7th April: Prisms

Chris: I've had the Prisms for three weeks now and it took me awhile to get used to the stiffer rand on the shoes. I've been doing a lot of bouldering in the past year and my last pair of shoes have the aggresive down turned toe, are thin as hell and are so tight I still have problems getting them on. The Prisms are on the other end of the shoe spectrum and my feet are quite pleased with my new aquisition. So it was off to the boulder comp last weekend and I packed both shoes just in case.

I had a couple of sessions on our home wall and down at the gym but I was still getting used to the stiff rand which is why I brought my other pair of shoes. It turned out that I wore the Prisms through most of the competition! Where the shoes excel is climbing routes, you don't feel the holds under your feet (something else I need to get accustomed to) and they'll stick to the smallest foot holds without any worries. The shoes come with the new faceted edge technology that Five Ten developed and it makes a big difference when backstepping and using your outside edge, trust me , this isn't a marketing gimmick, I've tried using some of my other shoes on the same climbs and I feel the difference with the faceted shoes. My Prisms have done three weeks of climbing with some wear and tear (the tip of the toe is starting to come unglued) but I've been pretty happy with the way they perform.