Size: M5/W6.5
Asics was founded in Kobe, Japan in 1949 by Kihachiro Onitsuka, who started making basketball shoes in a country rebuilding from the war. In 1977 the company merged with GTO and Jelenk to become ASICS — an acronym of Anima Sana In Corpore Sano, Latin for "a sound mind in a sound body." GEL cushioning arrived in 1986; the Gel-Kayano launched in 1993, named after in-house designer Toshikazu Kayano. The modern foam arc — FF Blast+, FF Blast+ Eco, FF Turbo+, FF Turbo², FF Leap — continues a 75-year engineering culture that puts underfoot science before marketing.
The Megablast is Asics' max-stack plateless super trainer — a full-length FF Turbo² midsole (A-TPU blend) under 225 g at a 45 mm stack. Asics cites FF Turbo² at ~32.5% bouncier, ~9.6% softer and ~2.8% lighter than FF Turbo+. Superblast geometry refined: daily miles for runners who want plateless propulsion in a lighter package, long runs, recovery, easy-to-tempo. Ekiden colourway — a tribute to Japan's relay-marathon tradition (the Hakone Ekiden calendar, Jan 2-3, running every year since 1920).
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Asics was founded in Kobe, Japan in 1949 by Kihachiro Onitsuka, who started making basketball shoes in a country rebuilding from the war. In 1977 the company merged with GTO and Jelenk to become ASICS — an acronym of Anima Sana In Corpore Sano, Latin for "a sound mind in a sound body." GEL cushioning arrived in 1986; the Gel-Kayano launched in 1993, named after in-house designer Toshikazu Kayano. The modern foam arc — FF Blast+, FF Blast+ Eco, FF Turbo+, FF Turbo², FF Leap — continues a 75-year engineering culture that puts underfoot science before marketing.
The Megablast is Asics' max-stack plateless super trainer — a full-length FF Turbo² midsole (A-TPU blend) under 225 g at a 45 mm stack. Asics cites FF Turbo² at ~32.5% bouncier, ~9.6% softer and ~2.8% lighter than FF Turbo+. Superblast geometry refined: daily miles for runners who want plateless propulsion in a lighter package, long runs, recovery, easy-to-tempo. Ekiden colourway — a tribute to Japan's relay-marathon tradition (the Hakone Ekiden calendar, Jan 2-3, running every year since 1920).
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