Nike Air Trainer Sc Sneakers

The Air Trainer family came out of Nike's cross training era, when the company needed a shoe that could handle a court, a weights room and a track in the same session instead of specialising in one. That was a natural extension of the founding idea: Bill Bowerman started Blue Ribbon Sports in 1964 because he thought American athletes deserved better tools than the market offered, and kept experimenting until his waffle iron produced the outsole that made Nike an engineering company. The Air Trainer SC applies that logic to a chunky, strapped mid, a shoe built to be several shoes at once. Worn now it reads as pure late 1980s hardware, and that is exactly why it has lasted.