Why the bleak comments up front? You'll see in just a bit. To be fair to Nike and the designers who worked on this shoe, perhaps what happened was a fluke and purely coincidental. But what is written here is our reviewers' own thoughts and experiences. Bias or not due to what happened, they are seasoned shoe testers on the team that have seen the good, the bad and the ugly. There is certainly not enough sample size to give you a scientific confidence interval, but out of the 3 testers we sent out, only 1 made it back in one piece. One of the two injured testers suffered a high ankle sprain and will be sidelined indefinitely for 6-8 weeks.

      Below are their stories, words and ratings. We thought about scraping this article as the opinions stated may unfairly cast a doubt on an otherwise perfectly good shoe. But after further considerations, KG decided that if paying $450 ended in the results that we got - then let it be known. Hey, if it happened to us, it could happen to you.