Customer Reviews Mizuno Wave Creation C1 Knit

This is a radical departure for Mizuno in that its knit top is different than other running shoes as it has sides to protect your feet from stcks that trails can inflict serious injury and it also surrounds your foot completely by eliminating the tongue. In this way lacing through the tongue nib that allowed laces to keep running sneakers tongues from sliding too far left or right is merely a placebo other than maybe assuring the top of your foot covering does not slide down below the top row of laces but my foot fit so snugly that it was not a concern and other than my confusion in putting the shoe on my EE width size 12 sneakers in these somewhat risky 12 D sneakers that I have owned in 12D twice before and were just wide enough to not pinch my boat-feet (as I call them). Mizuno's Wave Creation 20s are the finest running shoes overall, that I have owned so far- for aesthetics, for encouraging best habits in running and striking mid-foot and rather than stabilize my feet (that I find actually hurts as I am likely mild underpronator, or neutral, but I have found that "control" runners wind up hurting my ankles and tiring me more than those that let me run with my natural flow but encourage it which Mizunos all seem to do in my humble opinion. Have found from my first try of Mizunos about 5 years ago that they seem to encourage me to run more properly by making me land towards mid-foot (as its not so soft as a heel striking shoe that negates any feeling pf impact to firm asphalt road ( so will feel more impact if you land on your heel so you tend to try to run by landing more properly on your mid foot and so your naturally in position to raise into your next stride.... its not a rebound or an energetic bounce one might find in an air cushioned support runner like the pair of Nike VaporMax I found to be my favorite comfort runners last summer... but the Mizuno Wave Creations frame has their patented "infinite wave" ( a (figure 8 thats really a 2 layers of impact to protect your feet and to give it natural flow) that really helps your foot glide up into the next stride (with a hint of assistance from the shoes flexing up from the prior impact as it moves through the frame of the shoes rear to the front of your foot) so it just seems to support your foot in the best most natural way forward. I cannot explain the physics of the Mizuno as its not a bouncy shoe its an impact absorbtion that flexes into the frame of the show and returns some help into the next stride so they do have an energetic feel not the dead feel of some squishy soft sneakers that feel great on landing on heel but then it feels hard to lift into the next stride as they deaden the weight rather than rebound you forward into the next stride...so having said the best about them I can now say that ---they are not my favorite sneakers to run in when my back hurts!!. In that case I probably should just use the elliptical--- but sometimes I will take out my bouncier sneakers like the VaporFly AIrMax Nikes (they tend to get flat tires after a few months shhh) so I am not a big proponent of other shoes other than to say they do reduce impact most of any shoes (along with the Hoka One Cavus I just bought for bad back days) and maybe the Beast works for some folks, but they seemed to slow me down when I tried them a few weeks ago. The Wave Creatiion 20s are shoes I would choose to wear when I was feeling rested and not having back pain are these Wave Creation 20s encourage my best performance: I feel like a real runner in my Mizuno Wave Creation 20s- on good days! These creatiion 20s keep my feet landing smoothly without any jolt and with mild spring taking off into the next stride forward with minimal bounce, or recoil to point of squishiness that some of the most cushy runners (like maybe the Beast) and others with loads of padding, might encourage bigger guys like me to run back on our heels (and wind up making my back hurt more from that habit in general). For me the cradling effect that surrounds my foot by fusing the tongue like a webbed foot to the shoe (but its not tight or uncomfortable, in fact its the opposite, it makes you feel your foot is securely protected and makes you think less about obsessing over adjusting the top laces, or using the very top lace holes to thread or the "normal' top hole of sneakers to thread the laces through and tie them (double or single knot? Double normally for me but with these I felt I could run without my laces tied and I might not care as my foot was well in place with the laces being merely an extra nice touch that they are tied-but maybe not necessary other than to feel slightly more tight (as my feet are big, wide and arches fairly high so top of my big feet make me a heavy Clydesdale, runner at 235-240...so for cushioning and support for bigger runners Mizuno has a higher end sneaker to Creation Wave Inspires at $229. and usually a lmited number available on Zappos or even Amazon, I only have owned 2 pairs of those and they are like more expensive verions of the Wave Creations as they are similar in design only more strongly framed and perhaps they can handle an even larger weight though they also do not cushion so much as support a larger runner to run with better form...so you might look into those if your over 235-240 as the Creations are near their limit I think at around my weight, though someone may review and prove me wrong here... .I am never going to be fast, or competitive runner, but I do appreciate a supportive shoe that respects runners of all levels, and Mizuno may not sell a model that is the comfort equivalent of the Brooks Beast,( or a NB 990]994s?) that seem to attract all the bigger heavier runners ...but it does have the Wave Creation for us pretty. big guys and for the really big guys I would recommend their Wave Prophecies- as those are both very solid running shoes for Clydesdale runners and bigger and heavier runners needing serious shoes. Hope this helps somebody as I find very few big guy reviews and this is one of them in a shoe that is good for medium size guys to big heavier guys but not going to be a comfort shoe, its a shoe that is comfortable enough to use if you run with reasonable form and know what its design gives you. You likely will want another pair for days when your back hurts and the Hoka One Cavus or Beasts or Nike AirMax might offer that type of heel strike impact aborbant comfort that these do not provide but will help you avoid needing the comfort runners if you use them before you let yourself hurt your back by running in bad shoes with bad form. Cheers!

good - may be hard to get on if you have wider feet or high arches but once on fit is snug but not tight

do not like the one-piece construction!

It's a great shoe

This is one of the best shoes I’ve bought!! Highly recommend!

I love the sneaker, I can't wait until you get size 9 so I purchase them again

Usually wear a 9.5 E but the 9.5 D width fits great.