 got some new running shoes so yesterday I went shopping for some new running shoes much needed and these are the shoes that I came home with and I want to give you guys the first impressions for these two shoes so we're dealing with the A6 Nova Blast that's that one and the Adidas Adi Zero Boston 8 so I'll do reviews on these later and show you guys how they look outside and and all that good stuff but of course first I gotta try them and I haven't and I'm actually heading out for a run right now after this video and I'm gonna do it in this pair so I'll add in a little bit of a commentary after my first run I've been running in minimal drop shoes for a while now started out with you know Vibram 5 fingers and ultra shoes really dedicated to the low drop idea and I think there's a lot of benefits to it later years I've run with Hoka shoes mostly which typically have a drop for from around like three four millimeters up to five or six high drop shoes are more like 10 12 even 14 millimeters of drop and of course if you don't know drop is essentially then the difference between the stack height in the back and the stack height in the front so essentially a zero drop shoe will be completely flat your foot will be flat the more drop you have the more your heel will be elevated relative to your toes and the proposed benefit of this of course is to alleviate some of the stress on your Achilles tendon and since it doesn't have to go as far down with each step as well as other structures in the lower leg so they typically say that if you have a lot of lower leg injuries you should probably go with a higher drop and if you have a lot of knee and hip injuries you should probably go for a lower drop and this is not really substantiated well in the science but running lower says that it's so and I thought well maybe I should experiment a little bit right so I've been having issues with my Achilles tendon lately I'm all my running injuries are always lower leg issues so I thought maybe I'm because I do have very limited ankle mobility and my Achilles tendon is very tight maybe I should try some higher drop shoes right and it's worth trying of course I don't want to go completely over that side because that would probably make my Achilles tendon even shorter so the idea is to have some days with higher drop shoes some days with lower drop shoes maybe even some days with zero drop shoes to give a good balance of it all but I've never tried high drop shoes I thought it's about time I do so these are both 10 millimeters in drop which is the highest drop I've ever tried the A6 nova blast really really love the smell of new shoes really really fresh I like the look pretty lightweight it's it came in at around 300 grams when I waited myself and I put it on yesterday in the shop and it was the most comfortable shoe I've ever put on I think it was just immediately comfortable so let's see how it goes on my run today it's lightweight it's very well cushioned it's a very soft shoe which is what I would like I would like to have one of these soft shoes in my rotation fair it's not very stiff but it's not super flexible either just generally a high mileage shoe I think you've heard a lot of good things about it it'll be interesting to keep this in my rotation I want to I want to change up my running shoes more often I again there's no hard scientific evidence for for the need to change running shoes so often but typically traditionally runners do you know say that you need to change your running shoes often or else you'll get injuries and I don't really want to do that experiment you know to see if I can really push the envelope on how long I can run in a running shoe I think it's better for me to just change it more often maybe every 800 kilometer maybe every thousand kilometers I've run in some shoes like my Hoka bond I've run for almost 2000 kilometers in them I think that's probably a little bit too much so those are the A6 and then there's the Adidas shoe which is a little more of a racing shoe maybe it's pretty light 270 grams I weighted that and it's a little bit stiffer in terms of in terms of the sole that the cushioning doesn't seem to be as soft but that's good so you know I have this shoe for maybe longer runs and easy runs recovery runs and this shoe maybe for like a tempo runs and a little faster running it's pretty cool I like the color I've never tried Adidas I've never tried A6 either so it's it's it's just an interesting experiment this shoe was wide enough for my very wide feet immediately fit me perfectly when I put this on it felt a little bit narrower around around the midfoot which could be a problem for me we'll see eventually I have very wide feet and I sometimes get pain in my little toe joint if I if I have a too narrow of a shoe but I'll just have to experiment that's the only way to find out I'm excited about both shoes they're both 10 millimeter drop they're both pretty light one is a little bit firmer and probably faster kind of other one is a little bit softer and a little bit more of a training mileage shoe without further ado I'm gonna head out and as I said I'll make a review later where I actually show you some cool footage outside today I just want to zone out not do any filming and focus on how the shoe feels all right so it's a few days later I've tried the shoes there are pros and cons to both shoes but quickly bullet point style A6 extremely comfortable very bouncy and springy the foam really gives a lot of energy return you feel like you're just being propelled forward that's really awesome downside it's a little unstable laterally I felt like maybe I was pronating a little bit more I have a weird ankle pain that I'm thinking maybe is due to one or both of these shoes the Adidas definitely more firm didn't feel like a high drop shoe it almost felt like a minimal drop shoe and to be honest I liked the stability of it but I did get that weird pain after running in this shoe and I don't know if it's because I ran in this the morning and this in the afternoon and it's because of both of them or one of them is like sort of a weird ankle pain I'm thinking maybe I'm pronating you know more than usual because of the high drop or because of the soft sole in the A6 shoes causing me some ankle issues I don't know but I hope that it's just adjusting to a new shoe they both feel kind of unfamiliar to what I'm used to I must say I'm a big fan of the A6 more so than the Adidas though like initially it just feels the just that foam feels amazing but as I said it was a little unstable a little weird that's all just wanted to share those thoughts with you guys thanks for watching this video please subscribe if you want to stay tuned to the reviews coming up eventually and I do have other shoe reviews I'll put a link to it somewhere here so you can watch it and of course subscribe leave a comment tell me what shoes you're running in at the moment and if you have any experience with either of these shoes let me know if you feel the same that I do or if you like them or dislike them etc thanks for watching