Fig. 1. Asics G1 shoes
Fig. 2. Illustration of horizontal and vertical GRF, the UCOF and tangent of CoM-CoP curves represented by the average curve for barefoot walking (black line) and shod walking(red bold line) over all participants. The blue arrows indicates the points at which UCOF is maximum.
Table 1. The elapsed times for barefoot and shod walking(unit: second).
Table 2. GRF, Tangent of CoM-CoP, Utilized coefficient of friction (UCOF) and walking speed with and without shoes for Right foot (GRF unit: Bodyweight %, speed unit : m/s).
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