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Adidas Beckenbauer Trainers are among the best selling retro Adidas trainers that were launched in 1982. At that time they were used as training shoes but now they are worn as all-purpose football shoes. These black and gold shoes are a classic that can be worn any time of the year.

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Adidas Spezial Trainers that were introduced in 1979 look exceptionally good with jeans. These shoes are sported by world's best players and come in three colours. The ones in navy blue and sky blue combination are the most sought after.

The Adidas Gazelle is one trainer that most Adidas fans have in their wardrobe. Extra padding around the ankle make them comfortable and its suede upper comes in various colours with stripes. These shoes are ideal for those who love to wear comfortable retro shoes. The most popular Gazelle's are the ones with a black suede upper and white stripes as they seem to be best sellers.

Adidas Samba trainers came out in 1962 and were originally made for frozen pitches or hard surfaces. Samba trainers feature a suede upper that gives it a retro touch. Now popular worldwide, this shoe has become a timeless street classic. You can find them in many colour combination's like chalk white/royal blue and collegiate gold. The shoe has check lining and white stripes on royal blue leather. This iconic sports shoe is a best seller and will be in fashion always. A distinguishing feature of this shoe is the tan gum sole that is featured around the edge of the shoe. These are must buy for fashionistas and soccer fans; many sports stars and celebrities wear these retro Adidas trainers.

Whether you are a man or a woman Adidas offers trainers for both. These trainers match perfectly with casual wear and are popular all over the world. Adidas uses high quality materials and best technologies to make these Retro Adidas trainers. People get attracted to these trainers because they are not only comfortable but also stylish and trendy. You can not only use them when playing sports and as casual wear but as they go well with jeans and shorts; you are simply re-living a once brand new style. Adidas retro trainers will now be considered as heritage clothing and therefore perfectly suited to compliment some of the retro fashions that you see today.

You can easily buy Adidas trainers online from the convenience of your home or office. Many online stores sell Originals trainers but you have to be careful to ensure you are paying for a genuine pair of authentic Adidas trainers. Retro Adidas trainers come with the Adidas logo at the back and on the ankle and with stripes in many colours. When you purchase trainers from Adidas, you must first check to see if the logo is present and looks genuine. Adidas is a brand that keeps improvising and including different designs in their footwear collection.

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1. Premium Good's

694 Fulton St (Btw. Ft. Green Pl & S. Elliot),

718.403.9348

Train: A or C to Layffette

Hours: 10am-7pm

Looking for Bathing Ape? They have em! Plus a whole slew of sneakers many people have never seen in the US.

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2. Alife Rivington Club
158 Rivington St Cross Street: Between Clinton Street and Suffolk Street
212.375.8128
Train: F to Second Ave
Hours: Tues-Sun. 12pm-7pm
This down-low sneaker spot have some SERIOUS kicks that will make you shell out that 0.

3. Adidas Orginals
136 Wooster St
212.777.2001
Train: N or R to Prince St.
Hours: 10am-7pm
My Adidas! Your Adidas! Who does't like Adidas!

4. Training Camp
41 and 6th AVe
Train: D Train to 42nd.
Hours: 10am-7pm
A large selections of sneakers and large sizes for those with big feet.

5. ATMOS
203 West 125th Street
Train: A Train to 125th St.
Hours: 10am-7pm
The best place in Harlem to find affordable and hard to find sneakers.

6. NikeTown
6 East 57th St. NY
212.891.6453
http://www.niketown.com
Train: N or R to 57th
Hours: 10am-7pm
The mothership for all that is NIKE!

7. Laces
252 Mott Street
212.334.5457
Train: B, N, R to Broadway-Layffette
Hours: Monday by appointment only, Tues-Friday 10am-7pm.
The only sneaker store in town that's execlusivly for women.

8. KCDC
99 North 10th Street
718.387.9006
kcdcskateshop.com
Break out ya skate board and skate your troubles away. otherwise pick up a nice pairk of sneakers here.

9. Dave's Quality Meats
7 East 3rd off the Bowery
212.505.7551
Train: F to Bowery
Hours: 10am-7pm
You won't find salamey here but a dope selections of sneakers and t-shirts.

10. Nort 235
235 Eldridge Street
212.777.6102
Train: Locations throughout Manhattan
Hours: 10am-7pm
if your looking for sneakers that you won't see alot of people wearing then visit this spot.

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Indeed there has been a tremendous turn around in men's golf shoes. Where once they were considered dangerous because of metal spikes, they have now become more adapted to the golf course. Throughout history, these shoes have become an evolutionary delight. By losing the burdensome metal spikes today's design offers traction without dangerous gauging problems. Before men were in fear of getting their feet struck by the hard to handle metal spikes; not to mention the spikes digging into the ground causing difficulty maneuvering around and I would imagine the weren't too kind to the ground itself.

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Today's golf shoe has developed into being more golfer friendly and golf course friendly. Some golf courses have restricted metal spike shoes from being worn on the golf course because of the damage caused by them digging into the ground. The greens are damaged causing extra maintenance care costs. With the evolution of rubber sole golf shoes with good traction there is no longer a great need for the harmful metal spiked soles according to some golfer's opinions.

Women's shoes are more lightweight, comfortable and durable than they have been in the past. The case is true with the women's Beacon golf shoe model 737599 and the Adidas Beacon 737497. They feature synthetic leather uppers which give lightweight durability and comfort. Another great feature is the injection molded EVA mid sole which cuts down on mid sole weight by 20%. This reduces the foot fatigue and makes for a more comfortable wearing shoe. The ability to grip along with other capabilities for stabilizing the feet offers great traction from these two models. Of course, if you feel secure form slippage while on the greens and your feet are feeling comfortable, your game performance can be enhanced because your focus is on your golf game rather than your pinching, aching feet or the possibility of being injured. Some golfers feel that comfort and traction are the most important two features of a golf shoe which is understandable. You can not walk around the golf course with uncomfortable footwear. Also, while you are attempting to play your golf game, there is no time for dealing with your feet turning or legs twisting because of bad traction. As far as traction is concerned, the bet type of tread pattern to have depends on the want and need of the individual golfer. Some golfers prefer the sole to have a circular style tread pattern. There are still yet other choices as well. The game and not being distracted from it is the most important aspect of the ongoing golf shoe controversy.

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Shoes designed to lift weights started being made when the weightlifters started using the split position to lift heavy weights. The split was performed by moving a foot forward and the other backward. The rear foot rests on the ball and toes of the foot and the ankle as well as knee were significantly bent. The front foot rested flat on the floor and the shin was slightly bent forward. After the split, weightlifters came out with the 'squat' position in order to go lower. The Squat is done by simply moving both feet to the sides and fully bending the knees, hips and ankles. Both the feet must rest flat on the floor.

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The problem with the squat is that it is impossible to keep both the feet flat on the floor while bending so low. The feet automatically rest on the ball and toes. The reason for keeping the feet flat is to allow stability while lifting such heavy weights. In order to prevent the feet from resting only on the ball and toes, shoe makers developed a shoe with a hard sole and raised heel. This raised heel filled up the gap between the heel and the floor, allowing great stability.

The raised heel provided stability and prevented damage to any of the lower extremities. But what about enhancing the performance? The weightlifting shoes not only have a raised heel but also have a hard sole which helps with lifting the weights. A hard, incompressible sole prevents the force which is produced to lift the weight from being dissipated against the floor. A shoe with a soft sole, like sneakers, not only prevent the force which is produced by the lifter from being used to lift the weight, but also make the base of the lifters body very shaky.

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Willie Park Jr famously said that the man who can putt is a match for anyone and in the rarified atmosphere of today's pro Tours that has never been truer. Players can hit the ball so far, with such accuracy, that the man who can putt the best settles tournaments and championships on the greens. It has always been so but never more than today, when everyone, it seems, is a peerless ball striker. Moderate players can have a hot streak in which the hole is as big as a bucket and the ball drops with relentless certainty but those streaks don't last and the golfer who wants to build a long career needs to be able to putt consistently well.

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So here we present the definitive list of the greatest putters that ever lived, with two deliberate exceptions. Women are excluded because women cannot putt. And anyone who wields a long putter is excluded because they have already conceded, by having the monstrosity in their bag, that they are fallible on the greens (and because it's not golf to use one).

25. Billy Casper

The 1959 US Open champion of whom Gary Player once said, with just a tiny hint of irony: 'I feel sorry for Casper, he can't putt a lick. He missed three 30-footers out there today.' Casper hated analysing his play and once when asked about technique, replied: 'How does a seagull fly? How does a centipede get all those legs working at once?'
Thanks Billy.

24. Ken Brown

One of the qualities that many people in this list have is that they moved with an unhurried, tranquil slowness - and there was never a slower player than Brown. Best friend Mark James wrote: 'When he stood over a putt you were never sure which would come first, his backstroke or darkness.' But the painstakingly deliberate method helped Brown sink more than his fair share.

23. Phil Mickelson

One of only two left-handers in the list (along with Bob Charles), he's always good but often inspired. At last year's US Open he and Retief Goosen putted the lights out on some of the hardest, fastest and lumpiest greens ever produced for a Major, and of course at the Masters he simply looked as if he knew he would hole everything he looked at. And he did.

22. Nick Faldo

Especially in his younger days, Faldo was remarkably gifted, with the same sort of free-flowing, rhythmical action that characterised his long game and he himself said in his autobiography that in those days he didn't think he would ever miss. When he re-built his swing over two long years he neglected his putting but then re-dedicated himself to that as well, with six Majors being the result.

21. Lee Trevino

Unorthodox in everything he did, Trevino grew up poor and his real education in golf came in money matches that he could ill-afford to lose and against opponents to whom it was unwise not to pay up - few things will find the faults in a putting stroke quicker. In consequence the Mexican genius developed a sound, consistent, repeatable action that wouldn't work for everybody but certainly did for him.

20. Jose Maria Olazabal

Ollie's driving problems have been an almost perennial part of his career but so, thankfully, has one of the most effective putting actions in the world. You only need to get two things right to hole a putt - pace and direction - and this man gets them right a helluva lot of the time.

19. Walter J Travis

Golf writer Charles Price summed up the Australian who played through the turn of the last century with the words: 'Travis holed out from such immeasurable distances that his opponents claimed he could putt the eyes out of a chipmunk.' He didn't take up the game until he was 37 and three years later won the US Amateur.

18. Isao Aoki

The popular Japanese player probably had one of the most idiosyncratic actions of all but, awkward though it looked, it was effective. He would address the ball with the toe of the putter pointed skywards, in a way that made you scared he would dig the heel into the ground during the stroke - but he never did. The first Japanese superstar led the way on the greens.

17. Brad Faxon

Some say that if Brad couldn't putt he probably wouldn't be on Tour but he is blessed with one of the smoothest, most effective putting strokes ever seen, and you don't make two Ryder Cup teams on putting alone. He is consistently rated number one by his fellow pros - most of who would sacrifice their first-born for Faxon's stroke - and they should know.

16. Walter Hagen

The Hague virtually owned the USPGA Championship when it was matchplay, and it's matchplay where the best putters dominate. Which also explains his Ryder Cup record of played 9, won 7, halved 1 and lost 1. He had all the gamesmanship and psychological tricks but they don't work if you can't back it up, and he could.

15. Ernie Els

Despite those two woeful misses on the 18th green in last year's Open, over the course of his career Ernie has been a textbook putter. His reading of greens is superb but, as with so many other truly greats, it is the smooth and unhurried but accelerating rhythm of his stroke that elevates him to the ranks of the very best.

14. Loren Roberts

It was Loren's caddy who first christened him with the dreadful monicker 'Boss of the Moss' but the nickname has more than enough grounding in truth to have stuck. Along with Faxon and Crenshaw has consistently been the man most envied by his peers and least likely to break a putter over his knee.

13. Hale Irwin

Yes, he famously missed a one-inch putt to get into a playoff for the 1976 Open but that was through carelessness. And yes, with the exception of that famous 1990 effort on the 72nd hole of the US Open at Medinah, he's not renowned for making bombs. But he is the master at getting the job done - three-putting rarely, leaving himself anxiety-free second putts, and holing out when he has to.

12. Paul Runyan

Still remembered on the US Tour as the sort of opponent that everyone hates. He was a short, slight man who was consistently out-driven by everyone - often by a huge margin - but could get up and down better than almost anyone who ever lived. Won the USPGA in 1934 and '38 when it was still matchplay and when the quality of opposition was awesome.

11. Greg Norman

People remember the numerously inventive ways he found to finish second in Majors but none of them came on the greens, where he was as good as anyone. He sank a 40-footer on the last green in the '84 US Open to force a playoff with Fuzzy Zoeller, knowing that he had to make it, and that takes bottle and technique. And when he got hot, no-one could scorch round a golf course better.

10. Ben Crenshaw

Widely regarded by his peers as the best they have ever seen, Crenshaw's smooth, unhurried rhythm was the key to his success. Tom Kite, who grew up with Crenshaw in Texas, once said of him: 'I don't remember Ben ever missing a putt from the time he was 12 until he was 20.' He didn't miss too many after that either. Inevitably his only two Major successes came at Augusta, where putting is the first game you need to bring.

9. Bobby Jones

The Master stayed faithful to his putter 'Calamity Jane' throughout his career, and she remained faithful to him, helping deliver a remarkable string of success. Between 1923 and 1930, when he retired, Jones played in 23 of the Majors for which he was eligible, and won 13 of them - a strike rate of 62%, which no other player has come near matching. And a lot of it was down to putting. In almost every regard he was, simply, the Greatest.

8. Seve Ballesteros

Missing a putt, to Seve, was a personal insult, and he hated to be insulted. From the marvellous fist-pumping excesses of St Andrews 18th green when he beat Tom Watson in the '84 Open, to the miles and miles of putts he holed in the Ryder cup to beat the hated Americans, Seve played on the green exactly as he did everywhere else on the course, with no fear. He was aggressive, bold and even towards the end of his career, never frightened of the one coming back.

7. Tiger Woods

When Phil Mickelson was asked in March this year by US magazine Golf, who he'd pick to make a five-footer for his life he said: 'Tiger, because he's made more clutch putts under the gun than anybody I have ever seen other than maybe Nicklaus.' He went on to cite the sliding 5-footer against Bob May at the 2000 PGA Championship, and the putt he made in the Presidents Cup in the dark from 15-18 feet. As Phil said: 'He's made a lot of 'em.' Great putters make them when they have to and there has probably never been anybody more consistent from 10-feet and under when it counts.

6. Jack Nicklaus

His awkward, crab-like stance, hunched over the ball, right knee bent and all his weight on the left side, never looked to be the most aesthetically beautiful thing in golf but few actions were as effective. His finest day came in the '86 Masters, his last Major, when he wielded an over-sized MacGregor Response putter to devastating effect over the back nine to pinch the green jacket from under the noses of Seve Ballesteros and Greg Norman, but that was only the most recent of many memorable days of the short grass for the Daddy of them all.

5. Peter Thomson

The Australian who took five Open championships, three of them in a row, is probably the most neglected multiple Major champion in golfing history. His quietly spoken, relaxed demeanour disguised the depth of his bloody-minded determination to win and he probably had the smoothest and best-looking putting stroke of anyone on this list. It wasn't quite as effective as some but was a thing of beauty, and it got the job done.

4. Young Tom Morris

Bob Ferguson, who himself won the Open three times in succession, said of the man who was first to achieve the feat: 'Tom Morris would putt and before the ball was halfway to the hole, turn away and say to the boy carrying his clubs: 'Pick it out of the hole, laddie.' And this was in the days when greens resembled sheep-grazing tracks (which, incidentally, they often were) and clubs were made from the jawbone of an ass. It is important, though, to make the distinction between Tom Morris Jr and his father, who couldn't putt a tennis ball into the Grand Canyon.

3. Sir Bob Charles

The first left-hander and New Zealander to win the Open (in 1963), Charles is now 65 and has just announced that next season will be his last as a golf professional, after almost 50 years of showing his fellow pros how it should be done on the greens. So good and consistent has his putting stroke remained that he won 23 times on the US Senior (Champions) Tour, at an age when many others are fighting the yips, and he has 70 professional wins in total. First came to prominence as an 18-year-old amateur prodigy when he won the NZ Open and he hasn't stopped winning since.

2. Bobby Locke

The South African was unconventional in everything he did. He wasn't even named Robert but was christened Arthur D'Arcy - the Bobby came from his habit of bobbing up and down in his pram. He familiarly wore a white cap, shoes and shirt (including necktie) and dark plus fours, in which he carried his portly frame down the fairways with such ponderous elegance that his passing could have been likened to that of a royal barge on the Thames. His golf game was also out-of-the-ordinary, and involved sending every shot at least 40-yards right of target and hooking it back it into play. But it was on the greens where he broke people's hearts and he always maintained that any round of golf involving more than 28 putts was a bad one. He won four Opens and when he went to America they laughed, until he won six times in a short space of time with such dominance that the ever-insular US Tour changed its rules so that he couldn't go back. One of the Americans he beat, Lloyd Mangrum, said in 1982: 'That son of a bitch Locke was able to hole a putt over 60-feet of peanut brittle.'

1. Sir Michael Bonallack

Quite simply, in the eyes of many, the former secretary of the R&A is the best putter there has ever been. As a lifelong amateur he was never tested against the very best pros but many of those who witnessed him in action agreed that he was peerless. Like so many masters of the green, he stayed faithful to one putter and had an idiosyncratic style that was all his own. Peter Alliss said of him: 'Michael Bonallack was a remarkable player. He had a magnificent short game that was all of his own making. When putting he took up a big, wide stance with his nose almost sniffing the ball and had a short, jabby swing but all the putts went in the hole.' Sir Michael's honours in the amateur game are far too numerous to mention but include five amateur championships and four English amateur titles. In the 1963 English Amateur at Burnham & Berrow, he got up and down in two 22 times in 36 holes against Alan Thirwell. Far too modest to agree with this assessment, he nevertheless was the best.

Definitely not on the list

Ivan Gantz; early US Tour pro who was famous for hitting himself in the head when he missed a short putt, and once even knocked himself out.

Larry Nelson; who once said with commendable honesty: 'I play along every year, waiting for one week, maybe two, when I can putt.'

Clayton Heafner; of whom fellow American pro Cary Middlecoff said: 'The only time he could putt was when he was mad enough to hate the ball into the hole.'

Had it but lost it

Tom Watson; Fearlessly aggressive in his early days and never minded knocking it five feet past because he would always get the one coming back.

Now he doesn't

Ben Hogan; Still a fabulous swinger of a golf club well into his 50s but couldn't putt for his life.

Tony Jacklin; Never the same after Lee Trevino broke his heart and picked his pocket for the '71 Open by chipping in from everywhere.

Peter Alliss; Lost it at the Italian Open when he retired mid-round after missing a two-footer.

Sam Snead; Rescued himself for a while by putting sidesaddle but when that was outlawed he was back to the yips.

Honourable mention

Bernhard Langer; for having, and overcoming, the yips three times, which is just about unique at the highest level.

Almost made it into the top-25

Arnold Palmer; Always wonderfully aggressive but his collection of more than 80 putters reveal how he struggled at times.

Retief Goosen; One of the most consistent holer-outs in the world and his two US Opens are a measure of his ability.

David Toms; Rarely three-putts and WGC Matchplay win might just propel him to the next level.

Potential to join the greats

Paul Casey; The combination of Luke Donald's iron play and Casey's putting wrapped up last year's World Cup of golf.

Adam Scott; At his best a wonderful putter but not at his best often enough yet.

Stewart Cink; Rolls them in from everywhere

Mike Weir; Won the Masters on the greens but not yet truly consistent enough.

Sergio Garcia: Currently worried about his inconsistency but has the stroke and imagination to be a world beater.

Martin Vousden is a freelance golf writer, a former editor of Today’s Golfer and launch editor of Golf Buyer and Swing magazines. His book: With Friends Like These; A selective history of the Ryder Cup, was published in 2006 by Time Warner. He edits the website http://www.rarebirdie.com