Tallest man in US is fitted for custom-made shoes

(4 May 2012) 1. Various of the tallest man in the US, Igor Vovkovinskiy, arriving at Reebok facility to have feet measured
2. Vovkovinkiy shaking hands with Reebok workers
3. Reebok workers showing Vovkovinkskiy what they will be doing
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ambrose Hayes, team leader for development of men''''s performance footwear at Reebok:
"We have to pay attention to a lot of different things. We have to think about his medical conditions, how his feet are going to change. Physically just how big they are is a huge challenge."
5. Reebok workers measuring Vovkovinkskiy''''s old shoes
6. Vovkovinkskiy having his foot measured
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Igor Vovkovinkskiy, Tallest man in the United States:
"I have basically been a prisoner of my own home. Even though I am medically cleared to walk, where am I going to go in shoes that are so painful?"
8. Reebok workers surrounding Vovkovinkskiy as he holds one of his old shoes and talks about it
9. Various of Vovkovinkskiy''''s foot being measured
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ambrose Hayes, team leader for development of men''''s performance footwear at Reebok:
"The main reason we have him here is to make a thing that we call a ''''''''last''''''''. A last is a generic foot form that we make the shoe around, so you can see I have his last from nine years ago in front of me."
11. Close of Vovkovinkskiy''''s foot being measured
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ambrose Hayes, team leader for development of men''''s performance footwear at Reebok:
"A last for a size nine person would be this big and the last for a child would be this big."
13. Tilt down to Vovkovinkskiy having his feet measured
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Igor Vovkovinkskiy, Tallest man in the United States:
"We have turned to our insurance and written letters, but nobody has ever responded to any call to help me, to get someone to make shoes, because my doctors have written many letters stating that ''''it would be a lot cheaper to make shoes that would fit his body than to keep having surgeries''''."
15. Wide of Vovkovinkskiy doing walking exercise on foam to work on feet measurements
16. Close of computer models being made for Vovkovinkskiy''''s feet
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Igor Vovkovinkskiy, Tallest man in the United States:
"The enormous generosity that people have shown to me - I''''ve raised a lot of money, almost twice the amount that I''''ve asked for when I started the fund - and I''''m hoping that with this money I will be able to basically have shoes for myself for the rest of my life."
18. Computer models being developed of Vovkovinkskiy''''s feet
19. Vovkovinkskiy explaining his shoe problems to Reebok workers
STORYLINE:
The tallest man in the United States crossed the country on Thursday so that shoe engineers could make special shoes strong enough to support his massive frame.
Igor Vovkovinskiy - who''''s 7 feet, 8-and-a-third inches (2.3 metres) tall - flew from Minnesota to Massachusetts on Thursday to be fitted for his US size 22 feet (European size 58, UK size 21).
At Reebok''''s headquarters in Canton, the 29-year-old underwent a complex process that involved - among other things - custom pressure-mounting equipment, imprints in bio-foam, a powerful three-dimension scanner to map the shape of his feet, calipers to take precise measurements of length, tape measures, and a handful of technicians.
Those measurements are particularly tricky because Vovkovinskiy has unusually shaped toes and feet following numerous operations.
The size of his shoes depends on measurements such as the length, width and distance from his soles to the top of his feet.

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