| Although it is not named Air Max 88, the Air Stab shoes appearing in 1988 has indeed got a function serving as a link between the past and the future. It came into being between the years of the 87th Air Max 1 and the 89th Air Max 2. The designing of AS is still in the charge of Tinker Hatfield. The shoe body follows the exerted air cushion designing of AM1 and Hatfield has added two "Fork Stabs" systems within the air cushions in the middle bottom which can effectively reduce the chances of the players getting injured.
There¡äre "Air Stab" on the shoe sole and shoe tongue, meanwhile, the middle-bottom of this sneaker is also the former of Air Max 88.
Regrettably, after its release that year, the reaction of the market is very plain and its production was stopped after the birth of the more advanced style Air Max 88.
Maybe it¡äs because that Nike determined to make it the AM year that it reproduced AS wholly. In order to make it hot, Nike has found the heated sneaker store--footPatrol to cooperate. On the first releasing day of December of the last year, it has abstracted lots of sneaker fans to buy and the fans are queuing from the front to the back of the street. Besides FootPatrol, Mita Sneakers and atmos of Japan has released their Air Max 88 later on which is all for the celebration of the Air 360 this year. On eBay, there¡äre already auctions of Air Stab in FootPatrol version, and the current rate is also as high as 300 usd.
In the autumn of 2008, Nike Sportswear series will take AM into a new ambit. With the 36-year history of Nike, it emerged the top techniques of sneakers from the past to now till the future and rededucted this classic pair of Air Max 88.
The global designing majordomo Jesse Leyva describes the designing course of the series of Nike Sportswear as the exercise of putting the creation into extreme: "We name the designing work of the series of Nike Sportswear as bouncy designing, " he said, " which means that, we have borrowed the designing idea of the classic sneakers and combined it with the latest techniques and have expanded the usages of the past to all different fields."
Looking back on the developing history of Nike's running products, Air Max 88 is of course one of the most important sneakers. It bears rich sports history and is related to culture closely. Thus, AM88 has become one member of the eight big eternal classics of the Nike Sportswear family. |
