The Kataki also features the tubular neoprene tongue of the Katana Lace, which helps make the Kataki one of the most comfortable downturned shoes I’ve ever worn. The idea behind this is that it’s supposed to help you really fine-tune the fit of the shoe more so than with a traditional lacing system. The Kataki uses an almost identical lacing system as the Katana Lace, which consists of more concentrated lacing near the toe and more spaced-out lacing over the midfoot and near the ankle. That said, the two shoes have subtle differences, namely in the shape and stiffness of the toe box and the amount of downturn and asymmetry of the two shoes’ lasts. Many of the features of the Kataki are nearly identical to that of the Katana Lace, from the lacing to the neoprene sock liner. I used the Kataki on a wide variety of climbs to see how this Otaki / Katana Lace hybrid performed, and to figure out if the Kataki would be the shoe that would finally replace the Katana Lace. Well, the Kataki takes many features of the Katana Lace (my personal favorite shoe of all time) and combines them with the slightly more aggressive last and face-climbing-oriented design of the Otaki. So this begs the question, “Why go with the Kataki when the Katana Lace and Otaki are both strong 1-shoe quiver options?” But the Otaki was also very similar to another excellent option in the 1-shoe quiver category, the La Sportiva Katana Lace.
Katana slippery rock crack#
The La Sportiva Kataki is the lace-up version of their Otaki, which Dave Alie reviewed last year and found to be an excellent shoe for climbs that involve both technical face climbing and a bit of crack climbing, making it a very strong contender in the “one shoe for everything” category.
Test Locations: Wild Iris, WY Bozeman Area & Gallatin Canyon, MT Indian Creek, UT
Available Sizes: EU M’s 33-46 EU W’s 32-43īlister’s Measured Weight Per Shoe (size 41): 295 g
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