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Tennis shoes demand a special kind of material and technology that make them tough. Playing tennis can wear out shoes quickly and easily. A good shoe needs to have great traction control, support and extra support in trouble areas, zoned for tennis players. There are lots of shoes available for tennis players, but a few Brand name tennis companies that promise to deliver quality to the shoes they sell and believe in.

When you`re shopping for a good tennis shoe, you might look into what brands are available. There are certain shoe companies that exclusively make them. That means that all of their effort and focus is on the shoe and the tennis court. Chances are if you buy a tennis shoe from a company that just makes them, that you might get a better shoe. A great tennis shoe will help you play tennis and should last longer no matter how you play tennis.

Babolat is a French tennis shoe company. They offer a six month warranty on the shoes which is an amazing deal in itself. Some tennis celebrities endorse their shoes and use them at their tennis matches. They consist of new technology, a foot felt to support the four points on a foot. They offer improved court propulsion, and Babolat uses exact pro technology that enables it to be an outstanding shoe. They are durable, and breathable with the mesh lining that is used. They also use OCS outsole made by Michelin for better traction on the courts.

DIADORA is another popular tennis shoe. They are responsive shoes that consist of toe overlays. They are light weight and contain air mesh technology to improve on heat and flexibility. They have removable insoles and an enhanced shock feature. They also contain Dura technology 5000, which is a special anti-abrasion rubber compound for extra foot control.

Ektelon is a tennis shoe company that makes shoes for men, women and kids. They have been re-engineered and contain precision tube-technology for optimum comfort and breathable materials. They are light weight, making it easier to run around and play tennis. They offer TPU heel cradle support and TPU arch bridges for extra support where it is needed.

HEAD is a tennis shoe Company that specializes in adding new technology. Their shoes are light weight and contain top quality materials known to benefit tennis players on the court. They contain the most advanced micro fibers and synthetics. Mesh windows are bound by TPU to reduce the weight and give the most breath-ability possible. They have special molding that helps to give them the most durability. Their shoes are also guaranteed for six months. These shoes are heavy duty and will stand up to even the most aggressive player.

Tennis shoe companies continue to battle over which one is going to do better. The truth is, that the competition will be never ending, tennis players will continue to have their favorites and stick with the ones they feel comfortable. With all of these companies holding such a strong fan base, they can just continue to do what they do. As they plug away at developing the newest and best technology to benefit the tennis shoe and the tennis player. When you find a shoe that you love, you might stick with the same company as you need to replace your shoes over time.

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ALL CITY- What a writer is considered to be when he/she is “up”, but this term implies more status than being just “up”. Many people can be “up”, but only a select few could be considered “all city”. Can also refer to a crew instead of just one writer.  

BACK IN THE DAY - Refers to the “old days”, old school, or when a writer first started writing.  

BACKGROUND - Originated on the subways out of neccessity. Backgrounds were used to make the piece stand out from all the tags and assorted scribbling on a subway car that make the piece hard to discern; the color or design painted behind the piece to make it stand out from the wall or train.  

BACK TO BACK – A wall that is pieced from end to end all the way across. Also can refer to throwups that are one after another.  

BATTLE - This is done when two writers or two crews have some sort of disagreement. The battle can take two forms: skills battle or getting up – essentially quality vs. quantity. A skills battle is when two writers piece a wall within a certain time period (usually a day or a few hours) and whoever does the best piece is the winner. A getting-up battle is when the writers take a certain area of a city and whichever crew can get up the most in that area within a certain amount of time (say a week to a month), wins. For both kinds of battle, an outside crew or writer judges who is the winner. The terms of losing and winning are usually negotiated by the crews involved.  

BITE - To copy another writer’s style. This is considered a no-no and is looked down upon, even though writers often borrow imagery from cartoons and comics.  

BLOCKBUSTER - Big, square letters, often tilted back and forth and in (usually) two colors. Mainly invented to cover over other people and to paint whole trains easily, but they are effective on smaller walls for maximum coverage.  

BOMB – Prolific painting or marking with ink. To cover an area with your tag, throwups, etc.  

BOMBING – To go out writing.  

BUBBLE LETTERS – A type of graffiti letters, usually considered to be an older (and sometimes outmoded) style. Often used for throwup letters because of their rounded shape, which allows for quick formation.  

BUFF – Any means employed by the transit authority to remove graffiti from trains. The more modern usage is when any graffiti is gone over or removed from any surface, not necessarily just from trains.  

TO BUFF, BUFFED – To erase, erased.  

BURN – To beat the competition with your style. Also refers to a really good piece, as in one that “burns”.  

BURNER – Originally a well-done wildstyle window-down whole car, a burner is a very good piece. A burner is any piece that has good bright colors, good style (often in wildstyle) and seems to “burn” off of the wall.  

CAP, FAT or SKINNY (tips) – Interchangable spray-can nozzles fitted to the can to vary the width of spray.  

CHARACTER – A cartoon figure (usually, but not necessarily) taken from comic books, TV or popular culture to add humor or emphasis to a piece. In some pieces, the character takes the place of a letter in the word.  

CHINA MARKER – A type of grease pencil used by artists to mark up contact sheets of photos or the photos themselves for cropping.  

CLOUD – Stylistic form applied to pieces.  

COMPUTER STYLE – A certain style of wildstyle that looks digital or bitmapped, as if it came out of a computer.  

CRAZY – It means crazy in the dictionary definition but can also mean “really” as in “crazy big”.  

CREW – A loosely organized group of writers who also tag the crew initials along with their name.  

CUTTING TIPS – A way to cut standard tips, thus modifying them into fat caps or flare tips.  

CUTTING LINES – A painting technique used on inside fills of letters and characters to get thin lines, thinner than thin tips.  

DIS – To insult. Comes from “disrespect”.  

DEF – Really good, (derived from “death”).  

DING-DONG – Relatively new stainless type of subway car, so named for the bell that rings just before the doors close. Ding-dongs were preferred because they were so flat.  

DOPE – Means “cool”.  

DOWN – To be in with, part of the group or action (as in “he’s down with us”). Part of your connection, if you are down with someone.  

DRIPS – Stylized drips drawn onto letters to add effect. Although inept paint application causing unintentional drips is considered the mark of a toy and is wack, stylized drips drawn on letters are acceptable.  

FADE – To blend/blended colors.  

FAME – What a writer gets when he/she is constantly and consistently getting up.  

FANZINE – A fan magazine devoted to a narrow interest. Often shortened to “zine” In the graff scene, fanzines would obviously be devoted to writing, featuring photos of pieces, etc.  

FAN SPRAY – A newer type of stock tip on spraypaint cans. The tip is not removable for insertion of fat caps.  

FAT – Can refer to something being thick, as a “fat line”, or can be a general term of good, like “yo, that’s fat!” Often spelled “phat”.  

FEMALE TIPS – A new type of tip that is called “female” because the can has a “male” counterpart. Traditional cans are vice versa.  

FILL – The solid interior color of letters on a piece or throwup.  

FLAT – Older slab-sided type of subway car; the most suitable surface for painting. This term refers mainly to subways, although it could refer to certain types of freight cars as well.  

FLICKS – Prints of photos of graffiti. Also “flick” (singular) and “flix” (plural).  

FLY – Cool, same as “fresh”.  

FRESH – New, cool, good.  

GETTING UP – Originally, “getting up” meant to sucessfully hit a train. Now it means to hit up anything, anywhere, with any form of graffiti, from a tag all the way up to a wildstyle burner — although the term implies the process of tagging repeatedly to spread your name. Tagging something once would be getting up, but would not make you an “up” writer.  

GOING OVER – One writer covering another writer’s name with his/her own. Also known as “X-ing out” or “crossing out”.  

GREASE PENCIL – See “china marker”.  

GRIFFIN – A type of shoe dye used in homemade markers.  

GROCERY STORE INK – A kind of purple ink used by grocery stores in their marking guns. Writers took this ink to put in their homemades and refillable markers.  

HIT – To tag up any surface with paint or ink.  

HIT UP – When something is covered with tags.  

HOMEMADE – A type of homemade marker made out of old deodorant containers stuffed with socks or felt chalkboard erasers and filled with ink. Homemades have been made out of many things, including (most commonly) various deodorant containers all the way up to VHS videotapes. (!) Homemades have also been called “mean streaks,” although this has no relation to the paint stick made by Sanford corporation.  

HOMEMADE INK – A kind of homemade ink made for your homemade marker. The basic recipe involves shredding carbon paper and mixing it with alcohol and/or lighter fluid. Said to be almost as good as grocery store ink.  

INSIDES – Originally referred to tagging the insides of subway trains. Now refers to the insides of any mass transit vehicle. For example, “He’s the king of insides” would mean he’s really up on the insides.  

KARAK – Same as “character”.  

KILL – To hit or bomb excessively. To really get up in a major way.  

KING – The best with the most. Some people refer to different writers as kings of different areas. King of throwups, king of style, king of a certain line, etc.  

LAYUP – Side tracks where trains are parked overnight and on weekends. Initally used to refer to subway layups, but now can refer to freight-train layups.  

MAD – Crazy, lots.    

MARRIED COUPLE – Two cars permanently attached, identified by their consecutive numbers.  

MURAL – A large-scale type of piecing, done top to bottom on a wall; usually a large production involving one or two pieces and usually some form of characters.  

OLD SCHOOL – General term used to refer to the early days of writing, more specifically, the mid 70s to ’82 or ’83.  

OUTLINE – The drawing done in a piecebook in preparation for doing the actual piece. Also called a sketch. Can also refer to the outline put on the wall and then filled, or the final outline done around the piece to finish it.  

PANEL PIECE – A painting below the windows and between the doors of a subway car.  

PIECE – A graffiti painting, short for masterpiece. It’s generally agreed that a painting must have at least three colors to be considered a piece.  

TO PIECE – To paint graffiti, creating a piece, not just go out tagging.  

PIECEBOOK – A writer’s sketchbook where outlines and ideas to be executed are kept and worked out. Also referred to as a “black book” or a “writer’s bible”.

PROPS – Respect, comes from “proper respect”.  

RACK – To steal, usually paints or markers.  

RIDGY – Subway car with corrugated, stainless steel sides, unsuitable for graffiti.  

ROLL CALL – Tagging everyone’s name in a crew, or the list of people who helped create it to the side of the piece.   

SCRIBER – A tagging instrument, usually made out of a diamond drillbit, used to physically engrave one’s name on buses and mass transit vehicles.  

SCRUB – A certain type of throwup (usually two colors) that is filled very quickly with back-and-forth lines, rather than filled in solid.  

SHOE DYE – Shoe dye kits are used sometimes for tagging, especially those that consist of a bottle with a brush/sponge device attached. They usually come in black and white.  

STICKERS – A form of tagging, most commonly saying “Hello, my name is”. Can be anything from computer-generated, clear, generic blank stickers that have the writer’s name on them to elaborate stickers with little pieces and characters.  

SUCKER TIPS – The stock tip that comes with a can of spraypaint.  

TAG – The most basic form of graffiti, a writer’s signature with marker or spray paint. It is the writer’s logo, his/her stylized personal signature. If a tag is long it is sometimes abbreviated to the first two letters or the first and last letter of the tag. Also may be ended with the suffixes “one”, “ski”, “rock”, “em” and “er”.  

TAGGING UP – The act of writing a signature with marker or spraypaint.  

TAGGER – As opposed to “writer”; this term is usually used to refer to those who only do tags and throwups and who never piece.  

3D – A three-dimensional style of letters, used for added effect on basic letters, sometimes applied to wildstyle for an extra level of complexity.  

THROWUP – Over time, this term has been applied to many different types of graffiti. Subway art says it is “a name painted quickly with one layer of spray paint and an outline”, although some consider a throwup to be bubble letters of any sort, not necessarily filled. Throwups can be from one or two letters to a whole word or a whole roll call of names. Often times throwups incorporate an exclamation mark after the word or letter. Throwups are generally only one or two colors, no more.  

TOP TO BOTTOM – A piece that extends from the top of the car to the bottom, completely covering it. Can also refer to a wall or building that has been pieced from top to bottom.  

TOY – An inexperienced or incompetent writer. Someone whose writing is either wack, who uses sucker tips, or whose style is just plain cheesy. One old definition of “TOYS” is that it stands for “trouble on your system”.  

ULTRA-WIDE – A type of marker that is extra wide (about an inch and a half), intended for making posters, etc. It too is easily refillable. Often called “Uni-Wide”, which is a brand name.  

UP – Describes a writer whose work appears regularly everywhere and who is currently writing.  

UPS – Refers to people’s tags, for example, “So and so’s crew has mad ups on main street”  

ULTRA-FLAT – A paint preferred by taggers because it sticks to things better than glossy paints.  

WACK – Substandard or incorrect (derived from “out of whack”). Anything that looks cheesy or weak. Badly formed letters, incompetent fills, dumb tags, etc.  

WET LOOK – A old-school brand of spraypaint.  

WILDSTYLE – A complicated construction of interlocking letters. A hard style that consists of lots of arrows and connections. Wildstyle is considered one of the hardest styles to master and pieces done in wildstyle are often completely undecipherable to non-writers.  

WINDOW DOWN – A piece done below the windows of a subway car.  

WHITE TRAINS – In ’83 they started running the white trains on the 6′s. Writers loved these cars because they were like canvas all primed and ready to paint.  

WHOLE CAR- Obviously a piece covering a whole car.  

WHOLE TRAIN – The masterful feat of covering a whole train with pieces.  

WRITER – Practitioner of the art of graffiti.  

There are probably a good number of terms and phrases and names I don’t know or have forgot to list. Like art the lingo is constantly evolving. This however should get you by. Up next Graffiti Guide: Caps and Cans

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As shoes can be costly, most people try to choose a pair for practical use as properly as for fashion.  Adults buy shoes of the best high quality they can afford.  Still others choose a style that flatters their feet.  For example, simple styles in dark colors will make their feet look small.  Chunky, heavy styles and light colors, on the other hand, will increase their apparent foot size.  Little-boned persons can appear loaded down by footwear that makes their feet look bigger.

In short, adults choose shoes for a general pleasing effect.  When they attempt on shoes, they study their total look in a mirror just before producing a decision.

Deciding on the proper shoes for your kids is equally critical.  Not only is it vital for proper foot development, shoes are vital for kids’ active lifestyle.

In contrast to a lot of adults, youngsters don’t genuinely appreciate shopping for shoes.  But it is important to bring them in shopping and try shoes on considering that they quickly outgrow them.

Locating the shoes that fit is completely important for growing feet.  Here are tips on picking the appropriate shoes for youngsters:

1. It is time to acquire new shoes for youngsters when they begin complaining that they’re uncomfortable.  Check their shoes periodically.

two. Look for worn places, or stressed seams.  If sides are bulging or wearing out far more swiftly than the rest of the shoes, then they may possibly not be wide adequate.

three. Toes that bend upward are also a sign of shoes that don’t fit properly.  Shoe shopping need to constantly be accomplished later in the afternoon or evening, given that feet swell more than the course of the day.

4. Appear for a shop that specializes in children’s footwear, as the staff really should be well-versed on how to deal with the reluctant shoe shopper.

5. To get the proper fit in kids’ shoes, have your children’s feet measured when getting shoes.  Feet really should be measured while standing.

6. Constantly have both feet measured simply because one is usually larger than the other.  When your child is wearing the shoes, there ought to be about a half inch room among the edge of the shoe toe and the edge of your child’s toes.

7. Never ever buy shoes that are a lot more than 1 size too large for your child.  Shoes that are too large can trigger a child to develop foot troubles.

8. Do not allow for a “breaking in” period or expect shoes to get far more comfortable more than time – they need to fit and feel great now.

9. When deciding on the shoes for youngsters, pick those that have lace, velcro or some other fastening method.

10. Stay away from backless or slip-on shoes for youngsters.  Appear for shoes made from breathable materials, such as canvas or leather.

Lastly, trust only kids shoe brands that have been known for their good quality.  Imitation shoes are not only created of sub-normal supplies but might also cause discomfort and injury.

Okay, fellas, it is not like you actually want to discuss shoes with your female, but in case you’ve ever heard your wife gush to her girlfriends about acquiring the cutest pair of mules and rushed in a panic to appear into the back yard, you may want to have at least a passing acquaintance with shoe-related terminology, if only to watch your significant other faint dead away at your murmur of, “Hm, nice wedges.”

 Stiletto (stil-LET-toh) – The stiletto heel is generally 4”-6” in height and tapered sharply, like the spring-loaded knife for which it is named, and a lady who spends enough time in a pair of stilettos might feel that she is indeed walking on knives. Stilettos are usually named “eff me pumps” simply because they are insane amounts of sexy.

 Kitten heel (KIT-ten HEEL) – Tapered like the stiletto, but as the heel is only 1”-2” high, the impact is more cute than sexy.

 Stacked heel (STAKT HEEL) – A much far more substantial heel, created from thin slices of wood sandwiched together. Can be squared off or tapered, as on cowboy boots. Very good for kicking ass and taking names.

 Platforms (PLAT-formz) – Refers to a built-up sole. Platforms can either be shoes with a small, built-up sole at the ball of the foot, accompanied by a high heel, or one huge platform from toe to heel. Keep in mind those huge-ass boots the guys in KISS wore? Those are platforms. Rock on! (Insert proper devil-horns hand gesture here.)

 Wedge (WEDJ) – This is not just a golf club, gentlemen, but a sort of sole that begins out low under the front of the foot and rises, ramp-like, toward the heel, elevating the wearer on a wedge shape rather than on a distinct heel. Conventional wedges are flat at the ball of the foot, but there are also platform wedges. Exactly where KISS had dragon’s heads and whatnot, ladies’ platform wedges are usually decorated with cork or jute.

 Slides (SLYDZ) – Slides are flats that have a single arch of leather or fabric across the forepart of the shoe, into which the wearer can slide her foot. Can be open-toed or closed-toed, like those floppy slippers your mom wears on the cold bathroom floor.

 Mules (MYOOLZ) – Mules are slides that have a heel. They are usually dressier than normal slides. Those “boudoir slippers” in the Frederick’s of Hollywood ads that had the pink marabou feathers and little heels had been mules.

 Thongs (THONGZ) – Yeah, they’re undies, but way just before that they were flip-flops. Technically, “thongs” refer to any kind of shoes with a thong connecting the sole to the upper (mentioned thong is anchored in between the big toe and the second toe—the one that stayed house, I believe), and some of them are way too nice to be named “flip-flops”, but you get the picture.

 Pumps (PUMPZ) – Regular high-heeled shoes we gals wear to our high-powered workplace jobs. The female version of the wingtip.

 Slingbacks (SLING-bakz) – Open-backed shoes with a strap that runs back along the heel, rather than around the ankle. Way sexier than pumps. Can have a high or low heel.

 Toe cleavage (TOH KLEE-vuj) – When the toe compartment of a pump is cut low sufficient to display the lines in between a woman’s toes. This is, I kid you not, regarded as sexy by some men and women, despite the fact that I think it looks like you are trying to stuff your big-ass foot into Cinderella’s dainty slipper and failing miserably.

 “Cute shoes” (KYOOT SHOOZ) – The gold regular of compliments, by which one woman expresses everything from admiration to covetous lust for one more woman’s footwear. If these two words ever come out of your mouth, you will sound like a giant homosexual.

 Mary Janes (MAIR-ee JAYNZ) – Flat, round-toed shoes with a strap across the bridge of the foot. Traditionally made in black patent leather, these are the kicks your little sister utilised to wear to Sunday School.

 Okay, men, that is your shoe tutorial. I haven’t the foggiest thought how understanding this stuff may well prove beneficial to you, but it kind of rocks understanding those pointy heels were named for the kind of deadly weapon that may snick unexpectedly from the end of an assassin’s cane. Badass!

 Oh, yeah, and just before I go, let me answer the question that has eternally perplexed you: Why are females so crazy about shoes? Answer: No matter what color they are, what style, or even what cost range, our feet in no way appear fat in them.

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