I shot a nice series last night and only had 2 opens but one of them shouldn't have happened. I was playing an outside line and right after my second step I think I tripped over my own feet practicly and insted of thinking fast and stopping I continued with my shot and ende up ditching it. I thought about it why this happend cause it's a newbie mistake. I thought more and this has happend quite a few times with these shoes since I bought them over a year ago and I think it's cause of the sticky Goodyear rubber on the bottom. I'm trying to understand the point of it. For traction walking to the line? My last shoes were Linds and they have smooth hard leather on the bottom I belive and I never slipped. I do say I don't walk heel to toe and drage on purpose cause it helps me get down on my power shot. Has anyone had a problem with thier non slide Dexter shoe?

When I get a good squeak out of my shoe I know it's going to be a good shot.  It's like a good hard push into the slide and everything comes together.
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the 3 is silent

When selling lots of shoes i had the biggest problems when someone switched from Linds to Dexters due to sliding issues. Yes they put the softer durometer on there to help with traction. I know a lot of the people that have switched over especially guys with bigger revs tended to like the Dexters as they felt they had better leverage through the power step. Why they need it? Probably personnal preference. Since switching from Linds to Dexter/ABS I find that I can only use the Linds on the tackiest of approaches or I feel like Dorothy Hammill. Although you stated what you do to make yourself stay down, it doesn't make it the shoe's fault for the faulty shot. Not a demeaning statement just don't like blaming equipment for approach and delivery variation. Possible solution is to apply teflon tape to area's that you drag during the approach to lessen the coefficient of friction or try a slide sock.