With photos from several different angles and videos of several of the top selling wrestling shoes out there combine all of that with lots of reviews from website visitors – its a great place to do some research and buy your wrestling shoes. One more thing we offer is a sizing guarantee on most wrestling shoes. Don’t like the way the shoes fit, we will send you a different size wrestling shoe at our cost. We will reimburse you all the shipping costs on your sizing exchange.

All right wrestling shoe fans, this is your chance to find out what is going to be coming out for 2011 - 2012 for Asics Wrestling Shoes.

We have the new Aggressor wrestling shoes, the new Cael V4.0 wrestling shoes and the new Split Second 8.0 wrestling shoes.

All of those links in the paragraph above link to product pages where you can check out the shoes in a variety of angles. Most of them show about 8 different photos for you to check out. Reviews are posted along with the technical information about the shoes. You can even order them now, so you will be the first ones to have them when they come out.

We expect them around July 2011, but we will have them the same time our competitions says they will have their shoes. Each year several of our competitors quote an earlier date (to steal sales from their competitors like us that give the date the manufacturers give us). Usually shoes do come in a little earlier than the date we promise. In other words, you won’t get them sooner ordering from somewhere else. In fact, we keep track of sales and almost never oversell a shoe (some of our customers come to us having ordered from a competitor that sold out of the shoe already).

Check out this video about the Aggressor wrestling shoes.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7LCM4DHcTQ

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.

First buy yourself a pair of Bubble Knee pads – Cliff Keen Bubble Kneepads 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.)

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.

WrestlingGear.Com has been in business since 1998 and has grown to one of the largest wrestling shoe stores in the USA. We only can ship within the USA, sorry to all our non USA residents out there, but we 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.

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.

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

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