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 Friday, February 26, 2010

kobe's shoes are dope!
Number 24 is back! Kobe's finally back into the game after injuring his ankle, and the first game after his injury he got a Game winning shot. Thats we call the Legend :D
Alright before i wanna continue, i want to state my point here.
I'm definitely not a sneaker head, i don't live for shoes and my whole mind's not filled with them.
Its only that i have a little more passion than the others, a little more fulfilment in life, a little more character. That's it. Like many other people, i'm a normal teenager, i blush easily, i do feel happy for people, i do feel sad sometimes, and i believe in true love.
Ok then, let's get this thing started son!

Introducing, Nike Zoom Kobe 5 Chaos edition. I just cashed in $199 ! D:
This colourway was inspired by the Joker in the Batman animated series BTW.

The reason why i'm into shoes because Of the technology involved in it.
Then, people see shoes as a piece of meshed cloth with a lace tied around it around the foot.
Now, its different. For the Zoom Kobe 5, its only a single source of inspiration. If you check out shoes of other NBA players, such as lebron James, Kevin Durant or Michael Jordan, Its simply nothing but grandeur.
Step 1 : The involvement of Nike Flywire Technology. *flywire is literally thin and strong nylon cables that run across the whole shoe. It makes the shoe flexible as it is, and most importantly lightweight. The Flywire actually produces a gripping effect known as the "glove like feel". Like during winter when you slip your hand into a glove? Point to note, the prominent issue of basketball is when you cut corners fast, ankle break-ing people instantly. And at the moment when you suddenly shift your foot, your foot will tend to slide inside the shoe, and that makes you feel real loose on the game. So the purpose of flywire is that when your foot generates heat in a game of basketball, the flywire will actually conform to your feet more, become more tightened such that the shoe and the foot stays as one.

Step 2: Low cut basketball shoe. In the reign of basketball, low top basketball shoes are considered as taboo, because high cut shoes tend to protect your ankle more and give it the support that its needs when it shift in different directions, so when you ankle moves to the right, the high cut part of the shoe will "push" your ankle back to original position, preventing ankle injury. Times have evolved, its now about the zoom kobe5 , low cut to allow more room for ankle movement , so that on the court you dont feel your ankle and foot being restricted and confined within an area, and ofcourse, reducing weight of the shoe.

Step 3: Nike Zoom Air. Exclusively to nike basketball shoes, A new technology was implemented into the shoe, the zoom air, or what we call it the air bag. When your car crashes* and instantly your safely air bags installed in the steering wheel becomes inflated with air and forms a cushion for you to impact on. Same physics behind the Nike zoom air, for zoom kobe 5, a 15 mm zoom air bag is placed at the heel of the shoe, and another 8 mm zoom air bag is placed in the forefoot of the shoe. Think, when you walk, the bottom your heel exerts the greatest pressure on the ground , and your forefoot (area around toes) are the secondary pressure point. So Air bags are strategically position at these areas in the shoe to absorb the pressure and impact the each step you take, giving you the "bouncy-spring" feel after the match when your feet feels so the hell messed up.


Step 4: Designing a shoe that solely belongs to you. For Basketball players such as Kobe Bryant or Lebron James, each new creation brings their signature to a new innovation. Have you ever noticed before why in my previous posts i said about zk4s/zk5s are pieces of inspiration? because its a representative of the greatest players in the NBA, its like a landmark , a sparkling star in the universe. For Kobe, he chose number 24 for 2 reasons. First is to dedicate all of his 24 hours in a day to basketball, and second, number 24 to surpass number 23, Michael Jordan, the legend of NBA.



Inscribed, "KB" and "24".


And to tell you the truth ,Kobe wore this chaos zk5s on Christmas, the day of giving and sarcifice. It just puts even more significance and honour onto this shoe.


Step 5: Carbon Fibre technology. (ohman please ignore my bedsheets LOL, anw the lime green soles are dope with the kobe logo.)
Look at the sole of the shoe, if you notice the streak of black, as well as the arc over there? Its basically reinforced carbon fibre plates. Carbon fibre is something like the fundamental structure, it acts as a support to the shoe where most of the force is applied at.

To summarise this, i'm just very very happy :D
Again, don't ask me why i'm so crazy about shoes, i do appreciate the inspiration behind all those ideas, each inspiration leads to the next and to the next and to the next, just like a gentle flow of river, soothing out all the roughness underneath.
its the same mentality as affection for people, like rain, soaking couples with a drenching joy.
Just like True love.