Great shoe. I started training for triathlons about a year and a half ago. I have done several sprint triathlons, a few 10K runs and a half-marathon so far. My feet have normal pronation and normal arches, and I run about 30Km per week (with speed workouts and interval training). When I started training for triathlons, I first used Saucony with a lot of cushioning and then switched to Nike (Air Pegasus 25) with moderate cushioning, and although these were both good shoes, my legs weren’t always happy. After buying the Mizuno Wave Creation 10, I felt that they were quite stiff (not much cushioning upon impact) compared to my previous shoes. This was initially disappointing, but after a couple of runs, I realized that this stiffness was exactly what my legs wanted. No matter how much I run, my legs don’t hurt at all. It is counter-intuitive that a stiffer shoe is actually easier on the legs, but after I run with these shoes, my legs feel great with no pain whatsoever. So if you think that more cushioning is better for you, you may want to think again. Cheers.
How can I get an imported Mizuno youth baseball bat?
I want to get a bat that Mizuno Japanese Little Leaguers are using in Japan. I want an imported aluminum youth baseball bat...not wood and not a softball bat. I tried ebay with no success.
Their first move was to get rid of the Mizuno MP-67 and design a new club called the Mizuno MP-68. Engineers first took the very best elements of the club's predecessors, identified any flaws, ironed them out, added new technology and finally made it look gorgeous. Then it was time to sit back and watch the irons fly off the shelf.
Of course, there's more to it that than. The Mizuno MP-68 is not just a new model for the sake of it. Great strides in design technology has enabled Mizuno to improve not just performance and consistency, but also the one area for which the Mizuno MP line is rightly famed: feel.
Where club design once relied on the craftsman's eye, the all-seeing computer can now detect things that can't even be seen. By using 'modal' analysis to record the vibration and sound frequencies going through a club at impact, Mizuno Mizuno engineers are able to gauge the 'feel' and manipulate it accordingly. When Mizuno's Tour players 'blind tested' the new irons against the Mizuno MP-33, 80 per-cent preferred the Mizuno MP-68.
But tuning the head was just one part of the jigsaw. A muscle-pad behind the clubhead ensures pure feedback, while a more centred CG (centre of gravity) location makes for a penetrating ball flight. These qualities - which are clearly sought after by the skilled players - are immediately apparent when playing the Mizuno MP-68.
At address, it's a classic look. The heads are small, particularly the pitching wedge (scaled down considerably to be a real 'scoring' wedge), the leading edges beautifully square and the topline thin. The Mizuno MP-68 looks like the real deal and plays like it too.
Feel at impact can only be described as soft. It's lovely, and with a repeatable swing the feedback is quite superb. You know exactly how you've hit each shot, and there is certainly no disguising a poorly-struck effort. Not that there are too many of those, thanks to the cleverly tweaked sole. The leading and trailing edges have been rolled while the midsole has been flattened. It sounds a little complicated but it essentially means that the way the club make contact with the turf (known as 'interaction' in the trade) has been analysed so that any drag on the ground is minimised.
There's also a consistency of strike off the clubface. There are no jumpers or fliers and the dispersion is predictably tight. The Mizuno MP-68s don't feel like the longest iron on the market but at this level of play, distance is not a problem. Precision is everything, and the Mizuno MP-68 delivers.
The spin generated by the clubface is something else that deserves mentioning - even from the 7-iron, the ball was spinning landing.
Perhaps the greatest strength of the Mizuno MP-68 is its workability - the ability to move the ball through the air from right to left and left to right. With just the subtlest of adjustments in ball position, all manner of shot shapes can be delivered. And for the skilled player, that's crucial.
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