rydra_wong: Two bare feet and ankles sticking out of rolled-up jeans. (body -- barefoot)

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posted by [personal profile] rydra_wong at 08:48pm on 01/01/2016
This coming week I'm going to try climbing gently on both feet again, and see how it goes.

Fingers crossed for you!

And buy some new shoes! My big toe nails are still damaged from the compression of the current pair when it was hot in France (the rubber curves over the big toe, meaning there is no-where for the toe to expand).

I FEEL YOUR PAIN. I have bunions and a very dodgy right big toe joint, so anything that has that rubber extending right over the big toe for toe-hooks tends to be a disaster for me.

What shoes do you have atm, and what are you considering?
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posted by [personal profile] emperor at 03:54pm on 02/01/2016
I always used to love the 5.10 spires, but they were discontinued. My current pair (which did for my toes in France once it got hot) are La Sportiva Tarantulaces. I think I may try the 5.10 Anasazi Guide, as I gather they are from a very similar last to the Spires; although I may have to get them online, as I don't think anyone local stocks them :-/
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rydra_wong: "i like to climb alot". The xkcd stick figure climbs up the side of Hyperbole and a Half's yak-like "alot." (climbing -- alot)

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posted by [personal profile] rydra_wong at 10:33am on 03/01/2016
There's also the Five Ten Rogue, which I gather is based on a softened version of the Anasazi last (you can get them in velcro or lace-ups) -- I'm considering trying them as a comfy multi-pitch shoe, though I don't always get on with Five Tens.

Oh, and some people loooove the Sportiva Mythos, I know.

ETA again: have you had any advice re: shoes after the broken metatarsal? Obviously it was a different injury, but when I got back into climbing after mine, I needed to use very stiff shoes for a while to minimize the stress on my foot.
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