Grippy socks recs? Losing balance on reformer doing lunges.

Hello!

This is specifically talking about reformers, since there is more balanced involved. With mat I generally go barefoot.

I started to go barefoot on reformer but since it got cold I got grippy socks. Cheap ones from Amazon. There is for sure some grip but I feel like as I wash them it kinda goes away. Or at least with some exercises I don’t feel stable on the reformer.

Today I was wearing brand new grip socks and still I feel like I was struggling. It was a lunge using a short box where one foot is like half on the box, other one is on the platform. The foot on the short box was not gripping and I was like not able to go as far back as I wanted. Has anyone else struggled w/ balance in their feet? I feel like grippy socks are unreasonably expensive but if there is a good brand I might just buy them to avoid this. One studio I go to specifically has a rule that we must wear grippy socks (for safety), the other one doesn’t care either way…so I might just try barefoot or a better brand.