The molded contact closure strap is made from flexible and durable TPU. Cuts in the foam under the toe and heel to reduce overall weight. Cushioning and energy return, lateral support, and multi-directional traction help multi-dimensional players like Giannis create space and maintain control.
#ZOOM FREAK 3 REVIEW FULL#
The Zoom Freak 3 lets you take full advantage of your unique abilities and maximize your impact in the game. Giannis combines his athletic play with big strides, feints, and the ability to play in any position - no one stands in his way to the basket. Thus if you do get this shoe, this is an issue you have to consider.BASKETBALL SHOES | NIKE ZOOM FREAK 3 'BLACK' Alternatively you could use custom orthoses or some other type of supportive insole to shore up the structure in the middle and force the bend point forward to the ball of your foot (what pros & Antetokounmpo presumably do). If you're young and have very strong feet you can probably get away with wearing it and not injuring or aggravating anything. Now, does all this mean that the Zoom Freak 2 is terrible and un-wearable? Nope. “A Guide To Conservative Care For Plantar Fasciitis” in Podiatry Today. This happens to the plantar fascia with each and every step in minimalist footwear.” It is a lot like wetting a towel at the beach and then twisting and snapping it. This results in a pathologic torque on the plantar fascia, magnifying the pathology. Not only is there sagittal plane pathologic stretching of the plantar fascia, there are the destructive frontal plane rotary forces that accompany it. Shoes that bend easily in this region, such as minimalist footwear, allow and promote midfoot collapse by encouraging oblique midtarsal joint axis and sagittal plane equinus compensation, increasing propulsive phase pronation in susceptible individuals. “Another undesirable characteristic of footwear that will have a negative impact on proximal plantar fasciitis symptom resolution is midfoot flexibility. Losito is currently a team physician/podiatrist for the Miami Heat. James M Losito in "Basketball and Volleyball" chapter, Athletic Footwear and Orthoses in Sports Medicine (Springer, 2010). Failure to maintain shank stability may contribute to a variety of problems including plantar fasciitis.” Some manufactures have reinforced the shank with fiberglass, plastic, or graphite material in an attempt to reduce bulk but maintain stability. The shoe should never have sagittal plane flexibility in the shank region. It is essential that a basketball shoe has solid shank stability. “The combination of outersole and midsole determines the properties of the shank. This is completely unnatural and the fact that one's foot is forced to prevent the shoe from folding as such means that one's foot is forced to support the shoe (instead of the reverse).
Now why is this bad? Because no one's foot bends in the middle under their arch. This alternate angle also shows that mid-foot is far more flexible than any other portion of the shoe. You can clearly see from this capture that the Freak 2 is forced to fold at its weakest spot (the mid-foot under the arch) because the forefoot is too stiff! If the forefoot were more flexible than the mid-foot, it would bend there first and not in the middle.
Yet the Zoom Freak 2 isn't a flexible shoe they're just very flexible in an area where you don't want much flexing. It's quite common that people confuse a lack of torsional support with improved flexibility. For a decoupled midsole with a soft midsole foam, something like the Why.notZer0 series' sturdy external TPU plate would be much safer.
A reason for this is that the Phylon midsole is quite soft and doesn't get any stronger with use thus the small shank plate isn't close to being enough to maintain torsional support over time. Structurally this shoe is still weak in the middle like the ZF1s even though Nike highly publicized that they included a mid-foot shank this time around (in China releases they actually included a sticker with the shoe advertising this fact).
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