Which Shoe is the best for...?

Question

Parkour in a brand name

Answer 1

Bear in mind, anyone can label shoes or any garment with their own name or brand.

80% of the world's shoes are manufactured in China.
Tell you anything?
US is kaput in shoe manufacturing. And in my opinion, after 17 years in shoe business, before China, they are all junk.
Best US manufacturers left, are in Western Boots.

Not much difference by brand. Quality can vary as in anything.

Answer 2

Shoes are constructed, or at least designed around a "last", which is essentially a model of a foot ( http://www.history.org/history/teaching/shoemkr.cfm to see sort of what I'm talking about). Different manufactures, and even different models within a manufacturer might use a different last, and dIfferent sizes within a model use a last that was scaled either up or down mathematically from the original last.

Now, your foot has at least 5 independent measurements--length, width at front of the foot, width at the heel, length of the toes and the "volume" of the foot (think from the point of the heel to the middle of the arch on the top of the foot). Any given generic last is someone's idea of the "normal" foot, and doesn't fit any one person all that well.

Atheletic shoes because of their materials are more forgiving than dress shoes, but if it don't fit it don't fit.

So what?

Well, for Parkour you need a stable sturdy running shoe that fits *well* as you're going to be stressing the shoe in ways the designer didn't necessarily forsee.

I don't do Parkour as I have some injuries that make running extremely painful--but I think it's really interesting and want to do it if I can fix these issues--so take the following with that in mind.

I would look at trail running shoes, and I would go to a store that specializes in running shoes and talk to them about which (within that set) would be best. Different people have different gaits and amount of "pronation", which makes different shoes better or worse. And then narrow it down to shoes that fit well.