Tarifa offers all the advantages of a lace-up shoe but still manages to leave the instep as free from clutter as in a velcro model, and the addition of super-sticky rubber to this area makes for superb toe-hooking characteristics. Tarifa’s design focuses all your power to the front of the sole and delivers maximum control on all kinds of difficult-to-use footholds. Like other models in the Aerial Plus line, the Tarifa perfoms superbly in subtle foot placements on the tiny or marginal holds of vertical rock, but it’s curved, toe-down shape also delivers the goods on overhanging routes.