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311: Expert Edition. Simon Bartold & Paul Griffin: ‘Top 5 Running Shoe Innovations of the last 20yrs’

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The Evolution of HOKA and ONA

HOKA surprisingly has a massive stack but a very low drop, mostly on a four or five-millimeter drop. So they're very careful not to pinpoint any one injury at all. If you have somebody who's a 15-year-old girl with knee pain that just won't go away, it's completely sensible to put them on a lower drop shoe. But you'd have to monitor what was going on at the Achilles tendon because you may be increasing the load there.

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