THE BRUSH SPIKE - Banned Track Shoes!

Puma's 1968 Model No. 296 "Brush Spikes"
Banned Track and Field Shoes

In the months before the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, the Track and field landscape changed significantly with the transition from dirt tracks to Tartan tracks, which are the rubbery synthetic track surfaces that we have today. To take advantage of this, Puma unveiled a new track spike specifically designed for the new surface, using 68 micro spikes instead of the 4 to 6 larger steel spikes that had been used previously. Only 500 were prototyped and 100 of these were shipped off to the United States to be worn by Puma's Top athletes at the US Olympic Trials at Echo Summit, South Lake Tahoe California. Almost immediately, the Men's 200m and Men's 400m World Records were broken using these shoes, but were just as quickly banned from being used at the 1968 Olympics and then those world records were erased and declared invalid.

Adidas was also working on their own version of the shoe called "The Quill" which featured 42 micro spikes but it wasn't ready before the Olympics and so speculation suggested that Adidas colluded with the IAAF and IOC to get Puma's "Brush Spike" Banned.


Puma Catchup Article:
https://www.puma-catchup.com/the-forb...
Sports Illustrated Article:
https://www.si.com/track-and-field/20...

There is a Pair for sale online Here:
https://gspawn.com/products/two-1968-...

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EPISODE 10:
This is the 10th addition to: THE BANNED TECHNIQUE series where we look at unorthodox or banned techniques used in Track and Field.

Be sure to check out my other videos in the Banned Techniques Series about the Long Jump Somersault, Backflip High Jump, Steadying the Bar in Pole Vault, the Spinning Technique in Javelin, the cartwheeling shotput and more.

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