What makes Ocun (s)tick?

With their popularity continuing to grow across the UK, Ocun's climbing shoes have proved one of the climbing scene's runaway success stories of the last few years.   

We wanted to get a look behind-the-scenes at the Czech company's rubber laboratory to find out what makes Ocun shoes tick - and stick!

Talking to Ocun chief designer Martin Sedlak, here's Lucie Trojanova's blog account of the process involved in developing, testing and manufacturing Ocun's rubber.   It's a fascinating read!