The New Standard

By Steven Ranked #313 - Climbing Shoes January 21, 2010

I have gone through more than my fair share of climbing shoes. However, the Cobras have become my go to shoe for just about everything nowadays. I love the seemingly perfect balance of flexibility and stiffness with this shoe, I can easily paw a foot hold on really step stuff and yet count on them to be there for me when I need support for a thin techy route. At first the heel would slip off, but the shoes have quickly molded to my feet and now the heel is bomber. I sized them the same as my Solutions which are 40.0s, my street shoe size is a 10.5/11...so yeah I really downsized them a lot, but that's how I roll. I don't have much a heel so sometimes I have to go smaller than normal, although these shoes have solved that problem but creating an enormously large callous around both of my heels. It actually now appears that I do in fact have normal feet with normal heels, so that's another plus.

Bottom line is these shoes are what Moses used to solo Mt. Sinai, so don't miss your calling and pick up a pair of these babies.

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