What climbing shoe SHOULD I BUY? 🧗🏻‍♂️ | Climbing Shoe Buying Guide

Are you buying the wrong climbing shoe? This climbing shoe buying guide will help you get the best climbing shoe for indoor climbing and answer the age old question, what climbing shoe should I buy?

Pro climber Robbie Phillips chats you through how to choose climbing shoes from the best climbing shoes for beginners all the way up to world cup climbing.

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Time Stamps
Intro 00:00
What do I need for Indoor Climbing? 01:25
How to choose a climbing shoe? 03:40
Want to perform your best indoors? 04:26
Need a training shoe that won't break? 08:08
Looking for a shoe for the gym and the crag? 12:22

[culann]

Kewl video, Any tips for a beginner on how much salt to add to water when boiling pasta?
keep with up the great content, sending love from ur girlfriends apartment

[raoulkent]

Honestly, it's incredibly nice to see a review series where you go through a wide range of use cases, models and brands. Even considering the sponsorship from only one brand.
Great content Robbie, I think this will help a great number of less informed, or newer, climbers make more informed decisions!
Well done!

[spitflip]

I use Drago's to train in lol, my performing shoes are the Furia Air and Drago LV

[seb]

I love how you mention other brands even though it's a sponsored video! Great job I learned a lot! I purchased la Sportiva Tarantula as a beginner shoe to see if i liked the sport but am now thinking on grabbing another pair for indoor training!

[KelvinClimber]

i know i was told to be silent about this, but we already agreed that the shoe to rule them all was croc's people need to know! xD

[nicdes]

I have the instinct vs and vsr and I love both of them! The vsr's have gotten a lot softer from countless sessions training so they are are even better than original for volumes and such while the vs's feel perfect fit the outdoors for me.

[mikelee]

Think you did such a good job selling Scarpa to us that they will send you the other shoes to make pairs of all those you had in front of you!

[maylimountford]

11:20 is so true, for my first pair I was gifted from a friend was a Boreal Joker (marketed as a beginner shoe). The Rubber was so thick and tough, bloody hell i couldn't feel anything and was slipping off all the footholds - It was, dare I say, worse than the worn out shoes that the climbing gym provided. I had no confidence with my feet at all. Now I've got 5.10's Anasazi LVs (I know they aren't necessary made for indoor bouldering) BUT OH MY GOD WHAT A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE.

[qyl-]

Because of this video, I purchased 3 pairs of Veloce along the years and now they're my dedicated indoor shoes without alternative.😂

[andrewmccarthy]

2:05 "steep overhangs on mondo big jugs" lookin at you, Red River Gorge 😂🤣

[guapybalboa]

I had my scarpa orgins first then 8 months later I switch tovmy vapor V’s and absolutely love them

[scherry]

Madrock Remora for easy on and off indoor training + smearing. VSR's when working on projects and specialy for little footholds and healhooks.

Vapor V for lead.

[loaf]

Thank you so much. Now I may finally be able to complete my dream of sending the pink one in the corner

[richardbradley]

I got a pair of Voloce from Christmas. Only managed to climb in them twice before lockdown but very happy with them up to now. Soft and comfy (although I bought them small as I understand they can stretch a fair bit). Interesting new concept.

[nvjefe]

After 4 days of searching for an answer to which shoe was best for indoor and torn between the veloce or chimera, and debating between a all around do it all or separate dedicated shoes... you answered everything spot on. Thank you!

[gman]

Best possible shoes I've used are Scarpa Instinct VS (the orange ones) but resoled using a much softer rubber. I personally prefer the stiffer profile of the shoe compared with the softer VSR (the blue ones), but with the softer rubber it helps a ton with sketchy volumes and overhangs

[marioschatzlmair]

I startet with LaSportiva Tarantula, continued with LaSpo. Phyton an meanwhile I am wearing Scarpa Veloce and Instinct VS.
And I would say:
Tarantula = okayish beginner shoe, but definitely not more.
Phyton = great "Allrounder" but a bit to less sensitive.
Veloce = absolutely amazing and comfy shoe, my recommendation for beginners and people who want an awsome indoor training shoe. The only downside in my opinion is that the overall softness and the xs-grip sole are soft when it comes to really tiny foot holds...kinda smearing/rolling of cause of the softness.
Instinct VS = my loved one ❤️ yes it is a pretty stiff shoe, so on a volume/smearing project I would use the veloce, but it is an amazing shoe! So precise and comfy and a great hooker with okayish smearing and amazing performance on tiny edges... 👌

[AniVegMinMan]

im a huge fan of my scarpa vapors and have been thinking about getting an outdoor specific shoe, so knowing the vapor laces are the same shoe but optimized for outdoor is a hell of a recommendation

[PB-skjn]

I swear by the Veloce.
Best shoe I've ever worn. Regret decades ago not buying multiple pairs of the discontinued Scarpa Dominator.
Veloce is comfy, sticky, soft, takes downsizing well and fits on and off with velcro.
I'm normal shoe size 42, and downsize to either 41 or 41.5 Veloce.
I have both 41 and 41.5.
The 41.5 is more comfy, but the 41 did well after putting in the oven at 160F filled with shoe stretchers.... haha....
Amazingly, the oven treated 41's fit nicely and are noticabely stickier than the undoctored 41.5!
Both have my big toe extending a bit beyond (1mm?) the bottom rubber seam but very precise footwork enabled.
Heel fit is tighter in teh 41, and acceptable in the 41.5.
I credit these shows with moving from 7a to 7b... indoor gym grades taken with a pinch of salt.
Gonna buy several future spare pares, in case Scarpa discontinue. Love 'em

[patrickbourne]

I wish that I had watched this video before buying my beginner climbing shoes. I went for something that was said to be for beginners. It was stiff and flat and I really don't enjoy climbing in them. When I put them on my foot feels like concrete I can't move my toes at all or feel the wall. Hopefully they will be good for outdoor climbing but they really aren't great for indoors in my limited experience.