Satisfy‘s highly successful collaboration with Hoka earlier this year kicked up plenty of dirt but now it looks like the French running label is ready to blaze its own trail.
TheRocker, launching next summer, will represent Satisy’s inaugural in-house trail shoe. But it could also be seen as something of a first for trail running at large.
Get a grip
The shoe’s headline feature is a unique outsole pattern inspired by RC-car tires, defined by circular and conical lugs and a 360° Wrap Construction, whereby some extend up the side of the midsole.
Satisfy calls the technology TuneLug and the premise is simple, even if its execution is anything but.
The goal, it says, is to provide multidirectional traction on rugged surfaces, while remaining stable, responsive and durable in “urban environments” — that is, roads and sidewalks, which can chew up the lugs of more technical trainers made for the mountains.
