When Mizuno launched the original Morelia Neo 2 Beta it marked the start of a new approach from Mizuno that would push them to compete more in the speed boot race. While the Morelia Neo 2 was a speed boot by all accounts, it never had the tech that other boots in the space had. The Beta models changed this. And this year we got a new Beta with some new tech, like the Beta Mesh upper and the BF (barefoot) knit. Although it shares a lot of similarities with it’s younger brother, the Morelia Neo 3 Japan, the Morelia Neo III Beta Japan stands apart from its sibling and shows that when it comes to performance, the Beta deserves to be talked about in the same breath as other speed boots.