Get a cheap pair of wrestling shoes - but be sure to get some
Asics tend to fight more narrow feet better.
Adidas has some wider sizes available.
I recommend always wearing wrestling shoes on wrestling mats. It's not as important if you're pracitcing on Judo style Tatemi - those are usually firmer and better for barefoot usage. But wrestling mats are softer - gooshier. When you do a back-quarter-turn, your big toe tends to stick and stay put while the rest of your foot turns and pulls away from it. This causes problems with the tendons of that big toe - which is what happened to me. Now, it tends to get pretty stiff if I tax it - I feel on a muddy hillside not so long ago and my toe was stiff for a week.
I don't recommend working out on wrestling mats without wrestling shoes.
I always get the cheapest pair available, and just glue the soles back on as needed. I never wear mine off of the mat (only an asshole wears his shoes off the mat - you'll give people ringworm that way.) so the soles don't tend to really wear out - they tend to come off the bottom of the shoe, though, so I just glue them on again.
I like a $30 pair of wrestling shoes as much as an $80 pair.
Last edited by bodhisattva; 01-01-2008 at 06:09 PM.
Reason: the voice in my head was screaming again
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