Building A race walking shoe

[H YX]

Hi,

My name is Horatio Han, I am a designer at New Balance and now working on creating a pro race walk shoe. I would love to hear more idea and voice from people here for you experience and expertise. The goal of the project is to re-define a race walking shoe since i notice many walker are wear racing flat / running train shoes, yet there is few product designed to dedicate to race walking.

I have been reading blogs and paper about Race Walking, still i am looking forward to hear voice from you. Here i list a few basic question. If you would like to help more you may contact me by horat...@newbalance.com

- How important are the cushion?  Where do you think there need to be placed?

- Flexibility around toe. Does a really flexible toe helps the efficiency / or you would prefer a more "spring" toe?

- When I saw the video of racewalking, i notice that racers foot often supinate. Looks like their are mostly balance on the lateral side. Try to understand how this technique helps the race.

- what's the common foot condition caused by walking? blister / foot pain / swell and ect.?

And i am think about visiting a race walking group around boston for research, any suggestion?

Again Thank you very much

Horatio

[Thomas Knatt]

Hello Horatio Han,

 

As president of the New England Walkers, I would very much like to discuss racewalking shoes with you.  I am on vacation right now, returning next Sunday Sept. 29.  I will contact you after I return.

Thomas

 

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