Yet ANOTHER equipment question...shoes?

[NASA racer]

Casual player, mainly playing on dusty dirt. Was looking at Diggers shoes...what do you guys recommend? Not a serious enough player to spend a fortune on my shoes but breathability is far more important than water-proof in my climate.

[NASA racer]

er...sorry but I noticed there was almost 0 activity in the other "misc" forums.

Uh I am using an LCD though! :duh:

[poobrownhorse]

I usually play barefoot, its the cheapest, and lowest profile since shoe hits count.

[5150]

I would say but some cheep football cletes.

[superfire]

i use baseball cleats and they seem to work good.THey get really good tracktion on all kinds of dirt or sand

[Dark Seoul]

i like my digger extremes

[TopCourage]

i have some digger extremes...they are really nice...u have complete control when you are running and such...i dont think they are that bad of a price....just the shipping for me because the company is out in cali...

[Emmit]

You can use old cleats from high school if you're interested in saving the money (should you still have some) this is also good because you know they are already broken in. I have worn, and have seen worn everything from football to baseball to soccer and even softball cleats....I'm currently running a pair of Diggers I picked up at a shop here in Houston. They've been pretty good to me once I got them broken in. DYE has a new shoe out, and I'm going to take a look at it at Cup, Oakley has a shoe that Bill Mills did a review of over on WARPIG, and they look pretty decent as well as getting a decent review. Warped Sports has had their shoe out for a while, but I've never really had much chance to look at it (plus it doesn't seem to have too many cleats, and is meant more for a back player who doesn't need the extra traction). My only word of warning is that with shoes you really do get what you pay for usually...you can go to K-Mart, or Wal-Mart and spend 20 bucks on a pair of cleats...but expect them to last a few months maybethe season if you're lucky, but that's about it...

[C.Carles-AOG]

I got cheap Adidas soccer cleats off of Ebay. Cheap in price, not quality. It's your feet man!

[C]-[iLDe]

Yeah whatever you don DONT buy any type of 'paintball-specific' cleats, you'll waste money. Get a good sturdy pair of football cleats. Ive even seen people wearing baseball cleats and track spikes, though I havent tried those myself. Don't try to pinch pennies here, your feet need to be comfortable and you need to have good traction when playing.

[poobrownhorse]

LOL track spikes
I would love to see that...

If I work mine paintballing I would for sure slash my leg open while crouching...

[Emmit]

yeah I never heard of track spikes...that would really suck to take yourself out of the game because you cut your own leg open

[TopCourage]

yeah...id imagine it wouldnt go over to well on sup air field...

[poobrownhorse]

They are for track races, mainly sprinting.
They pretty much put all other cleats/spikes to shame in the sharpness and easy-to-accidentally-hurt-yourself category.
They are not just little metal screw in cylinders, tehy are actually sharpened spikes.
Because of this they are not only EXTREMELY hard to walk on concrete with but it makes a bad metal grinding noise and it feels very uneven because the spikes are only on the front of the shoe.
I have no idea how you could paintball in them...

[C]-[iLDe]

hmm - maybe the shoes I saw were not track spikes; they didnt have huge metal spikes like that. The guy wearing them told me they were 'track spikes' though. I guess he was mistaken...

[C.Carles-AOG]

Much like golf shoes, track shoes have all sort of different spike materials. Different materials for different surfaces. Tennis has the same with shoes for hard, clay, grass, etc. even having different ones for har-tru (green clay-artificial) and red clay (the real stuff). I never liked my track shoes with the real hard spikes. They were not very forgiving at all and hurt the balls of your feet quite a bit. In most other sports, metal spikes have been phased out especially due to injuries and the upkeep of the surfaces.