Nike Free Metcon 6 "Guava Ice/Light Wild Mango/White" Sneakers

Guava Ice with Light Wild Mango and White is a training shoe wearing fruit colours, and the combination tells you exactly what it is for: gym floors, not pavements. The Free Metcon line sits where two Nike ideas meet, the flexible Free platform and the stable Metcon lifting platform, which is a genuinely difficult brief. Nike has been solving briefs like that since 1964, when Bill Bowerman co founded Blue Ribbon Sports with Phil Knight because he thought American runners deserved lighter shoes than the market offered, then made his own outsole by pouring rubber into his wife's waffle iron. A shoe that has to be soft at the front and rigid at the back is that same engineering stubbornness applied to a training session.