The “V395” statistic on the midsole, that’s the shoe’s volume in centimeters. It’s not as aggressive of a rocker as some shoes from Hoka, but definitely it’s got that rocker feel. That 33 and 16 are the heights of the toe and heel off the ground, respectively. If you’re a Hoka fan, then you know they like rockers and this shoe has that. One of those is “S33x16,” which is the spring of the shoe. I think that this shoe actually accomplishes that fairly well.Ī couple other points here, you see some statistics written on the midsole. So this shoe is aimed at the responsive side versus the stability side, or even versus the plush side of the Hoka line. This shoe uses the PROFLY foam, which is the same foam used in the Carbon X, their fast road racing shoe.

There is no pronation control, there’s no type of cage that diverts your foot to do anything specific. You can see a much thinner midsole in general.

In fact, this falls into what I would call minimal for a Hoka. Most of us trail runners know that Hoka’s thing is maximal stack height. Speaking of midsole, let’s cross over into the Hoka One One Torrent 2’s midsole. Hoka One One Torrent 2 Midsoleīecause there’s no rock plate in the midsole, you get ground feel in this shoe. Overall it works pretty well, but you can see this lug’s out on the side and it’s out on the corner, and it doesn’t take much downhill on aggressive terrain for them to break. Rather than being a full piece of rubber that’s laminated to the midsole, the midsole is carved out and then tread are glued down into those carved-out holes. The downside to that is some of these things wear. The midsole is exposed in a lot of places. All of this orange on the bottom is the midsole. You can see there are a lot of weight savings here. This is a nice in-between, where there’s enough traction via the lugs and the rubber type’s friction that it’s going to provide a bit more grip. I have some trail shoes that are definitely harder rubber, and they have a tendency to almost slide across something like that. I feel like there’s enough traction on this, that it’s not an unsafe type of shoe. It feels good when you’re going across something kind of slick, like a wet bridge.

They use a slightly sticky rubber compound on here, which works well in a lot of conditions. You have forward-facing lugs in the front and rear-facing lugs in the back to aid in traction going uphill and downhill. You’ve got some pretty deep lugs on this shoe, especially because this is meant to be a faster shoe. Let’s draw your attention to the yellow and black, which is the outsole itself. You can a see lot going on, cool patterns on the bottom. Let’s look at the Hoka One One Torrent 2 outsole. All photos: iRunFar Hoka One One Torrent 2 Outsole

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