Patent ID: 7325336

Claim:
A wrestling shoe with outer soles separated forward and rearward on a side of a grounding surface of the shoe comprising: a fore outer sole that contacts a ground in a fore foot part; a rear outer sole that contacts the ground in a rear foot part; and an outer skin that covers a lower portion of a mid foot part between the fore foot part and the rear foot part, wherein the fore and rear outer soles essentially protrude downward further than the outer skin, thereby to support a foot in the fore foot part and the rear foot part, respectively, when landing on the ground, the fore and rear outer soles are made of an outer sole material of rubber and/or resin, the outer skin is formed of a laminated body where an outer surface layer and a cushion layer are laminated, the outer surface layer is exposed in the mid foot part and made of substantially flexible sheet-like material, the cushion layer is laminated on an inner side of the outer surface layer and made of substantially flexible rubber foam or substantially flexible resin foam, the outer skin has a bottom portion and medial and lateral roll-up portions that roll up from the bottom portion along an upper, the bottom portion and the medial and lateral roll-up portions of the outer skin are integrally formed, and the laminated body is bent approximately in a shape of U in transverse cross section to form the bottom portion and roll portions, an inner sole placed extending from the fore foot part to the rear foot part above the fore and rear outer soles, wherein the bottom portion of the outer skin covers the inner sole, wherein the laminated body has an exposed portion wherein a surface of the outer surface layer is exposed in the mid foot part and a bonded portion wherein the surface of the outer surface layer is bonded to a top surface of the outer sole material in a rear end of the fore outer sole and a fore end of the rear outer sole, and the bonded portion is thinner than the exposed portion.