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I prefer bare feet just find it easier to wrestle also a bit of a foot fetish

Baree is good–but sox better for humiliation

I Think no socks is better

Better barefoot to feel the feet

Yes I agree

and what about socks?

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I'm more on the barefoot camp myself, but I do have a pair of wrestling shoes in my bag just in case.

think i got a foot fetish around 14 while wrestling a kid i had a crush on, His name was Wilford and he had me pinned and my face was resting on his foot so thats my answer LOL. There is some hold where one opponent is on his back and the other grabs his wrist pulling his arm away from his body while pressing a foot to the side of his head. Love that one whatever its called

That's an arm bar. Almost every martial artist with a secret foot fetish uses it to tease their opponent and almost always makes the opponent want to lock one on to exact revenge lol.

An def go with barefoot here especially for submission. If both fighters are skilled in amateur or Greco-Roman then go for shoes. Personally I wrestle barefoot for most my matches.

Bare foot is better for u to taste My foot during the fight

I wrestle in barefeet no better way prefer my opponent to wrestle in barefeet Please log in to view gallery photos.

cool , its seems to have advantages as others have mentioned.

Im ok with both from childhood we go bare foot a lot in NZ especially in the summer. When I wear wrestling shoes it feels like Im more competitive its part of the battle...

Barefoot is sexier especially if you’re like me and have a foot fetish! Also like to abuse my opponent when I can by sticking my bare feet in his face. Like it when my opponent does that to me too.

I agree. Love the use of barefeet in the match.

Prefer wrestling or tennis shoes.

Tennis shoes ? Is it not heavy ?

Tennis shoes if outside

Same here Dennis, My Asics outside.

O.K. It's very rational and right to do 👍

I like to wrestle barefoot or in socks

Newbies wrestlers ask me what is better? Wrestling barefoot or with wrestling shoes ? I answer that personally I prefer to wrestle barefoot mainly for two reasons: 1) Personal feeling is easier and comfortable to wrestle barefoot on the mat. 2) If the wrestler as me uses a higher percentage of his technique by the grips and holds of legs like scissors or a grapewine hold, barefoot legs help to close more tightly and strong the legs grip on the opponent.
Note: One of my experienced opponent who tries to neutralize my legs grips on him, told me that the only way to prevent me use my legs on him is to wrestle with me barefoot. Because only by pinning his barefoot on my barefoot creates an efficient lock on me. It does not happen when he wrestles with the wrestling shoes. The challenge now is to find the method to preventing him from holding his barefoot to my barefoot so that I can activate him a grip legs

Depends how you want yo wrestle. If both just want to wrestle Olympic (freestyle /greco-roman) style for shoulder pin with those rules and had access to a mat I would prefer wrestling shoes.
If both want to wrestle any other style I would only go barefoot because of the more leg holds you can use and there shoes are not so good to set holds tight... as holdswrestling described.

I definitely agree with you. In any case I personally prefer to wrestle barefoot 🦶🦶🦵🦵💪👍

I always prefere fighting with Bare foot. By the way My feer are quite large