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We're with Ryan Eckle, the chief
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marketing officer for Diodora USA. And
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we've had our espresso. May have another
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one. It's always good in the Diodora
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booth. And Ryan's got a few shoes to
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show us. Quite a contrast going on here.
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Go ahead, Ryan.
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So, I'll start with the Chela 2, which
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is a significant update of the Chelio
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one, which was one of my favorite Diodor
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shoes. Uh, the first thing we did is
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improve the fit. We widened it to to
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make it fit more like the Nucleio
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Nucleio 2, which is our bestselling
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shoe. and and has become really known
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for its stepping comfort. So, um but
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this is a a you know, a more responsive
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shoe. Uh it's it's a bit firmer. It's
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meant for people who don't want
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something super soft they're going to
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sink into, but something that's going to
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kind of give them a little bit of energy
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back. We have uh our Anima N2 in the
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forefoot, which is a super critical EVA
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to to help with uh just give you a
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little bit of pop with toe off. So, this
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is a
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definitely noticed it in my test pair,
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the front pop compared to version one.
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Yeah,
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this is a shoe that if you know it's
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it's it's versatile isn't the the you
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know is is what how would describe it.
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It's uh when I have to travel for a week
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I'm going to get in a long run, a tempo
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run, maybe even some speed work, uh an
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easy run, this is the shoe I pack.
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Excellent. And under foot, what does it
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look like? Um the outsole.
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Yeah, the So show you the outsole here.
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Yeah. And it's uh it's a stack of stack
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of 38, a drop of five.
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Excellent. And the price
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uh price is 185.
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And it's available.
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It's available now. Just came out.
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It's an excellent I would call it stable
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neutral trainer with lots of good
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cushion.
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Okay, sounds good. But let's go now.
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We're going to go into some I guess
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more.
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So yeah,
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this is uh this comes out in the end of
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January. Uh this is the Vigori V. So
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this is a stability shoe, but we decided
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to have a little fun with it and and
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kind of challenge ourselves to make a
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fast more responsive stability shoe. So
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uh we in our the way that Diodora does
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kind of delivers stability is through
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our blue shield technology which is a
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sort of a a pod type system that
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compresses. It's a bit like stepping on
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sand where it gives you you have shoe
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gives you support where you need it. Um
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it it almost individualizes the support
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as and it guides your foot through the
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through the through through the the the
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cycle.
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The top foam is what on the blue shield.
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So now this is the change with the vigor
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which is also the five for it's our
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fifth one. This is now we're moving to
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our N2 which is a super critical EVA. So
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it's going to be a more responsive
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snappier poppier uh stability shoe. And
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we thought with all the developments of
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midsole compounds, we didn't want to
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leave that that you know to have the
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neutral cushion category be the only one
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that benefits from that. So this will
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deliver a little bit of the feel uh that
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you get from the from these great
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insole compounds.
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Yeah. And um so January and
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January this is 185 as well.
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Excellent. Thanks Ryan. Oh, got one
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more. Got one more.
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This is a cherry. This is uh this is the
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mezopondo also just launched.
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This is a uh a mid distance spike. So
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this is 1500 to 5,000.
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Look at that.
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We we've been working on this for for a
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couple of years and we didn't want to
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release a spike until we were confident
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we had something that was, you know, the
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fastest in the world. So we've been
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working on it, refining it, testing in
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the lab, testing on athletes. Uh, one of
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our athletes, Marco Langan, who runs a
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Villanova, wore it over the summer and
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in the course of a week, uh, PR twice in
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less than ideal conditions, running a
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mile by himself, uh, and then a 5K in
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the rain. Um, we know those things
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really fast and, uh, we're excited to be
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able to kind of have athletes across the
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country line there.
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So, that's
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that's non. So, under this is full
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length carbon. This is this is nylon
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through through here. and a carbon
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carbon as well.
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Carbon plate. And it um
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it's available now.
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It's a it just came out. It's available
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now in select retailers uh across the
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country
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and we're going to be reviewing them. We
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have a couple folks who can deal with
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the spike in good form and so we've got
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them in test and it's uh we don't do too
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many spikes, but this one looks fun.
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This one will be fun.
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Thank you, Ryan. Thanks Sam.