Novablast 5.
Looks to be more or less a similar midsole geometry but the traction is (slightly) beefed up and the upper looks slightly different. Hoping for a improved foam though but unlikely.
They modified the rule a while back, maybe 2 or 3 years ago I think. You can use prototype shoes as long as you register them beforehand. Shoe companies were complaining it stopped their innovation so they let you as long as you register it with World Athletics by a certain date before a race I...
Okay seems like the news article on NDC was updated because i read it yesterday and it said two air zoom units in the heel and other social media posts seemed to repeat that. Happy to see that there's a forefoot unit though
Also lmao remember early leaks said we were getting both heel AND forefoot zoom air in the peg 41's? i guess it really was too good to be true. "heel zoom air units" so i guess like double stacked zoom air??
from what i remember the consensus on the zoom all out's were that it was an insane unstable experience so i'm super curious if these'll be good for performance. nike clearly wanted to adapt the alphafly-esque experience for the daily trainer so i'm super curious what this'll be like. hopefully...
Hopefully the colorways are better this time because other than the first colorway, every single version of the SB1 looked god-awful. Nike's color people do it so much better imo.
Nike just does it so when the retro comes out or they bring it out it'll sell like hotcakes lmao, but seriously i think nike just always does this: they have a technology and they do like a million different permutations of it. like think the lunarlon stuff. like that stuff constantly changed...
Agreed. Innovation rate for all brands is gonna slow down soon I think. Superfoams just hit every brand at different times but eventually we're gonna see shoes cooldown with how much better they've been getting. We've been so blessed since 2017 with how crazy shoes have gotten with every single...
Since these are apparently the Olympics 2024 colorway I'm just guessing they're not gonna release a VFN4 this year. Guess they're gonna try to alternate years between updating AF and VF so the sales won't cannibalize each other or something lol?? Haven't heard anything about the Invincible 4 yet...
New prototype seen on Conner Mantz on the secret shoe's ig stories.
Nike potentially making a super-max non-legal shoe with zoomx and maybe zoom air units to match the Adidas Prime X Strung... could be insane
TTS for me. Wear US10 in Nikes, (all pegs, react infinity 1/2/3) and wear US10 in the NB4/asics shoes generally. Nowhere near as huge as the first novablast. There's a bit more room in the toebox in the NB4 compared to the NB3
Picked up the Novablast 4. I tried the first one which was crazy but returned it because I just had too many daily trainers at the time but it was really good. Ran in the 3 and the 4s feel waaay closer to the SuperBlast than the 3s. The 3 feels like a more normal daily trainers whereas the 4...
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The new Nike Zegama 2 is must-have for trails runners who constantly push the limits on what they can do...