Soccer Cleats by Ryan

societal impacts-Alexandre Blain-Zaremba

alexblain2 — 2015-03-06 13:34:48 UTC

The societal impacts of cleats are immense. Not only did it revolutionize the we runout it revolutionized the way we play sports. It changed the way we play soccer, baseball, football, sprinting, cricket, rugby, Aussie rugby, hurling, and gaelic football. Because of the invention of cleats we can not imagine any of these sports without cleats (go ahead and try). Europe, South America and most of the world plays soccer. America plays mostly football and soccer as well. If you took cleats out of all these sports then the players would not have as much traction and therefor run slower, therefor making the sport less fun to watch and/or play.

Layers of an insole- Ryan Brunner

rbrunner1 — 2015-03-06 13:49:50 UTC

Parts of a cleat - Ryan Brunner

rbrunner1 — 2015-03-06 13:50:58 UTC

Environmental impact-Alexandre Blain-Zaremba

alexblain2 — 2015-03-06 13:53:01 UTC

shoes leave large carbon footprint, study shows that a typical pair of synthetic trainers generates around 30lbs of carbon emissions, equivalent to leaving a 100-watt bulb burning for a week. that is an extremely high carbon footprint for a product that does not use any electricity, or require sophisticated components. Shoes account for a big share of the emissions produced in clothing manufacture. More than 25bn pairs of shoes are manufactured every year, most of them in China and India . This , as you can imagine, causes massive solution from the factories that make them

The sport - Ryan Brunner

rbrunner1 — 2015-03-06 13:56:46 UTC

Soccer is a sport played between two teams made up of eleven players. The object of the game is for the players to hit the ball into the opposing team's net. Each team has one keeper and many defenders and offensive players. Each team can have whatever positioning they like. The only players that are allowed to use their hands are the keepers. There are usually three referees and two of them work the sidelines to call offsides and assist the main referee. One force involved in soccer is compression when one hits or heads the ball (shown below). Other forces involved can be a normal force, friction in many ways, and push when a ball is kicked or when goalie blocks. Without a cleat in soccer, it would be very hard for one to run in the grass especially when it rains. Cleats offer support when running, provide a slim shape for lightness, offer grip for better shooting accuracy, and the studs help propel the athlete forward in the grass.

The parts of a shoe that improve performance-Alexandre Blain-Zaremba

alexblain2 — 2015-03-06 14:03:55 UTC

many shoes and companies have many different ways that improve an athletes performance, but the most common in all products is the shape of its sole ( to make it more comfortable) and the studs. The shape and angle of the studs also effects the perfomance of the shoe

rbrunner1 — 2015-03-06 14:05:56 UTC

Curving a soccer ball - Ryan Brunner

rbrunner1 — 2015-03-06 14:08:39 UTC

How shoes have improved over time - Ryan Brunner

rbrunner1 — 2015-03-23 22:15:46 UTC

The first written documentation and proof of cleats was from 1526 when “football boots” were listed in King Henry The Eighth's Great Wardrobe. The English monarch ordered the royal cordwainer (shoemaker), Cornelius Johnson, to make him a pair of hand-stitched boots to play "football", also known as, soccer. Soccer Cleats were first made by vulcsanizing rubber for the main porpuse of protecting ones foot. Studs only came into play by the 1890's meant for running on grass. Studs were originally used in baseball and later american football and were metal. Later rubber and plastic studs were used for soccer. Today, they have different soccer cleats for different surfaces. They have short rubber studs for turf fields, aluminum cleats worn in mud, and firm plastic for grass