I personally do not care for the rubber push off...Ihave has my origional SST's which has the harder type "leather" or vinyl push off. any shoes out there that have this instead of the rubber>? i asked my distributor, and he told me to get a higher quality shoe, I had to have the rubber. Or buy a righ hand pr. and left pr. .....definitely dont want that. Just deeing if there is anyone in the same boat as me...just gives me a gym shoe feel on my right foot...and cant get used to it. Really like the interchangable heels and sliders, so I dont want a cheap pr. Thanks for any help!!!