By ED TRAVIS
Golfers are familiar with Sqairz shoes. The all-day comfortable to wear performance shoes have a wider area for the toes. Not a wider shoe, just the toe box which gives more room for the toes to spread while striding down the fairway giving more stability during the swing.
Sqariz used the same idea to make baseball and pickleball shoes and talking with Bob Winskowicz, founder and CEO, at the PGA Show he said his pickleball shoe would be great for walking. Well, they are and that’s from personal experience having trod several miles in the past week wearing them.
In an email exchange with Winskowicz I suggested these shows made for pickleball could be prototypes for a line of walking-specific shoes especially for older people who want comfortable and stable footwear.
The XRZ model has the same squared off toe box with a reinforced toe cap and the rubber outsole provides lots of traction on the street, the court or grass. The outsole is Lycra mesh that is both breathable and easy to clean and the shock absorbing insole is removable.
They also have several thoughtful touches such as a heel stabilizer, reinforced eyelets and laces with little urethane bumps, so they stay tied.
Men’s and women’s styles are available at $159.97 per pair and they carry a 30-day money back guarantee.
