I bought a new pair of tennis shoes that I had never tried before. Of course, all shoes are built differently, so they are going to feel differently too. This shoe in particular rises up high by my ankle and cuts into my foot. I discovered that in combination with this design, the shoe is also kind of stiff and hard in that area. This was not a good combination and resulted in rubbing my skin raw. I felt a pain just in front of my ankle, and I deduced that due to the force of friction between my shoe and my skin, the shoe was rubbing my skin off. I decided that to cut down the friction between my already raw skin and my shoe, I should wear higher socks and put tape over my skin to protect it from the force of friction. Similarly, when I used my coach’s racket one time, his grip was tough because it was made of leather, and it gave me a blister. This is also largely due to the friction between the grip and my hand. My hand hurt the most when I was hitting forehands because that’s when I turn my hand on the grip the most, causing more friction to occur. I never knew there could be so much friction in tennis, and I unfortunately discovered this by getting sores on my hands and feet.
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