Skate shoes or skateboard shoes are specially designed shoe types and are manufactured for use in skateboarding. While many non-skaters choose to wear skate shoes, skate shoe design includes many features specially designed for use in skateboarding, including vulcanized rubber or polyurethane soles with minimal or no patterned footprints, leather or suede top compositions, and double or triple stitches to extend the life of the top material. A low, soft tongue is often included for comfort.
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Features
The Skate shoe company has integrated a number of special features into their shoes. This innovation has a number of functions, including the prevention of "bruising" (damage to the heel area of ​​the foot caused by rough landings from a distance), increased "skateboard nuance" through increased flexibility, and improved grip action.
This includes but is not limited to:
- Patch Ollie (Vision Street Wear/Airwalk - 1980)
- Cup sol
- The vulcanized rubber soles
- DURACAP (Vans)
- Air bag on heel
- Canvas
- Shield protector
- Dynamic Holding Technology (DGT) (DC Shoes)
- Super Suede (DC Shoes)
- G2 Cushioning system (Etnies, Emerica, Ã © s)
- STI foam (etnies, Emerica, Ã © s)
- Lace Loops "hide" shoelaces
- Skin Skin
- Thermoplastic Foot Strengthening
- EVA Mid Sole
- Fusion Grip Rubber Outsole
- asymmetric stabilizer
- Silicon rubber makes shoes more durable (SiRC)
- Stash Pockets (under the palm or tongue) (DVS, Ipath and Supra)
- Sol Shock-Absorbing (Nike SB)
- Kevlar's bony ropes (Nike SB)
- Cold Grip (CGT) (DVS) technology
- Lunarlon (Nike SB)
Many skate shoe features are designed to increase durability. Skate shoes worn sleek tape skateboarding regularly when used for skateboards. This is why skaters tend to go through shoes quickly. Super suede, action skin, and plastic coating the leg cover help improve the endurance of skate shoes. Lace loops and shields are designed to prevent the ropes from cutting up by protecting the most common areas associated with grip tape.
Other common features include: three stitches with a thicker footprint to prevent tearing, wider so that there is more contact with the board with the tongue and a thicker side to compensate, and a deep palm pattern for the handle.
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Examples of popular skate shoe brands
- Adidas Skateboard
- Adio
- Airwalk
- Axion Footwear
- About
- Converse
- DC Shoes
- Footwear Decoder
- DVS Shoes Company
- Duffs
- emerika
- Skateboard Elements
- ÃÆ' Â © S Footwear
- Etnies
- Fall Shoes
- Globe International
- Gravis Footwear
- Habitat Footwear
- HUF Worldwide
- I-Path
- Lakai Limited Footwear
- Numerical New Balance
- Nike Skateboarding
- Osiris Shoes
- Puma SE
- Skate Reebok
- Supra
- Vans
- Street Vision Vision
- Vox Footwear
- Industrial World
- York Zoo
Further reading
- Made for Skate: The Illustrated History of Skateboard Footwear , JÃÆ'¼rgen BlÃÆ'¼mlein, Daniel Schmid & amp; Dirk Vogel, Gingko Press (2008) ISBN 978-158423348-0
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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