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Everything we hold on this shoe: 1 written piece.

The strap on a Forum was an engineering answer to ankle injuries in 1984. Nobody has claimed it does anything for a decade.

adidas Forum


The spec

Brandadidas
Modeladidas Forum

No style code and no colourway here. Both come from the retailer listings on the calendar ahead, and this shoe has nothing on it, so the rows are absent rather than guessed at.


What we have written

Every piece, with the place each claim came from underneath it. Where we could not reach a source we say so instead of quietly leaving it out.

The shoes thennow

adidas Forum

The adidas Forum was released in 1984 as a basketball shoe, with a criss-cross ankle system meant to stabilise the foot
Wikipedia, read 2026-08-31

That nobody has claimed the strap does anything for a decade
Not verified. an argument about the shoe, and the post presents it as one


What we do not hold on the adidas Forum yet: nothing on our UK release calendar and no reading in our price index, so no ask we could quote. Everything above is what we do.