Start off with I have flat feet, so I have a hard time with certain boots to begin with.

These boots do seem to be pretty heavy duty, buts they have PINCH POINTS!
You can feel parts of the boot pinching your foot in certain areas if you don't have them tied "just right" and then when you do get them just right....you find you have a random point from nowhere that hurts the foot.
The shoe laces also like to come untied, that is extremely frustrating. I don't have the time for a boot like this, and would not trust it under any event.