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Stretching booties 24-Aug-2018 At 12:32:42 AM IdratherbeclimbingM9

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On 24-Aug-2018 Stugang wrote:
>Yeh I think I will. One point do any people here get just 1/4 (or less)
>resoles?
>
>I’d never heard about it until this job and assumed a 1/2 resole was the
>default. This was another major problem with the job in that he only replaced
>the first couple of inches creating a rubber join just in front of the
>ball of the foot. To make things worse the rubber used was twice as thick
>as the original which created a weird hard/soft shoe transition that is
>totally off putting when smearing or using anything bigger than a toehold.

Miguel75 would love your one-off designer-unique climbing shoes stugang, as it sounds like the ‘one guy’ did a royal job on them...
Heh, heh, heh.

Hey mate, think of the positive aspect to your shoe repair - at least if the under-ball-of-foot aggravation has your attention, then you presumably aren’t being hassled by the mosquitoe landing on your ankle pin that’d cause you to
>jump around screaming like a screaming jumping thing
~> which would certainly upset a delicate smear move!