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The $40 million facility, built in cheap nike air max 1980, is so secretive that even Nike employees who work in other buildings need to go through a screening process to receive a guest pass. It's an important part of everything Nike does for soccer, basketball, football, running and basically every other sport for which it makes products. Nike is often coy about what goes on at its high-tech lab, but in a sneak peek it posted online in 2014, it describes NSRL generally as a place to "quantify athletes' movements, the environments they play in and they products they use. " For this particular project, NSRL provided VanHook the necessary information to create an upper that's designed to offer a better grip on the ball, improved traction and, as mentioned earlier, a lighter-weight design than the first Magista. Similar to what Adidas did with its AlphaBounce running shoe, Nike researchers used motion capture to study how different areas of the foot control the ball. Again, this is what's mirrored on nike air max sale the Magista 2's upper design, which is made out of Nike's trademark FlyKnit material. Gallery: Inside the Nike Sport Resear NSRL isn't just for testing products, however. It's also a facility where athletes go to be evaluated frame by frame, sometimes for their personal gain and other times to help Nike with things like footwear research. The soccer lab has more than 20 cameras capable of capturing footage at up to 10, 000 frames per second, which is a crucial factor when every little detail counts. The 3D motion-capture system is akin to what's used for animation films, but Nike's purpose is to re-create performance and model the foot and ball to see how they interact with each other in various scenarios. "We deal with a lot of the nerdy stuff in here, " says Mike Amos, senior researcher at air max store online the Nike Sport Research Lab, "and we have some excellent designers that can help visualize that [data]. " Despite all that research, VanHook says there were some tedious challenges during the design process. He points to the cuff around the ankle on the Magista 2, explaining how challenging it was to make an anatomical shape that offered support and comfort simultaneously. To do so, VanHook says he had to work closely with the knit team, and they eventually went through more than 120 panels of fabric and yarn before getting to the ideal shape. A themed Magista 2 will be worn by the USA women's national team at the 2016 Rio Olympics. So, how does all of this translate when you're wearing and playing in the Magista 2? The best way to cheap nike air max shoes describe the experience is that it feels like you're wearing a thick sock. Which is exactly what Nike had in mind.