When compared to a more traditional hoop shoe, one with a very soft outsole may become unbalanced much more quickly and therefore dangerous to play in. All this will affect the postural alignment as well as biomechanics of the player. Furthermore, players will typically favor a stronger side/leg/foot thus exacerbating wear on certain specific parts of one shoe and not the other. For a cutting sport like basketball, the wear of a shoe is likely going to be concentrated at the medial-toe area of the shoe. Yet with all that said, significant and uneven erasure of the midsole will have devastating consequences on postural alignment. If anything, the shoe may be able to sustain good traction performance for a longer time because it has an entire midsole's worth of material to chew through.

I'd conjecture that the loss of grip from wear & tear may actually be less than for normal rubber outsoles. Thus, wearing down the grooves may not have a significant impact on actual traction performance. However this shouldn't be a problem for the Curry 8s because its traction is founded on the premise that its EVA foam is naturally soft and grippy. Current Contract Contract: 4 yr(s) / 215,353,664 Average Salary: 53,838,416 Guaranteed at Signing, 215,353,664 Signed Using: Maximum Extension/Bird Free. For typical rubber outsoles, grip diminishes as the grooves on the rubber become worn/frayed with the shoe becoming slippery when the rubber is completely smoothed out. Second, a lack of traction durability is only really relevant if it negatively affects traction performance over time. Curry Flow 8 International Womens Day Curry Flow 8 Shine Curry Flow 8 Shine Curry 8 TB 24K Curry 8 TB 24K Curry Flow 8 GS Black White Curry Flow 8 GS Black White Release Date 12-17-2020. First, and just to get this out of the way, there's absolutely no pretense about being able to use the Curry 8s outdoors. Though this time, it felt like the midsole is toned down just a bit, resulting in a slightly firmer ride but one that’s still as ridiculously smooth, fast, and precise as the 8 offered. While such concerns are legitimate, I think they're also overblown. Under Armour’s Flow technology returns to the Curry Flow 9 and it’s more of the same properties last year’s model hit the nail on the head with. Naturally a completely exposed midsole raises questions about the Curry 8's tractional durability and how this may impact long term traction performance. Other athletic shoes that use a ground-contact foam midsole - for instance the Nike Epic React - will typically have some outsole rubber covering the high-wear areas at the toe or heel to improve durability. Expectedly, the 'outsole' on the Curry 8 is very soft compared to normal outsole rubber - grading ~35 on the Shore A scale compared to 50 ~ 80 one normally sees on other basketball shoes.Įxactly how soft is this? From the Shore hardness scales chart above, we can see that this would make it comparable to a pencil eraser.

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