Foot wear tread apparatus and method of use

The method of providing cleats on a boot sole to provide traction in all directions, the sole having a longitudinal length direction and a lateral width direction, that includes the steps:

• a) providing the cleats to have profiles with short and long axes, the majority of the cleats having generally elliptical peripheral configuration,
• b) locating the cleats to extend on the sole in criss-cross diagonal row configuration, the cleats oriented to have their long axes extending at positive and negative angles relative to the longitudinal length direction of the sole, the long axes of the cleats in each row angled relative to the row length detection,
• c) said row configurations also characterized by multiple rows differently curving along their lengths, and by gaps defined between successive cleats in said curved rows, the gaps everywhere spaced away from all other nearest cleats.