Nike Lunarlon Offers Athletes Responsive Cushioning

Almost a decade ago, Nike designers Eric Avar and Kevin Hoffer set their heads together to face a challenge of creating lightweight technology that provided both soft cushioning and bouncy responsiveness. Now, namesake Nike Lunarlon cushioning can be found in Jogging, Basketball, Skateboarding, Women's Training, the Training of Men, Sportswear, Young and Baseball, Tennis Athletes designs, cheap nike blazers mid.supplying lightweight and responsive cushioning to athletes . From day-to-day athltes to elite athletes including Kenyan distance runner Edna mens nike free 7.0 black green.Kiplagat, and from everyday work outs to the high-stakes sport minutes, athletes adore the feeling. Marathon runners usually take around 40,000 steps from start to finish - they need a shoe to set a spring in their stride and to defy the impact that is constant. Meanwhile, top-notch basketball players desire a shoe to cushion high-impact jumping and provide quick shove-off for explosive changes of direction. An UNEXPECTED LOCATION Hoffer and Avar started the hunt for the right material, an ultra-lightweight foam that was both pillowy-soft and rubber-ball bouncy. Hoffer drew on inspiration from images of astronauts. The astronauts' springy, soft and weightless movements were exactly what the designers were trying to provide for sportsmen. The pair assembled a team of chemical engineers, designers and technicians to help. They realized the task facing them would be challenging, rife with trial and error, and might require them to look in some surprising areas - including substances previously ruled out. There arrived a breakthrough, after failing with countless materials. Found far in the back of the closet of the Nike Advanced Material Interest Group, the team unearthed a space-age foam. "AS TACKY AS MELTED MARSHMALLOWS" At this point, Lunarlon was nowhere near race- or game-day ready. "It was quite difficult to work with," says Hoffer. "It was as tacky as melted marshmallows." The foam offered the pillow-soft landing but still needed work to deliver the enviable answer that was springy. The expert team experimented to transform the tacky substance into something functional, which proved to be easier said than done. At one point, the freezers of the Nike Innovation Kitchen were filled with Lunarlon forms that looked like hundreds of "ice cream bars." The experiments of the team helped it take another jump forward in 2005, when it created a model of a Lunarlon- . The team squeezed a soft-but-secure Lunarlon centre into a supportive and firmer Phylon foam casing. They presented the model to colleagues. EXPANDING HORIZONS Lunarlon technology debuted in two new shoes for the summer of 2008 the Nike Lunaracer and Nike Hyperdunk. Avar, Hoffer and their team had struck gold. Sportsmen of all levels loved the way Lunarlon minimized impact while providing and support.