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Diadora Gara Carbon, Frequenza, & Cellula Reviews: Coherent Rotation Exciting Rides, Italian Style!
May 23, 2024
Diadora emerging very strong in 2004! In the video I review their all new line up: Gara Carbon racer ($300), Frequenza ($180) fun uptempo trainer, and steady and for sure not boring more max cushion Cellula ($170). It's a really complimentary runner's do it all rotation, each excellent and polished in its own way.
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Hi everyone, Sam from Road Trail Run. Today we're going to talk about Deodorant's
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really exciting 24 line up of Carbon Racer, the Gaara Carbon Frequenza
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up-tempo shoe and a Maxx Cushion or near Maxx Cushion, the Cellula. I haven't been
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on the channel too much because in November I busted my kneecap trail
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running and I had some titanium installed, here's a picture, but I am
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back at it and I've been running about 30 miles a week and I even got a little
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bit more kind of speedy stuff going yesterday in the rain in the Gaara
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Carbon. So what has Deodorant done here with this lineup? Well essentially I think
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they've come up with a really good three shoe rotation so you can you can race
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in the Carbon, the Gaara Carbon. You've got sort of the fun up-tempo shoe in the
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Frequenza and here you've got your Maxx Cushion Daily Trainer. What I really like
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about what they've done is each shoe is very distinct in its use and its
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personality. They complement each other really well. So let's first talk about
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the Cellula. The Cellula has their excellent D.D. Anima foam. We saw that in
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the Equipe Adamo which was a shoe made entirely in Italy. This one isn't but of
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course it's designed in Italy and it's beautiful. A little bit of background
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about Deodorant, they've been around a long time and their leader of running is
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Galindo Borodin who won the 1988 Olympic marathon and won Boston in 1990. He knows
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his shoes and he's been instrumental in helping design all the models. So our
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Cellula is a shoe that weighs just under 10 ounces or 277 grams in a US 9. It's
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got a quite large 33-28 stack height so it doesn't get up into those extreme
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kind of levels of stack height and that's really appreciated because and
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I'll try not to tip everything over we've got some welcome flexibility here
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long flex. We've got a broad platform which is 90 millimeters at the heel 75
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at the midfoot and 110 at the forefoot so you have not an extreme height but
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plenty and a broad platform. So what you get with the Anima foam is a really
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vibration absorbing foam. It's a bit dense but it has a kind of a quick
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rebound. The upper is sort of a grid inner kind of liner and a more kind of
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mono mesh very pliable. They've done a great job here with the toe bumpers. It's
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a suede like material so you got plenty of height plenty of volume so for medium
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narrow feet it fits really well. None of the Deodorant shoes have a gusset
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tongue so you have a suede kind of tongue same kind of suede as our
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overlays and but you can see there's enough substance here to hold you and in
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particular we've got really a really stout kind of rear construction very
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comfortable this gridded mesh really holds the foot well so I've really
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enjoyed a lot of runs in this shoe as I come back from my knee. I like the
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flexibility I like the cushion doesn't go to extreme so it's a really nice
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daily trainer focused on your regular old miles and recovery. Moving over to
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the Frequenza so it has a completely different foam it's a super critical
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EVA it's a considerably lighter shoe and we come in at 8.15 ounces or 231
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grams US 9 30 millimeter heel 22 millimeter forefoot so a little bit
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lower stack and I'll try to show you but this is a very or a quite reasonably
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flexible shoe so it's sort of your fun up-tempo trainer it's got a really
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lively bouncy ride maybe not quite as stable as the Cellula but it's it's sort
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of a shoe that I see as comparable to shoes such as the Rebel V4 from New
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Bounce here we have a bit lower stack we have a bit more kind of longer flex
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other shoes the Nova Blast from Asics the Nova Blast is considerably higher
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stack you're a little bit more not quite as kind of connected to the ground this
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is a bit of a old-school ride with a new school foam so it's really kind of a fun
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fun kind of shoe it actually reminds me a lot of the Puma Liberate in a little
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bit more kind of substance to it maybe even a Canvara with a bit with more
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bounce maybe a touch less stability again the upper very similar to the the
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Cellula we've got our suede overlays we've got that kind of gridded approach
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we've got a little bit smoother kind of fitting rear collar still very
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substantial hold kind of essential with such a with such a light kind of upper
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again no gusset tongue here suede tongue now let's move on to the Gaara Carbon
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this is the Adora's Pinnacle race shoe and it is an unusual a bit unusual
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design I'll see if we can show you here it's very kind of flat in geometry
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however what's really neat about it is it's very stable very kind of planted on
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the ground towards the rear of the shoe you see that big outrigger and you can
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see there's very little kind of carving out except for the midfoot I was a bit
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worried about the outsole I've got about 12 miles on them now including on really
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gritty sand and unlike some of your other supercritical foam shoes and here
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we have a Peeba midsole you can see it's quite soft there's not much rubber I am
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seeing zero wear here and I'm not seeing any of sort of the characteristic kind
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of scuffing you see with a Vaporfly 4% I'm really quite stunned up front we've
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got a really copious amount of rubber yesterday I took them out in the rain
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my fastest run since I busted my knee and kind of one of the longest fastest
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runs I ran 839 per mile nothing fancy even for me but they were very
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accommodating at that pace so I could see this being a really nice marathon
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shoe for me now the upper yeah we do have the the kind of suede tongue as we
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have in the others but we have a matrix upper here similar to what we have in or
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the same from the same company as what Solomon uses very thin but the Kevlar
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you see the black stripes here allow for a lot of hold and a lot of room as well
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this is a very roomy comfortable upper we come in in terms of weight and let me
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get to that we come in at 7.7 ounces 218 grams in the US 9 with a 39 34 stack
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height so pretty much the maximum this is a 5 millimeter drop shoe so with that
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lower drop you get a bit of additional weight in the mix it fits no question
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true to size and the hold is really good so a big part of the hold advantage
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here is a really stout much stouter than usual heel counter well lined you can
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see it's completely lined on the inside so you're super well held in this light
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upper so they didn't skimp at all in that department now we get some planes
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coming over I'm gonna take a look no it's not the Italians they were flying
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by they bet they're actually visiting our airport here on the way to somewhere
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but you can see that lining showing through and yesterday in the rain I own
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they only gained 10 grams per shoe and weight so that it doesn't absorb much
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water outsole grip was good on dry and wet road not so good on all the sand
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that's the wet sand kind of muddy sand from all of our recent storms so
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Deodora has really pulled off something special here with a coherent all-of-a
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piece rotation for the runner all new shoes all all brand new each with
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different foam so they're really really making a statement here and I got
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thinking back it reminds me of the emergence of the endorphin line from
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Saucony all of a sudden with you know the pro the speed and the shift and here
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they've given the shoes even a bit more distinct characters with your racer your
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uptempo and your daily trainer so very impressed with what Deodora has done
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here now in terms of comparables to our cellular the ones that come to mind here
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are the Saucony ride 17 here we've got a little bit firmer ride a little more
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dialed in upper they're all true to size for me and I think this is kind and and
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not quite as bouncy but a steadier presence another one that comes to mind
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the new balance 1080 the latest version very soft very sloppy upper really for
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me kind of all about comfort a bit less about performance running another one
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Brooks glycerin with the regular upper not the stealth fit again a great foam
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but not much of an upper to kind of keep up with it in terms of the frequenza as
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I said before some of the ones that come to mind here with the frequenza
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would be the rebel before which is probably a little a little kind of more
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uptempo focus less flexible the Puma liberate nitro from a few years ago but
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here we got more shoe the oh yes and the Nike invincible run one and two not the
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three similar kind of energy a bit more control here a bit more kind of geometry
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that did and heel counter and construction that kind of keeps you a
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little bit more stable in terms of the gara carbon and we have multi test
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reviews of all of them this one's interesting it it reminds me quite a bit
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of say the Brooks Hyperion elite but with a much more energetic midsole that
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shoe well known for its stability but not much fun on its ride this one has a
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fun ride a steady ride there's no really pronounced rocker or toe spring but it
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is for sure felt there's just kind of a general consistency from front to back
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in this shoe that I think makes it a really good choice for the marathoner
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and particularly for the marathoner like me who's probably around four hours
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maybe a bit less but certainly faster runners could benefit because you've got
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you can see how that outrigger really keeps it stable and it's fairly easy to
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find its four roll if I was to change anything here I might accentuate a
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little bit the drop-in but the plate isn't like harsh in any any way if we
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press we can feel it below with a little bit of foam below it but we've also have
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plenty of softness for your toe off in here that's key to drop in and toe off
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off the front finally the cellular in terms of comparisons we talked about the
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1080 a little earlier yes the a6 gel nimbus this is a lower stack shoe much
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more agile not nearly the blocky heel feel you get in the nimbus especially at
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slower paces and we're considerably lighter another one that that kind of
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fits between the frequenza and the cellular is the new high-low impact also
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with an EVA supercritical foam that one's softer it probably fit is closer
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really to the frequenza I really liked how they did the geometry in that one to
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deal with the soft foam maybe even a bit better than what's here and then let's
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see oh well we should we should mention in terms of our gara carbon what's it
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closest to well we talked about the Hyperion elite for also reminds me
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especially the rear of the shoe of the Solomon phantasm s lab s lab to the
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Solomon has a more pronounced kind of drop-in feel but not quite as kind of
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forgiving up front but very kind of similar the Solomon's also much softer
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at the heel so if you're on your heel you're gonna feel it more than in this
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shoe so this one's a good one for if you tend to heel strike which most of us do
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so I'm glad to be back on the channel thank you very much for watching we have
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multi tester reviews of all three over at road trail run calm just follow the
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link have a great run
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