I bought these shoes on sale from EMS and the only size they had i thought for sure that they would be to small. Once i got them in i still thought...to small... but after checking the return policy to see if i could do the heat treatment and climb one time in them and still return them i gave them a shot. The heat treatment is strangely fun. it seemed to help stretch the shoes a very small amount. i took them out to the nearest crag and gave em a shot. Freakin awesomsly sticky, excellent precision, and so far no problem with the velcro. I would deffinitly recomend these for sport climbs and bouldering, if they are sized like mine (43 street, 42 miuras, 41 wasabi). smearing is probably the only thing that these weren't excellent on, but if you could find a small pebble or knob, they were fine. will deffinitly update if i start having trouble with these.

I love mine and use it all the time. i have yet to put new batteries in it and it hasn't seemed to dimmed much if any. I have had mine for bout 4 months or so. the only proble i have with it is that there is no red light cover you can put over it when, for example, you are reading a map. all around i like it better than the tika because of the tilt housing.