Comments on: Athletic Propulsion Labs’ Concept 1 Shoe Banned By NBA

By: Reeferal

Reeferal — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 17:01:00 +0000

Note that the NBA didn’t explicitly state these shoes as causing an “undue competitive advantage” I say the claim of increasing Vertical Jump is bullshit. Maybe the shoe allows more fluid movement for your leaping ability thus the extra ‘gain’ but it’s really just you. It doesn’t have any spring mechanism so how would it possibly supplement your vertical?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:44:00 +0000

i got the shoes and let me tell you i couldn’t have been more disappointed… i pre-ordered them way back in march and was the 30th person to pre-order from that website, i waited months and months as my anticipation builded for them then when they finally arrived i put them on and headed over to the nearest gym. i was close to dunking and have a 30 in. verticle so if these shoes worked i would have been able to throw it down. I did a little warm-up and put some shots up then finally went in to see if i could dunk. I got rejected by the rim and the shoes didn’t help at all, however i had high hopes for these shoes so i tried a dunk about 10 more times and it never happened. I then tried jumping without the ball and could make it n o further up the backboard than before. In short; these shoes do not work at all and even further their traction on the bottom is crap, i was sliding more than usual.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:31:00 +0000

hell yes, i’m an semi-out of shape former athlete who is literally about an 1.5″ from dunking again. I was just thinking that I didn’t want to have to run hills or do more extreme core work to gain just a little more vertical jump. This product must be a quality gift seeing as how the NBA says nadda chance ; welp … park legend status here I come !!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:31:00 +0000