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the shizzle => equipment => Topic started by: cofe on December 23, 2008, 07:33:37 pm
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got a fucked toe and not climbing is killing me. i'm wondering if i could tick over in a pair of these or something similar. any first-hand experiences welcome. ta.
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I've climbed West Side Story in them. Shick-a-dink.
Also lent them to Honnold who'd forgotten his boots; he did Thumbellina in them.
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I've got a pair, and have been pretty good scrambling around. Not climbed in them yet, but i think they would be ok. They don't feel very sturdy but apparantly they do last.
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Only on plastic when setting and warming up on easy problems and they seem to work fine. Not sure about anything hard though- but you shouldn't worry, beasts can climb in anything ;)
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but you shouldn't worry, beasts can climb in anything ;)
fair dinkum. ;D
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I found guide tennies great but you have to fit them small to really get a climbing fit. problem is they have no longitudinal support which is probably what you'll need. my current ones (prodigy) are stiffer but the toe profile/rubber edge is wacker for climbing and clumpy.
ideally what you really want is something low profile and light with a carbon fibre midsole stiffener, or failing that, some of these (http://static.tramdock.com/images/items/medium/NOR0051/ISGB.jpg).
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gif tastic
(http://www.peglers.co.uk/images/upload/l(1).gif)