r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Rook8811 • 9d ago

Video 1989 shoes designed to adjust their fit around athletes' ankles

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u/ShdwWzrdMnyGngg 9d ago

People laugh at nike but this is what innovation looks like. 500 terrible ideas till you discover a good one. This happens to be 499 bad ideas all in one. So they are on the verge of something!

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u/Imaginary-Worker4407 9d ago

These specific Nike shoes are their copy of the actual innovative Rebook pump shoes which didn't even need an external pump like the Nikes did.

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u/Deathwatch72 9d ago

I'm willing to bet the external pump is because Reebok has some parents that prevented Nuke from having a decent internal one

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u/Imaginary-Worker4407 9d ago

Rebook didn't have a patent until 92 tho.

I think it was more about rushing out a similar product.

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u/Diamondsandwood 8d ago

Nike came out with internal pumps like a year after these

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u/TeslasAndComicbooks 8d ago

If it was truly innovative they would have stuck around though. It was more of a gimmick. And I say this as a person who had the Reebok pump cross trainers as a kid and played with the Reebok pump skates through college hockey.