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[Irenaeus]

Hello,

I am in Melbourne and need to buy my 15 year old son new running shoes. He has been running for about 3 years but his times have not improves in the last year. He has been diagnosed as having flat feet, and we need some quality advice on what would be the best type of shoe for him. Can any one recommend a store in the south eastern surburbs where sales people have knowledge and prepared to advise. Our experience at the big runing stores has not been a postive one.

Thank you.

[wombatoutofhell]

Irenaeus, on Feb 17 2009, 03:23 PM, said:

Hello,

I am in Melbourne and need to buy my 15 year old son new running shoes. He has been running for about 3 years but his times have not improves in the last year. He has been diagnosed as having flat feet, and we need some quality advice on what would be the best type of shoe for him. Can any one recommend a store in the south eastern surburbs where sales people have knowledge and prepared to advise. Our experience at the big runing stores has not been a postive one.

Thank you.

Trot along to Active Feet in Prahran or Heathmont-they are pretty good. There's also Complete Feet in Camberwell, but I have no first hand experience about them. You may want to consult a Podiatrist if his feet are really bad-I use Paul Karak in Langwarrin and he's pretty good.
Big sports stores are hit and miss-you get the right assistant and all is well but the wrong one and it all goes wrong. I once got the totally wrong shoe from a large chain in spite of their computer thingy. On the other hand my wife lucked out at Rebel in town and had an assistant who was a runner and got exactly the right advice and shoe.
Good luck-and welcome to coolrunning.

[schwarta]

If you can, I'd be taking him to a Podiatrist to get some recommendations, I went to Intraining (in Brissy) yesterday to get checked out, and turns out I've got more issues than just flat feet. So I'll most likely be in a shoe completely different to what I've been wearing and also without the orthotics that I got last year from a different podiatrist....

[wombatoutofhell]

Active Feet stores are owned my a podiatrist and staffed by podiatry students so the advice is usually pretty good. I believe Complete Feet have a podiatrist on staff as well.

[droidy]

Having just been to Active Feet in Heathmont, I can definitely say they're friendly and knowledgeable (: I'd actually emailed ahead to see how long their average fittings might take seeing as I'd have the young sir (nearly 10 months) in tow on my days off work. Turns out the pair I was fitted for previously at one of the other 'running' stores was not right at all for my feet.