Patent ID: 7181866

Claim:
An outsole for a shoe, the shoe disposed along a longitudinal axis in a longitudinal direction parallel to a ground surface in use, the outsole comprising: a resilient member having an inner surface, an outer surface and, with respect to a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, an upper portion and a lower portion, the outer surface of the lower portion proximate the ground surface in use, the resilient member having first and second configurations, the first configuration having the inner surface of the upper portion spaced from the inner surface of the lower portion, the resilient member elastically absorbs shoe loads oblique to the perpendicular direction by relative motion in the longitudinal direction between the upper portion and the lower portion in the first configuration, the second configuration having the inner surface of the upper portion engaged with the inner surface of the lower portion due to absorbed shoe loads, the engagement substantially preventing relative motion in the longitudinal direction between the upper portion and the lower portion.