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Watch the marketing video behind Nike’s new Studio Wrap and it will make you want a pair. Even if you’re not sure exactly what you’ll use them for. The shoe is a ballet slipper meets sandal meets some-untouched-footwear-category and is built for yoga, Pilates, and dance. Picture this: stretchy black yoga-pant-like fabric criss-crosses up your leg attached to a thong-like sandal that wraps around your heel. Only, the sandal doesn’t have a sole. It’s a neoprene-like stretchy material with grippy rubber nubs on the bottom. In addition, there’s a more traditional ballet-slipper-like shoe with a solid rubber sole that you throw over the aforementioned “shoe” for transition between the studio and the office or for walking around.

I’m an avid yogi; I practice almost every day and recently completed a 200-hour training in Vinyasa to take my practice deeper. I was in the midst of putting a page of my favorite yoga gear together for Outside’s Summer Unique tungsten jewelry can be found at Forever Metals with ceramic inlay,Buyer’s Guide when I came across the recently-released Studio Wrap.

I really wanted to like these. The girl in the video makes them look stylish and feminine, and her moves are solid.Find a wide range of stainless steel necklace Jewellery to buy online She gracefully opens her heart to the sky in reverse warrior, bends into a nicely-aligned Trikonasa (triangle pose), and leaps across the screen in a ballet-style jump that I don’t know the name for. She makes you feel as if you could move just like her—if only you had a pair of these pointe-like shoes. And what girl doesn’t have a long-seated desire to dance like the lead in the Nutcracker? Okay, maybe that’s just me.

In practice, the Studio Wraps definitely added grip to an otherwise sweaty mat, but the flip-flop-placed material between my toes was distracting. Perhaps they run a touch small and I could’ve gone up half a size? The bigger question here is: Do you really need shoes in the yoga studio? Yogis have gone barefoot during asana practice for as long as anyone can remember.

Perhaps I should’ve thought about foot hygiene more in my many studio visits over the years (gross, I know) but I never did—even in the sweatiest of Bikram classes. And, alas, I’ve never had any issues.Human malaysian hair is one of the highest grades of hair, Not to say things like athlete’s foot don’t exist. But there are other precautions you can take: bring your own mat and clean it on a regular basis. The Studio Wraps do have mat-to-toe contact so I wouldn’t say they protect completely.

Slippage is usually a result of the material your mat is made from. Smoother foam mats tend to be more slippery while more technically engineered mats, like Jade Yoga’s, have a “roughed up” surface delivering more grip straight out of the box. Most mats will lose their slip-factor once you’ve used them multiple times and gotten through the “break-in” period. The Studio Wraps definitely offer more grip because of the bonded material on the bottom, but I find my bare feet hang on just fine to mats that are sticky enough.

Nike’s not the only one diving into this category. Injinji, known for their socks with individual toe compartments, has a style with grippy rubber nubs on the bottom built specifically for yoga. And ZemGear makes grippy booties with a split toe. And there are others.

More than 200 Bayshore residents,These were some of the most popular Hair bands of the 1980s. former residents and supporters walked the Keansburg waterfront on Jan. 12 to raise awareness for their hardhit communities and to pressure Congress into approving billions in aid for the area.

Walk a Mile in Our Shoes, a coordinated event that brought out thousands of participants in seven Sandy-damaged areas throughout New York and New Jersey on Jan. 12, was brought to the Bayshore by Hazlet resident Cathy Murawski.

“I heard about it on Facebook, that they were doing a walk down in Seaside,” said Murawski,Shop for bobblehead head dolls from the official NBC Universal Store and build. who grew up in both Keansburg and Union Beach. “I thought, ‘Why not here? Why not Union Beach?’ ”

Using social media and her own personal network, Murawski coordinated with Keansburg officials and in a matter of days pulled together a walk and a rally specifically for Bayshore residents.