Hoji on the new Dynafit Hoji Boots

GEAR:30

BLISTER

Arts, Design, Skiing, Snow, Snowboarding, Sports, Outdoors, Bike, Technology, Gear

4.9 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2017

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Dynafit is introducing today their new Hoji series of boots, so we went very in-depth with Hoji himself about the boot, what makes it unique, and what's potentially still to come. (And there's more information in the show notes to this podcast episode on our website.)

TOPICS & TIMES:

Welcome to our new GEAR:30 podcast (0:00)
When and where the idea of Blister was born (1:10)
What were the design aims of this boot, and what is unique about it? (2:52)
The “PDA” design of this boot (15:42)
The various iterations of the “Hoji” boot (18:07)
Weight of the Hoji (23:32)
The width of the boot + Hoji’s sizing recommendations (27:18)
Fit of the Hoji Pro Tour vs. Fit of the Dynafit Vulcan (31:15)
The buckles & ankle retention (35:30); Crampon Compatibility (39:58)
Range of Motion - Forward & Rearward (42:05)
Durability - Bushings & Cables (44:33)
Hoji’s approach to boot testing (53:20)
Where would you locate the Hoji among the Vulcan, Beast, and TLT 7? (1:00:15)
Where would you locate the Hoji among non-Dynafit boots? (1:02:31)
Flex of the boot (1:07:17)
Why Eric thinks you should try skiing with your boots unbuckled (1:12:58)
Any plans to work on a new AT binding? (1:16:05)

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0:00.0	Welcome to the very first episode of our new Blister podcast, Gear 30.
0:11.2	I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and as always, you can check us out online
0:15.9	at blisterreview.com.
0:18.6	We decided to launch Gear 30 because we wanted to create a podcast that was all about
0:23.2	diving deep into the details of the most interesting and innovative new gear out there.
0:29.0	And our very first topic and guests are a perfect fit because there are few, if any,
0:33.8	skiers who are more obsessed than Eric Heurlifson with finding new ways to make their
0:38.3	gear work better. Furthermore, DeNafit is introducing today their new Hoji series of boots, so we
0:44.8	talked to Hoji himself about this new boot and what makes it unique, where he would locate
0:50.2	it among the current DeNafit and non-Denafit boots on the market, the lengthy development
0:55.1	process of this Hoji boot, and what's potentially still to come.
1:02.1	These first episodes of Gear 30 are being brought to you by Marble Brewery, and this makes
1:07.0	me very happy because I have been a huge fan of marble for many years now,
1:11.4	and they happen to make one of my favorite beers of all time, the Marble Double White Ale.
1:17.0	But the other reason we're so happy to have Marble as our inaugural sponsor is because
1:20.9	the idea of Blister was literally born at Marble on the 4th of July 2010. One of my best friends from grad school, Mike Clark,
1:30.3	was in town visiting for the fourth, so we headed to Marvel because I'd been telling him about
1:34.7	double white. I don't honestly remember whether we were on our first or second pint of double
1:39.7	white, but as I was telling Mike about how screwed up and messed up the gear review industry was,
1:45.5	Mike started insisting that I ought to start a review publication that did things different.
1:51.0	And so it was on Independence Day while drinking double white at marble with one of my best friends
1:56.0	that the idea for this independent review site was born.
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