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Let’s not forget the elephant in the room, the turned out Achilles that’s making everyone think these shoes are a mid-top. The tongue in the X is a bit taller and has a more angular design to it, making it fit over the front of your ankle flush and comfortably. There is extra cushioning (high density foam) here now compared to the more minimal bootie of the 9’s. Gone is the piping around the ankle collar and now we have a much more polished looking bootie. The PU material stems down throughout the lace eyelets towards the toes where you’ll find an extra piece of PU leather stitched on. Presumably for ventilation because it doesn’t stretch much. Where the X differs the most in the upper is around the rear quarter, where they removed the Flexweave in place for a stiffer polyurethane backed nylon with some mesh thrown in here and there. Oh and I have to mention the weave is in an X pattern now.
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There’s some overlays on each side of the metatarsals for extra foot containment which make the toebox more narrow than the 9’s a difference you’re sure to feel. It feels a little more comfortable on top of your toes, and like it doesn’t bunch of as much, but it’s a pretty small difference. This years stretch Flexweave is a little more stretchy, though the only way it can really go is up and I don’t really know anyone that picks their toes up when they do things.
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Like I said, I already knew there would be a lot of people that didn’t like the design. I’m not trying to convince anyone to like the way the shoe looks. It’s a little bit retro, a little modern. Pesonally, I like it, but I consider myself to have somewhat eclectic taste in things.
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The appearance of the X is daring it has a lot of concepts going on with it and is a far cry from the plain design of the 8 and 9. When I first saw the Nano X through some early shots Tal had sent me, the first thing I thought was “Wow, that doesn’t look like something the typical Reebok shopper would like”. This time around, the shoe looks vastly different than any Nano from before, but it’s basically an extra Nano 9. The 9’s actually were a completely different shoe so there was also a lot to talk about there. After the the disaster that were the 7’s, I had to try to convince the world that even though the 8’s looked the same, they were a completely revamped shoe. Part of that is largely because the odd’s are always a completely new shoe and the even’s just improve on that same tooling. Nano’s have a way about the even’s numbered shoes being much better than the odd’s. We saw very minimal CrossFit branding with the 9 and this year, it’s lessened even more with the only two traces of the partnership being a delta at the front of the toe and inside the shoe, printed on the footbed. (At least to the best of my knowledge.)Īlso, since it’s the 10th version of the Nano flagships, it also marks the end of the 10 year contract of the Nano being the “official” CrossFit shoe. For the 10th installment of the longstanding CrossFit staple shoe, the Nano, Reebok has decided to pull an Apple and change the naming scheme to roman numerals to confuse half the population out there.