La Sportiva Mantis Climbing Shoes (For Men and Women)

I chose these shoes due to the attractive price and positive reviews on another site. I haven't taken them climbing yet, so I can't comment on their performance or durability but they seem to be a good fit. I wear size 7.5 in normal shoes and went with 38.5 in the Sportivas. My foot fits extremely tightly but I expect that the shoes will stretch a bit.

1) Price is unbeatable 2) Get 1/2 size smaller than what you usually have, or even your normal size if you don't want them all too tight 3) only reason why I gave the product 4 stars instead of 5 is that I haven't actually used them much so I don't know how they'll hold up. but so far, so good.

This is the best priced intermediate climbing shoe on the market. My wife is just getting into climbing and has found that her performance already improved with the help of these new shoes. Depending on the brand I use a climbing shoes that is a size to two full sizes smaller than my street shoe. My wife got the same size as her street shoe and these shoes are plenty tight for her. Also, the rubber is quite thick, so break in time is going to be longer that your average climbing shoe.

I've had these for just over a week now; one week in the gym to break them in and this last weekend on Snowcreek Wall in Leavenworth climbing Orbit. I didn't really like them at all in the gym, there is no down turn and they are very stiff. However, when climbing orbit (which is 700 feet, 7 pitches of climbing) I was EXTREMELY happy to have these. I didn't have to take my shoes off once because of painful or sweaty feet. Although I wish they were a little less stiff, they worked great!

I got these shoes as my first set of agressives. I love them! I put them on a vent to soften the rubber, they come really stiff