Tales from the Kitchen: Nike Free Video
For Nike, the kitchen is more than just making great food. It’s about innovation. Nike’s Innovation Kitchen has been a source of revolutionary products and technology that made Nike a leading sports brands. From the Waffle Soles to Nike Air , to Flywire and to HyperFuse, Nike never ceases from creating new technologies. Here’s a fun and refreshing story of the birth of Nike Free.
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Tobie Hatfield is Innovation Director in NIKE’s Innovation Kitchen.
In the early 2000s Tobie and a group of colleagues began a journey to find a way to bring to life the concept of training barefoot, a technique that helps strengthen the foot. Their goal was to create a product that replicated barefoot training while offering the support and traction of a lightweight performance shoe.
This is the story of the birth of NIKE FREE.