Super Shoes NEED to be banned

Wake up! HOKA has already had time to ‘crack the code’!

Do you think Walmsley would have gotten that 100km WR if he had been in AlphaFly’s, like the Lithuanian was when he set that 100km WR this spring??

The shoes won’t and shouldn’t be banned. Start with this, if the playing field is fair, which it is much fairer now that other shoe manufacturers technology has vastly improved over the last year or so. Although runners accross the board are running much faster than they ever have as a whole. Realize this, times don’t mean much anymore. Ben True says as much in his letsrun podcast from February 2021. At least with shoes it is out in the open, unlike when athletes are using EPO, etc etc. Shoes will never be banned. The shoe companies, primarily Nike own track and field. Nike finds track and field not just in America but all over the world. So you think WADA will mandate that super shoes can’t be used? Think again. WADA won’t be able to operate without Nikes deep pockets so trust me more technology will continue to happen whether we like it or not

Make everyone run in the new Abebe Bikila footwear available for all men and the new Zola budds available for all women…they are cheap!! LOL

No. Currently there are no regulations in running shoes outside of max stack height (which is far too high).

And stacked plates. That is plenty of restriction for the best technology to reveal itself.

Putting even more restriction is not going to somehow get HOKA to raise their game, if they can’t even compete with the current restrictions.

You're a bit late to the party... No way that's going to happen. Too many races have been run, too many records have been broken. No looking back now lol

This is it. If Jakob runs 3:25.8 at Monaco, then yeah, it would be more like 3:27.8 without the shoes and track, but with El G's EPO? 3:25.8 or better.

Super shoes at least let people see that comparisons between eras are not easy, and you can't just go by times. Might bring a bit of respect back for some of the old greats like Zatopek, Nurmi, and even the 19th century figures like Walter George.

All spikes are super shoes, it would be better for the sport if track spikes simply were banned. What’s the difference between road times and track times any distance 10k and below shows how extra time they gain.

Then just say a low stack height, maybe a max of 15mm between the floor and the runners foot, no plates of any kind, no spikes, stabling shanks, bars, rods, etc of any kind and just and a single density foam of the manufacturers choice.

This what they have done, right? Max stack height from 2024 is being reduced to 20mm. The Dragonfly will no longer be legal for competition

Lol! Ha ha - banning sports drinks - lol! Imagine drinking a bottle of Gatorade and getting a 30 second 10k pr. Awesome! I remember back in HS I forgot my dragonfly’s and my friend said “no worries, here’s a cup of sports drink!” Bam! Instant PR.

Or remember back in the 60s when they introduced synthetic surfaces and all the records were immediately broken within a year? Oh, me neither.

All the mental gymnastics we need to do to talk ourselves into the current generation of cheat shoes. Hold on - it’s gonna be hilarious.

There is no political will to do it, and the right will argue that it’s a constitutionally protected right and refuse to be shoed in, but on the other leg, the left will signal virtue and refuse to be shoed away; in the meantime, records and lifetime accomplishments will keep getting shattered.

The barefoot record marathon... Is still the same at nearly 60 years .. 2:15. Human progression has ended there.

Take a physics class and find out bouncing higher doesn't make you go faster.

This marketing scam has happened before over the decades. They count on your cognitive biases to make you think everyone's going faster, and buy the product. You keep believing until its disproven, betraying your duty as emptor to caveat.

El Bakkali's sub 8 today is a glimpse of the flip side - where's all the fast steeples been the past few years? Shouldn't they benefit from bounce shoes even more? Think about why the correct answer is not at all.

I was initially against the supershoes, because I was pissed off that we now all have to pay a single pair of shoes from Nike to compete anymore. But now all the major companies have carbon fiber plate shoes. I think the Nikes are probably the best, but this isn't really any different of a scenario with any other technological advancement. One company makes a breakthrough, other companies follow suit, the tech is available to all, bringing about a reasonably level playing field. Some are better than others at that tech, it is not perfectly even. This is true for virtually all sports tech.

Nike has had the best spikes and flats for the last 30 years, so nothing has changed.

Quit arguing your point when you don’t have all the facts and are simply ill-informed and wrong. It just makes you look more stupid.

We already haven't been able to do that for decades, because in high school Ryun ran on cinder tracks, and other high school runners have been running on synthetic tracks since the 1970's .

Lol! Remember when synthetic tracks were introduced and Ryun went out and shattered his own WR and ran 3:46 and then crushed it at the Olympics! It’s a little hazy but, yeah, I kinda remember it…maybe. Well, if he didn’t then Clarke surely smashed his WRs the instant synthetic rolled out. Or if Ryun and Clarke didn’t, someone came along within the next few months and did it. Or was it several years later…by the absolute smallest of margins? We’ll never really know.