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Performance Training Blog / Re: Negative heeled shoes (track shoes) to jump higher
« on: July 10, 2015, 09:18:55 am »
I have always played ball in running shoes, forever. Basketball shoes = 1 leg jumps of ~24 inches. Running shoes = 1 leg jumps of ~36 inches.
Not to mention the ability to actually move around on defense in a springy, controlled manner. Basketball shoes COMPLETELY disconnect my feet from the ground - I don't feel the ground at all. That's a very big no-no.
The only downsides of the running shoes I have EVER found for playing in them was aggressive lateral movement - sometimes you plant so aggressively that the sole deforms and bends and you just can't do anything about it.
But if you were to make the same move and rigid-ass basketball shoes (with very little exceptions, Kobe 6 being the best shoe ever for both jumping and playing) - those forces that deformed the sole would propagate themselves onto your bones and joints. Trust me, I've been there.
So unless you're a very strong guy that has muscles to take care of all these forces, I'd rather have the shoe sole deform than have these forces infringe upon my joints and bones.
Not to mention the ability to actually move around on defense in a springy, controlled manner. Basketball shoes COMPLETELY disconnect my feet from the ground - I don't feel the ground at all. That's a very big no-no.
The only downsides of the running shoes I have EVER found for playing in them was aggressive lateral movement - sometimes you plant so aggressively that the sole deforms and bends and you just can't do anything about it.
But if you were to make the same move and rigid-ass basketball shoes (with very little exceptions, Kobe 6 being the best shoe ever for both jumping and playing) - those forces that deformed the sole would propagate themselves onto your bones and joints. Trust me, I've been there.
So unless you're a very strong guy that has muscles to take care of all these forces, I'd rather have the shoe sole deform than have these forces infringe upon my joints and bones.
