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Nike Mind 001 Slide – Team Red/University Red | Premium Recovery Slide Sandal with Contoured Foam Cushioning & Iconic Athletic Red Colorway. Passionate, Powerful. Completely, unmistakably Nike. The Nike Mind 001 Slide in Team Red/University Red is the premium athletic recovery slide dressed in the color that has defined Nike’s most celebrated, most emotionally charged, and most culturally significant moments in sport. Deep team red meets the vivid brilliance of university red in a tonal, monochromatic pairing that feels less like a colorway choice and more like a declaration — the statement of an athlete who competes with full passion, recovers with full intention, and wears the color of that commitment without hesitation or apology.

This is red as only Nike can deliver it — deep, alive, and completely, powerfully at home on a slide built for the athlete who gives everything.

Team Red/University Red — The Color of Passion, Competition & Nike’s Greatest Moments

The Team Red/University Red colorway is a masterful, deeply considered exploration of the most emotionally powerful and most athletically significant color in Nike’s palette — a tonal, red-on-red combination that draws from two distinct registers of the same fundamental color to create a layered, nuanced, and genuinely compelling monochromatic statement. The deep, rich team red of the Mind 001’s footbed and structural base carries the grounded, serious weight of institutional athletic identity — the red of the locker room, the sideline, the team uniform worn in the moments that matter most, a color so deeply embedded in the culture of competitive sport that it communicates belonging, commitment, and collective purpose with immediate, complete clarity.

Against and alongside it, the vivid, energetic university red of the strap and accent elements introduces the brighter, more immediately electric register of the same color family — the red of the crowd, the celebration, the individual achievement celebrated within the collective, a tone that carries the full, vibrant energy of sport at its most alive and most joyfully human. Together, team red and university red create a tonal depth and visual dynamism that a single red could never achieve — the deeper tone grounding and anchoring the colorway with substance and authority, the brighter tone lifting and energizing it with the vivid, passionate aliveness that makes this particular combination so immediately, so powerfully, and so enduringly compelling.

It pairs with complete athletic authority alongside black, white, and grey training and casual wear where the tonal red becomes the single, defining focal point of the entire look, coordinates boldly with other Nike performance colorways for a fully branded, team-ready athletic aesthetic, and brings a charge of passionate, competitive energy to any outfit it accompanies — the colorway that makes every recovery feel like preparation for the next great athletic moment.

Mind 001 — Recovery Built for Competitors

The Nike Mind 001 Slide is Nike’s most deliberate and most thoroughly considered answer to the recovery footwear needs of serious athletes and committed everyday movers — a product conceived not as a casual accessory but as a genuine component of the complete athletic performance system that serious training demands. The Mind 001’s development reflects Nike’s understanding that true athletic performance is not confined to the training session itself, but extends through the full cycle of effort, recovery, and preparation — and that the footwear supporting the recovery phase of that cycle should be built with the same quality, the same performance thinking, and the same genuine engineering commitment that Nike applies to everything worn during the effort phase.

In Team Red/University Red, the Mind 001 carries the full weight of Nike’s competitive athletic heritage — a recovery slide that looks and feels like it belongs to the same performance ecosystem as Nike’s most celebrated training and competition footwear, because it does, completely and without compromise.

Contoured Foam Footbed — Recovery Engineered for the Athlete Who Trains Hard

The defining element of the Mind 001’s exceptional recovery performance is its premium contoured foam footbed — an anatomically informed, biomechanically considered cushioning platform engineered with a detailed understanding of the specific ways in which intense athletic training affects the foot’s structural and muscular condition during the post-workout period. The footbed’s sculpted profile follows the natural architecture of the foot with a precision and care that flat-bed recovery slides cannot approach — providing concentrated, targeted cushioning in the heel strike zone and forefoot pressure areas where the cumulative impact of training is most intensely felt and where post-workout fatigue and tenderness concentrate most significantly.

The integrated arch support cradles the midfoot with a structurally informed, gentle hold that promotes proper foot alignment, reduces the compounding fatigue of extended post-workout standing and walking, and supports the foot’s own natural recovery mechanics throughout wear. The foam compound’s calibrated balance of softness and supportive resilience delivers the feeling of genuine luxury underfoot while maintaining its structural properties and cushioning performance through the extended regular use that serious athletes place on their recovery footwear — a combination that feels exceptional on first wear and continues to deliver genuine performance value over the full lifespan of the product.

Single-Strap Design — Athletic Confidence, Minimal Complexity

The Mind 001’s wide, single-strap construction brings the same philosophy of purposeful simplicity to its upper design that Nike’s most celebrated performance footwear applies to every element of its construction — the understanding that the most effective solution is always the most precisely considered one, and that unnecessary complexity adds weight, discomfort, and visual noise without meaningful performance benefit. The generously proportioned strap provides a secure, confident hold across the top of the foot that keeps the Mind 001 firmly in place through the full range of post-workout movement, locker room use, and casual daily wear, while the clean, minimal design keeps the Team Red/University Red colorway’s bold, tonal visual statement entirely uninterrupted and completely at its most powerful.

In Team Red/University Red, the strap’s broad, clean expanse of vivid university red against the deeper team red of the footbed creates the colorway’s most immediately striking visual moment — the brighter red of the strap cutting across the slide’s profile with athletic authority and tonal dynamism that is impossible to overlook and genuinely, completely at home on a Nike performance product of any category.

Lightweight Durable Construction — Built for the Long Season

The Mind 001’s construction philosophy reflects Nike’s fundamental commitment to producing athletic products that perform consistently and reliably across the full demands of regular athletic use — not merely on the first wear, but throughout the extended season of training, competition, and recovery that serious athletic commitment involves. The lightweight materials selected throughout the Mind 001’s construction are engineered for durability, compression resistance, and long-term surface quality — maintaining the footbed’s cushioning depth, the strap’s structural integrity, and the outsole’s grip performance through the extensive use that recovery footwear accumulates across a full athletic season. The textured outsole provides reliable, confident traction across the variety of surfaces that athletic facility and everyday use involves, without adding the weight or bulk that would compromise the Mind 001’s carefully maintained lightweight profile.

Wear It with the Commitment of an Athlete

• Post-workout recovery and cool-down — contoured foam cushioning that actively supports the foot through the most critical phase of the athletic performance cycle
• Gym facility, locker room and training center use — durable, cleanable construction and secure strap for confident performance in all athletic facility environments
• Game day and competition preparation — Team Red/University Red styling that carries the full energy and identity of competitive athletic culture
• Pool, beach and outdoor leisure — lightweight, water-friendly materials for aquatic and outdoor recreational use beyond the gym
• Casual everyday and lifestyle wear — bold tonal red styling that brings Nike’s competitive athletic energy to relaxed daily occasions
• Travel and team travel — lightweight, easy-on construction for the most comfortable and lowest-effort athletic travel footwear

Key Features at a Glance

• Premium contoured foam footbed with targeted zone cushioning and integrated arch support for genuine post-workout recovery performance
• Wide clean single-strap construction for secure, comfortable, and effortlessly easy on-off wearability across all use occasions
• Lightweight, durable build for consistent long-term cushioning and structural performance through extensive regular athletic use
• Textured outsole for reliable grip across gym floors, locker rooms, pool surrounds, and everyday surfaces
• Bold Team Red/University Red tonal colorway — passionate, athletic and powerfully iconic for recovery and everyday casual styling
• Clean, minimal silhouette engineered for genuine recovery performance and versatile, confident lifestyle wear
• Nike’s full performance engineering heritage and quality standards applied without compromise to premium athletic recovery footwear

Train with everything. Recover with Nike. The Nike Mind 001 Slide in Team Red/University Red is the premium recovery slide for athletes who bring the full weight of their competitive passion to every training session and who demand the same quality, the same commitment, and the same Nike performance standard from the footwear that supports them in the hours between — delivering genuine contoured foam recovery comfort, secure single-strap reliability, and a Team Red/University Red colorway that carries the full, passionate, unapologetic energy of Nike’s most iconic athletic color into every locker room, every recovery session, and every moment of the athletic life lived at its most committed and its most completely alive.