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Performance/all rounder climbing shoes for climbers with wide feet and heels (self.bouldering)

submitted 1 year ago by iridiom to c/bouldering

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I thought I should post this to help save some people some time and frustration when trying to find some shoes.

My street shoe size is 10 1/2 wide with my left foot being roughly half a size smaller and the middle of my foot is pretty high volume. My single biggest problem is always being able to use heel hooks as there is typically this gap of about a 1/4 to 1/2 ish inch gap at the bottom of the heel. I prefer some knuckling in my toes and size for my smaller foot.

I boulder pretty much exclusively, live in Colorado.

With that out of the way my new current daily driver is the Tenaya Indalo (8.5) the Tenaya Iati (8.5) was a very close second. The indalo is slightly wider overall. Other shoes I have tried that have felt like they would work were the Ocun Ozone HV (10) and Ocun Bullet (10). The Scarpa Instinct VSR (9.5) also felt very good but was sized half a size too small I think as I couldn't bend my foot at all.

I tried multiple different shoes and vendors recently and found most shoes too narrow in the midsole area to downsize enough. This includes Mad Rock, Red Chili, La Sportiva.

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[–] Leviathan 1 points 1 year ago

Man, as a dude with especially wide feet, thank you for your input.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

EB climbing shoes had the widest toe box among all those i tried and owned (scarpa, sportiva, madRock, boreal, boldrini and some others i don't remember.

That said, vibram has a fiveFingers climbing shoe that i haven't tried 🤷 (I did climb just for fun with some other fiveFingers at times

[–] feedum_sneedson 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I'm having problems with the shoes. My left foot is quite a bit bigger than the other. Should I just get bigger shoes? But what about the smaller foot?

All I know is I'm always dealing with some kind of injury from running shoes being too tight or too loose and realistically need a half-size difference between the left and right, at minimum.

Given that climbing shoes crush your feet anyway, what options do I have here?

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