Although the Japanese sports brand Mizuno is not yet very well known in this country, the Japanese company, founded in 1906 by Rihachi Mizuno as a baseball equipment store, with sales of well over one billion euros, is one of the largest sports equipment manufacturers in the world. Whether it's athletics, football, handball, or volleyball, the number of fans of the brand with the characteristic "Runbird" logo is steadily growing in Germany as well. One of the reasons for this is likely to be the unique Wave technology, which innovatively combines the two most important qualities of a good sports shoe - stability and cushioning.