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.

	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
	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
	Adidas VaporSpeed Black Orange Wrestling Shoes Lace guard systems on this wrestling shoe accomate wider feet. Price: $71.98
	Adidas VaporSpeed Blue White Wrestling Shoes Lace guard systems on this wrestling shoe accomodate wider feet. Price: $71.98
	Adidas VaporSpeed Red White Wrestling Shoes Lace guard systems on this wrestling shoe accomodate wider feet. Price: $71.98

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.