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CounterKicks Interviews: Adam & Ryan Goldston ЁC Athletic Propulsion Labs Founders (Part 1 of 2)
Athletic Propulsion Labs is the newest entrant to the athletic footwear industry and they come with a special pitch: The first performance basketball shoe designed to instantly increase a playerЎҜs vertical leap. Led by 23-year-old twin brothers Adam and Ryan Goldston and backed by decades worth of sneaker industry insiders, the pair have set out to establish Athletic Propulsion Labs as the ultra high-end performance wing of the footwear world. Launching with the $300 priced APL Concept 1 shoe exclusively sold at http://APLbasketball.com, the GoldstonЎҜs are aiming high and want to take your feet along for the ride. Continue reading for Part 1 of 2 in our in-depth interview with Adam and Ryan Goldston, Athletic Propulsion Labs FoundersЎӯ
(*UPDATE: Read PART 2 of our APL interview right now.)
Counter Kicks: Introduce yourselves to our readers.
Adam Goldston: We both grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from the University of Southern California. We played basketball for USC under Tim Floyd. And then for a brief time we played football for Coach Carroll there as well.
We were brought up in and around the athletic footwear industry. Our dad was a top executive at Reebok, L.A. Gear, and worked with Converse as well. A lot of people who look at APL donЎҜt know that we have this company experience because we have our dad and a lot of the people that he worked with have been mentoring us since we were young. We always hung out with our dad in his office growing up and met all of his executives and friends, so weЎҜve been in this industry from a young age.
Our dad, since he was a top executive at Reebok, he helped work on the Pump and Energy Return System (ERS). When he worked for L.A. Gear he was responsible for the lighted shoes. He patented a lot of technologies by himself and heЎҜs been teaching us about the footwear industry for many years. The education is actually invaluable because you canЎҜt learn that in school or anywhere else, you just have to get that from first hand experience.
So, about three years ago we decided that we wanted to create the most innovative athletic footwear company ever and it would be centered around breakthrough technology designed to dramatically increase athletic performance and hopefully vertical leap, which we achieved. ThatЎҜs a little bit about us.
CK: So growing up you lived around the Boston area when your dad worked at Reebok?
Ryan Goldston: Yeah, we were actually born in New York and when we were one and a half years old our dad took a job at Reebok where he was the Chief Marketing Executive of the company. So we moved to Boston, and he worked on the Pump, Hexalite, and all those technologies. We used to get to see everything early. Then when we were five years old we moved out to Los Angeles and thatЎҜs when he took a job at L.A. Gear.
And actually, Adam and I were the first ones that tested the L.A. Gear Lights. It was because of us that the lights for the little kids moved from the back of the shoe to the side of the shoe because my dad brought us back some samples and we were walking around the house and we couldnЎҜt see our lights. So we kept asking to each other, Ў°Can you see my lights?! I canЎҜt see them!Ўұ And Adam would say the same thing to me. So we were telling our dad this and thatЎҜs when he got the idea that you should move the lights for the kids from the back to the side whereas for the adults you could keep them on the back. So itЎҜs funny little stories like that which weЎҜve been involved in with the industry since we were little kids. We used to test out the products for Converse for the little kids and for L.A. Gear so weЎҜve been involved with it since a young age.
CK: ThatЎҜs one of the things you wonder about a new company ЁC where theyЎҜre coming from or what their background is, so itЎҜs interesting to hear your dad was in the industry and you guys were around it growing up.
A. Goldston: Yeah, some of the guys that are part of our team now, weЎҜve known since such a young age that theyЎҜve been helping us and theyЎҜve had industry experience for 20 or 30 plus years. And so, weЎҜre young guys in the industry but weЎҜre surrounded by people that are seasoned veterans that have been involved with Nike, Reebok, adidas, and all these companies so we really have great experience on our side.
Since we played basketball at a high level, we know about the performance aspects and what players expect and things of that nature. So we used our playing experience along with their technical experience to build a new product. And also, we worked on the APL patent for a long, long time. ItЎҜs something that weЎҜve always been interested in because my brother and I, especially me though, have always been obsessed with vertical leap. ThatЎҜs all I cared about when I was playing basketball. I could always shoot the ball, dribble, and do all that but all I really cared about was being able to jump higher. I did Air Alert and Jumpsoles and all of that stuff works but you have to put in so much effort to be able to get the results that you hoped you could achieve. So we had always wanted to create something that instantly made you jump higher. That was always my goal. I was always like, Ў°Man, I wish I could just put on some shoes and jump like Lil Bow Wow did in Like Mike.Ўұ Ours arenЎҜt that much of an increase, like 5 feet in the movie, but they will increase your vertical leap because thatЎҜs what theyЎҜre designed to do. ThereЎҜs never been anyone else to do what we did. ItЎҜs real exciting stuff for us over here at APL.
CK: As a new brand, what is Athletic Propulsion Labs all about?
R. Goldston: Our company, APL, is singularly focused on creating world class, high performance athletic footwear products that are unlike anything thatЎҜs ever been seen in the industry. WeЎҜre beginning with the launch of our basketball shoe line and our goal is to do something in the category thatЎҜs never been achieved before. WeЎҜve been wanting to create a shoe that makes you jump higher. ThereЎҜs been the Jumpsoles, thereЎҜs been the Air Alerts, and there have always been products that allow you to train to jump higher. We wanted to create a shoe that made you jump higher instantly. Our goal is to constantly strive to develop innovative products featuring the highest quality materials, workmanship, and that will make you jump higher. ThatЎҜs really our mission and our goal, is helping you jump higher.
WeЎҜre trying to be like the Ferrari or Lamborghini of the footwear industry. We want to create something thatЎҜs exclusive, thatЎҜs got great materials, and is based on fine-tuned engineering. When we designed the shoes, it wasnЎҜt designed with a specific price in mind. We wanted to create something that really was revolutionary, so we didnЎҜt want to reverse engineer anything. We really just wanted to create the most expensive shoe that we could so we didnЎҜt even sacrifice cutting corners anywhere. Whether it was the upper, outsole, midsole, sockliner, or anything. And especially with the Load Ў®N Launch technology. We spent so much time choosing materials, engineering it, and constantly making changes because our goal was to make you jump higher. So thatЎҜs pretty much the goal of our brand and our company. Our mission statement is to create a basketball shoe that instantly makes you jump higher ЁC and thatЎҜs what we did.
CK: Where did the idea originally come from for the APL Concept 1 shoe?
A. Goldston: We began thinking about the creation of the company back in 2007 to 2008. When we created the branding of Athletic Propulsion Labs, we immediately knew that we had come upon something really unique and special. After that, we started working with trademark lawyers and we registered the trademark in many countries around the world while we began conceptualizing the basketball line. So we wanted to create a basketball shoe that was unlike anything anybodyЎҜs ever made before. We worked with an amazing group of footwear experts and advisors for the company and then internally we began to develop the technology and shoe design concept around the promise of creating the first shoe that would actually instantly increase your vertical leap. Because thatЎҜs all that we wanted: Increase vertical leap, increase vertical leap, increase vertical leap. We knew that we needed to have a niche to enter the basketball shoe market because if we came in competing with an adidas, or a Nike, or even a Reebok, that we would get slaughtered. For new companies, unless you have a truly amazing concept or technology or something, you canЎҜt break in. Nike came out with the waffle sole, Under Armour came out with moisture wicking fabrics for their clothing line ЁC so you need to have something powerful to make a statement and thatЎҜs what we wanted to do with the Concept 1.
Our shoe design and fabrication was inspired by two of the most exotic automobiles: the Pagani Zonda and Koenigsegg CCXR. TheyЎҜre both million dollar plus carbon fiber bodied supercars. ThatЎҜs what we wanted to create our brand around. We wanted to use carbon fiber and expensive materials, and materials that appeared to look exotic and things of that nature. So we wanted to engineer our shoes to be like the cars ЁC super high performance. And that was our basic premise for the company, everything is super high performance. The Concept 1 shoe is designed to be the best playing shoe possible and everyone thatЎҜs worn our shoe swears by it now. We utilized styling that makes a strong statement about those who can purchase our shoes because itЎҜs so exclusive and it is so expensive. And the amount of time and effort that went into selecting the design, the materials, and working on our device in Concept 1 is reflected in the product weЎҜre introducing.
CK: Talk about the new Load Ў®N Launch technology in the shoe.
R. Goldston: People for decades have been hoping that they could get a basketball shoe that would instantly make them jump higher or give them a competitive advantage on the court. Our company slogan Ў°Stop Dreaming. Jump Higher.Ўұ basically says that weЎҜve created something that you can stop dreaming and jump higher. And it also translates to the basketball court in other areas because youЎҜre lighter on your feet, you feel like you can move better, and youЎҜre more explosive and thatЎҜs really what we were going for. And weЎҜve been working on the development of this revolutionary, patent-pending technology for 2-3 years now. WeЎҜve gone through numerous rounds of development, working prototypes, and engineering refinements to get where we are today which is a shoe that makes you jump higher.
The Load Ў®N Launch technology device is placed in the forefoot, just in front of the ball of the foot and the flex zone. The technology features a propulsion device that compresses in the Ў°loadЎұ phase and then releases in the Ў°launchЎұ phase to help drive the athlete upward. This will provide the wearer with greater velocity and height than the conventional basketball shoe. And thatЎҜs basically the bread and butter of our shoe ЁC the compression in the load phase, and the release in the launch phase. ThatЎҜs really how the device works. The second you put on the shoe, you feel as though you have a powerful piece of athletic technology under your foot. It would be similar to sitting in the supercars that Adam talked about and youЎҜd feel the torque and horsepower the second youЎҜre in the car. You know when you put on our shoe that the shoeЎҜs going to make you jump higher. ItЎҜs just one of those feelings. You can feel the device and you can see the device on the bottom, so it really adds to the perception that this shoe is going to make you jump higher.
CK: Are you able to talk about the Load Ў®N Launch device from a technical level? Is it a mechanical type of system inside? What exactly is in the forefoot that makes up the Load Ў®N Launch technology?
A. Goldston: Actually, itЎҜs an extremely complicated device because we spent a lot of time engineering it. I canЎҜt give you the actual, I want to say Ў°ingredientsЎұ, of the device yet because the patent isnЎҜt available to the public, but once it is, you can dissect it almost. ItЎҜs a bunch of different components combined to make one device which we call Load Ў®N Launch. We also have a shank throughout the shoe that helps transfer energy from the heel to the forefoot to help maximize the Load Ў®N Launch technology.
Once our shoe is released and the patent goes through with the patent office, itЎҜll be readily available for anybody to look at it, but until then weЎҜre not giving out specifics of the device. But as you can see in our SLAM Magazine ad and other pictures of the shoes, you can see the device on the outsole of the shoe. You can look inside and get a gist of whatЎҜs in there but the actual materials and the technical stuff we canЎҜt go into too much until the patent goes through.
CK: How does the Load Ў®N Launch technology know or differentiate between an intended vertical leap and, say, hard running or sharp cuts on court where the athlete might not want that added upward boost?
A. Goldston: IЎҜm actually happy you asked this question because it makes me feel like you really understand our technology. A lot of people ask me that question and they donЎҜt really know how to phrase that question or will say, Ў°Does it really work?Ўұ or Ў°WonЎҜt you always feel like youЎҜre walking on a diving board?Ўұ When you differentiate between cuts and the actual vertical leap, that makes me feel like you really understand it.
The Load Ў®N Launch technology is engineered to respond to direct downward pressure which releases as the athlete rises off the ground. It doesnЎҜt respond to horizontal cuts or things of that nature because when a player makes a hard cut on the court, theyЎҜre not engaging the load phase and therefore they do not experience the launch phase. Our device works in two phases. You have to load it, which comes from direct downward pressure ЁC it doesnЎҜt come from lateral or side pressure ЁC you have to put direct pressure on the device to make it release and give you the launch. Once you load it and then you launch is when you get the bounce up and you have to put your complete forefoot down on the device. And usually when you make a cut in basketball, itЎҜs usually on the inward part of your first metatarsal or big toe and so you donЎҜt put enough pressure on the Load Ў®N Launch technology to make it engage so you really donЎҜt have to worry about it. Even though you do feel a bounce when youЎҜre playing, itЎҜs a positive bounce, itЎҜs not an unstable bounce.
Imagine you were riding a bike and someone was pushing you on your back to make you go faster, thatЎҜs what it feels like when youЎҜre playing basketball in the Concept 1 and youЎҜre not engaging the device. It just feels like you have an extra bounce in your step. ItЎҜs actually a great feeling and everyone that has tested our shoes has pointed out that they feel like they have almost twice as much energy, they say, because they have so much more explosion in their steps, even when the device isnЎҜt engaged. Just playing in the shoes and having the device there makes everyone feel more confident.
CK: From the people who have wear tested the Concept 1 so far, do you have maybe an average measurement of the added extra vertical you would receive from the shoe?
R. Goldston: Everyone thatЎҜs worn the shoes has jumped higher. One of the main things that weЎҜve noticed and theyЎҜve noticed is the more and more you wear the shoes, the more used to you get to the jumping motion thatЎҜs necessary for the shoes to fully propel yourself up. So itЎҜs one of those things where over time youЎҜre almost steadily increasing the vertical from it while wearing the shoes, of course. ThereЎҜs been people who have gotten as high as 3.5 to 4 inches. And thereЎҜs times when Adam puts on the shoes where he gets as high as 5 inches. ThereЎҜs an exit sign at the gym we both work out at constantly that looks like itЎҜs gotta be at least 11 feet. Before Adam had APLЎҜs on, he couldnЎҜt come close to touching it but after constantly wearing the shoes and getting used to the jumping process and how the technology works, he can with ease touch the sign whenever he wants now. WeЎҜve seen those kinds of results with the people that have worn the shoes. The longer they wear the shoes, the more used to they get to the technology, the better the Load Ў®N Launch technology works and the more it propels you up.
A. Goldston: Yeah, IЎҜm barely 6 feet tall, if IЎҜm lucky.
CK: Have you had any thought about Ў°tuningЎұ the Load Ў®N Launch technology perhaps for different shoe models so that you can increase the boost of the vertical leap? Like if you wanted to create a shoe with double the propulsion for someone that specifically wants to dunk in the shoes that canЎҜt otherwise.
A. Goldston: The device can do that, and we have the potential to do that I believe, but I donЎҜt think weЎҜll be going there anytime soon. The device that we created for the Load Ў®N Launch technology, the one that will be releasing, is the staple of our product line so I think we want to try to keep it steady and always use the same device. We canЎҜt see into the future but as for right now, the only device weЎҜll be promoting for the basketball line is the Load Ў®N Launch technology thatЎҜs releasing right now.
CK: How did the overall shoe design and technology come together? How was it designed and who was all involved in that?
R. Goldston: As we mentioned before, weЎҜve been around the footwear industry for a long time. WeЎҜve had the benefit of meeting and talking to tons of people that our dad has worked with. So, the way we got in touch with one of the designers was through a previous relationship. His name is Tuan Le who runs Breitenbush Design [and was the original creator of the And1 Tai Chi, among his publicly known footwear designs]. Once we met Tuan, we explained the mission of the company and what we hoped to accomplish with the Concept 1. As soon as we told him about it, his mind started racing and he was just throwing designs at us left and right. In fact, the way Tuan creates his designs is all by hand. He doesnЎҜt use the computer. So every time we wanted to make a subtle change, Tuan re-did the whole drawing which was pretty incredible.
Once we did that, we eventually came to a few different designs that we were set on and then went through the sample process. From there, Adam and I made our own tweaks to the design. We added a couple things you see on the shoe such as the green piping and the translucent outsole. And then we wanted to make sure that the Load Ў®N Launch technology would really fit in with the shoe and make you jump higher. That took many rounds to get the propulsion mechanism and the materials used in the device to the point where it was ideally suited to increase the vertical leap on indoor and outdoor basketball courts. Once we had created a device that was delivering an instant increase, thatЎҜs when we really started to look at the materials for the shoe, from the carbon fiber on it to the rebound EVA midsole, to the crystal rubber outsole. It was things like that which we started to do at the end, but we really started at the beginning with just brainstorming a bunch of different designs and explaining the things that really attracted Adam and I to the industry and to the designs and materials that we liked. We showed Tuan the Pagani Zonda and the Koenigsegg CCXR and we showed him how we loved the carbon fiber ones which were the super expensive, super exclusive ones, and we made it clear that that was how we wanted the imagery of our company to look. And once we really got a shoe that we believed embodied that imagery, thatЎҜs when we created our production model.
CK: When exactly did initial work on the Concept 1 shoe begin?
A. Goldston: We had to do the device first. The device was the thing that took the majority of the time the first two years. Then around last March is when the APL Concept 1 basketball shoe went into development. So I would say roughly a year. The design phase was intense and the engineering requirements for Concept 1 were unlike virtually any other development process for a basketball shoe. The Load Ў®N Launch device is so critical to the overall construction and performance of the shoe so the combination of a performance last, high tech materials, and vertical leap improvement generated the APL Concept 1 shoe and thatЎҜs what makes the shoe so different from anything else. Incorporating all of those different things into one is what made it so difficult so if we wouldnЎҜt have had the Load Ў®N Launch technology developed first and the way we wanted to implement it, I donЎҜt even know how long it would have taken us to come up with Concept 1. It was so hard to design the shoe around the device because most of the time when you think about shoe technology, itЎҜs something thatЎҜs relatively thin in the heel or something like that, so our technology being a predominant force in the forefoot is what made the shoe hard to design for. But itЎҜs also what makes our shoe different from any other basketball shoe.
CK: How long ago did the Load Ў®N Launch technology start to develop?
A. Goldston: The concept for the technology started roughly a year prior to when the designs were generated. So around March 2008. But the actual technology itself started to generate around March 2009 and thatЎҜs when all the design concepts for the actual uppers and everything started to come together. From that point weЎҜve gone on and changed certain aspects of it but thatЎҜs really when we started the process of getting in the working prototypes that we could use and test and evaluate.
CK: How long did it take to get to the final production version of the Concept 1? And how long have people been wear testing the shoe for to date?
A. Goldston: You know, the wear testing process has gone on for quite a few months. IЎҜd say itЎҜs been roughly 8-10 months that weЎҜve been wear testing the shoes and evaluating everything. ItЎҜs really picked up within the past 6 months in terms of wear testing and constantly getting new samples, fine tuning the uppers, fine tuning the technology, thatЎҜs when it really picked up because we made some substantial changes to the upper. We made it much more supportive and a higher performing shoe. And so we wanted to see how it worked with different sockliners, different linings, different materials. We were using all types of different forms of materials to really see what would give the consumer the best performing shoe and the best looking shoe. So, within the past 6-7 months itЎҜs really, really picked up. WeЎҜve been having people wear test the shoes since then on a pretty regular basis with a bunch of different results coming from it.
R. Goldston: And the best part is that from every single sample run, we had better and better results. If you look at the results from the first sample run to our last confirmation sample testing, the results are unbelievable how much better they are because our shoes just continually became so much better and now itЎҜs not comparable to any other shoe on the market.
CounterKicks Interviews: Adam & Ryan Goldston ЁC Athletic Propulsion Labs Founders (Part 2 of 2)
The final Part 2 interview with Athletic Propulsion Labs founders Adam and Ryan Goldston is here. The 23-year-old twin brothers revealed their deep industry backstory and ground breaking shoe in Part 1 of our interview with the company. Now, we now take a deeper look behind the aspirations and overarching vision of the newest entrant to the athletic footwear industry that brings with it the first performance basketball shoe designed to instantly increase your vertical leap. The high end, $300 priced APL Concept 1 shoe (sold exclusively at http://APLbasketball.com) is looking to break ground in a variety of ways and the GoldstonЎҜs want to let you know all about it. Continue reading for Part 2 in our final in-depth interview with Adam and Ryan Goldston, Athletic Propulsion Labs FoundersЎӯ
Counter Kicks: WhatЎҜs the initial retail strategy for the APL line?
Ryan Goldston: The APL line will be sold exclusively on our website which is at http://APLbasketball.com. We know it seems a bit unusual not to be selling APL in the conventional athletic footwear stores but we really want to control the user experience and make sure that everyone is seeing the shoe in the same presentation and getting the full description of the product, our Load Ў®N Launch technology, and the results achieved in our vertical leap testing. We just donЎҜt want to take the chance that someone sees our shoe in a store and doesnЎҜt really understand the brand, what weЎҜre trying to represent, and just what an incredible shoe and invention this is. So, if people want to buy the APL shoes and instantly experience what itЎҜs like to increase their vertical leap on the court theyЎҜre going to have to go to our website at http://APLbasketball.com
Adam Goldston: At the end of the day, what weЎҜre really doing ЁC and it sounds crazy ЁC but weЎҜre selling a dream. First and foremost, we had a great invention before we even had a basketball shoe company or a basketball shoe idea. We had a great invention and itЎҜs basically selling somebody their dream. Everybody wants to jump higher. Everybody goes up and wants to be able to dunk, or to dunk like Michael Jordan, LeBron, Kobe, and all those guys. So, weЎҜre selling somebody a dream with our invention.
Ryan Goldston: And to piggyback on top of that, there was actually an article published in the Wall St. Journal that compared how high people were jumping to college scholarships they got. And thereЎҜs two different thresholds in which there was a 1.5 to 2 inch difference with I think 15 percent more people that could jump the two inches higher in both of the thresholds having the higher likelihood of receiving a college basketball scholarship. And 2 inches is a huge difference when it comes to playing basketball. If you can get 2 inches from spending $300 on a pair of basketball shoes that can increase your chances of getting a college scholarship that much higher, according to this study, you could potentially be getting a way greater benefit and reward from spending this $300 that you couldnЎҜt get in other areas. So thatЎҜs another thing that really contributes to what weЎҜre saying in our slogan Ў°Stop Dreaming. Jump Higher.Ўұ
CK: Have you performed any scientific tests on the Load Ў®N Launch technology thatЎҜs in the Concept 1 shoe?
R. Goldston: Yes, we tested our APL Concept 1 shoe at a leading west coast universityЎҜs biomechanics lab. We tested the Concept 1 against another leading brandЎҜs high performance shoe to measure whether APLЎҜs shoe made you jump higher and allowed you to do so without exerting as much force. We had two biomechanics PhDЎҜs who specialize in vertical leap conduct the testing using both a vertec and Kistler Force Plates, which cost between $50,000-100,000 each.
We chose to use a vertec because it is the system that is used both at the NBA and NFL combines to measure vertical leap and we chose to use the Kistler Force Plates because they are considered the gold standard within the scientific community when measuring vertical leap. The results from the test proved that APL Concept 1 shoe provided significant increases in vertical leap and allowed the subjects to jump higher using considerably less energy. Some of the subjects experienced as much as a 3.5 inch increase on their vertical leap. Within the confines of the biomechanics lab, 12 of the 13 participants jumped higher in APL shoes and none of the participants were world class athletes either. This was truly a groundbreaking test and solidifies our claim that APL shoes are designed to make you jump higher instantly. The report we received from the two biomechanics PhDЎҜs confirmed this and stated that there was a statistically significant increase in vertical leap instantly.
In addition, the two biomechanics PhDЎҜs discovered that the more the subjects jumped in the shoes, the higher they were able to jump. This is a result of getting used to the proper form and technique needed to properly engage the Load Ў®N Launch technology which sits in the forefoot of the shoe. We noticed the same thing with our product testers as well.
CK: Would you guys like to be looked on as a niche brand or do you have a bigger plan in mind for APL?
R. Goldston: You know, we really want to carve out a niche right now which is the performance basketball shoe that makes you jump higher. Because weЎҜre based on performance and thatЎҜs what we intended when we created the name of the company.
Having said that, one day, we would love to potentially expand and become a bigger company. In late 2011, weЎҜre looking to hopefully move into running shoes and create a shoe where you can Ў°stop dreaming, run faster.Ўұ So weЎҜre looking to eventually expand but weЎҜre really trying to focus on the niche that weЎҜre in right now, create the best possible product we can, and make a shoe that everyone really appreciates and makes them jump higher.
CK: Was there ever any thought at the beginning of simply licensing your technology to another footwear company instead of creating your own shoe and brand around it?
A. Goldston: No, we never wanted to license it. When you have something revolutionary, you want to keep it close to your chest. ItЎҜs like, would you give your baby to someone else to raise? So thatЎҜs the way we felt. We felt we could build the brand the best because itЎҜs so close to us. We had an idea of how we wanted the company to be when we started it and no other company could do it the way we wanted to do it, so that never crossed our mind on licensing the technology.
CK: What colorways in the APL Concept 1 can we expect? Is there any significance to the initial White/Black/Green and Black/Green launch colorways of the shoe?
A. Goldston: White/Black/Green and Black/Green are our main colors. Initially when we were coming up with the colors for the brand, Ryan said that he really liked this shocking green color which is our APL green. We were all gung ho for it but we didnЎҜt know if we could actually build a brand around that color. Once we started making cards and just started figuring where it could go on the shoes we started to say, Ў°Ok, we really could use this color and have it as our staple color.Ўұ
So, the colors weЎҜve always used since the beginning were White/Black/Green and Black/White/Green and things of that nature so we wanted our first two shoes to be that color. And we now have Cody Harris whoЎҜs the head of our graphic design and heЎҜs a wizard when it comes to coming up with colors of shoes. HeЎҜs been working on a lot of stuff with us and weЎҜve been shooting ideas back and forth with him. WeЎҜre not sure exactly which colors weЎҜre going to release in the future but we do have a lot of great ones. We have this White/Black/Red and Black/White/Red shoe that is crazy with the materials we used for that one and the way it shows up on the shoe, it looks great. Maybe one day, an all APL green shoe as a super exclusive or something like that. We have a lot of options because we have Cody on staff now.
CK: Talk a little about the materials you used on the upper of the APL Concept 1.
A. Goldston: ItЎҜs a mix between a carbon fiber material and a synthetic material thatЎҜs used on the eyerows. Then thereЎҜs the piping which is not a carbon fiber material but itЎҜs accented in our APL green color so we really create a brand image and itЎҜs something that you can notice everywhere. And when you see the color, we want you to connect that with APL.
CK: WhatЎҜs the pricing and sizing youЎҜre offering in the Concept 1?
A. Goldston: The shoe is $300 and weЎҜre offering them in size 8-12, 13, and 14.
CK: What are the plans for additional APL models in the near future?
A. Goldston: We have several APL basketball designs that weЎҜll select from for future product launches. We intend to market the APL Concept 1 shoe for this season and establish it as the gold standard in high performance basketball shoes. The intricate details of the shoe design and technology combined with the fact that the APL brand is completely new to the market will make the Concept 1 shoe a style that will forever be remembered as the shoe that helped change the performance basketball market.
So, we have a bunch of other designs in our pocket. WeЎҜve worked on them and theyЎҜre ready to go but what we really want to do is concentrate on Concept 1 right now and after thatЎҜs established and recognized, then weЎҜll release our other models.
R. Goldston: When going through the development phase, weЎҜve been developing 3-4 different other models of shoes that have all been tested to this point, so we know that the technology works. WeЎҜre choosing to release with Concept 1 but we do have some great looking shoes that we could potentially release soon afterwards.
CK: WhatЎҜs the initial marketing strategy you guys have planned on getting the word out on the APL brand and the Concept 1 shoe?
A. Goldston: Well, initially we just want to create it in the viral market. We started off with grassroots so that everybody has to hear about us through the Internet since we will be selling on the Internet. We have ads in SLAM Magazine as well. We think that the majority of our customers are going to find out about us through blogs like Counter Kicks. So, weЎҜre going about it in a grassroots type of way. ItЎҜs all viral right now basically besides our ads in SLAM Magazine. The main marketing strategy is to do it through the Internet because everybody is on the Internet now. ThatЎҜs the easiest, most inexpensive way to spread the word on your company is to do it through the Internet and the viral market is powerful. You see the way people work themselves into a frenzy over shoes like when Nike releases things at House of Hoops and stuff like that. They donЎҜt have marketing strategies, people just hear about them on the Internet, everybody goes crazy, and it just keeps building and building like a snowball effect. WeЎҜre hoping thatЎҜs what happens with us, except our shoes do live up to the hype.
R. Goldston: And like what Adam said, weЎҜre also not sponsoring any athletes right now because we want our shoe to be the hero. If you look at our 3 and 4 page spreads in SLAM Magazine, the product is the hero. We focus specifically on the product and we want people to see the shoe from different angles and really get the idea that our shoe makes you jump higher. So, from a marketing perspective, we always want to keep in mind that our shoe is the hero. Not the people or athletes that are endorsing it, but the shoe and the technology.
CK: How did you guys feel personally when you created this new technology and the Concept 1 shoe, and how it all came together? How do you guys feel about the whole process of it so far with launching your own brand?
A. Goldston: Literally, I promise you the most exciting thing in my life that happened was the day that I tested the shoe the first time. I was standing in the kitchen when we got the shoes and I put the shoes on and I touched a part of the kitchen that IЎҜve never touched before. That was honestly the greatest feeling of satisfaction that IЎҜve ever had. IЎҜve just been so anxious along with my brother to just release our shoes because we worked so hard. ThereЎҜs a lot of things that you donЎҜt see in companies when shoes release. Like I remember Ryan sat in front of the computer screen, I want to say, 18 hours a day working on Photoshop and colors. He did it for probably two weeks straight and IЎҜm not a Photoshop whiz like Ryan so I had to sit next to him and he had to wear those Gunnar glasses so he wouldnЎҜt go blind. He just sat in front of the screen 18 hours a day doing color after color after color. Now that we actually have the product that weЎҜre going to release and we can hold it and feel the material and go play basketball and then answer questions about them, itЎҜs just such a feeling of satisfaction for us. We put so much time and effort into it and thereЎҜs a lot of things that will go unseen and unheard that people wonЎҜt ask about but you know that you did to make the company work and come into production.
R. Goldston: Every kid who plays basketball growing up dreams of being in the NBA or having their own basketball shoe, so it almost feels like we have our own basketball shoe because weЎҜve created this brand from scratch, watched it grow throughout the process from designs to the actual company, to the technology, and we have the samples that show the linear progression that weЎҜve had. And so just seeing the progression, we can see the changes that weЎҜve made and itЎҜs gotten to the point where we literally have a full blown, high performance, amazing basketball shoe that we can call our own. ItЎҜs an amazing feeling and itЎҜs really, truly something special.
CK: Any plans to get APL on the feet of a professional athlete or NBA player eventually? Is that something you guys would like to see?
R. Goldson: ItЎҜs certainly not something that weЎҜre ruling out, but like I said before, the product is the hero. If thereЎҜs athletes in the NBA that would love to wear our shoes, weЎҜd love to potentially, if possible, work out a partnership with them. But at this point in time, monetarily, it doesnЎҜt make sense for us to do it especially when weЎҜre trying to sell to people that itЎҜs the product thatЎҜs high performance and not just the person thatЎҜs wearing it. Jason Richardson for example can do an under-the-leg, 180-degree dunk. And whether heЎҜs wearing the shoes or not, he would still be able to do it so itЎҜs not as believable when someone sees him wearing it. So itЎҜs certain things like that which we really want people to understand that the product is the hero, the product works. Having said that, if there got to a point where we really expanded and there were athletes in the NBA that wanted to wear our shoes and we could make it work, itЎҜs certainly something that we may entertain. But as of right now, itЎҜs not in our immediate plans.
CK: What do you guys hope to accomplish with the release of the Concept 1 shoe and the launch of the Athletic Propulsion Labs brand?
R. Goldson: Our goal with the introduction of the Athletic Propulsion Labs brand is to create ultra exclusive product lines for the serious athlete who wants to gain a competitive advantage when playing basketball or engaging in other athletic activities. The athletic footwear market hasnЎҜt seen a brand like Athletic Propulsion Labs before and we intend to be true to our mission on delivering products that will instantly increase the vertical leap of the players who wear them. Most of the well known shoe companies within the industry are huge. They have to create something for everyone. And they sell millions and millions of pairs of basketball shoes. WeЎҜre trying to carve out a niche right now in something that is for people that are serious athletes, or people that want to jump higher, or someone that just wants something thatЎҜs really exclusive because thereЎҜs not going to be very many pairs of our shoes when we come out. So if you want our shoes, you have to go to our website to get them.
Not everyone will have the shoes. ItЎҜs not going to be the type of thing where youЎҜre going to see everyone walking down the street wearing the same shoes as you. You might not ever see anyone wearing the same shoes as you unless you told them about it, so itЎҜs going to be a different experience for the consumer. The Concept 1 basketball shoe is an example of us delivering on our mission, so the main thing is we just wanted to create a basketball shoe that makes you jump higher and we really feel like we accomplished that. And itЎҜs only going to be available at http://APLbasketball.com
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The IOC does not trust Russia to host any sporting event, placing Fifa under more pressure before the 2018 tournament At least one thing became clear on Tuesday as the International Olympic Committee placed Russia's athletes in a holding pattern high above Rio: it does not want – or trust – Russia…Guardian » 11d
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The midfielder, who was part of the Greece team that won the Euros 12 years ago, talks about the secrets of their success and when they started to believe they could win the tournament Twelve years ago Greece stunned everyone by winning the European Championship , lifting the trophy at the Estádio…Guardian » 24d
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16-year-old rising star named in 18-player-squad Experienced defenders Caitlin Cooper and Teigen Allen miss out Matildas coach Alen Stajcic has rewarded youth in naming his eighteen player squad for the Rio Olympics. Youngsters Ellie Carpenter and Chloe Logarzo have been included, reward for…Guardian » 26d
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I was, I believe, wrongly diagnosed with Myasthenia Gravis in July 2014 and given Mestinon. I was extremely sick for the first week of taking Mestinon, but the double vision which first appeared in May 2014 didn't seem so bad. I continued taking the drug until June 2015. Every test for Myasthenia,came back clear including brain scans, chest scans, blood tests and electrodes in my arms, legs an ... Show Full Comment
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I had some leftover fabric from 'Sparsity', so I decided to make a 'Cutie Bell' too! These two are cut from the same cloth (har har)! Her mane and tail are fleece, her body is minky. She's 9.5 inches tall, so she's a little tall to be in proportion with my Rarity, but I think they look sweet together nonetheless. She'll be up for sale as soon as I figure out shipping! What do you people think?
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Hiya Fireflytwinkietoes!! I'm the guy who won Cutie Bell, or as I call her Sweetieplush, from you wayyyy back long ago. Finally joined up on Dev.art, cause I have been wanting to say thanks to all the great artists who I have art on my walls, or in this case, awesome plushness!! Yeah, so Sweetieplush has traveled around since arriving in my home early May 2012 (great packing too!!). She graced the hallowed halls and survived the fire of Bronycon summer of 2012, Canterlot Gardens, Bronycon 2013 and even FanExpo in Toronto. I'm constantly getting rave reviews of "Where did you get that plush!!" And, hope it's not causing you to much stress, I"m forever plugging; "She's from fireflytwinkletoes on deviant art!" hehe Just outstanding craftsmanship, I always try to pose her on a chair for a 'taking in a panel shot' which ever con I am at. At Bronycon 2013, she even went to both concerts, bopping in time to the wubs XD especially during Ultimate Sweetie Belle -_o. Anyways, thanks again, I'm so incredibly honoured to have a plush from you, your work is just incredibly awesome to see.
Haha awesome work. She's so cute. (and I know who bought it, hehe)
Ah, beautiful as always. I really love her cute little horn sticking out.
Thank you! She's up for sale on eBay now, if you're interested or know someone who is
Beautiful Work!
I love sweetie belle! This is so cute!
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Ahaha!I'm glad! I wish I'd made it out of minky rather than fleece, but I didn't have any on hand... Maybe I'll redo her entirely in minky...
minky? what kind of material is that? i saw fleece and they're good to the touch without being too fuzzy
It's the material that most people making custom plush use, because most people really like it. It gives a really smooth finish, and is ridiculously soft. Rarity is made entirely out of minky. If you look up most other professional-looking mlp plush, they're also made of minky. Not only does it look better than fleece, it has several advantages over fleece in how it is to work with. It's more expensive, though.
I see, if its to make it better though i guess it will be worth it, how does minky feel? like furry?
It feels like warm satin - it doesn't actually feel furry, it feels very smooth. It's like the fine fur of a baby kitten. It's quite the lovely fabric to work with, except lint and fluff get everywhere when you cut it
ADORABLE! And nicely sized too.
Wow! She's so adorable!
She looks adorable!
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Special Edition of the Agera S, celebrating the 100th Koenigsegg built : The Hundra, all dressed of carbon fiber and gold leaf. It looks kinda cool, but it's not my favorite.
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it seems the illegal aliens are winning. spanish has become a defacto second official language in this country. everywhere you go its english nd spanish. several states have passed anti-illegal alien ordinances only to have them struck down by the federal courts. alabama passed a law recently and it was struck down by the feds. it seems the federal courts are on the illegals' side. illegal aliens do not have ''constitutional rights. they're not citizens of this country! the obama administration has said they will now only prosecute criminal illegal aliens. that's an oxymoron, since all illegal aliens are by definition criminals. they are breaking the lsw just being here. ths is just a wink and a nod to the hispanic voters that though obama can't get amnesty through congress he will just ignore illegals who aren't dangerous criminals. obama has his own problem with his illegal alien uncle who was ordered out of the country 20 years ago and who was just arrested on a drunk driving charge. the tide certainly seems to be favoring the illegals. in 1954 president dwight eisenhower deported a million illegals in operation wetback. that was the example of a real president. ike was really the last great president we had. reagan amnestied 3 million illegals and both bush and obama favored amnesty for illegals. i would say contact your congressperson but that really would be a futile exercise. congress doesn't listen to the american people. their corporate masters love illegal immigration because it keeps down wages and provides them with cheap labor. there's a reason theborder is open. the government could close he border if they really wanted to. maybe the states and the american people will rise up and do something to stop the illegals. these sorry politicians in washington certainly are not going to do anything.
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We just visited Vermont for Christmas again and had a wonderful time skiing and snowboarding at Okemo. In previous years we have been to Stowe, Bolton, Killington and Smugglers Notch. New favorites are Stowe, and Okemo. What an awesome place to ski at! The slopes were great, the snow was great and lots of it. Vermont is just a beautiful State that I did not want to leave. It's like something out of a postcard.
We visited Vermont several years ago and hiking up Mount Mansfield, the highest mountain in Vermont. We liked the area there so much that at that time we decided to come back in the winter to ski and snowboard. At this point, I like it there so much I would love to move there!!
On the way out of Vermont , we took the ferry across Lake Champlain to get to New York State. It was not running in the winter, so we had to drive around it. The ferry trip was fun. You could see the mountains from the boat, very nice!
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Okemo was one of my favorites next to Killington (well, ok, Stowe too).
Vermont looks beautiful although I would be more inclined towards visiting in summer. Not a huge fan of the cold or snow! :-)
Vermont is among my favourites also. I'd love to see it in winter as I am a big fan of skiing and snow in general.
Being such a lover of snow and skiing I can understand why you would like to move here. There are quite a few people on vt who love their skiing too and could very well take your leads here and holiday in Vermont. Thank you Sophia. Carole.
I like all mountains, and those one are very attractive ! I prefer Summer but in the winter it seems nice too. Lot of pictures (and tips ;-) ) on my Vanoise, Mercantour and Briancon pages. Friendly from flat Belgium, JP
And I'm first here. No worries about a white christmas for you!
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|It's not unusual for women to develop crushes on older men, but the near 20-year age difference between Streisand and Montage did nothing to help the pair's already staggering lack of chemistry
The overall result is a charming musical that is nevertheless strangely choppy and uneven in tone. The film is, at turns, out and out funny, whimsical, stylish, lyrical, and sometimes breathtaking; but it frequently feels like we're watching the combined efforts of artists assigned to do their work without an awareness of one another. Structurally, the film is designed to contrast the past and present, but this duality translates somewhat schizophrenically in the work of the set designers, costumers, and especially the actors. Too much of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever feels and looks as though it were the victim of great deal of editing. Scenes which work stand apart and separate from those more problematic, the sum total never really adding up to a satisfying whole.
|The rooftop set and cast assembled for the Wait Till We're Sixty-Five production number that was filmed (and showed up on promotional stills) but cut out of the completed film
The score (among my favorites) is lushly romantic, but the film itself (a protracted, metaphysical cockblock) has been cast and directed in such a fashion as to render all potential romance undesirable. (Personally, I didn't want Daisy to end up with ANY of her suitors.)
*Roadshow: A popular distribution method for "event" films in the 60s, roadshow films were higher priced, reserved-seat screenings with overtures, intermissions, and exit music. These films were habitually 2 ½ to 4 hours long. They gradually fell out of favor in the late 70s.
|Dr.Chabot hypnotizes Daisy through telepathy
|The Royal Pavilion in Brighton, England features in one of the film's many stunning flashback sequences.
And what a fix it was. Lit to look like a goddess and costumed with decolletage for days, Streisand was a heady dose of 70s-style movie star glamour. On a Clear Day You Can See Forever was the movie that made me fall in love with Streisand (alas, a short-lived romance that ended with 1979s The Main Event) and my personal siren song was her gangbusters delivery of the title tune. I made a point of always being the usher stationed near the doors at the end of each screening just so I could stand inside, flashlight in hand, mouth agape, and wait for her to rattle the crystal on the chandeliers with that final note.Wow! Talk about your goosebumps moment.
|Not sure if this was a wig or her real hair, but this is the look I always associate with Streisand
It's professional, well-done, and definitely enjoyable, but for a musical about mysticism, it's sorely lacking in that intangible kind of charm Minnelli pulled off so beautifully in Meet Me in St. Louis. Perhaps it's impossible to find an actress charismatic enough to be a musical lead, while at the same time, believably bland enough to make a convincing Daisy Gamble. (Streisand's Daisy doesn't really make sense. She's supposed to be a drip but she's the most stylish, funny, and interesting person in the film. She's the only one you want to spend any time with.) Hard to feel that the legendarily meticulous Vincente Minnelli had his heart in this one. He was 63 at the time and while making this film his third marriage was breaking up, and his first wife, Judy Garland, had died.
|"What Did I Have That I Don't Have?"
Streisand's vocal performance and acting on this song is peerless. I've seen it dozens of times and it always gives me waterworks.
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Daisy's recognition and acceptance of her reincarnated self is dramatized in the echoing of her costuming
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I have 2 children from my EX Britney (11-10-92) and Jonathan (4-26-1997) My Dh has one adopted stepson from his EX Billy (7-4-88 ). Me and DH has one child togeather Tylena (6-23-2005) and one on the way due date 4-11-2007. My Dh is in the Army we are stationed at Fort Richardson, AK right now. I am a SHAM.
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Fandom | Rob Salkowitz presents results of a recent survey of convention-goers conducted by the online ticket platform Eventbrite. Interestingly, they found almost complete gender parity (48.9 percent female, 48.7 percent male, and 3.1 percent non-binary/other) among convention-goers in general but much bigger skews in individual categories: "Comics, toys and gaming are predominantly male, while media, anime/manga and sci-fi/fantasy fandom are predominantly female." A typical con-goer spends between $100 an $500, with comics fans being the biggest spenders and prints and original art the most popular thing to buy. There's a lot more detail in the article about what people like and don't like (biggest beef: lack of wi-fi an connectivity in convention centers). The survey updates and expands on a similar survey conducted last year. [ICv2]
Awards | Roz Chast won the Reuben Award for cartoonist of the year, presented over the weekend in Washington, D.C., by the National Cartoonists Society. Divisional award winners of note include Jules Feiffer (Kill My Mother) for Graphic Novel, Jason Latour (Southern Bastards) for Comic Book, Danielle Corsetto (Girls with Slingshots) for Online Comics-Short Form, Minna Sundberg (Stand Still, Stay Silent) for Online Comics-Long Form, Hilary Price (Rhymes with Orange) for Newspaper Panel Cartoon, and Stephan Pastis (Pearls Before Swine) for Newspaper Comic Strip. [National Cartoonists Society]
Auctions | Bids for the $412 check from Detective Comics to Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster that includes a $130 line item for the rights to Superman have already surpassed $31,000 in less than three days at auction on ComicConnect.com. The auction ends April 16. [ABC News, The New York Times]
Creators | Akira creator Katsuhiro Otomo is working on a new series that will run in a Japanese shonen (boys') magazine. [Anime News Network]
Comic strips | Richard Thompson is back on the job at Cul de Sac, with some help from Stacy Curtis, who will be inking the strip. [Cul de Sac]
Digital | Comics by ComiXology has topped Apple's charts as the top-grossing iPad application for the last six Wednesdays. ComiXology cited the launch of DC's New 52 initiative, as well as many other comic companies moving to a same-day digital release schedule, as reasons for its success. "When have comic books, not comic book movies, not comic book merchandise, but the actual comic books been #1 in anything, much less high tech?" comiXology CEO David Steinberger said in a statement. "Being the number one grossing iPad application six Wednesdays in a row isn't just a huge milestone for comiXology, but a huge milestone for comics as a medium … and we could not be prouder." [press release]
Creators | An auction for the naming rights to a character in Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons' The Secret Service raised $5,100 for St. Bartholomew's Primary School, where Millar attended. The money will be used to pay for field trips for the school's students. "I'm a former pupil at St. Bartholomew's and have so many great memories of the place," Millar said. "I know there's not a lot of money in local government at the moment and I was sad to hear that the annual school trip for the children had been cancelled. By establishing this fund, I hope to have a pot the head-teacher can dip into every Christmas and take the entire school to a pantomime every year." [Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser]
Legal | Two Los Angeles men accused of selling counterfeit passes to this year's Comic-Con International have pleaded guilty to theft and were placed on probation for three years. Farhad Lame and Navid Vatankhahan, both 24, were each ordered to pay a $750 fine, complete 10 days of community service and pay restitution to the victims.
Prosecutors say the two photocopied Comic-Con badges and sold them on Craigslist to people looking for last-minute memberships. They were arrested in July after two of their victims attempted to enter the convention using the counterfeit badges, which the women bought for $120 each. [The San Diego Union-Tribune]
Technology | Tech blog Chip Chick names DC Entertainment President Diane Nelson as one of its "Top 13 Women Who Impacted Technology in 2010." [Chip Chick]
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