![]() “In the past, there was a lot of focus on cushioning the heel, but Mercurial players don’t play on their heels.” notes Lee. In this modern iteration of football Air, it’s not about cushioning so much as responsiveness. The Air Zoom Mercurial is also equipped with Flywire cables for additional structure and support. But the 4.5mm Zoom Air bag remains the boot’s focal point, albeit with a purpose vastly different from experiments of old. Nike’s computational design ensures the upper is reinforced in the right areas with a fine-tuned Flyprint pattern unique to football. The Air Zoom Mercurial’s Flyprint upper is lighter and more breathable than Nike's previously employed textiles, while still coated with All Conditions Control (ACC) to battle the elements. For example, whereas in a knit or woven textile there is frictional resistance between the interlaced (warp and weft) yarns, in a printed textile, due to its fused intersections, there is greater potential for precision-tuned containment. One benefit of 3D textiles over traditional 2D fabrics is the increased dynamism made possible by adding an interconnection beyond a warp and weft an advantage of Flyprint textiles comes in the fused nature of the material. It advances Nike’s efforts in digitally enabled textile development and adds to a legacy of proprietary modification (or hacking) of machines - a heritage that includes Nike Hyperfuse, Flywire and Flyknit - to achieve previously unimaginable performance solutions. The Flyprint method allows designers to translate athlete data into new textile structures. Nike Flyprint uppers are produced through solid deposit modeling (SDM), a process whereby a TPU filament is unwound from a coil, melted and laid down in layers. Yeah, that's the shoe that's been smashing all sorts of world records to the point where other brands are trying to get it banned. ![]() For the first time in football, the boot features a Nike Flyprint upper. Flyprint is Nike’s first 3D-printed textile upper in performance footwear and debuted on the Nike Zoom Vaporfly Elite Flyprint, worn by marathoner Eliud Kipchoge. ![]()
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