Over the last few years performance shoes have all been about softness and sensitivity, which many of us have enjoyed, particularly when it comes to indoor performance or steep bouldering. But this has meant the number of new shoes coming onto the market with outdoor performance in mind has been few and far between in comparison. In general, outdoor performance shoes tend to have more structure, whether a chunkier rand, firmer rubber or more midsole construction.
Luckily, the smart cookies who design and make climbing shoes have realised this and a new wave of outdoor performance shoes is starting to enter the market, the first being the Unparallel Qubit.
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This week's Friday Night Video is about the pure obsession and effort behind a hard trad first ascent by Québécois/Australian Jacques Beaudoin. Mother Earth (8b) is a stunning sixty-degree thin crack climb hidden amongst bushland that has been...