One of the earliest ideas that Adi Dassler had was of making spiked shoes. Adi was very interested in sports and liked to tinker in his shed and come up with new ideas for sports shoes. Adi would make the shoes and then have his friend Fritz Zehlein who was a blacksmith make nails for Adi that he would then drive through the soles of the shoes. I think it is very cool that Adi made some of the earliest spikes and that so many track runners throughout the world have used spikes and have benefited from Adi’s brilliant invention.
The Dassler Brothers