Had these for 3 months. Honestly, the best shoes you can buy. Expensive, but well worth the price. They are comfy for such a down turned shoe. Anything intense, feels like a breeze. (Especially fro mantles). I’m also very fond of toe hooks and these do it for me.

OK, so initially this shoe was all the rage and sean McColl climbed with it in the gripped magazine photo up but over time it starts to loose that really sweet edge it once had. my friends, my mentor, everyone had this shoe and we all agreed that it was the best shoe ever created but over time we trashed them just because they lost their beautiful edging and the heel was too big for me so instead i like my moccysyms* now and i'm using the olutions only as training and can't wait till i see a hole in them so that i can get some Jet7's. don't get me wrong i loved this shoe but it's time has passed, so i recommend that you buy this shoe quite snuggly for the heel, and just know that they'll dull over time. good for some bad for others....

A little durability could be added to the straps but they'll still last you for a year of more than moderate climbing. I also own the Testarossas but I havent used them very often since I got these. The single strap velcro is just too convenient.

Not just to play on words, but seriously, climbing shoes come in all shapes and sizes, and all seem to specialize in a particular area of climbing. La Sportiva has come up with a solution to feeling secure on your feet, while being comfortable, no matter what the terrain.

Like most other reviewers noted, the fit IS great. I have wide feet for a women, but I also have small feet, and 2 different shoe sizes. Till I started climbing in the Solutions, never has a pair of shoes fit as well as these have. I can't fit into women's Sportiva shoes, they are too narrow. I've tried on most womens 'agressive shoes', and within a second, the pain was unbearable. I wore women's 5.10s and MadRocks before, and the rubber on the Sportiva's feel more sticky and seem to wear better than prior brands.

Though these shoes are geared towards bouldering, I've used them with vertical sport routes that had little to no feet at spots, and I felt very secure on my feet. Trad routes are the same. Even when jamming my feet into cracks, I am still comfortable. By the end of a short trad multi-pitch, the shoes begin to feel not quite as comfortable, but I had that with any shoe, no matter how flat lasted and comfy they were to begin with. I've tried them on a little bit of more overhanging routes, and still, its the same outcome--comfy, secure, and they produce.

Thanks La Sportiva for creating such a fine shoe.

Had these now for over 2 months but I took it slowly writing this review up because I wanted to get a really good feel for how they are. Well, now I can safely say it - they are awesome!
Totally different to any other rock shoe I have ever tired - but it works!
I'll explain:
Fit - Got them as small as I could. Initially, even getting into them was a near impossibility. Sizing for me is inline with other Sportivas. I wear 45 street shoes, got these at 42 (I wear Barracudas at 42 and Cobras at 41.5). Once I managed to get my feet into them and wait a few minutes for the rubber to warm up and my feet to recover from the shock they were surprisingly comfy for such an aggressive fit (for example I can't even stand, let alone climb, inside 5.10 Dragons or Scarpa Boosters which are similar shoes - it hurts too much). Solutions are lined with this soft smooth stuff which makes the inside sort of mould to the shape of my feet. no annoying stitches or hotspots. Yes they have stretched (only on the leather parts) and they softened a bit since I bought them, but performance has only improved as a result. The stretch has just made them even more comfy, more sensitive and a little more flexible which helps when smearing. The fit is really good and as someone here said they feel as if your feet have been dipped in sticky rubber. The heel is the best I ever experienced - deep and secure, and heel hooking (one of my fav moves) is so cool with them - it just feels completely different from any other shoe I tried before - super solid, sticky and powerful!

Performance - My favourite climbs these days are overhangs and I love to use my feet for pulling, getting them as high as possible all the time. Solutions are perfect for this style. With their sole shaped into hooked-down rubber 'claws' at the tips of the toes they are just amazing when pulling on anything, I feel I'm literally grabbing tiny and high foot holds with my toes. The most unique thing about them is that it feels like the support (which is amazing) doesn't come from a midsole like in most other climbing shoes, rather it seems to be coming from the way the randing rubber is tensioned around the feet (P3 system thingie). In fact im not even sure if they have a midsole at all?! initially they were quite stiff and with the severe downturn I was thinking that they are too specific for overhangs. Also they have a lot of rubber everywhere around the toes which meant that they felt a bit insensitive... I gave them a rest for a few weeks and gone back to my Cobras as I love sensitivity in rock shoes, but after a while started using them again and now that they have softened a bit more they are just perfect. The stiffness and insensitivity are gone and they have become perfect, for routes and bouldering, even on slabs, and they edge on crimpy dime edge vertical routes better than any other shoe I tried to date. But ultimately, I love them to bits because of the way they enable me to pull on overhangs with my toes and heels like a monkey, as if I was barefoot - it's just sooooo much fun :-) these shoes are pure FUN!
Hummmmmm I wanna go climb now....