Great Beginner Shoe

By Shannon Meador Ranked #175 - Climbing Shoes May 2, 2011

If you are a beginner I would highly recommend these shoes to you. If you have very narrow feet, like me, I would highly suggest you get these in the lace version. Get these as small and painfully tight as you can possibly stand them, they WILL stretch, and if you climb regularly, as you get better as a climber, you will probably "grow" out of these real quick.

I got these as my first climbing shoe and after climbing about 3-5 times a week for about 3 months these shoes could know longer match my abilities as a climber and it was time to move on to a more aggressive shoe. When I do put these shoes back on they feel HUGE and I wish I would have gotten them a lot smaller, even though they felt "tight" to me when I first got them.

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