Shoe Study - A project focused on improving the ergonomics of a climbing shoe; specifically, overcoming the need for excessive tightness often causing permenant foot deformation. In conjunction with a sports physio, it was concluded that climbers often preferred a painfully tight shoe due to a lifting and correspondant strengthening of the plantarfascia ligament group in the arch. Inspired by a strapping method used in plantarfascia injury, a design was prototyped and trialled with promising results.
'Last' construction - A project focused on improving the ergonomics of a climbing shoe; specifically, overcoming the need for excessive tightness often causing permenant foot deformation. In conjunction with a sports physio, it was concluded that climbers often preferred a painfully tight shoe due to a lifting and correspondant strengthening of the plantarfascia ligament group in the arch. Inspired by a strapping method used in plantarfascia injury, a design was prototyped and trialled with promising results.
Prototype Evaluation - A project focused on improving the ergonomics of a climbing shoe; specifically, overcoming the need for excessive tightness often causing permenant foot deformation. In conjunction with a sports physio, it was concluded that climbers often preferred a painfully tight shoe due to a lifting and correspondant strengthening of the plantarfascia ligament group in the arch. Inspired by a strapping method used in plantarfascia injury, a design was prototyped and trialled with promising results.
Developmental Sketches - A project focused on improving the ergonomics of a climbing shoe; specifically, overcoming the need for excessive tightness often causing permenant foot deformation. In conjunction with a sports physio, it was concluded that climbers often preferred a painfully tight shoe due to a lifting and correspondant strengthening of the plantarfascia ligament group in the arch. Inspired by a strapping method used in plantarfascia injury, a design was prototyped and trialled with promising results.
Shoe Study - A project focused on improving the ergonomics of a climbing shoe; specifically, overcoming the need for excessive tightness often causing permenant foot deformation. In conjunction with a sports physio, it was concluded that climbers often preferred a painfully tight shoe due to a lifting and correspondant strengthening of the plantarfascia ligament group in the arch. Inspired by a strapping method used in plantarfascia injury, a design was prototyped and trialled with promising results.
Concept Revision - A project focused on improving the ergonomics of a climbing shoe; specifically, overcoming the need for excessive tightness often causing permenant foot deformation. In conjunction with a sports physio, it was concluded that climbers often preferred a painfully tight shoe due to a lifting and correspondant strengthening of the plantarfascia ligament group in the arch. Inspired by a strapping method used in plantarfascia injury, a design was prototyped and trialled with promising results.
DEvelopmental sketches - A project focused on improving the ergonomics of a climbing shoe; specifically, overcoming the need for excessive tightness often causing permenant foot deformation. In conjunction with a sports physio, it was concluded that climbers often preferred a painfully tight shoe due to a lifting and correspondant strengthening of the plantarfascia ligament group in the arch. Inspired by a strapping method used in plantarfascia injury, a design was prototyped and trialled with promising results.
Developmental Sketches
Influential Strapping Method
Ergo Diagram
Development
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Climbing Shoe