Tenaya Indalo — Anyone Gotten Their Hands On Them?

Interesting. I found the fit completely different than skwamas but haven’t really climbed in them to compare “feel”. Skwamas are pretty asymmetrical (banana like) whereas the Indalos are almost completely straight (can also be seen in pics on LaSportivas site and trangos site). 

Mike Shortswrote:

Interesting. I found the fit completely different than skwamas but haven’t really climbed in them to compare “feel”. Skwamas are pretty asymmetrical (banana like) whereas the Indalos are almost completely straight (can also be seen in pics on LaSportivas site and trangos site). 

Yeah, fit-wise they’re considerably different, but performance-wise they feel pretty similar to me. That’s interesting that you consider the Skwamas to be more asymmetrical. In my experience the Indalos are more asymmetrical than the Skwamas, but the Skwamas seem to be a bit more downturned. 

rock climbing wrote:

It is a bad idea to get shoes so small you need plastic bags to put them on. Tight shoes will make your bumps worse. Unless it is cancer and not Haglund’s deformity.

I have the same on both feet (not cancer hopefully) and small shoes feel like they will slide of my feet. I had much better luck with bigger shoes and proper heel hooking. The problem is that big shoes don't edge as well. 

I agree it’s certainly not the best thing for foot health, but it is ideal for performance. What I do is buy them such that I use a plastic bag for the first 1-2 sessions, then the shoe stretches enough so that I don’t need it anymore.

With the heel bump, it does make downsizing a bit more difficult, but stiff heels like the S-heel and Friction Lock help to combat that.