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Adidas Samba ADV

GOOD BOOTS WITH SOFT FLEX
Comfortable boots with great heel hold. Great laces and liner laces. Little padding under the sole and not really comparable to the Adidas boots with pureboost. I love the pureboost and wish these had that technology as well(Unfortunately, the Canadian Adidas website sold out of Adidas Tactical ADVs and did little to nothing when I requested to be updated about when they become available. I would rather be reviewing those boots... ) At first, these boots gave me terrible pain due to pressure points where the tongue hits the top of my foot. The tongue is quite stiff but the boots are on the soft side. So, when turning on your board the tongue exerts pressure straight down to a point at the top of the foot. Extreme pain like I have never had with any boot(I've been riding since '93). I ended up o my being able to ride a few runs and went home. But thankfully, I had read many reviews and watched videos about this issue that seems common to many who buy Adidas boots. All you have to do is break the tongue in by flexing the tongue by hand, with the liner removed, to soften the base of the tongue so it doesn't exert the downward pressure point. Once you do this, and your hands will be sore afterwards, the tongue exerts a more even pressure over a wider area instead of being pinpointed at the base of the tongue. After one horribly painful day of only a few runs, I took some time to break the tongue in, and the next day riding my boots were perfect with no pain! These boots also seems like they have been made to high quality standards and should last quite a long time. 6 days riding in them so far.