has fan shaped Zoom Air cushion on the previous ZOOM Freak series shoes. ZOOM Freak 3 has two Zoom Air cushion on the forefoot sole. The configuration of ZOOM Freak series shoes have been improved. The position of ZOOM Freak 3 air cushion is similar to Air Zoom BB NXT . It can offer faster feedback.

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Unboxing & Closed Look: ASICS GELBURST 25 LOW

ASICS has started to develop the basketball shoes. Today we want to share ASICS GELBURST 25 LOW with you.

ASICS GELBURST 25 LOW

The shoebox is concise. The front side of shoebox is printed with ASICS logo.

The shoe tag on the side of shoebox

It uses adaptive fit vamp. The air permeability and fitness of vamp is good. It’s covered thick hot pressed film which improves the supporting performance and protection.

The shoe-tongue has big mesh. It has good air permeability.  The middle part uses dynamic shoelace holes which run through the vamp. After fastening the shoelaces, it can offer good protection and lateral support.

The side vamp is decorated with bright silver tiger claw logo.

The lining uses anti-skid design to avoid being loosen when exercising.

The shoe heel has surrounding TPU plate which extends to the outboard of shoe collar improves the overall fitness and supporting performance.

The shoe head position uses stitching design. The actual durability is great.

The outboard forefoot insole has widened design which improves the lateral supporting performance.

The PROPULSION TPU TRUSSTIC TPU stabilizing plate extends from forefoot sole to shoe heel. The big area of TPU stabilizing plate reduces the bending of metatarsophalangeal joints to avoid the unnecessary waste of energy and flank ahead.

The arch position also has TPU stabilizing plate which offers more strength to the insole.

The stabilizing plate also has a lot of ventilated holes which keeps the good air permeability.

The FLYTEFOAM lightweight insole technology keeps good cushion performance and lightweight. It’s said that the insole has a piece of GEL cushion. I expected the shape and size of the GEL cushion.

The outsole has flex grooves. The center vortex pattern can help the athletes to speed up.

The pattern of rear sole can offer more stability. With non-marking rubber, it can offer better traction performance.

The position of shoe-pad arch is upturning which can fit the foot well. The ventilated holes can improve the air permeability effectively.

The length of EUR42.5 shoe-pad is about 275mm.

The width of EUR42.5 forefoot shoe-pad is about 95.64mm.

The thickness of  EUR42.5 shoe-pad is about 5mm.

The EVA material insole fabric has a lot of ventilated holes on the arch part.

The ventilated holes on the arch position are not decoration. It offers good air permeability.

The unit weight of EUR42.5 ASICS GELBURST 25 LOW is only about 365.6g.

Overall

The ASICS GELBURST 25 LOW continues the style of GELBURST series. The appearance is simple and useful. It doesn’t have extra decoration. The weight is light and size is standard. The opening of shoe tongue is big, it’s convenient for putting on and taking off. The flat type shoelaces are not easy to loosen. It is comfortable. The insole is a little stiff in the beginning. After a period, you will feel the cushioning feedback obviously. The cushion performance maybe not good enough for heavy weight athletes. The insole is quite stable. The good air permeability can keep the foot dry.

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Saucony Endorphin Pro Performance Review

The most popular running shoes are carbon fiber plate racing shoes. The Saucony brand is always my favorite racing shoes brand. It released its main product line–Endorphin series, which includes Pro series for racing, Speed series for training and Shift series for jogging.

Today we want to talk about the top-level racing shoes of Saucony –Endorphin Pro carbon fiber plate racing shoes. It released the brand-new Endorphin Pro 2 recently.

Endorphin Pro 2 has released two colorways, blue/white and black/white. It will release more colorways.

The shoebox is black and white grid flag pattern.

The grid flag of F1 game

The size is standard.

The right above view: The vamp is very thin. The vamp uses big area of grid flag pattern.

The outboard view: The diamond-shaped black and white lattice combination presents fast dynamic.

The heelpiece view

The view of inner side of shoes

The shoe head has crashproof design.

The outsole view: as a pair of racing shoes, the lightweight is the necessary requirement. So it uses simple outsole design.

Outsole design

The insole material is similar to BOOST (based on TPU material), combining with Saucony insole technology–PWRRUN PB technology (with built-in full-length shovel type carbon plate), and using the supercutical fluid foaming technology, it improves the durability of cushion. When running, it can offer more than 88% energy feedback. And its density is 40% lighter than EVA material.

The density of outsole material is big. The outsole rubber is only used on the important parts.

It still uses simple yellow outsole design on both sides. The groove of outsole has embossed SAUCONY logo.

The outsole design of forefoot sole is to improve the traction performance. So it’s V shaped pattern with two longitudinal lines. Other parts are hollow-out design. We can see the foaming material of insole.

The vamp is made of single layer fabric. The ventilated holes are re-designed.

The ventilated holes are special.

From this angle, the shoe heel is very thin.

It’s worthy to mention the design of shoelaces.

On the arch position, it adds a fixed antiskid belt. It has two crimson shoe buckles on both sides. With the flat type shoelaces, it improves the stability.

The Saucony logo on the side of running shoes uses hot film technology. The shoe-pad is still double-deck classic design. The fabric is anti-skid.

Overall:

1. The appearance of Saucony Endorphin Pro 2 is cool. It should be first pair of running shoes which uses the grid flag as main colorway. It’s very attractive.

  1. Excellent resilience. I can feel the resilience after wearing Endorphin Pro 2. I can get the enough feedback from the insole of Endorphin Pro 2. The feedback is obvious.
  2. The vamp is very thin. It’s light. The EUR42 Endorphin Pro 2 is only 213g.
  3. It’s very comfortable. Endorphin Pro 2 balances the fitness and air permeability well. It has good fitness and air permeability.
  4. The performance of Endorphin Pro 2 is great, but the price is a little too high.
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Jordan Zion 1 Performance Review

As the first pair of Zion Williamson, Jordan Zion 1 get highly attention after being exposed. We want to talk about the advantages and disadvantages of , Jordan Zion 1 with you today.

Advantages:

  1. It uses full-length Air Strobel and forefoot Zoom air cushion.

Although the location of Air Strobel on NIKE and Jordan brand is mid-low end, it’s soft, but not very resilient. It’s too soft, so I can’t exert the force well. It will effect the starting speed. But the forefoot Zoom air cushion solve this problem. If you use forefoot to exert the force, it will improve the sluggish feeling, but it will also need to drain a lot of fatigue. Overall, the configuration is special, the experience is good.

  1. Good traction performance

The outsole of Jordan Zion 1 is ice blue crystal outsole, and it has partial rubber. It has excellent traction performance most of times. You don’t need to worry about the traction performance on clean indoor court. But as you know, the traction performance of crystal outsole will decline after absorbing the dust.

  1. Good fitness and supporting performance

The forefoot vamp of Jordan Zion 1 is made of thin reticulated. The rear part uses hot-melting material. It fits the foot very well.

The middle part of vamp is very tight. The front two shoelaces couples should be dynamic shoelaces. The width of shoe head is moderate. Unless your foot is wide or high instep, Jordan Zion 1 should be able to fit you.

Disadvantages：

The location of Jordan Zion 1 is wired. It seems that Jordan Zion 1 is unsuitable to Zion Williamson. The soft Air Stobel is also unsuitable to the playing way of Zion Williamson. The design is not very strong.

Overall, it’s hard for me to exert the force in the beginning, so I’m disappointed at it. But after changing to use forefoot sole to exert the force, I think Jordan Zion 1 is very comfortable, the feedback also can be fast. Normally, the inner lines basketball shoes are heavy, especially for Zion Williamson, so many guys don’t have the expectation for the weight of Jordan Zion 1. But actually, Jordan Zion 1 is lighter than many defenders’ shoes, even if comparing with the brand-new NIKE GT low type shoes. The light weight is a surprise.

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Adidas D.O.N. Issue #3 Performance Review

Donovan Mitchell scored more than 30 points on 6 playoff games.  Adidas cooperating with Donovan Mitchell released the 3rd signature shoes D.O.N. Issue #3, which is inspired by the story of Donovan Mitchell, and the main colorway is to salute to Utah Jazz and New York city where Mitchell grew up.  The main color is purple. It’s the first time that adidas D.O.N. Issue #3 uses the Lightstrike cushioning lightweight insole technology. It offers lighter and more excellent energy feedback. It can satisfy the flexible and stable request of Mitchell, and help Mitchell to use his excellent dribble skills.

The details of Adidas D.O.N. Issue #3「PLAYGROUND HOOPS」has added the born date of Mitchell and the elements of New York city. The purple vamp is decorated with personalized doodles. Some parts are jointed by leather, and it’s also decorated with bright yellow and blue. The wave type TPU stabilizing plate on the insole uses gradient psychedelic colors. The sawtooth lines on both sides of shoe-tongue uses the elements of D.O.N. Issue #2 ‘spider interaction’ to show Mitchell’s extraordinary level of offense and ball control ability. The shoe tongue is decorated with Mitchell’s exclusive SPIDA tag and the words ‘ISSUE#3’. The elastic braid on the instep shows ‘FEARLESS／DRIVE’ to symbolize Mitchell’s fearlessness to challenge. The shoe heel is printed with the address of famous NY street basketball court to highlight the influence of street basketball on Mitchell.

Another colorway ‘TEAM USA’ is inspired by the Stars and the Stripes. The main color of the vamp is blue. The white insole is decorated with classic red and blue.

It’s the first time that Adidas D.O.N. Issue #3 use LIGHTSTRIKE insole technology. It offers excellent cushion performance and lightweight. The side of vamp and shoe head is added with TPU stabilizing plate. The ankle part is added with stator, which can offer all-round protection to satisfy Mitchell’s lateral movement request. The vamp is made of double layers of mesh fabric, and it has elastic meshbelt to offer excellent fitness to the feet.

The outsole still uses the Mitchell’s exclusive spider web pattern. It’s added with TPU stabilizing plate, which has good traction performance and supporting performance.

The adidas D.O.N. Issue #3 series shoes has been sold on the website and stores.

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The Performance Review of Adidas Adizero series Running Shoes

In 2021, Adidas combines its innovative technology by the combination of carbon fiber plate and high-efficient insole feedback to create three brand-new running shoes with different performance for the runners: adizero Prime X is innovative running shoe for the extreme speed, adizero adios Pro 2 is the strongest racing shoe for breaking record, and adizero Boston 10 is the lightweight training shoe. The main colorway is white, and decorated with red-orange.


Adidas combines its three top-level technologies and develops the thickest 50mm carbon fiber lightweight racing shoes: adizero Prime X.
Adidas adizero Prime X uses three layers of Lightstrike PRO insole, a clawed carbon fiber which simulates bone structure of human foot is inserted into the midsole of Lightstrike PRO in the forefoot area to bring extreme lightness and excellent cushion performance. Another layer is added with innovative technology EnergyBlades to improve the strength and excellent resilience, it can absorb the impact force when running.


The vamp of Adidas adizero Prime X is made of Celermesh 2.0 technology, which not only intensify the air permeability, but also offer excellent fitness and supporting performance. With the ContinentalTM outsole, it keeps the good stability and also offer explosible energy feedback.


Kenya women’s runnner Peres Jepchirchir and men’s runner Kibiwott Kandie wore the adizero adios Pro and broke the world record of half-marathon. Now Adidas created adizero adios Pro 2 for breaking the record. It pursues the extreme lightweight to help the runners breaking through theirselves.

Adidas adizero adios Pro 2 uses upgraded Lightstrike PRO insole structure. The weight is reduced about 30g than last generation. It offers lighter weight and more comfortable cushion. The double layers of LightstrikePRO insole is embedded with EnergyRods stabilizing device to reduce the energy loss when exercising and transfer the cushioning effect to strong propulsion. The vamp of Adidas adizero adios Pro 2 uses brand-new upgraded Celermesh 2.0 technology. The shoe heel is installed with carbon fiber and nylon mixed stabilizing plate. It offers excellent stability and fitness to the runners when sprinting. The forefoot sole uses ContinentalTM rubber. It offers extreme lightweight and excellent traction performance.


The Adidas adizero Boston 10 is made for medium and long distance training. It’s the first time that it uses Lightstrike PRO and Lightstrike insole technologies, which offer light and flexible experience. The thickened insole design has better resilience. It’s added with EnergyRods stabilizing device and heelpiece carbon fiber plate, which offers excellent propulsion and support. The vamp is made of lightweight mesh fabric. It’s light and has excellent air permeability. With wearable ContinentalTM outsole, it can also offer excellent traction performance and stability even if training on raining days.

The brand-new Adidas adizero series running shoes have been released. If you are interested in them, you can have a try on the physical store.