I'm currently wearing Yonex SHB200's which are 3E width to fit wide feet. Are there any Victor shoes that are similarly 3E for wide feet? TIA
The 3E width size is for normal badminton feet sizes, which in fact ALL Yonex shoes are 3E sized as a norm. The Wide sized Yonex models are 4E. You should have no problem at all finding a normal, 3E sized shoe in Victor or Mizuno
Nope. As I understand it, 3E is medium wide and 4E is wide. The SHB200's come in 3E worldwide, but the 4E is only available in Japan. Trust me, I have wide feet, so I know 3E is not the normal width.
If you can wear the 3E Yonex shoes and play without feeling pain then your feet are not even that wide to start with I personally have to wear the 4E JP version of the SHB200[WM] just because the 3E version cramps my wide feet too much when I move around the court. You can search for my post comparing the 4E and 3E versions of SHB200 in the forum and see it to believe the size of a wide feet shoe. Badminton shoes are designed differently especially in the toe box area due to the amount of lateral movement the feet do. 3E is in fact the most normal width and I do not think 2E badminton shoes are sold or available normally.
you can try the victor sh8500. I have wide feet too, and comparing with yonex shb101mx, which i also use, it is slightly wider at the toe area.
+1 on this, i have both mx101 and sh8500 too, and sh8500 fits my feet more comfortably while mx101 wraps the toe region more "tightly".
Am I correct as I understand that victor sh8500 comes in a regular size and also a wide size with a "w" designation?
visor, I don't think so, the 8500 is just made that way. i didn't see any special stickers either ( like Mizuno Wave fang-xt when they have a blue sticker on the box on wider models). The 'w' for wide last is true for Victor but they are in the prefixes SHW i.e shw8000,shw950...
hi all my foot 272mm in length and 95mm in width so i should choose beetween 3E or 4E i choose this model (4E): http://www.mizuno.jp/catalog/product/7KM145/111006001/ or this (3E): pls help me cause i buy in online store dont have a chance to try! tks much http://www.mizuno.jp/catalog/product/7KM150/111006001/
blueboa, if you have yonex 3e shoes before then this reference point may be of some help. i used yonex sh101mx and i have tried the 3e mizuno Wave XT (bottom pic), the XT's width and height of the toe areas is slightly narrower.
Victor SH8500 is wideish. Tried a range and compared to all the yonex ones feels a bit wider. Started still slightly tight but after a few sessions have expanded and fits me comfortably now.
