“I drew the pattern for this sole tread sitting at my kitchen table with a delicious cold beer next to my eraser. The thing is, I like a nice cold beer, but then that's a different story. With this type of ‘commando’ soles, one is always bound to the classic treaded sole look. The rectangular bars along the sole edge have to be there, otherwise it’ll be too different from the typical ‘commando’ sole and we don’t want that. This means that you need to look for variations when you don’t really have much room for variations at all. So in a way, this design put me in a … wait for it… STRANGLEHOLD! That thought alone was enough to inspire me to come up with this new design for the sole profile…”