Customer Reviews Five Ten Arrowhead

These are amazing shoes. They fit great, are sensitive and super sticky. They broke in very quick and molded perfectly to my foot. I love the heel, it really stays. I sized them tight and I can still keep them on for long bouldering seshs. The stealth rubber is great, as always. After a month of heavy use indoors and out, they have lost a bit of their downturn, partially because of the softness of the shoe and the forming to my foot. I wear a 9 Evolv Pontas and an 8.5 Arrowhead.

Considerably more comfortable than the blackwings due to the leather uppers. Shoes with synthetic uppers are hit or miss becuase either they fit perfect out of the box or don't and then they won't stretch a bit in the hot spots. The downturned toe is nice and they make a good shoe that has high performance but still relatively comfortable (if you can say that about high performance climbing shoes). They are perfect for gym bouldering where you don't need as precise of footwork as you do outdoors. Same sizing as the rest of the anazasi line.

Just got my new Arrowheads, and I'm pretty psyched about them. I've put them through a couple gym days, and they're perfect all-arounders. I love my Moccs, but they aren't great edgers. And my Teams are sweet bouldering/steep sport shoes, but are too aggro and too uncomfortable for low angle sport routes. The Arrowheads perfectly hit the gap in between. Onyxx rubber is the best edging compound available. They're a little downturned to handle steeps, but not so much that you can't use them on slab. They're fairly stiff, but are breaking in nicely, and I imagine they'll be smearing with the best of them in no time. They're a lot narrower than the old Anasazis (both in the toe and heel), which is great if you have a low-volume foot like me. Much better fit than the original VCS, and even the Moccasym. I wear a size 9 Mocc, size 11 Team, 43 Miura, 11 Pontas, and a 10 in Arrowheads. Can't wait to get these outside.

The first thing...Alex D from NY improperly reviewed that these are real leather. They are cowdura uppers: synthetic. And trust me they stretch less than half a size if at all. Break in is near immediate. Someone else mentioned the shoes being unforgiving to those with poor foot technique. Maybe that's it, but I can climb in the V9 level and felt that it was truly the shoe not my technique. My Miura lace and Testarossas give me zero problems where as I lost toes on relatively great holds with these. After about two weeks I sent these to be resoled with sportiva rubber and that fixed my problem. Up to you; was it placebo effect? They're comfortable shoes though. Narrower heel than both my sportivas. I wear 9.5 streets, 10 Arrowhead, 40 (us7.5) Miura and Testarossa and they all fit about the same tightness. I wear my shoes with socks and very tight. Tight enough that when I go sockless it's not a problem, they still fit tight enough. Arrowheads are a good middle...but being a middle they're lost in limbo to me. They don't really excel at anything if you ask me. I suggest getting two pairs: a super aggressive and a flat (Miura lace and Testarossa combo). And if you only want one shoe, go super aggressive. I have no problem using Testarossas on slab but have found great improvement in the underhangs with the Testarossa compared to the Miuras.

I have tried almost all of the climbing shoe brands and I have to give it to Five Ten, they have the best rubber. As with all climbing shoes, you have to try them. People who swear by shoes do so probably because they fit their feet so well, so to each his own. For these shoes, I liked the shape of the shoes. They are on the narrow side and they can really pull on holds well. I use them only for overhanging routes as they do not smear so well and is overkill on vertical walls. The only complaint I have is that for aggressive downturned shoes for overhanging routes, how can they not put rubber on the toes? Come on Five Ten, toe hooking is so common on roofs and stuff. Also some of my friends find these shoes quite unforgiving if you do not have good footwork.