paper shoe

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1. Marsya on November 21, 2012 at 2:13 am

   These shoes were designed with the best inntet but aren’t as great as Mad Rock believes them to be. First the shoe size does not fit what you wear in street shoes. I wear a men’s 10 in street shoes and bought a 10 in these shoes, having read they fit small and I currently wear a 9.5 comfortably with a pair of La Sportiva Katanas. It was super painful to put them on and take off so I decided to return them for a half size bigger, 10.5 but i’m still having trouble getting the shoes to fit. I’m hoping there will be some stretching over time. The new rubber (Science Friction) that Mad Rock has designed is super sticky like they advertise but it’s SOOO soft and malleable that after one short day or bouldering on granite, the shoe no longer has a sharp toe edge for getting footing on little crimpers or flakes on the wall. The rubber designed for these shoes is best fit for smearing on faces, the shoe won’t last long with trying to lay some precision foot placements on crimpers as the sharp edge deforms quickly and easily.

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