Getting rid of climbing shoe hotspots

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@joostkivits 3 ай бұрын

Finally, this is the advice I've been looking for. I went from rentals to La Sportiva Skawama's and both shoes have an intense hotspot on my big toe's, so much I almost can't bear to put my full body weight on my feet. It hurts. Will try this!

@franciss2529 3 жыл бұрын

I had a hotspot where the stitching stuck out and was tacked into the shoe. I got a nail file and gently sanded it, obviously not enough to break the stitching but enough to sand down the tack and soften the stitching a bit. Worked like a charm, took me 20 mins to do and a bit of wearing to ease it out.

@chrisharrison809 Жыл бұрын

Dude… after 15 years of climbing on beginner shoes, I finally started working hard and leveling up. Bought the dope solutions… however the big toe knuckle was impossible painful. Just tried your trick with a ball bearing and a shoe horn and light heat. It works dudes. It works great. In one little session working on the rubber, it went from awful pain to wayyy better tolerable climbable. It will be interesting to see how it continues to break in. Thank you

@lalystar4230 3 ай бұрын

Interesting, I was looking into using shoetrees to remove odours from climbing shoes, or whether anyone does that or not. (It's good practice in other shoes, especially leather shoes, so why wouldn't it work to help air out, dry out and keep fresh climbing shoes right, especially if it's a cedar wood shoetree.) But then came along this little gem of a video. great one!

@oshaapas 4 жыл бұрын

Great information thanks, your video helped me fix a pair that I thought was unsalvageable!

@Zargaaa 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Will this also work on heel hotspots (I bought my first pair today and they really started hurting my achilles after a few climbs). Or are there maybe different tips for that? Thanks in advance!

@ABSVabeautifulsunsetvlog 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome advice...I passed on the solution for this exact reason....maybe I’ll go back to them now...thanks✌🏽

@mountbeckworth1 4 жыл бұрын

Good suggestion. Unfortunately my shoes have rubber all over the area. I thought I had blown $240 Australian, even after a shoetree stretch, but tried cotton wool stickytaped between my big toe and the offending first little toe. Works ok now, for short climbs.

@jaakofagerlund4360 3 жыл бұрын

Had a very successful break in experience with my Evolv Shamans that took the skin off my big toe on my first climb. Cut two small pieces of neoprene from an old pair of kids wetsuit gloves (1.5mm thick'ish) and covered my big and second toes. Went from painful to comfortable immediately and five sessions later they were broken in and comfortable barefoot. Edit: Did the same with my LS Miura laces which I had not been able to use because of too painful hotspots that up to that point I had failed to remove no matter what methods I had tried, including shoe slave with wood inserts under hot spots.

@ioanbugheanu6836 2 жыл бұрын

great tip

@joshualara4612 7 жыл бұрын

Do you think this could work with a pair of evolv agro's, considering the covering is mainly synthetic?

@crzyinzan3 4 жыл бұрын

Would this work for vinyl skate boots? I just got a pair of skates and they’re a little too stiff.

@Orlanzepol123 5 жыл бұрын

I did that with my LLBean duck boots. The ball on my left big toe was on 🔥 fire . I stuffed my duck boot 🥾 with a large Idaho potatoe 🥔 and poured scalding hot water 💦 to stretch the area where the ball of my big toe rests on the boot. I didn’t think it would work because the hot spot area is made of thick rubber but eventually it did relax the rubber a bit.

@ikkoichigo 3 жыл бұрын

I use a cobblers hammer (but I guess any without sharp edges would work) and smack the rubber just in the hotspots against the wooden last, this softens and stretches the rubber just in that place. This is faster method that works for me:)

@Pauly53 7 жыл бұрын

Hey, thanks for the tip, I'm having some nasty hot spots myself, I'll give this a go!

@nomorefortniteguy7800 7 жыл бұрын

I've been jamming a golfball and hair drying this set for 2 days. Just doesn't feel like I'm getting any gain on these.

@Obsessionclimbing 7 жыл бұрын

+Somepaintballguy how new are the shoes? The amount of stretch differs from shoe to shoe, and the rubber compound that each manufacturer or model uses. Removing hotpots or stretching the shoe will make marginal changes, if you're finding that the difference is too, little perhaps the shoe size is too small? Other than that, climbing with the shoe in smaller increments will stretch the shoe out more naturally but will take longer.