How To Design A Trail Shoe With Dave Dombrow & Bryan Bhark | Freetrail Friday 3/25
The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman
Dylan Bowman
5 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Today on Freetrail Friday we welcome Dave Dombrow, co-founder of Speedland, and Bryan Bhark, Senior Innovation Footwear Developer at Brooks Running, for a conversation about the product side of our industry. We dive into the whole process of creating great trail footwear from design to launch with two industry veterans. I’m always curious about the creative minds who make physical goods and I’m excited to learn more about the process, the challenges, and the feeling of seeing creations come to life.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, welcome everybody to Free Trail Friday. Hope everybody's having a great end of your week. Welcome to our fun |
| 0:23.5 | little Friday weekly live stream. I'm joined today by Dave Dombrow and Brian Bark. We're going to |
| 0:29.7 | talk about the process of making trail footwear. These guys are very experienced on the product |
| 0:37.2 | side of the running industry. And I'm really excited to hear all about the process of creating the most important piece of equipment that we all take out under the trails every day from the concept and ideation of the product to the actual launch. It's going to be really fun. We're going to talk about the |
| 0:54.5 | creative process, the challenges, the joy of seeing the footwear out on the trails on people's feet |
| 1:01.8 | and see that idea come into reality in physical form. If you've got questions for our guests |
| 1:08.7 | today, please make sure to drop them in the chat. |
| 1:11.5 | Let us know where you're writing in from. |
| 1:14.6 | We're going to pull the best questions out of there, and I'm going to try to introduce them |
| 1:19.0 | into the conversation today. |
| 1:21.6 | We're going to have Dave and Brian introduce themselves in just a second before we get to it. |
| 1:26.9 | A big thank you to ORARing, our sponsor |
| 1:29.0 | of all of our free trail Friday live streams. I am rocking an 84 readiness score today, guys. So I should |
| 1:37.7 | be in top form for our conversation, 85 heart rate variability last night. So good vibes for our Friday morning compliments of |
| 1:47.3 | horror ring. For those who are watching or listening, please do take advantage of our |
| 1:52.5 | special offer. You can find a link in the description here in YouTube or in the show notes |
| 1:57.1 | of the podcast where you can get six months free subscription with a purchase of the new |
| 2:03.6 | gen three ring these things are super cool i've been using them for four or five years from |
| 2:08.6 | the first generation and we are super appreciative to have oara's support of free trail friday |
| 2:14.9 | also speaking of products check out my fire new trail culture, |
| 2:20.8 | Kroonak. We just put these on the website yesterday. Almost sold out already. We've only got |
| 2:26.4 | three size smalls left. So if you guys are in the market for some swag, please do visit |
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