Wrestling shoes
Thin soles, long laces and a fit that has to be tight without rubbing. The steps below break the lacing into small moments, so your child can learn it at their own pace instead of someone else tying it every time.
A pair of wrestling shoes
Blue wrestling shoes with white stripes and laces, standing side by side.
About this visual support
Lacing is the hard part, not the shoes themselves. Wrestling shoes have to sit tight all the way up, the laces are long, and the knot has to survive a whole session of pulling and dragging in every direction. For a hand still practising crossing, pulling and tying, that is a lot to manage while the rest of the team is already standing on the mat.
Split into pictures, the task becomes reasonable again: foot into the shoe, tighten from the bottom up, cross, tie, tuck the lace ends away. That last step is easily forgotten and it is the one that decides whether the shoe holds through training. Let your child practise at home on the sofa when nobody is waiting, ideally with the shoe in their lap rather than on the foot, since the angle is far easier to see that way. Include the picture showing that the shoes go on at the edge of the mat and are not worn on the way there, and you skip that discussion in the corridor every time.
In the Routined app you can set the lacing out as separate sub-steps with pictures and check-off before training, and test the app for fourteen days at no cost.
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