Comment on Why are basketball shoes so squeaky?
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
As a long-time streetballer I rarely got a sense of that, playing 99% of the time outdoors.
Actually, most of the bball shoes I was familiar with didn’t have that fine-line design on the soles. It was more usually geometric shapes and stuff…
frongt@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
You probably weren’t playing on the same kind of surface, nor exerting NBA-level forces on your shoes.
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
It was usually concrete, as that’s what most outdoor courts are made of in the States. That’s kinda the whole point, i.e. not wooden floors.
That’s not correct about the NBA-level forces, as occasionally playing indoors instantly produced that range of squeaking sounds. Little kids produced those sounds as well. It’s just the dynamic of sneakers upon wood, essentially.