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trenchdigger
Feb 10, 2011, 7:45 AM
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vegastradguy wrote: granite_grrl wrote: I'm not sure how you can climb 5.12 and keep wearing out your shoes where you do. Foot holds on harder routes are generally smaller (hard to place your foot on them to get that kind or wear) and standing on your toes is a good way to maximize your reach, better spot to pivot from, and so forth. Generally I see this kind of shoe wear from people who don't climb harder than 5.10. nah, thats where my shoes wear as well. i've never worn my toes out (although many of my friends do, including folks that dont climb as hard as i do)- i could see that on alot of REALLY steep climbing, but even in the gym on the steepest stuff, i dont toe point that much. shoes generally last me about 9-12 months, give or take. I'm going to throw out a wild guess that you guys don't climb much granite. I don't remember the last time I climbed a route where even half of the footholds were big enough to put any more than a tiny portion of my big toe on. I climb a lot of granite involving a significant amount of thin slab and face, as well as cracks, and my shoes tend to wear the most about 1/8 to 1/4" in from the edge of the shoe, right under the big toe. I like to think I have pretty good footwork, and I've gone through a lot more than 6 pairs of shoes in just 8 years of climbing.
(This post was edited by trenchdigger on Feb 10, 2011, 7:49 AM)
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