[Criteria for running (jogging) shoe tests]

Shoes for jogging are presently being tested by a great many institutes using widely divergent criteria and according to a plethora of different interests, and hence the assessments and test results may be poles apart and even contradictory. Most of the tests are based on much too short stress periods and either disregard biomechanical properties entirely or determine them via methods that must be classified as questionable. Today no manufacturer offers models one could definitely classify as excellent or deficient. A shoe for jogging may be optimal for one jogger and fatal for another. The following article sets criteria yielding two important kinds of information: on the one hand, an analysis of weak points that will help the manufacturer by telling him where he must improve his product, and on the other hand target-group oriented usage recommendations for the benefit of the consumer (jogger) that help him to find the shoe that suits him best among a never-ending conglomerate of sports shoes.