BEST Water Shoe for ADVENTURE in 2023 | Five Ten Trail Cross LT - Full REVIEW

The best water shoe for adventure. I'm back with the best water shoe for adventure that you can buy right now. There's two important things I need you to know. My definition of adventure might be different from yours. My name is Jesse St. Louis. I specialize in getting all up in those creeks, cracks, canyons, caves, and cliffs. Basically a moist, wet crack. That's what I specialize in getting all up in. Wet rocks, wet cliffs, sea caves, canyons, creeks, cliff jumping. If that is your idea of fun and adventure, then this is the shoe for you. If you're a whitewater kayaker or some other type of athlete, this may not be the shoe for you. If you're looking for something for the beach, for a casual stroll on a sandy beach, you want a low profile, minimalist water shoe, this is not the shoe for you. If this review video is helpful for you and you want to buy this shoe, please do so through one of the affiliate links below. An important thing to note is that this video is not sponsored. I pay full retail price for these shoes so I can give you an accurate and unbiased review. About a year and a half ago, I did a review on the Adidas Terex Voyager, which still, for me, is the best water shoe for adventure. However, it's sold out everywhere. They stopped making it. So hurry up and grab these before Adidas stops making them. And you might be saying, wait a minute. What is the shoe? You keep waving it around. And the reason I'm not telling you yet is because there's two important things, that matter to me when it comes to a water shoe for adventure. That is sticky, grippy rubber. And the best rubber on the market is stealth rubber. A lot of people ask me, how do I know the shoes I'm looking for or I'm going to buy, how do I know that they're stealth rubber? Well, underneath, on the underneath of the shoe, it says stealth on it. So if you look at a picture online of the sole, if it doesn't say stealth on it, it's not stealth rubber. If it says continental or traction or literally anything or literally nothing, if it doesn't say stealth, it is not stealth rubber. Stealth rubber is a highly advanced sticky rubber that Adidas actually purchased the company 510 solely for the reason that they could own the patent for stealth rubber. They use it for climbing shoes, approach shoes, mountain bike shoes. And coincidentally, the best water shoe for adventure is a mountain biking shoe. It is the 510 Trail Cross LT. Now, the LT is the low top version. They also make a high top version of this, which my wife has been rocking for about five months now. There are several pros and cons to the shoe. For what I do for my type of adventure, it is the number one water shoe that you can buy right now. So if you like getting all up in those moist cracks, stay tuned for all the pros and cons. So the first pro, like I mentioned, for this shoe is the rubber is super sticky. Now, some of you might be saying, how does it compare to Vibra? I have had Vibrams on my hiking boots, Vibram soles, and they just were not as sticky. When you're talking wet rock, guys, if you want to scale massive slippery boulders, if you want to go up a creek, if you want to cliff jump off a canyon, if you want something that's going to essentially glue your feet to a wet rock, you want stealth rubber on your soles. So I'm going to reiterate the fact, stealth rubber is the most important. If you can find something with stealth rubber, but you can't find these or you can't afford these, just go with stealth rubber. The reason why these are important is the second main reason for me is the drainage. So these only have two drainage holes. Opposed to the Voyagers, which I previously made a video on, had five drainage holes. So the drainage on these is not as good. However, it's pretty comparable to the ones with five drainage holes. The one thing I'll say, a benefit of these versus the Voyagers, they are much more durable. They're going to last a lot longer than the Voyagers. The materials that they made the upper on the Voyagers out of got shredded really quickly, and that was one of my big problems with them. However, despite the fact that this material is stronger, it still has a design flaw in the same exact place that the Voyagers have that design flaw, on the outer small toe area. Having said that, these lasted several months longer before they started to wear in that area. Now keep in mind, I was beating the crap out of these every single day. Coasteering, canyons, rock hopping, foot getting stuck in between boulders and jagged rocks, climbing all sorts of volcanic sharp rocks, getting all up in those schist canyons with the jagged rocks and cliff jumping, and doing all sorts of things that, if you're just a casual weekend warrior, you're not going to wear these out as quick as I did. I've had these for about nine months, and they're still good to go. The tread is starting to wear a little bit, but it's still super grippy. And like I said, the hole, it took nine months for me to wear that out, and I was adventuring in them almost every day. So certainly, if you're only on the weekends or a couple days a month, it's only going to wear off for you maybe after a year or so. Water shoes like this, oftentimes you need to replace every season. Another question I got asked a lot about the Voyagers, which applies to these as well, is do I wear them without socks? Now the Voyagers, because that material on the uppers wasn't as strong, you could get away with not wearing them with socks, even though I often did. Either neoprene socks or a lightweight, quick-dry athletic sock. These, however, I have worn without socks, and I do not recommend it at all. They basically sandpapered my toes and the back of my heel and created some wounds on my feet just from wearing them without socks. For one day in the ocean, if you happen to see the Shark Bay video, that was the one where I wore them without socks. Don't recommend that with these. The material is strong, and it's basically like rubbing on your feet, sanding your feet off, sanding the skin off your feet. I get a comment often when I'm coasteering, canyoning, natural waterslides, cliff jumping, why are you wearing shoes? Well, the reason I'm wearing shoes is, the grip is way superior to being barefoot or even with socks on. So the sticky rubber helps tremendously, especially if you're doing the stuff that I'm doing. Anything involving wet, slippery rock, where you don't want to slip and bust your ass, which, trust me, I've done plenty of times before I found out the tremendous benefit of the stealth rubber. Guys, if you can only get a shoe that has stealth rubber and it doesn't have drainage in it, and the material takes a long time to dry, go with that. It may not be your traditional water shoe. However, you have to have stealth rubber if you're doing the stuff I'm doing. The good thing about the upper on this, like I said, it's more durable. It doesn't hold water. It does take longer to dry than the Voyagers do. But like I said, you can't find the Voyagers anywhere. They are sold out. Adidas stopped making them. So get these Adidas Trailcross mountain biking shoes. These are the LTs, the low tops. They also make an XT, which is a high top. Sam has the high tops. She loved them. They had great ankle support. They're not as heavy duty, and they don't weigh as much as the other Hydrolase, the Adidas Hydrolase canyoneering shoes. So if you want something a little bit lighter weight with ankle support, the high top version of these is the way to go. If you want a low top ready to rock and roll in the moist cracks, this is the way to go. Snap these up before they stop making them. Adidas 510 Trailcross LT, the best water shoe for adventures that I do. If you find something and you have a question, drop me a question below. Hit me up on Instagram. DM on Instagram. If you have any questions, but like I said, look underneath. If it says stealth on the bottom, that is the way to go. Stealth and drainage, the two most important things that I look for in a water shoe. In the meantime, get out there, find your adventure and be infamous. I'm floating out now. Oh, the current, the current's moving fast. Infamous.