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Five-Ten Womens Savant - About

Five-Ten Womens Savant - About: Here we have the Five Ten Women's Savant. The Savant is our multi-sport amphibious shoe. Mesh upper mean self-draining. We use a very aggressive multi-directional Stealth S1 out sole. So lot's of friction, lots of stability and control. Shoe is very stable on any sort of terrain. Very breathable. Ultimate high performance amphibious shoe. The Five Ten Women's Savant.

Five-Ten Performance Advantage - About

Five-Ten Performance Advantage - About: The whole company was founded precisely because we could give athletes an advantage with the rubber. The Stealth rubber gives you a higher grip than any other rubber on the planet. And in many sports that translates to a performance advantage. Obviously, rock climbing. Obviously, when surfaces are wet. Mountain biking when you don't want to clip in, because you're going 60 miles an hour down a steep hill, and you're going to break your leg even if the binding fails. It's gonna help you. And on free running, it's a new sport, where you're jumping from building to building, maybe 30 feet or 50 feet up in the air. It's gonna help you.

Five-Ten Phantom Rubber - About

Five-Ten Phantom Rubber - About: Another one of the most important rubbers we developed was for free running, which is kind of like skateboarding without a skateboard. And these guys, they run, they jump on buildings. One of the things that they had mentioned is that they didn't want to leave the marks on the walls of the buildings. So we actually developed what we call the Phantom rubber, and it's a non-marking compound that we use. Right now it's specifically for free climbing shoes in our line. We have both an orange version and a black version. But we have a non-marking rubber now that's new, and it's been actually very well received by the free runners.

Five-Ten Rubber Resole Kits - About

Five-Ten Rubber Resole Kits - About: One of the things we've been doing, actually ever since the inception of the company, back in 1985, was rubber resole kits. When I started climbing, climbers were a pretty poor bunch, and I was no exception to that. And I would resole my own shoes with rubber, if they're wearing out and I really liked that pair of shoes. And climbers to this day still do that. Now the reasons for it, perhaps, have changed somewhat. We make the best rubber, and we know that other climbers resole their shoes with our rubber. I'm certainly happy about it. In fact we're so happy we actually make kits, for climbing, for fly fishermen, for people to resole whatever shoes they're wearing. For example, this one with Stealth C4 would be for rock climbing. You buy another pair of shoes, the rubber you don't find very adequate, or you wear it out, and you want to improve it. You can buy our rubber, and there's a glue, and instructions, and it's not so hard to do. I always say, if you can change the oil in your car, you can certainly resole your shoes. Another one we sell is for fly fishing. You see the dotty pattern here. And the same thing, if you have some fly fishing shoes you like, you don't want to use felt. We're ready to go. You can do it yourself, if you like.

Five-Ten Stealth C4 - About

Five-Ten Stealth C4 - About: One of the important climbing rubbers, if not the most important advance in climbing rubber that we developed, and it was a while ago, was the Stealth C4, which was a very hard compound. At the time nobody thought you could make a high friction hard rubber, and it turns out that the highest friction we had was this hardest rubber. The highest friction anyone had. It became the workhorse of our rock shoe line, the Stealth C4. All the hardest routes in the world were done, I'd say, in the last 15 years, in Stealth C4. Now we've come out with some new rubbers that are actually better. But a lot of people are used to the C4. It's still the best rubber, aside from the two new ones we're making. When we came out with C4, many years ago, it was really revolutionary at the time. It had higher friction. It had better edging. It could do things that no one else could do. And we were happy. We just went with that for a long time. We come out with other rubbers since then. But the one that has excited me the most, by far, is one that gave me an ability to do something that I'd been wanting to do ever since I started this company 25 years ago. Oil prices have caused the prices of rubber to rise dramatically. And most companies have cheapened their rubber, and you can do that in a lot of different ways. You can add clay, you can add oil, which is actually cheap. You can add things that make your rubber less expensive. Always at the cost of durability. We try to go the other way, and it worked. It had some surprising advantages. I added some very, very, very expensive components to the rubber, and as a result we were able to increase the durability of the rubber by, conservatively, four to five times. It's testing about eight times as high. At any rate, we're able to thin out the rubber. Most climbing rubber are four millimeters thick, 4.2. We're able to make this half as thick. It allows our feet to actually grab holds, which we've never been able to do before. No one's ever been able to do it. Because you have to make such a thin rubber, it would wear out, and you couldn't really have a shoe that would last any amount of time. This, I can cut the amount of rubber in half. You actually have a prehensile grabbing nature to your foot. And it still lasts longer than any other climbing rubber on the market. This seems like a miracle. I was really happy when it happened. It came at a cost. But anyway, we put it on one new shoe for next year, the Mystique. We had tried it on another shoe last year as a test, and the only problem we had was, the normal methods we used to grind the rubber, to prepare it for bonding, didn't work, because it was so hard to grind. This is enormously abrasion proof. It's our highest friction rubber, and allows us to do things with shoes we've never done before.

Five-Ten Stealth Onyx Rubber - About

Five-Ten Stealth Onyx Rubber - About: One of the most unique shoes that we make, actually we got a patent from the U.S. Government on this, is a faceted edge shoe. We felt that something like that ought to have its own special rubber also. And it has what we call Stealth Onyx rubber. Stealth Onyx is a higher friction rubber, with better edging. It was kind of better in all the different ways than C4. It was the updated version of C4. It climbs differently. It has higher friction, especially at lower temperatures.

Five-Ten Stealth S1 Rubber - About

Five-Ten Stealth S1 Rubber - About: One of the most important rubbers we have is the Stealth S1 rubber, which was developed, actually, a long time ago, and has become the workhorse of the wider range of the shoes we make. All the shoes on this shelf here, for example, use the S1 rubber, which is a nice blend. It's not really for climbing. It's a little bit softer, because we found that our rock climbing rubbers, because of what you need to do with them, they must be harder. But if you walk with them, they have a tendency to click on the floor. So we made this softer. So actually you get tremendous cushioning, not just in the mid sole of the shoe, but actually on the rubber. It's got better cushioning than any other out sole rubber. The Stealth S1, we found it was tremendous for hiking. But then, actually it was to our surprise, we found out that the world champion mountain bikers were using it also. They found out about it, before we even knew about it. And we have a whole like of bikes shoes now that are designed for downhill mountain biking, where you don't actually have to clip into the pedals, which would be actually dangerous. Bit it's actually revolutionized flat-pedal riding. Your feet stick to the pedals, but you don't actually have to be clipped in.