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Negative heeled shoes (track shoes) to jump higher

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alestor91:
I've always found that I jumped like an inch higher in track shoes and just found out the reason: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10521609

These are the shoes I would normally wear when I used to jump (prior to injury) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005BJ87MI?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_search_detailpage. They improve your RVJ, but in my experience can actually decrease the SVJ. Anyone else have any similar experiences with negative heeled track shoes? Thanks!

vag:
Never tried it but i was recently trying to find -once again- the best shoes for jumping  and i saw this mentioned.
Nice to see some study to back it up, good job!  :highfive:

Defranco endorses the waffle racers btw. Adarq was so ahead of his time!

maxent:
I dont know about negative height shoes but i find i jump higher in non-basketball (generic nike running) shoes. Which makes me wonder wtf is the point of basketball shoes altogether if they dont enable you to run/jump/move as well.

Raptor:
I have always played ball in running shoes, forever. Basketball shoes = 1 leg jumps of ~24 inches. Running shoes = 1 leg jumps of ~36 inches.

Not to mention the ability to actually move around on defense in a springy, controlled manner. Basketball shoes COMPLETELY disconnect my feet from the ground - I don't feel the ground at all. That's a very big no-no.

The only downsides of the running shoes I have EVER found for playing in them was aggressive lateral movement - sometimes you plant so aggressively that the sole deforms and bends and you just can't do anything about it.

But if you were to make the same move and rigid-ass basketball shoes (with very little exceptions, Kobe 6 being the best shoe ever for both jumping and playing) - those forces that deformed the sole would propagate themselves onto your bones and joints. Trust me, I've been there.

So unless you're a very strong guy that has muscles to take care of all these forces, I'd rather have the shoe sole deform than have these forces infringe upon my joints and bones.

ChrisM:
I'll go the other way...I cant hoop in ANYTHING but a basketball shoe for reasons Raptor mentioned. Everything else deforms horribly. Not just on defense but on offense to...crossovers, spin moves, stepbacks...ive tried them all in running shoes and cant even go half speed without feeling like im rolling an ankle.

For the jumping aspect...i think 2 foot jumpers NEED ball shoes because our plants are almost never straight forward, our feet are usually 30-45 degrees off from center. One legged jumpers I can see jumping higher in running shoes as their normally lighter and the forces arent so much lateral as they are fore and aft. Ive been meaning to try some SLRVJs in my Nike Frees....hmmm.

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