#148 [BONUS] Kenny Suh — MORE Shocking Industry Tell All, How Most Shoe Companies Came To Exist, and $300 Climbing Shoes?! from The Testpiece Podcast

#148 [BONUS] Kenny Suh — MORE Shocking Industry Tell All, How Most Shoe Companies Came To Exist, and $300 Climbing Shoes?!

48 minutes Posted Mar 21, 2025 at 12:00 pm.

Intro

Continuing Where We Left Off

How Evolv Was Created

How Butora Was Created From Evolv

Economics 101 Of Manufacturing And The Why Behind This ‘Web’

The Drama With Unparrallel

The Drama With 5.10

‘Italian’ Shoes Made In China??

$300 Climbing Shoes?!

Red Chili, Mammut, Edelrid Manufacturing

‘Shoe Geeks’

Boreal History

How Rubber Technology Has Changed Over The Years

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This is a continuation of the last episode with Kenny, #147. Please listen to that episode first for context!

Kenny and Josh hop back on to explore even more drama and links between Mad Rock and 5.10, Evolv, Butora, Red Chili, Black Diamond, So iLL, La Sportiva, Scarpa, Mammut, Edelrid, Yosemite Bum, Cypher... did we forget anyone? Oh ya, Unparrallel! You can't miss that one...

Enjoy this deep dive on the usually opaque world of climbing gear manufacturing!

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