Kobe Bryant Vii Shoes
Kobe Bryant is an outstanding basketball player in the NBA who makes basketball be a kind of battle art, lead the basketball into a total new territory. Kobe, who takes care of any little details with keen insight eye, is continuously making progress and improving his performance. And Eric, who is the Nike’s footwear design creative director, is an experienced director who knows as the Kobe’s game evolves, his footwear also needs to be evolved at the same time. Then the Kobe VII was launched in 2011, which will help Kobe better in the game, make running faster and lethal cutting on the court.
Eric has cooperation with Kobe when Nike first partnered with Kobe. As working in the Nike Company, Eric spent much time on Kobe’s high-speed cutting. Most of his cutting is so low that the shoe almost buckled and bit into his ankle. This may do harm to Kobe’s ankle and cause injury easily. So Eric shows the various generations of footwear to Kobe. Kobe applauded Eric’s opinion and NSRL research, he also would like to push the design further and create one pair of lower shoe. By the way, who say basketball shoe need to protect foot only with high-top.
Kobe deemed his footwear as another part of his body. So, the shoes should fit well and work right with him. Eric engineered the upper panel with Nike’s high technology lightweight support system fly wire. And environment friendly thinly and strong nylon fibers are used to support the foot. The fly wire support system once let the Nike lunar running shoes be the lightest footwear and really improve the shoe’s stability. This technology was originally used in outer space athletes who work out of the earth, with strong support and lightweight.
Eric is an experienced expert who can combined aesthetics and functionally perfect. While the Kobe VII is the evolution of two of Nike’s latest revolutionary innovations fly wire and lunarlite, it is exclusively about performance. But with the stylish outlook, the Kobe VII works as an integrated system.
So let’s have a simple comparison with Kobe VII and Kobe VI.
“The Kobe VI is a character driven shoe with the ego of Black Mamba prominently featured”. It is the evolution of Kobe V and really be a special shoe pop, drives athletics greatly. Most people will be attracted the Black Mamba in the Nike Zoom Kobe VI. The shoes upper features special polyurethane “islands” that emulate a snake’s skin and increase or decrease in size throughout the shoe to protect against abrasion and increase durability exactly where needed.
The Kobe VII is of higher technology than former generations. It is more populated in 2011 playoffs of NBA, this year Kobe is going for his sixth championship. This Kobe VII certainly be very important to him. Made with lower cut, synthetic leather and upper. Nike Zoom Air unit in the heel and full-length midsole provides lightweight cushioning and comfortable.
We may come to know the different effect for basketball. Kobe VII and Kobe VI are aimed to different aspects, it is not so easy to judge one is better.
