Drop is the difference between heel height and toe height. Minimus features a range of drops to encourage a more natural foot position.
To maximize closer-to-barefoot feel, Minimus has no insert, minimal midsoles & outsoles, and is engineered to encourage mid-foot strikes.
The wider forefoot allows your foot to expand naturally on impact.
Because Minimus contains only what is necessary, it's almost 50% lighter than traditional lightweight shoes.
A cross-category collection for minimal enthusiasts spanning all types of activities,
from trail running to circuit workouts and everything in between.
Intelligently designed apparel that provides a layer of protection with just the right
amount of materials you need to perform at your very best.
Make your performance as comfortable and seamless as our NBx Minimus Singlet.
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footwear from the Minimus collection.
Posted April 8, 2013
Inspiration, as you know, can come from anywhere. It crosses industries, people, time zones, and (infuriatingly) often strikes when you least expect it.
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Posted November 5, 2012
If the heart of Minimus HI-REZ is its revolutionary outsole-that individually-podded piece of fabric helping maximize underfoot sensation-then its upper is the brains: a delicately constructed testament to precision, strategy and balance between competing, and often conflicting ideologies. As New Balance Lead Designer Chris Wawrousek puts it, designing it was an exercise in determining "how little we could get away with."
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Posted October 19, 2012
Tucked away in the historic Ayer Mill building in Lawrence, MA is New Balance's clandestine, state-of-the-art research facility. New Balance's Sport Research Lab routinely tests a wide variety of athletic shoes to ensure they meet the company's rigorous standards in performance, durability, comfort and technical innovation.
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Posted August 28, 2012
A lot of careful planning went into developing the outsole for the upcoming Minimus HI-REZ, the focus being on maximizing underfoot sensation while providing a level of protection and comfort. It was an exercise in purposeful design and a challenge that New Balance Lead Designer Chris Wawrousek didn't shy away from. We sat down with Chris to discuss the ideas behind the outsole and get his take on why it's so different from anything else we've seen before.
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Posted August 8, 2012
Born of product development insights and feedback from barefoot runners, New Balance's latest addition to its Minimus line is ambitious in concept: provide more underfoot sensation than any shoe has before. We recently caught up with New Balance Lead Designer Chris Wawrousek to discuss the birth of the concept and get a first look at the upcoming Minimus HI-REZ.
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Posted March 5, 2012
Daniel Colon's comment about the thicker padding on the MR10 prompted us to send him a pair of Minimus Zero Road shoes to try out. After a week with his new running shoes, we put him in touch with Katherine Petrecca, manager of the Minimus collection, to talk about his impressions and the transition to a zero-drop shoe.
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Posted February 28, 2012
Judging by his comment on our site a few months ago, we may have made Josh Mock's year by implementing a mono-tongue in the new Minimus Zero Road design. So we sent him a pair to try out firsthand, then had him talk to Senior Designer Drew Nyssen to discuss the new look and feel.
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Posted February 28, 2012
We responded to Philip Matern's comment about wanting a zero-drop shoe that doesn't sacrifice comfort by sending him a pair of Minimus Zero Road shoes to try. Then we got him on the phone with Senior Designer Chris Wawrousek to talk about the details of the shoe's design.
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Posted February 28, 2012
We sent Stacy Pyves a pair of the Minimus Zero Road shoes to try after he posted a comment about wanting to see a Minimus shoe with zero-drop. Soon after, we put him in touch with NB Manager of Advanced Project Engineering Sean Murphy so they could talk about his experience so far.
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Posted February 28, 2012
Joe Scorsone has been a dedicated minimalist runner for almost three decades now. So after he made a comment about wanting to see a zero-drop version of Minimus, we sent him a pair of the new Minimus Zero Trail shoes to try, then put him in touch with Minimus design consultant Anton Krupicka to discuss the shoe's design and feel.
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Posted February 28, 2012
When Daniel Durtschi posted a comment about his NB Minimus and trail running experiences on newbalance.com, we decided to send him a pair of Minimus Zero Trail shoes to try — then put him on the phone with ultra-marathoner and Minimus design consultant Anton Krupicka. See what happened next below.
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Posted February 23, 2012
We knew Kevin Biggs needed to try the Minimus Zero when he posted a comment on our site about winter running in minimalist footwear. After spending a week with his new shoes, we got him on the phone with New Balance Product Manager Bryan Gothie to talk about his experience so far.
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Posted November 10, 2011
Somewhere in the middle of explaining the thinking behind the design of the upper for a new minimalist running shoe, Drew Nyssen has gotten stuck on pin art. "Those toys with the metal pins that take the form of whatever you put against them", explains the Senior Designer in New Balance's Advanced Products Group, "every pin represents a point of geometry ...
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Posted September 20, 2012
"There's a lot of truth in what you see on the bottom of shoes" says Chris Wawrousek, and he — of all people — is in a pretty good position to know. Seated in a back corner on the 5th floor of the New Balance Design Center in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Chris is literally surrounded by this truth in the form of the hundreds of prototyped, well-worn and yet-to-be-tried shoes that line the halls.
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Posted August 1, 2011
Our NB Minimus line offers an invigorating, award-winning, closer-to-barefoot experience with a dramatically lower heel-to-midfoot drop than traditional running shoes. In March 2012, at running stores across the country, we will extend the much talked-about NB Minimus line with the arrival of NB Minimus Zero – new road, trail and wellness shoes that continue to deliver ...
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Posted July 17, 2012
As minimalist running has become less fringe and more mainstream, the increased demand for innovation in footwear has let New Balance make its own mark on the movement. We had the opportunity to speak with NB's Strategic Business Unit Manager – Innovation Studio, Katherine Petrecca, who was kind enough to share her thoughts ...
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Posted November 3, 2010
Trampas TenBroek spends his days contemplating, and calculating, the implications of millimeters. Here, in the New Balance Sports Research Lab, where a team with backgrounds in mechanical engineering, anatomy, biomechanics and physics is gleaning new sets of insights about the way in which we run, small measurements have enormous implications.
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Posted September 22, 2010
While much of the development of New Balance's forthcoming NB Minimus footwear line took place inside the Lawrence, Mass., labs, many of the insights that informed the design were gleaned some 1,800 miles to the west, in the hills outside of Boulder, Colo. NewBalance.com talked with Senior Designer Chris Wawrousek and Team New Balance ultramarathoner Anton Krupicka ...
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Posted July 26, 2010
As was made obvious by the response generated by our article on barefoot running, a significant portion of the New Balance community is curious about a more minimalist approach to running. At New Balance, we get excited about anything that enhances the running experience, so when we had the opportunity to talk to Katherine Petrecca ...
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Posted February 4, 2010
After hundreds of years of walking with shoes on, is it time we relearn? There's a movement going on that challenges the very foundation of sneaker wearers (not to mention sneaker companies) everywhere, around running barefoot. This broad grouping of perspectives includes some runners who are finding they prefer to run exclusively barefoot ...
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Many shoes in the Minimus collection were designed with a neutral foot position to encourage mid-foot striking, a key element of Good Form Running.
Learning proper form can help you run longer, faster and more comfortably than ever before. See how you can make running a bigger and more enjoyable part of your life.
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