Hoka One One Clifton 9

In this new iteration, the Hoka One One Clifton 9 assumes the challenge of not messing with what already exists, offering exactly what its unconditional fans expect of it: an impressive sole with a soft touch, a drop of 5 mm and high quality materials, at the height of the sale price (it is not cheap, in case someone expected otherwise). One cannot lose sight of the fact that part of its sales success is due to the fact that it is a shoe that is increasingly used for the street or simply walking, something that the American brand of French origin also encourages with the wide variety of colors for those concerned about combining them correctly they can combine them with the rest of the wardrobe.

It is striking that one of the changes compared to its predecessor Clifton 8 shoe for the worse and that is that the new upper cut breathes much worse to put it mildly. On the buttress of the heel, both the brand name and the part that rises to protect the Achilles becomes larger. The second is great, while there was no need for the first, you already pay enough for the shoe to go advertising it. As for the complaints about how narrow they can feel when running on a fairly wide platform, there's usually a special width edition but maybe the problem is not with the shoe itself.

Most interesting thing on the list. Clifton 9 is the reconfiguration of the midsole. It maintains the Meta-Rocker geometry with the aforementioned 5mm of drop but adds a few millimeters to the height, plays with cuts of different sizes and directions to improve its dynamic performance and presents an evolution of compressed EVA when the rest of the brands opt for compounds that seem designed to conquer space instead of rolling on solid ground. The sole follows the trend of the latest editions and increases the amount of rubber more and more with a configuration that barely differs in a couple of details from what is already known, all to increase durability. Let's go for a run.