Asics Gel Jadeite 'Safety Yellow'
Colorway: Safety Yellow/Black · Style code: 1011B401-750 · Release date: August 21, 2021 · Price: $2682 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Asics Gel Jadeite 'Black Pure Gold' (1011B401-001)
The Gel-Jadeite is one of the ASICS models that never attracted much coverage, which makes it easy to misread as a lifestyle shoe. It is not. The midsole is FlyteFoam with a rearfoot GEL unit to take the landing, and the medial side carries Duomax, the firmer foam wedge ASICS has used for decades to slow the inward roll of an overpronating foot. That places it in the support category alongside the Kayano rather than with the neutral Cumulus.
The rest is conventional. An engineered mesh upper handles airflow, the shoe weighs about 295 grams in a mens sample, and the 10mm heel-to-toe drop matches most of the brand's daily trainers.
This safety yellow pair came in August 2021 at $160, the same list price the Kayano carried that year, which is the strange part of the story: a stability shoe at flagship money with almost none of the flagship's profile. A second version followed later, and the line has stayed quiet throughout.