Good shoes for older legs and hard ground ?

[Michel_Platini]

Its amazing how many shoes there are out there, yet I can't find one I love, at any cost.

I am looking for my ideal shoe:

I am a 38 year old 6'1" 185lb male who lives in Colorado, where the ground is usually pretty hard.

I no longer feel comfortable playing in most of the current shoes available for a couple of reasons related to the cleats. Standard molded shoes have long aggressive cleating. The aggresive cleating on ball leads to a lot of meta-carpal pain--it grabs too well. The longer cleating on the heals impacts my knees, creating too much leverage and amplifing any instability.

Turf shoes are better with regard to the cleating on the midsole and ball of the foot, but the heals have too much cushion and lift, which tends to jam my toes and still created too much leverage on my lower leg.

The shoes I use to train on the hard february ground are 10 year old addisas 'gazelles' with the the soles removed: I feel very comfortable because this allows my feet to be as close to the ground as possible.

Ideally, I would like to wear these gazelles, but with some small cleats that would give me some traction, just not as much as molded.

Can anyone recommed ?

Right now in feb, with now snow on the ground, the ground where I train is rock hard

[trips222]

I'm not sure if "low to the ground" and "cushion" can be found together. I am mainly training my about to be 30 legs and knees on indoor hard turf fields. Not the pretty new field grass, the older stuff.

I switched form Copa Indoors which were low to the ground, to the Adidas Predator A3 turf shoes. The last few times i played in the Copas I felt like I was about to start having shin split issues. From day one with the Preds my shins have felt great. Knees feel better the day after also. I was worried about touch with what looks like a running shoe bottom, but have not had any issues since I switched. The turf pattern is very low key, and does allow a little bit of slippage so I do not feel any knee pain from to much grip.

[Michel_Platini]

thanks trips222 I will look into the predator A3s

[thebigman]

i recomend nike air zoom control 2s!

mine are very grippy and comfortable on hard ground and astro

[bellysk8er2005]

my age is 20 but my legs have never been my age they have alway been older anyway how advice for a somewhat wider boot that i could fit an insert in to that is made of plasic( i'll be playing indoor on the "new astro turf")

[trips222]

my age is 20 but my legs have never been my age they have alway been older anyway how advice for a somewhat wider boot that i could fit an insert in to that is made of plasic( i'll be playing indoor on the "new astro turf")

Well, if by "new astro turf" you mean the longer field grass type, I would suggest what I just switched to. It is the ortho insole with your insert in the Adidas Tunit. I'm using a 50.7WF version, but I would guess it should work in the others. The hard ground studs do very well in the field turf.

I'm also guessing that by "plastic" you mean a synthetic shoe? If so the Tunit fits this request. I'm also using the Predator A3 Absolute Turfs which is synthetic and so far I have not needed to add any additional insert to it to be comfortable.

[bellysk8er2005]

no i ment my insert sorry about that. it my spelling has never been the greatest and i try to say things with words i know how to spell so peolple dont have to guess what im saying. then for some reason i never can get all my though out on to the paper i always forget words. idk why though but thanks for your help i will look into them

[Mighty_Mouse]

Nike First touch II

http://www.soccer.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=1&Section_Id=1015&pcount=&Product_Id=300903

Very close to the ground. Cushioning is adequate. No lift.

[Skizz]

This is exactly the sort of question we have the boot review thread for. Any further discussion can take place in there, in the meantime this thread is closed.