Sliders DIY
Yesterday I faced a dilemma. I have a project. The project involves the improvement of my dancing vocabulary [hip hop/salsa/etc….]. Now the problem in question is related to my ability to produce frictionless movements with my feet.
My limited wardrobe of shoes mostly consists of runners and dress shoes for work. Isolating runners in particular: although comfortable the problem with a typical running shoe is that the rubber sole on the bottom sticks to pretty much everything; that’s what they were designed for. You don’t want to be sliding around when you’re running on a track – you want good solid traction. And despite my lack of fashion, jumping around in my dress shoes to a hip hop routine is not something that I am yet comfortable with.
So what do you do?
The typical/normal approach would probably be to run in to the store and pick up something that fits the requirement. I am sure the local footlocker salesman would be happy to sell me some hip hop swagger sneakers.
Refusing to conform to the social standards I took a different approach [I know, this is the battle that I choose to fight, really?]. I found an old pair of runners and dug up some masking tape. A few minutes later the combination of those two individual components evolved in to a completely new species of footwear. The SLIDERS!
All I can say is: it works, it’s cheap and I feel pretty good about coming up with an out of a box solution to get what I want.
Cheers,
Max
This is brilliant! You need to patent these ASAP! :)…great post
Hmm brilliant creation. Do you think they will slip on smooth, wooden dance floors made for Tap dancing or Ballet?
Make me a few pairs. I can go out and sell them for you.
J
Your sleep-deprived reader
You’re right.
The initial design was extremely slippery.
I’ve updated the idea afterwards only covering 1/2 of the shoe [the front] so that the back still had friction.