Court sport athletes pounding the pavement and the trails on lung-busting runs. For a generation of active young people who don't know Bo Jackson from Tae Bo, and for those who've been devoted to the concept since the beginning, Nike infuses the category it invented in 2000 with a fresh approach to the regimen of Cross Training. THEN 1988 Air Trainer High 1988 through 1992 were the Bo Years. Like all good upheavals, the revolution makes sports a little more democratic. Runners enter weight rooms.
Football players take to the tennis court.
Fitness is open to anyone willing to play, but no one's got time to change shoes. Enter the Air Trainer High. The first cross-training shoe, it was cushioned for running, yet stable for court sports, durable for whatever you gave it, and comfortable for wherever you took it. Tennis ace John McEnroe liked these so much he wore them on the court on match day. Nike, from 1988 through 1992, changed the industry forever.