Size: M4.5/W6
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 Superblast 3 is the next generation of Asics' plateless super trainer — a 46.5 mm stack at 239 g, enabled by the new FF Leap dual-density midsole. Asics cites ~15% more energy return than Superblast 2, ~30% softer and ~13.7% more responsive than FF Turbo+. Still plateless, still long-run-and-race-day intent, now with a generational foam upgrade underneath.
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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 Superblast 3 is the next generation of Asics' plateless super trainer — a 46.5 mm stack at 239 g, enabled by the new FF Leap dual-density midsole. Asics cites ~15% more energy return than Superblast 2, ~30% softer and ~13.7% more responsive than FF Turbo+. Still plateless, still long-run-and-race-day intent, now with a generational foam upgrade underneath.
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