Sentence examples for performance footwear from inspiring English sources

"It's a nuggets-of-flavor" look, said Tracy Teague, Nike's design director of performance footwear.

Could the new focus on performance footwear run the risk of muddying the Gander Mountain brand identity?

To me, they are golf shoes that feel like athletic performance footwear, part of my weaponry to fight back at a tough golf course.

What used to be a niche product now "seems to be catching on to a wider audience," said Colin Lantz, the president of La Sportiva North America, a performance footwear company.

Beginning this week, Gander Mountain is expanding its footwear offerings to add more than 20 brands of so-called performance footwear, among them Adidas, Asics, Brooks, New Balance, Oakley, Saucony and Under Armour.

Apart from the hey-they're-comfy mantra invoked by Crocs enthusiasts, wearers of the FiveFingers almost-shoes can cite practical reasons for sporting monkey-suggestive gear in settings others find inappropriate: you're supposed to ease into the switch from elaborately engineered athletic shoes, so tooling about the mall in performance footwear makes total sense.

But we think Davis, with her high-performance footwear, was on the right track.

Speed shoes, as they are sometimes called, weigh about quarter-pound less than most high-performance footwear and can minimize fatigue during a long match.

In the cutthroat shoe manufacturing industry, two companies in particular — Nike and Adidas — are banking on sensors and other technology to pump up profits and change the notions of high-performance footwear forever.

Donatelli: New customers who have never engaged with Oracle in the past, such as Carbon, a hot 3D printing startup that recently inked a high-profile deal with Adidas to print high-performance footwear on demand, as well as Lyft, Stripe, Pandora, Stitchfix and many more are adopting Oracle Cloud.

"They're our back of house research team that you don't hear a lot about," says AJ Andrassy, the global director of performance running footwear at ASICS.