What if you have a running shoes, fits your foot like a sock, and it also have the support and cushioning to perform? Tobie Hatfield, innovation director in Nike Free shoes, is the creator of Nike Free 3.0 Flyknit. Before Tobie Hatfield became the innovator for Nike, he was a veteran athlete, coach, and a decorative designer. He created the record breaking gold Nike spike and incredibly light weight Air Presto, but this footwear visionary also has a sequel passion of barefoot running.
Tobie's creative idea started in early 2000 with the revolutionary track coach, Vin Lananna, who drilled an idea of, “less shoes more you,” to his athletes. This allowed his athletes to engage into their sport more intuitively. Tobie was fortunate to be one of Vin Lananna's athlete who…show more content… After years of biomechanical research, Tobie Hatfield, invented the Nike Free 3.0 Flyknit. Toddling in his sketch book, where he began creating the idea of hexagonal shapes that supports the bottom of the sole and the wrapping it to the upper. Nike Free 3.0 Flyknit is engineered with the natural motion. Also Flyknit 3.0 is the most minimal of Nike Free collection. It is built to be low to the ground, offers exceptional flexibility while retaining a little bit of buffer between the user and the ground.
There are couple things about these Flyknit 3.0 that set them apart from other typical running shoes. This version of 3.0 there are several big changes first off upper, now consist of material is stretchy upper. Which gives snug, sock-like fit with minimal seam. The positive part is that this shoes can be worn with bare feet, where you do not have to worry about matching the socks to go with the color of the shoes. In addition, on the out sole, Nike Flynit 3.0 now have hexagonal flex pattern, where this is well adjusted with the natural movement of the
