Dave and Luke Alie headed to Outdoor Retailer's first trade show in Denver to get the details on the biggest news in and updates to rock shoes for 2018. We talk to Black Diamond product designer, Kasey Jarvis, about all the decisions and details that went into their brand new line of climbing shoes. Then we have an in-depth discussion about shoe technology and how it’s being put to use in SCARPA’s newest shoes with Mark Busby, the climbing manager for SCARPA North America.

Topics and Times:

Black Diamond

• Why get into the climbing shoe game? (1:25)
• What was the internal conversation like at BD about a guiding philosophy for the shoe line? (4:50)
• What are each of these shoes about and what sort of design elements have they incorporated? (7:25)

SCARPA

• What does SCARPA have coming out in the second half of 2018? (10:45)
• Shaping and tensioning that distinguishes different families of shoes (15:12)
• How should we choose between SCARPA's most aggressive shoes? (17:05)
• What's the deal with the new Instinct VSR? Some notes on sticky rubber (20:44)

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