There was a little bit of room all over, from heel to toe, and I didn’t really care for its ability to lock my foot in. For me, I had to lace tighter in order to get good lockdown and it created all kinds of bad flexing. Now I could see how many players could like the Fireshot – if you have a wider foot, it’ll probably fill up the interior nicely. The odd flexing created hot spots (for me) at a couple of points along both medial sides of the shoes. The toebox creased funny because of how far down the tongue was stitched to the top of the toebox – it really needed to be a full inner sleeve. However, the synthetic mesh itself flexed extremely weird and unnaturally for me. In this aspect, the reinforcement was a great idea as it strengthened the upper without coating the whole thing in another layer of material. The major portion of the upper is a Fuse-like synthetic mesh with overlays strategically fused along the interior of the upper (you can see the pattern they create in some of these pictures). My narrow foot was not built for this upper at all. There was really too much volume all over for me in this shoe.

Honestly, I think I could have gone to a 10.5 – there was that much room in the toebox for me. I went with a size 11, a half-size down from my true size of 11.5. I will do my best to remind myself that this shoe ultimately wasn’t really built for a foot type like mine, so I’ll try to separate personal preference from overall performance at the end of this section. The word that kept coming to mind throughout my wearings was unnatural. What I found after putting in the hours with the Fireshot on-court is a shoe that’s lacking in a lot of areas. I have a pair I break out from time to time and I’ve always loved its sleek, clean lines. Second, the CompFit sleeve gave it a unique silhouette and bore a slight resemblance to one of my favorite UA silos – the original Micro G Juke, which was the first shoe to ever use CompFit. First, I’m a fan of Micro G and hey, that’s what these are built on so I figured I’d be guaranteed a good ride.

Prose: Jake Sittler I headed to the mall to pick up the UA Fireshot, I did so for a couple of reasons.

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