"Awesomeness" - Review of Five Ten Dragon Climing Shoe

This shoe is absolutely amazing. The laces allow the shoe to hug your foot, with your foot feeling as though it has been dipped in rubber. Extremely powerful for anything overhung or itty-bitty edging (though you'll feel the pain on slab). The heel is well designed, much less of the huge boxy-ness of the Anasazis, with a somewhat thin strip of rubber that is perfect for thin heel hooks. Sized them a 1/2 size larger than other 5.10 shoes and it seems to work well . . . shoes were too tight to wear for more than ~20 minutes initially, but slowly stretch maybe a 1/2 size after a bit less than a month of climbing in them. Shoes are not too uncomfortable now to wear for even 45 minutes or more, but still feel the perfect size, as it takes 5 minutes to put on the size smaller. Rubber is ridiculously sticky with the extremely cambered toe. Recommend this to any boulderer over practically any other shoe. Climbing V7+ in them right now, and they're going all the way.
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