How to choose the most important gear climbing shoes

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When purchasing mountain climbing shoes for the first time, it is normal that you do not know where to standardize. When you start climbing, the shoes you choose will change, but I always ask the customers who come to buy where you want to go.

Do you want to go to the Japan Alps or Mount Fuji? That's right. The climbing shoes you choose will change depending on the mountain you want to go.

Low cut is recommended for those who only go low mountains or those who usually want to wear them, and for mountain use, low mountain mains, we recommend a middle cut with soft soles and uppers.

If you want to walk around Mount Fuji or the Japan Alps, we recommend some hard trekking shoes. In addition, for those who are the second foot, we recommend light alpine shoes with a back koba, as more people are looking to stay in tents and climb during the remaining snow season.

In this way, it is necessary to choose shoes according to purpose, but one important thing is that the shoes you choose change depending on the leg strength. To be extreme, if you really have leg strength, low cut with a high degree of freedom of your feet is best except for snowy mountains. Someone who really has leg strength. By the way, I don't wear low-cut because I don't have enough leg strength. Those who are trailing in the Japan Alps and those who are going to the Trans Japan Alps Race (TJAR) definitely have leg strength, so they are walking with low cut.

In addition, the brand and model you choose will change depending on the width of your feet. For example, wearing shoes with a 3E leg width is NG because it can lead to injury or accident. On the other hand, it is not possible to say that it is impossible to wear thinner shoes with a wider foot width. Also, depending on the width of the force, the height of the instep, the shape of the heel cup, etc., it will be overturned if the other does not match. We believe that there are no shoes with low performance in the shoes we handle at Konihi Sanso, but what we always tell our customers is, "For that person, it's good shoes for their feet. Not good enough shoes.” This is the most important thing in choosing mountain climbing shoes.

At the store, the staff will look at the size and width of the customer, and we will provide the best shoes to suit your needs. Please be assured that you can purchase shoes suitable for your mountaineering.

If you explain everything at once, it will be a terrible long sentence, and you will get tired just by reading it, so I will explain how to choose climbing shoes and the characteristics of each in the future on blogs and Instagram. If you are interested, please take a look.

In addition, we have a variety of gears and mountain climbing shoes at our shop. I would like to explain the contents of this article carefully. If you have any questions, please come and feel free to contact us.

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