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I just bought the best freakin pair of climbing shoes that I have ever had the pleasure of wearing. They are called Trad Masters by LaSportiva. Lace-ups, aggressive serrated heal THAT goes both ways, around the heal the serrations face upwards, and around towards the toe-end the serrations face toe-ward, these shoes come with 2 soft rubber strips starting from the tarsal area of the foot and ending at the base of the phalanges of the foot thus providing excellent friction in crack systems where the ankle breaking foot placements are needed. The inside of the shoe is lined with the soft material you find in regular tennis shoes. And also features a more minimal version of the "sling shot heel" effect you find on more technical shoes. The Sling-Shot Heel effect is a feature that gives more torque in the toes for one, and provides a bit more stable heel to prevent it from slipping off during those insane heelhooks you may need to preform on a few tradroutes. The lateral and medial sides of the heel feature a roughened area to prevent heel rollovers from slipping off the hold. These shoes will do it all, smering, edging, heelhooks, toehooks, pretty much any crack manuever you can think of AND can make hot chocolate. Kidding.

I've only just bought them today and you might be asking how I know all this. Well I spent about 10 minutes in the gym today doing every kind of foot manuever I knew,. The walls of the gym are alot more slick than the granite, or sandstone outside and these things still stuck. So logically they would preform excellently outdoors. However I will update my review after I get back from the RRG trip. I don't think i'm going to be disappointed at all with these shoes.

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I've been climbing with them for almost a year now as my primary shoe. Its a nice shoe but doesn't fit my wide feet very well and they are wearing oddly becuase of it.

serrated heel hooks are cheating. go bareback brah.

this feels like a sales pitch...

Yeah, now that I look at it, it really does, doesn't it?

"Buy now and we'll throw in a FREE shoe sized ionic breeze! CALL NOW!"

What kind of "Trad Master" is low-cut?! Give me ankle protection or give me slab.

I still like my Megas.

They preformed extremely well. I couldn't have picked a better trad shoe I think. As for ankle protection, tape up!

I really don't like my trad masters. The sole on them toreup easly and the fit got weird when they broke in.

Anybody want a pair of busted up trad masters?

http://www.redriverclimbing.com/auction ... php?ao=120