Best arrow rest for string walking?

The main thing is that you need a strong wire. I started out stringwalking many years ago using my Olympic style ARE magnetic rest. I tore the wire up pretty quickly.

You have two types you can go for and both work fine.

For a stick-on rest the AAE Champion II works great and it much less expensive than a bolt on.

For bolt on rest any of the big players work fine. I have personally used the AAE Freeflyte Elite and the Gabriel BiDriop. The Gabriel rest is a drop away and is designed for stringwalking.

I don't see a noticeable difference. The Gabriel is supposed to reduce arrow bounce and shorten the long crawls. If it did it was minimal.

There are a few other stringwalking fall away models now. I would stay away from the magnetic ones since you are just learning. It is easy to torque the bow and accidentally trigger the fall away.

Before you ask, the Gabriel rests are not available in the US. They come from Germany and you have to order them from an overseas provider. Also, they are very difficult to adjust so I would not consider them something a beginner should try to use.

I think the easiest rest to adjust is the Champion II.

I am left handed. Everything I mentioned is available left handed.

The best rest for stringwalking is absolutely a Zniper. Now I’m talking multi distance shooting as in field or 3d, the benefits really become apparent at medium to large crawls. Bumping the nock or very small crawls, pick what you like pretty much. Any quality rest will do the job.

Problem with a Gabriel is I’ve seen on slo-mo the wire bounce back up and contact. They are also sensitive to arrow weight depending on model. Someone else can speak to this better though. But still, no thanks.
Problem with AAE free flyte elites and zt’s are the wires are too stiff, yes I said that. Creates a big bounce.
The original AAE free flyte is much better but it still gets a bounce.
Contrary to popular belief, you want a soft wire for stringwalking. It absorbs the bounce and has less effect on things. There’s 2 things that you don’t want in a wire, you don’t want it to break and you don’t want it to stay bent. Other then that, you want as soft as you can find.
-Or get a Zniper and have zero bounce😁