{"id":66440,"date":"2014-11-13T07:05:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T06:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runlovers.it\/2014\/what-are-maximal-shoes\/"},"modified":"2022-12-28T19:05:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T18:05:01","slug":"what-are-maximal-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runlovers.it\/en\/2014\/what-are-maximal-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"What are maximal shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"

What are we talking about when we talk about maximal shoes? Let’s talk first of all about a relatively young category of shoes, invented – the legend says – by two Salomon men: we’re talking about Jean-Luc Diard and Nicolas Mermoud, who founded Hoka One One<\/a> in 2010. They had observed a trend quite evident in other sports that consisted of the oversizing of the tools used: wide snow skis, bikes with big tires (always to use on the snow) to name a few, and they thought, “Why not try it with shoes too?” Which ones could adapt to experimentation? Mmm, extreme running disciplines: ultramarathons!<\/p>\n

Ultrashoes<\/h3>\n

Indeed, the early adopters of this type of shoe were ultrarunners: in the U.S., almost half of the competitors at these types of races now have maximal shoes. People who run hundreds of miles and rightly have certain needs.
\nThe name “maximal” will have already made you think of its opposite, which is “minimal.” Did they have anything to do with it? Are they called that precisely to imply that they are the exact opposite?
\nThese shoes in truth are not a negation of natural, if anything they represent a more evolved form of it. And they are not just more comfortable shoes (since they have a lot of foam underneath): they are more protective, which is different.<\/p>\n

What they have in common with minimal<\/h3>\n

Of the minimal<\/a> ones, they retain some features and implement others:<\/p>\n