How important are throwing shoes?
My opinion is you don’t need specialty throwing shoes in high school for shot, disc, or javelin. For shot and disc, you can use any flatbottom shoes. You would want to use a shoe that has a fairly low profile and little or no traction. Indoor soccer shoes are OK, worn tennis shoes, cross-training shoes, or even skateboard shoes. You would want to avoid running shoes. For javelin, you would want to get some spikes. Any spikes from Play it Again Sports store plus a javelin heel to add spikes to the heel, or high jump spikes. If your runway is on the grass, you can wear football/soccer cleats or baseball spikes. If you want to throw hammer in high school, then you can really benefit from throwing shoes, but they are not essential. The reason is you are turning on the edge of your foot, so you want the sides of the foot to be curved up. That is the basic characteristic of hammer throwing shoes. I would say to buy the cheapest you can find of the hammer shoes. Those same shoes can also be u
