Of course I have to point out the SPIKES!! It just wouldn't be right If I didn't...A lot of the sprinters have been rocking these Spikes!! these bad boys are pretty nice looking...I used to Run track myself in High school and College...I would have love to try these out on the track.
Name: Nike Zoom Superfly Elite Made after: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce from Jamaica Read this from "Sports Illustrated" Background behind the shoes “The key to sprinting at the foot level was to make the foot become really rigid,” Brett Schoolmeester New colors Nike calls it volt—the neon yellow color of the shoes that athletes wore in the track and field events during the 2012 London Olympics. That volt gave Nike its “signature color” in London, says Michelle Miller, Nike’s concept director for the Olympics, and the brand has expanded on that color for Rio de Janeiro. “The athletes really loved the volt that showed up in their bags in London,” she says. “It made them feel powerful.” With that confidence behind them, Nike created the “hypernational” color palette for Rio—they reenergized national colors based on the image of a feather. So instead of a single shade of blue for the U.S., expect to see an array of hues, from deep obsidian on the track all the way up to the brightest neon blue. “Looking at art, looking at nature and Brazilian animals, we saw the most beautiful blue you have ever seen in a feather,” Miller says. “But there were many shades of blue [in the feather]. We wanted to make the national palette have that same energetic, patriotic feel. The concept of the hypernational coloring came on the heels of the popularity of volt, which shows up well on the track. Designers went through hundreds of iterations, up to the point they were hand-painting shoes to test them in different lighting scenarios, to find that perfect hue. Evolving that volt concept to the hypernational colors was a natural progression. And so was adding another color: hyper-punch pink. The pink merges with the volt, creating what Nike calls the unlimited colorway on footwear, with the volt starting on the toe and mixing mid-foot with the pink until the heel goes all hyper-punch pink. But the volt-pink combination doesn’t stand alone on footwear. Miller says inspiration from a beetle and its iridescent shells finds its way onto the footwear’s metallic spike plates, offering a flash that shimmers silver, purple and blue. “It bring a beautiful, vibrant palette to life and gives it energy,” she says. “If you look at the beetle shell in a microscope, it is made out of ridges with different colors on each side.” |
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