They're incredibly soft, as in role up and put in your wallet soft.
which now has plenty of room for them i presume
I don't think I (or anyone else for that matter) would pay money like that for such a specialist shoe.
All that aside, I don't mind soft shoes, especially for steep stuff. I guess these are similar stiffness to the Hornets then? I don't know if you've felt the teams but they are pretty soft anyway, especially when broken in.
I you go to any of the London walls you'll see a lot of people wearing solutions, sometimes with socks underneath, often loose enough to walk around in. I'm sure a lo of these people will be wearing Futuras when they are more readily available.
Far softer than the hornets.
Still wearing a pair of the blue teams and really can't fathom why they needed to dick around with them. Probably the first climbing shoe I've never had a single complaint about. These green things look dump. I hope to be proved wrong.
I like to think that five ten have a development room which consists of clowns on acid juggling umpa lumpas the resulting geometries of which are interpreted by monkeys wearing little fez hats which then feed the data into playdough extrusion machines backwards resulting in some of their hysterical products.
Could this explosion in shoe design and bi-annual revision of models be a consequence of Five-ten's buy out by Addidas? They purportedly said they'd be left alone to get on with things as they want, but perhaps turnover /profit wasn't as high as hoped. To address this they're keeping their core range for dedicated climbers and churning out lots of new shit for the "young professional crowd with plenty of spare cash"