Hot New Wrestling Shoes for 2010 – 2011 Wrestling Season

July 13th, 2010

Here are the wrestling shoes we expect to be the hot wrestling shoes for the 2010 – 2011 wrestling season. They are already selling really well on WrestlingGear.Com and we would not recommend waiting too long before you decide to check these shoes out.

We expect many vendors to try and reduce costs this year and when I say that I expect inventory to be very tight this year. Gone are the days of ordering a lot more shoes than the stores like us order and hope to sell them. Look for many of these shoes prices to increase as they are less readily available.

Here are our top 7 hot wrestling shoes for 2010 – 2011 wrestling season:

1) Nike Inflict Wrestling Shoes – Red Black – this shoe was not made last year. It was in the past and we could have sold a bunch of them in 2009-2010 season. Here is your chance to get them now.

2) Nike Inflict Wrestling Shoes – Grey Black – this shoe was made last year, but there were not enough made last year to satisfy demand. Remember trying to find this shoe last year? If you did, you likely did not find it.

3) Nike Inflict Wrestling Shoes Blue Black – same as #2 on this list, it was made last year but not enough. This is listed as number three even though it could have easily been #1 or #2. It’s listed as #3 because it’s not the most neutral team color. It will be highly sought after though.

4) Asics Aggressor Wrestling Shoes Royal Blue and Grey – great team color combination (and neutral too). This will be the surprise of the year I have a feeling. Although since we designated it as our #4 hottest shoe can it still be labelled a surprise? This is an updated version of the Rulon wrestling shoe and will likely challenge for one of the hottest wrestling shoes of the season.

5) Asics Aggressor Wrestling Shoes Red and Black and Asics Aggressor Wrestling Shoes Royal Blue and Gold – was not sure where to put these two shoes as far as #5 or #6 so I put them as #5 (also it let’s us slip in an extra pair of wrestling shoes into our top 7 wrestling shoes picks of the season.  The Aggressors are an up date to the Rulon wrestling shoe and will feature a more comfortable toe area. Don’t know what to call the toe area on this shoe, but my cross training shoes have this feature and they are much more comfortable due to this new technology.

6) Combat Speed III Wrestling Shoes – can’t go wrong with this shoe. At around $60 retail for this shoe, it is going to be a favorite work out shoe at the minimum for the Elite wrestler not looking to beat up his $125 pair of wrestling shoes day in and day out in practice. However, I think many people are going to fall in love with this shoe again. Remember if you like this shoe or any shoe we sell, they generally only last for a few years and then are gone. Combat Speed II wrestling shoes typically sell in excess of $150 to $250 even in used condition. At $60 these shoes are going to be a steal. It looks like these shoes are going to be readily available at your local sporting goods store so sometimes that will effect a shoes desireability if anyone can get it.

7) Asics Wide Split Second 6 Wrestling Shoes – what a shoe that is over 3 years old is going to be on the hot 7 for 2010-2011 wrestling season. We’ll almost no one carries this shoe so it sells well for us. We are committed to offering you the wrestling shoes you want for the season. We will only bring in a few hundred of these pairs of shoes, but they will likely sell out within a few weeks of us having them delivered. If you happen to be lucky enough to get these shoes while we have them, consider yourself lucky. They won’t last and even waiting a day can cause you not to get them. And at $70 retail price, most parents won’t have a problem getting these shoes for kids with a EEE width.

Many of the top wrestling shoes photos are on our flickr site. Check out wrestling shoe photos here.

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Update for Inflicts and Combat Speed III Wrestling Shoes

June 4th, 2010

The Inflicts have been selling well in fact several sizes are already sold out (darn it we ordered too few of them). Kind of crazy a few of the sizes were sold out as pre-orders. Right now we have enough in stock in most sizes.

The Combat Speed III’s shoes are on the way to the warehouse, there was a mix up with adidas not knowing that we want the adult shoes as soon as possible. So if you pre-ordered your wrestling shoes from WrestlingGear.Com they will be on their way next week.

Can’t wait to get the Aggressors in from Asics. That is our last shoe that we are going to carry for 2010-2011 season that we don’t have in already. Look for this to be a hot seller and if the Rulon’s are any indication of how hard they will be to find this year, better get those orders in sooner than later.

I suspect once again Nike, adidas, Asics will all be holding inventory pretty tight for wrestling shoes (there most expensive products usually). Gone are the days where they can bring in a ton of shoes and hope they sell. To be fair, we are the same way. We are ordering what we think we can sell and running through what inventory we have. We simply can’t be stuck with a ton of wrestling shoes at the end of the season.

If you are done growing or don’t anticipate growing too much between say September and December, best to get those wrestling shoes early in September or October.

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Hot Shoe Update – Inflicts and Combat Speed III

May 28th, 2010

Yesterday was a crazy day for wrestling shoes. The Nike Inflicts are now available. Yes right now you can have the Inflicts in a few days (even faster if you want to pay for expedited shipping).

And we found out that the Combat Speed III Wrestling shoes will be available shortly. Start shopping for your wrestling shoes now at WrestlingGear.Com


Nike Inflict Wrestling Shoes
SKU: 325256-001
Sizes: 6-11.5,12.5,13,14,15
Price: $79.98

Nike Inflict Wrestling Shoes
SKU: 325256-013
Sizes: 6-11.5, 12.5-14
Price: $79.98

Nike Inflict Wrestling Shoes
SKU: 325256-014
Sizes: 6-7, 8-11.5, 12.5-14
Price: $79.98
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Make Your Own Knee Sleeves

March 12th, 2010

This tip was brought to us by one of our customers. Of course with anything involving a sharp point, we recommend you be careful.

First buy yourself a pair of Bubble Knee pads – Cliff Keen bubble knee pads are popular but so are Asics and Brute

Here is a picture of the before knee pad:

Start with a bubble knee pad

Then carefully take a seam ripper and cut out the thread around the bubble pad. If you want to do a bunch of these go to a fabric store near your house and ask for a special seem ripper that looks like a sickle and it will cut through the threads like butter.

Total project time should be about 10 minutes once you get good at it. However, if you are only doing only one pair, take your time.

There you have it you can now get knee sleeves in black, white, red, royal blue, navy blue and now in youth sizes in black and white. You’ll have to put a little sweat equity into it but isn’t having something that no one else has worth the price. Just hope not too many people read this blog (which is not the case but you can hope at least no one near you reads.)

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Asics Wrestling Shoes

March 10th, 2010

Asics Dan Gable Ultimate 2 Wrestling Shoes Blue Black Silver

Check out the Asics Dan Gable Ultimate 2 Wrestling Shoes in Blue Black and Silver

Just to give you the heads up about Asics Wrestling shoes – they all do have a lace guard mechanism that meets the rules set for wrestling in the USA.

We recently noticed many of the Asics wrestling shoes in our photos don’t have the lace guard mechanism shown properly. Here is an example of the Dan Gable Ultimate II wrestling shoes. We will be updating all our photos this year to make sure we shoe you with the shoes lace guard mechanism engaged properly.

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Welcome to WrestlingShoes.Com

November 26th, 2009

We relaunched WrestlingShoes.Com as a blog in late 2009. The purpose is to let you know what is going on with Nike, adidas, Matman, Asics, and DoubleSport wrestling shoes that you can buy at WrestlingGear.Com

WrestlingGear.Com has been in business since 1998 and has grown to one of the largest wrestling shoe stores in the USA. They only can ship within the USA sorry to all our non USA residents out there. They do ship to U.S. Military APO’s.

Here are some other websites to check out:

WrestlingGear.Com’s Facebook Fan Page – over 3,900 fans can’t be wrong.

Twitter Fan Page – follow Jeff Pape, the owner of WrestlingGear.Com. He posts updates on what is going at the company and his business and personal life.

WrestlingGear.Net – think social network for wrestlers. Over 100 wrestlers and fans here.

WrestlingGear.Com’s Blog - articles and videos on improving your performance on the mat.

WrestlingGear.Com’s Youtube Channel – lots of technique videos and shows on wrestling gear.

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Wrestling Shoes Gossip for 2010

November 26th, 2009

My, my, my if what I have been hearing about the 2010 wrestling season is true. It will be interesting.

On the Asics front, the Rulon’s will be going away and not known as Rulon’s next season. Will Rulon make the switch from Asics to adidas like Cejudo did?

On the adidas front, they have already released this photo below. Now the question is will this be an early release like they did with other shoes in the past? Not likely though as all of our vendors are delaying inventory investments as long as they can. Trust us, if they bring in only a few hundred pair, we will ask for them. The other question is, will they release a teal version of this shoe? Now if they could only bring back a version of the White adistar.

wrestling-shoes-adidas-combat_speed_III

On the Nike front, just got the catalog. Guess what new color of the Takedown and the Inflicts are in the catalog in three colors. Wow! Let’s hope they come back this year. They will be on our wish list for next year.

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Hot Shoe Update on Rulon Wrestling Shoes

November 24th, 2009

They are gone for next year, the Rulon wrestling shoes will not have Rulon’s name on it and of course won’t have his signature either. So if you want these shoes do not screw around and wait until next year, best to buy them now. We will have them in January in Black and Red and Black and Gold. And of course everyone will want them in the two colors we have now (and we will likely be out of those right?).

Start looking at next year if you want these Rulon’s for next season – Asics Wrestling Shoes.

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Vegan Wrestling Shoes

November 7th, 2009

Is the wrestling world ready for a Vegan wrestling shoe? Or even an environmentally friendly wrestling shoe?

Is that important to you? Is it important to others?

adidas launched a shoe that is made of synthetic leather and recycled material. The GT Response is also a wide shoe. So I think adidas was trying to cover all the areas with this vegan, recycled, wide wrestling shoe all in one shoe.

So far this shoe has not knocked it out of the park. Would it sell better if it was a crazy color combination? Ala the Combat Speeds?

What are your thoughts on this shoe? Here is a photo, the link and the technical information on the shoe.

Link to the site – GT Response Vegan Earth Friendly Wrestling Shoes

Earth Friendly Vegan Wrestling Shoes - GT Response - this is a wide wrestling shoe available from adidas wrestling

Earth Friendly Vegan Wrestling Shoes - GT Response - this is a wide wrestling shoe available from adidas wrestling

This elite wrestling shoe provides a sturdy, wider base for match-winning support and a glove-like fit. A product built in a sustainable way to make the world a Better Place.

* Built on a new, wide wrestling last
* Environmentally responsible high performance engineered leather, cutting down weight and wastage
* Encapsulated idsole construction for enhanced fit and support
* 100% recycle PET mesh lining
* Molded heel counter for ultimate support and hold

Remember to add a 1/2 size to your normal gym shoe size. Do not use your current wrestling shoe size to order adidas Shoes

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Combat Speed Wrestling Shoes

November 4th, 2009

Trying to figure out the best way to present these old school wrestling shoes. Keep in mind if you are looking for new wrestling shoes – visit our brand pages at adidas, Asics, Nike or Matman to buy the currently available shoes.

Here are some blasts from the past. Let us know what you think of this shoe. Also, post ideas on how you’d like to see these photos. Do you like this format? Would you prefer a gallery?

Combat Speed II Wrestling Shoes

Combat Speed II Wrestling Shoes
Notice the Yellow stripes. This is how you can tell them apart from an earlier version of the Combat Speeds. Man do I wish I had a few thousand pairs of these shoes.

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