Yes! I took some photos of my SHB88, 92EX and 95Ex yesterday as I was quite free yesterday! Here's the SHB 88 side view....
currently i'm still scouting for another pair of badminton shoes and this yonex tweak my eyes. Does anyone in HK knows a shop which sell this (yonex power cushion 890 mid)
2 pairs I just got two pairs. a) Nike cross trainers (used for over a year specifically for badminton) b) Winex CF-909 (similar to Yonex SHB-80) - brand new. just got it from Taiwan as an evaluation pair and I've been wearing it around the house for the past few days to break in the shoes. My wife thought that I had gone crazy.
My biggest gripe about badminton shoes Is the lack of rubber/sole material next to the side/diagonal front of the big toe (this really needs a picture Basically, the way I was taught to move to the front of the court, the last step is a lunge with your racquet leg, whilst dragging the non-racquet foot on the ground behind you in a chasse movement. The way I do it, and most others I've seen, means that it's not the bottom of the non-raquet shoe that's worn, it's the side area. This has lead to the anomaly that whilst the sole of my shoe has held up fine, all the harder, outer rubber around the big toe has worn through to the white, softer rubber underneath. Okay I'll get round to posting a pic of this hopefully, may be hard to understand from the explanation.
I don't know which shop in HK sells it but I must admit that I am quite interested in purchasing this shoe as well (Hmmm....). Saw this shoe in the Japan Yonex website quite some time ago. So far of all the shoes that I've tried (SHB 88 not included as I've not tried it yet!), SHB 95EX is the most comfortable. SHB 92EX is pretty good but it's not as wide as the 95EX.
Pecheur sounds like your footwork technique is proper for MS but shouldn't be wearing it down so fast if your were playing doubles. For my nike, i extended my shoes life by having a shoesmith to stitch in a thick leather patch over the side toe area of the shoes. If you do your lunge in MS, maybe try to not drag your non-racquet foot too much. You need to practice a bit on this.
I currently wear basketball shoes for badminton and it works really well for me. I'm wearing Nike Zoom Flight Turbine, it's a very unconventional shoes that I think works really well for badminton. Since I just came back from a 7 year break, I figure not getting injured is my number 1 priority. Check the shoes out the next time you visit a shoe store, you'll be surprise how comfortable it really is. But most of my friend think it's too shiny, as they complaint that the reflection off the shoes distract them, haha.
Erm I don't think your should wear basketball shoes for badminton in any case.... It's also not designed for all those dragging of non racket foot when lunging forwards etc.
I guess since I'm playing mostly doubles right now (no place to train for singles), the foot dragging problem is not too severe. When I was playing single, I just put a piece of thick duck tape to make the shoes last longer.
Gosh, really, someone can really open a store for that. Most of dealers in US don't have that much in stock, I think (always limited model and limited size available) I always use my cross_training shoes to play. Poor me...
2 pairs of actual badminton shoes. Yonex SHB-571 and a no name brand, which I love but don't the whereabouts of.
i collect adidas shoes....13 pairs of them as for badminton shoe i only have 1 pair .......it's a pair of new balance.can't remember the model though! think i'd rather collect rackets than badminton shoes!
Re: My biggest gripe about badminton shoes I know exactly what you mean. For me, the best badminton shoes I ever had were called Adidas Volley, and were actually volleyball shoes. Besides being light and having the full herringbone tread pattern I liked, they were reinforced around the front as if they were designed for people like us.
i had a pair of adidas, that was back in the early 90s. (i don't think they are the volley, but may be, can't remember anymore) the toe area was completely covered with suede leather like material. i used to play in a gym that has this rough carpet like floor, very abrasive, after a whole year with those shoes, the sole on the toe area was completely worn in, there were nothing else, but the suede leather was still intact, if not, i would be rubbing my toes against the floor! and also they are very comfortable. i have never had problems with blisters then. pity that pair of shoes got lost in moving.
