I feel that I perform best when my big toe is rammed against the end of the shoe in a highly crimped position with as little material between my toe and the wall as possible.
I went back to check the bananafingers sizing calculator and it reckons if I wear Instincts in a 7 then I should wear Mago's in a 6.5 that is incomprehensible to me.
Re Magos- I was underwhelmed by how soft the new ones are
Quote from: Liamhutch89 on January 01, 2024, 11:15:23 am I went back to check the bananafingers sizing calculator and it reckons if I wear Instincts in a 7 then I should wear Mago's in a 6.5 that is incomprehensible to me.Don’t believe everything you read on t’interweb.What’s the heel issue? Are they baggy? The Shamans (lace ups, the Velcro are too soft imo) have a shallow heel. This annoys me because I prefer the deeper heel cup but might suit you?
If the Shaman toe is anything like the Phantom or Oracle (which are like a solution) then I won't like it.
Was considering asking a resolver to add a 0.5mm midsole to rescue some kind of use out of them, otherwise I'll just be binning them rather than resoling....
Where are you based? I'd recommend going to a good independent shop. One of the most frustrating experiences of my life was selling someone a pair of shoes in CragX. They tried on a ridiculous number of shoes (models and sizes), ignored any advice offered and left with a pair of the female specific VCS that were so undersized the black flaps under the velcro wouldn't even meet.
I now wear solution comps at size 44, my feet have never been this happy, and I feel like cinderella, and I've gotten some hard heelhooks done too. In 3 months of font, I did not once blame the shoes for anything neither wished anything was different, I don't even take my shoes off, and the other day I was doing 100kg squats in the shoes, felt great. moral of the story, it is worth trying bigger shoes, also to take into account that you want to do this sport for more 30-40+ years, you deffo need to have comfortable shoes. If you find there is some specific problem that just does not work with your comfortable shoes, have a backup shoes that are optimized for cases where the comfortable shoes fail.
What was your final choice, and how far downsized.