Check out the Asics Dan Gable Ultimate 2 Wrestling Shoes in Blue Black and Silver
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Just wanted to put an update of the top wrestling shoes blog post that I did on our other blog. Since it’s wrestling shoe related we will keep it over here from now on.
Shoes that are basically gone include The Inflicts (except in a few sizes outside of 9 to 12), The Black and Red Rulons, and The Black and Yellow Rulons. Now the Inflicts they are gone for good (or at least we don’t think they are coming back). The Rulon wrestling shoes we will get some more in stock in December and should have most sizes in late December or early January. I suspect The Rulons will likely be updated to a version 2.0 or at the very least be changing colors significantly for the 2010 – 2011 season. So if you love these Rulon wrestling shoes – you better get an extra pair this season.
The battle of the ultra high end market – e.g. wrestling shoes that exceed say $125 is being won by the White adidas adistar. The sad thing is this shoe is gone and likely selling well because we are one of the only places in the country with it. If you take out of the mix this White adistar, the Dan Gable is beating the Black adistar. True there are 3 Dan Gables to only one Black adistar, but last year the White adistar smoked all challengers even with just one color.
Now if you add John Smiths shoe into the mix, it’s being out sold by the Gable too. This year the Gable shoe is much hotter of a shoe than it has been in the past. Is it because Iowa won two recent NCAA Championships? Is it because of better design? I suspect it’s a little bit of both. I think once more people take a look at the shoe, the Gable will sell even more. It’s a cool looking shoe up close.
Cael vs Cejudo (battle of the $80 shoes), right now Cael is winning this battle. Although, the Cael V3.0’s are still selling very well against even the V4.0’s. This is likely because the designs are pretty different between the V3.0’s and V4.0’s and the color options of these two shoes. When we talk to customers on the phone, some like the V3.0’s and some like the V4.0’s. We still have pretty good availability on the Cael V3.0’s at least for now. If all goes well, much of this inventory will be gone by the first of the year.
Here are the shoes that we talked about in this blog posting:
adiSTAR White Wrestling Shoes
SKU: 561256
Sizes: 6.5-13, 15
Price:$141.98
adiSTAR Black Wrestling Shoes
SKU: G00135
Sizes: 5.5-13, 14, 15
Price:$141.98
Mat Wizard III Wrestling Shoes
SKU: G03702
Sizes: 5-13, 14, 15
Price:$119.98
Mat Wizard III Wrestling Shoes
SKU: G03703
Sizes: 5-13, 14, 15
Price:$119.98
Mat Wizard III Wrestling Shoes
SKU: G02652
Sizes: 5-13, 14, 15
Price:$119.98
 Cejudo Signature Wrestling Shoes SKU: G02496 Sizes: 5, 5.5, 6.5-13, 14, 15 Price:$77.98 |
 Cejudo Signature Wrestling Shoes SKU: G03698 Sizes: 5-13, 14, 15 Price:$77.98 |
 Cejudo Signature Wrestling Shoes SKU: G03699 Sizes: 5-13, 14, 15 Price:$77.98 |
 Dan Gable Ultimate 2 Wrestling Shoes SKU: J900Y-4790 Sizes: 6-13, 14, 15 Price:$124.98 |
 Dan Gable Ultimate 2 Wrestling Shoes SKU: J900Y-9093 Sizes: 6,7-8.5,10,11.5-13, 14, 15 Price:$124.98 |
 Dan Gable Ultimate 2 Wrestling Shoes SKU: J900Y-9094 Sizes: 6-10,11-13, 14, 15 Price:$124.98 |
Rulon Wrestling Shoes
SKU: JY500-9094
Sizes: 7,10.5-11,12-12.5,14,15
Price:$99.98
Rulon Wrestling Shoes
SKU: JY500-9024
Sizes: 6-6.5,8.5,9, 10-11.5,14,15
Price:$99.98
Nike Inflict Wrestling Shoes
SKU: 325256-013
Sizes: 6-7,12-12.5
Price: $69.98
Nike Inflict Wrestling Shoes
SKU: 325256-001
Sizes: 6-7.5,12-14, 15
Price: $69.98
Received a question at WrestlingGear.Com yesterday. It was from a parent looking to help size her child in a wide wrestling shoe.
Generally we find a person can get away with a smaller normal gym shoe if they are in wide. For example, I have a wide foot and I can usually go down about a half size or even a full size if it’s a dress shoe.
Our sizing recommendations on our site generally call for either normal gym shoe size, add a 1/2 size to normal gym shoe size or add a full size to your normal gym shoe size.
If your child is in a wide gym shoe, he or she is likely down a half size. So just add an extra 1/2 size to what our sizing recommendations would say.
So let’s use a size 4.0 in a wide shoe. The shoes you are looking at say add a half size. So just add another 1/2 size to our sizing recommendation.
For example, if we say add a half size add another 1/2 size so you’d be at a full size. So you should be looking at size 5.0 wrestling shoes.
If we say add a full size (generally this is Nike only), take the full size and add another 1/2 size so you would be at a size and 1/2 added to your son’s normal gym shoe size. So if your son is a size 4.0 and you are looking at a Nike shoe, look at a size 5.5.
Keep in mind too, that WrestlingGear.Com has a sizing exchange insurance program. We will pay for the shipping back and forth – if you listen to our sizing recommendations. We stress, your child must have purchased shoes recently. We get children that come in here all the time to our store that the parents have no idea what their gym shoe size is. Kids are wearing size 9.0 or 9.5 shoes that really should be size 10.5 or 11.0. They walk out of our store with a size 11.5 shoe and the parents are amazed.
If your kids gym shoes don’t fit properly, size them up first make sure their feet are not jammed into their shoes. Then come to our site and read the sizing recommendations.
Here are a few links to wider cut wrestling shoes we recommend.
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Adidas Response GT Wrestling Shoes This elite wrestling shoe provides a sturdy, wider base for match-winning support and a glove-like fit. Price: $108.98  |
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Asics Wide Split Second VI Wrestling Shoes This shoe is a Wide version of the ever popular Split Second VI wrestling shoe. Price: $64.98 |
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Adidas VaporSpeed Black Orange Wrestling Shoes Lace guard systems on this wrestling shoe accomate wider feet. Price: $71.98 |
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Adidas VaporSpeed Blue White Wrestling Shoes Lace guard systems on this wrestling shoe accomodate wider feet. Price: $71.98 |
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Adidas VaporSpeed Red White Wrestling Shoes Lace guard systems on this wrestling shoe accomodate wider feet. Price: $71.98 |
This page is dedicated to the Cael Sanderson V4.0. This is the 4th version of the shoe (hence the original name). With the start of the 2nd version, our customers have started calling them V2, V3, V4’s. I must admit when they first started doing this we had no idea what the kids were talking about. Now that it is in it’s fourth iteration and no other shoes are in the same version, the V4.0 is a unique name to ask for them.
This wrestling shoe will likely be 2009-2010 wrestling season and 2010-2011 wrestling season. This has not been confirmed yet – we are assuming Asics will keep these in the line for two years which is what they normally do.
Cael Sanderson was a 4 time NCAA undefeated Division I Champion and an Olympic Gold Medalist and World Silver Medalist. He is the head coach at Penn State moving there this year after several season at Iowa State.
You can buy these shoes at WrestlingGear.Com – all the Asics Wrestling shoes are available there.
Here is the technical information on the Cael V4.0 Wrestling Shoes:
The fourth edition of the Cael continues on the path of excellent performance for wrestlers of all abilities.
Asics Cael Sanderson Wrestling Shoes V4.0 Black Silver Side View
Asics Cael Sanderson Wrestling Shoes V4.0 Black Silver Side View 2
Cael Sanderson V4.0 Wrestling Shoes Black Silver Rear View
Asics Cael Sanderson V4.0 Wrestling Shoes Black Silver Close Up
Asics Cael Sanderson V4.0 Wrestling Shoes Black Silver Inside View
Asics Cael Sanderson V4.0 Wrestling Shoes Black Silver Front View
Asics Cael Sanderson V4.0 Wrestling Shoes Black Silver Bottom View
We received an email asking us about Toddler sizes 8.5 or 9.0 size shoes (e.g. shoes made for a 3 year old).
Generally you have to add a 1/2 size to their normal gym shoe size (at least at WrestlingGear.Com – every shoe has a sizing recommendation).
So you would be looking for a 9.0 or a 9.5. They start making them at size 10 in Asics and adidas. Matman starts at an 11 and Nike at a size 12.0. Keep in mind I am talking toddler or about a 3 year old’s wrestling shoe.
You may need to wind up going up a full size. In the example of the dad looking for a size 9.0, he has to go up to a size 10 (although ideally he’d want a 9.5).
Unfortunately the market for these small shoes is not that large so most go up by 1 full size. Nike does go up by 1/2 sizes but we don’t carry them in a 12.5 and 13.5.
Once you hit a 1.5 they do make them by 1/2 sizes so you can follow the normal sizing recommendations.
Check out Youth Wrestling Shoes at WrestlingGear.Com.
I have about a 2E foot so most wrestling shoes will work for me. A 2E foot is not really that wide that it prevents you from buying most shoes off the rack at a wrestling store. All you have to do is stay away from a shoe with a velcro lace cover that covers all the shoe laces and stay away from anything with a zipper. Or at least go into your purchase knowing that those parts will have to stretch most likely to fit a wider foot.
So what shoes make sense for a wide foot maybe in the 2E size or less? It’s probably easier to identify which ones don’t make sense. Don’t look at an adidas adistar, don’t look at a Response I or II or an adistrike. All of these have zippers or lace guard mechanisms that cover all the laces. With that said you can make these shoes work (in fact I have a pair of Sydney 2000’s that don’t follow my advice). I just had to deal with the extra stretching and wearing them a little looser to begin with and keep tightening them. For example, we had a customer come in the store that said he could not get the white adistar to work. I told him to just tighten up the laces and he was able to get the zipper to work.
No if you are in the 3E 4E and larger zone. You want to look at really only our wide shoes. Response GT and Split Second VI are the two options you want to work with. Understand if you are 4E or 5E or 6E even those shoes are going to require some breaking in period. You will have to wear the laces loose and allow the material to stretch. The Response GT is made of more stretchable leather so that might be the better option for wrestlers with really wide feet.
Here are some of the wide wrestling shoes that we recommend taking a look at.
Technical Information on shoe:
At just over 9 oz., the Dan Gable Ultimate 2 is engineered for memorable performance at the highest levels of competition.
This shoe will wind up being one of the more popular shoes at least based on early sales. You can buy this shoe at WrestlingGear.Com
Below we shot this shoe in a bunch of different angles. Leave a note let us know what you think of this shoe. Most likely this shoe will be around for the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 wrestling season. Normally Asics will keep a shoe in the line for at least two years.
Dan Gable Ultimate 2 Wrestling Shoes Red Black
Dan Gable Ultimate 2 Wrestling Shoes Red Black Side View 2
Dan Gable Ultimate 2 Wrestling Shoes Red Black Back View
Dan Gable Ultimate 2 Wrestling Shoes Red Black Inside Back
Dan Gable Ultimate 2 Wrestling Shoes Red Black Inside View
Dan Gable Ultimate 2 Wrestling Shoes Red Black Inside Front View
Dan Gable Ultimate 2 Wrestling Shoes Front View
Dan Gable Ultimate 2 Wrestling Shoes Red Black Bottom View