Scarpa Quantix SF - Technical Shoe With ALL-DAY Comfort | Sneak Peek 2022

Hi, welcome to Scarpa, I thought I might give you some details on this new model that we have in our new family called the Quantix. So the Quantix makes up of four different versions, there's the Quantix and then there's the Quantix SF, which we might talk about a bit more in detail today. So the shape of the Quantix you can see is medium downturned, you can see the SF is a little bit more aggressive right at the tip here, a little bit more downturned, and it's only slightly asymmetrical, very very slight, but generally quite straight, quite wide at the forefoot here, and quite narrow at the heel. So a different shape from our other Scarpa shoes, and you can see also that the toe profile is fairly high on the Quantix, so a lot of toe power right at the end here. Without the rubber on the upper, you can see some of the differences of the SF. First you can see these Alcantara panels at the front here, so there's two of them, one on each side, quite large, extending down all the way down the foot, and you can see that the big toe has this large panel of Alcantara pocket that sits in the front here, and that gives a really nice feeling and starts moulding into the shape, especially in this really toe power focused shoe. You can see also a lot of this orange microfibre around the outside here, and that's twin ply microfibre, so really quite strong, giving really good compression to the foot, and then you can see this textured microfibre that's around in this pocket of this heel, that gives a little bit more elasticity to the heel section and a little bit more texture under when it gets a bit sweaty. So it's made up of these different materials from Alcantara to microfibre to textured microfibre in the back. The next layer is the midsole. It's quite a significant midsole, because the whole upper is quite soft, and you can see it's flex and dynamic and extends quite far down to just before the end of the heel here at the bottom here, and it gives quite a bit of support, but the shoe overall is quite a flexible shoe, and I would say intermediate for support. The real key to the shoe is this SF frame, which is the next piece. You can see first it's one piece that runs the whole shoe. It wraps up and around the whole shoe in here, really working like a hand around the outside of the shoe, and you can see here especially these grooves stand out in the front of this SF system, and that means that when the shoe flexes, it's still got this strong, precise rubber to block the foot and give really good toe power, but it also flexes really smoothly and it breaks up this flex point, giving a really, really nice even flex to the shoe and a really nice feeling all the way over. You can see at the top here it's got a really minimalistic toe patch of M50 rubber, just to try and keep the top of the shoe working really well with the foot, giving really good elasticity, and then at the top you can see it's finished with two Velcro straps that really lock the foot in. So this Quantic SF, we really hope that you enjoy this really dynamic shoe with great toe power and excellent flex.