One of the most important factors that I take into consideration when I’m choosing a pair of shoes for martial arts training is the surface I’m going to be training on.
Is it going to be on the mats or hardwood floors? Maybe you’re outside and you’re training on concrete, gravel, grass, or dirt.
Below are the best shoes for martial arts training based on the different training environments you might find yourself in.
On The Mats
If you are in a training indoors on the hardwood floor, I wear the Asics.
The only thing that I can say that I don’t like about wearing these on the hardwood floor is that if the floors a little dusty or a little dirty, then these don’t have that great of traction.
You kind of have to do the basketball move, you know, wipe your palm on the bottom of your shoe to get a little grip going on.
Especially if you’re doing a bunch of kicks, like I train Muay Thai as one of my arts and doing the kicks on a dusty floor with your foot slipping around, Isn’t a lot of fun, one thing to take into consideration.
Outdoors
When I’m training outdoors, I of the Vibramngers shoes.
My main art is Wing Chun. And when I owned those shoes, whenever I would do a closing step, my toes would catch and kind of bend back underneath briefly.
And with no cover on the toes, they can get smashed pretty easily, so that became super annoying.
That’s another benefit of having a fully covered shoe, is it protects your foot and your toes don’t catch.
Ultimately, what I wanted to highlight in this video was the best shoe for martial arts is whatever is comfortable and works for your specific training situation.
But of course, the number one thing is, if you do ever find yourself in a self defense situation, whatever you’re wearing at the time is going to have to do right?
That’s just one thing to keep in the back of your mind.
Take care,
Chuck
