Toe Drag and Cleats"Toe Drag" is when an athlete drags the top portion (above the toes) of his or her cleat. Therefore, this area (often called the "vamp") can quickly wear down and make a pair of cleats unusable and worthless. We found a nice technical definition of a "toe drag element" from a Ringor Patent... "A toe drag element protects the material of the shoe from the effects of toe drag while minimizing any reduction in flexibility of the shoe." Pictures are worth a thousand words, so let's look at the Pros in "toe drag" action! Note: Not to be confused with "in-drag" action! : ) Here we see Ryan Howard creating some "toe drag" during his baseball swing.
The same here for AROD... 
American Baseball Pitchers especially suffer from "toe drag". Here is a picture of Pedro about to create "toe drag" via his pitching motion. You can see that the "toe drag" will be on the back right foot... 
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Okay... so we think you should now understand the concepts of "toe drag". So now it can be understood why cleats manufacturers try to reinforce and protect this area of the cleats. This is what we could technically define as a "toe drag element". A good example of a specific material used to reinforce and protect the "toe drag area" is
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