I have found that even if you get a high-end shoe, that the volume of> training that you do, and the composition of the strips you work on> that can degrade that shoe, can make that shoe worse for competition -> i.e. having a bad shoe that gives out on you during an important> competition.>

I used to get high-end shoes, but now, I get lower end shoes and change> them more frequently -- I find this more cost effective and health> saving in the long run.

So how are those magnetic soles?

magnetic soles? What planet are you on?

I'm on Earth, small blue planet just off center of a small spiral solar > system sometimes called Mutter's Spiral.>

Figured you had special magnetically soled shoes since they were made > for metallic pistes.

Anyway, those shoes have nothing on my fencing sandals with little> wings on the ankles ­