Somatosensory Perception Of Basketball Shoe Mass

Athletic shoe manufacturers have been marketing increasingly “lightweight” shoes, though it is unclear how well people can perceive shoe mass through their feet. PURPOSE: To determine how accurately subjects could perceive the relative masses of five different, unaltered basketball shoes models using either their feet or their hands. METHODS: Seventeen males (23.8 ± 9.4 years, 180 ± 3.8 cm, 89.2 ± 12.6 kg) participated. The five basketball shoe...