First real taste of a snare drum today, pretty fun, made around the mid 90's so im told and is in great shape, even though they gave the school new snares to use for this year, these are in great shape and were getting workong marching now, just a few questions

1) is there anything i can do to get comfy with the weight of the snare, itts gotta be at least 30 pounds, and jsut how it hangs out there makes it so much heavier

2) are their certan shoes avaliable, so i dont tear up my regular ones doing facings

thats all i needed, thanks