While not strictly required, grip socks are highly recommended for barre and Pilates. They provide much-needed traction on smooth studio floors, helping you maintain stability and control during exercises, and reducing the risk of slips and falls.

Many barre and Pilates socks on the market use silicone grip dots that wear out quickly. Apolla's AMP Shock grip socks, however, feature a patented, refreshable grip that lasts 5x longer than cheaper alternatives. This means you won't have to constantly replace your socks due to worn-out grips.

Plus, the AMP Shock offers targeted compression and arch support to keep your feet supported, warm, and pain-free, reducing the risk of overuse injuries. No other barre sock or pilates sock is a plantar fasciitis sock, grip sock, and reduces force like The AMP Shock.

While it may make the traditional dance teachers blush, Apolla Dance Socks can absolutely replace your jazz shoes! With a similar profile, grip, and colors, you can't tell the difference on stage.

Considering the injury rate for dancers, it is a matter of changing our mindset of how we can still have the function of a jazz shoe but add support and protection to keep them dancing for years to come. With our targeted compression for the plantar fascia, force reduction, and added ankle support. Apolla Socks help you dance smarter, stronger, and longer.

The AMP Shock provides a similar grip and frees up the foot for better articulation and control, allowing you to feel the floor better than bulky jazz shoes.

Plus, unlike traditional dance shoes, you can easily wash them.

The support and cushioning in the AMP Shock also help prevent and relieve pain from plantar fasciitis and other common overuse dance injuries.

We also recommend pairing any of our dance socks with a pair of our NON traction, higher profiles for recovery with the added medical grade graduated compression that assist in faster recovery and more efficient blood flow.

We recommend The Infinite, our mid calf or our knee high compression socks, The Endurance. The combination of having a pair for class and recovery to slip on and where when they are NOT dancing is the magic recipe to keep overuse injuries irrelevant.

It is important to understand how our grip works, please see full information here and make sure to add a bottle of E6000 Non-Toxic Spray Adhesive to refresh our grip.

Yes, you can wear AMP Shock no-show compression socks with many types of dance shoes! The no show design is great for stealth support in any shoe! Providing additional support and cushioning without altering the fit of your footwear.

We see these worn IN jazz, tap, La Duca boots, hip-hop sneakers, ballroom shoes, or any everyday shoe! You will just want to opt for the NON traction version to wear IN a shoe.

The AMP Shock has patented grip on the ball of the foot and the heel.

This strategic placement mimics the grip of a traditional jazz shoe, providing secure footing while allowing for a full range of motion.

It is important to understand how our grip works, please see full information here and make sure to add a bottle of E6000 Non-Toxic Spray Adhesive to refresh our grip.

Through our patented design, The AMP achieves ankle support through a combination of targeted compression zones and a snug, anatomical fit.

This means we put our firm compression zones of 20 to 30 mmHg (millimeters of mercury...not the bad stuff, it is just a value given to measure the squeeze on your leg) and we place them where the outer ligaments insert on the outer ankle that are most vulnerable to rolls and sprains.

Making it so there is actually some support on the ankle vs your cheaper, average no show sock.

While it may not provide the same level of support as our higher-profile of socks, the AMP enhances stability and helps reduce the risk of rollovers.

However, if you would like more ankle, brace-like support, we recommend looking at our higher profiles.

Many customers with previous ankle injuries say the AMP gives them the confidence they need to stay active.