In our ongoing quest to become the internet’s premier destination for curling fashion news, take a gander at the Zoom Hammer, Nike-designed footwear for the U.S. Olympic curling team.
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↵For the slider, Nike used a pure PTFE plate — a material that’s better know as Teflon. It performed great sliding across the ice, but it did present some challenges.
“As you might imagine, it’s not the easiest thing to bond to other materials in a shoe,” says Hatfield. “We had to send it out for plasma coating before we could glue it.”
↵Oh, science!
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