Our God given machine of motion still explodes power in this day and age!Yet, weekend runners who barely run a tenth of a marathon are spending hundreds of dollars to buy advanced technology for their feet!Why is the man on the street spending so much on high tech shoes when marathon runners and hunters happily thrive without them?The answer is advertising and product branding.Shoemakers astutely noticed that city folks are mostly overpronators or underpronators. Hence, in an effort to capitalise on this underlying dysfunction, they design shoes that support and cushion shock. Consequently, detaching and depriving the foot from its primary role as locomotion point guard.
Overpronation, Underpronation and Neutral Feet
Rivets are great and a very strong fastener, ninety nine percent of the time. Every once in a while a rivet is not fastened to the shoe properly and becomes weak. As the student uses the shoe the rivet becomes weaker and looser. It eventually comes loose and the tap pops. When this happens to a riveted tap the shoe cannot be repaired. The shoe has to be thrown away and you'll have to buy a new pair.
More than 75% of city dwellers are either overpronators or underpronators. Essentially
Cheapest Oakleys Sunglasses, it means that your feet lose their ability to accommodate ground unevenness and absorption of daily walking stress. Your foot has curved in one direction and cannot return to neutral state think of it as a jammed window that cannot close.In its functional state, our feet are made to pronate; curve to suit the contours of the ground. This is how we can run side ways on slopes and edges without tumbling over. Hence, feet with full range of pronation can walk, run, jog barefooted and not injure themselves (assuming you are not silly enough to go running on broken glass).Since the foot has lost its ability to fully pronate, shoemakers generally believe that a shoe has to be padded, cushioned, gelled and reinforced. The reason being that it will make up for the feets loss of pronation range. Hence, the natural progression towards spending millions on technology research and charging you hundreds of dollars more per pair.
Your second tip is the type of fastener that you should be on the look out for. Always look for a screw that is holding on the tap. A screw is much less likely to fail than a rivet. And if a screw does for some reason become damaged, which I have never heard of, you can easily remove it and replace it. Again you can identify a screw by looking for a slot for a screwdriver. You will see it easily by flipping over the shoe and examining the tap. You won't be able to miss it.
Now if you find a pair of taps with both hollow plastic heels and rivets you'll definitely want to save your money. Shoes combining both of these undesirable features have been know not to last through a single semester of tap dancing. You'll mostly see this with children's tap shoes that are suspiciously inexpensive compared to most of the other available shoes.
There are lots of shapes, styles, and colors of tap shoes to choose from. All tap shoes have one thing in common however, and that is the taps that are fastened to the bottom of them. That's what makes a functional pair of tap shoes.
Your last tip is to get a shoe with a solid heel. Hollow plastic heels are a sign of a very cheap pair of tap shoes. Hollow heels don't give the fastener
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The first thing to look for is an inferior style of fastener to hold on the tap. This fastener is called a rivet. You can identify a riveted tap by looking at the fastener itself. Is there a slot to put a screwdriver in and remove the tap? If not than you are more than likely looking at a riveted tap.