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A breathable all-court shoe for the player out three or four times a week: TRUSSTIC steadying, EVA cushioning with forefoot GEL, about 12.6 oz in a women's 8.5. Palermo, slowly, which is the only pace that city permits.
Asics Gel-Game 9 Women's Tennis Shoes: Breathe in. Roger II’s 12th-century chapel holds Byzantine mosaics and an Arabic-style muqarnas ceiling. The shoes bow politely, then remember they are not allowed on royal ceilings.
Asics Gel-Game 9 Women's Tennis Shoes: Four Baroque corners meet here at Via Maqueda and Corso Vittorio Emanuele. Stand still, little shoe. Even a crossroads can practice balance.
Asics Gel-Game 9 Women's Tennis Shoes: Ballarò is one of Palermo’s oldest street markets, loud with the vendor cries called abbanniate. The shoes listen calmly. The oranges are doing most of the shouting.
Asics Gel-Game 9 Women's Tennis Shoes: The Capuchin Catacombs began in the late 16th century and hold thousands of mummified bodies. Walk softly here. Some spectators have been standing through a very long match.
This is a shoe for someone who plays three or four times a week and does not need it to be more than that. Sit with that a moment. Most disappointment comes from asking an object to be something it was never made to be. The Gel-Game 9 is durable and comfortable and versatile. It is not a tour-level speed shoe. Knowing that is not a limitation. It is the beginning of being satisfied.
An open mesh upper lets air move through, so the foot stays cooler for longer. Synthetic leather overlays and a polyurethane film sit over the mesh, and they are what hold the foot steady when you stop abruptly. TRUSSTIC technology runs through the midsole for stability.
The construction is straightforward.
Under that, an EVA midsole foam works with GEL cushioning in the forefoot, which is the part of the shoe that absorbs the shock of a landing. It is all-court, it runs true to size, medium width, and it weighs about 12.6 ounces in a women's 8.5.
The outsole has been made more flexible and more durable at the same time.
That is a fact and it is neither good nor bad until you compare it to something, so perhaps do not.
Palermo teaches this lesson better than I can. Begin at the Cappella Palatina inside the Norman Palace: gold mosaic below a honeycombed wooden ceiling, Christian and Islamic craft in the same small room, neither one winning. Walk to the Quattro Canti, where four curved Baroque facades close the crossroads — the city built a corner instead of a monument.
Then Ballaro market, fish and citrus called out in singsong the whole length of the street, and if you can walk it without hurrying you will have learned something. And the Capuchin Catacombs, corridors of the clothed and standing dead, which are not there to frighten you. They are there to be looked at calmly. That is harder, and it is the point.
“Nothing in Palermo is only one thing. Neither is anybody wearing these.”
A shoe that does what it says. Breathe out.
