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Casuistic Thinker and Daoist |
That is the obvious immediate payoff. You can go into places that require shoes without actually wearing "conventional shoes" No, Daoism isn't a religion | |||
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Think of this: dog poop. I have two pair of Crocs. Summer and winter models. I should be ashamed. But I'm not! End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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| Casuistic Thinker and Daoist |
If you learn to change you gait and build up your connective tissue, barefoot running really is better for you....less stress on your joints and greater speed with less effort. It really isn't even learning a new gait, but relearning your natural gait that you were born with. Toddlers are natural forefoot walkers/runners...it is just what come naturally to them. What happens is that parent want to stop them from "running on their toes" and force them into a heel striking running style...which is what sets them up later in life for knee and hip issues. When correctly running, your foot should meet the ground with the forefoot and immediately push to the rear,so you're not shocking your skeletal structure. It is a lot like the way you'd run backwards...with your feet under your center of gravity No, Daoism isn't a religion | |||
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To all of you who are serving or have served our country, Thank You |
Back around 1980 I was working at a plant they hired a guy from Guam he was about 24 and had never owned any shoes until he came to the mainland at 23 years old. Ron would not wear shoes unless they were required. He had to get some steel toe work boots for around the plant. He would not put them on until he came in from the parking lot. It could be snowing out and Ron would come in to work barefoot. | |||
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And before her, Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia won the 1960 Olympic marathon in world record time while running barefoot. Many of the world-class Ethiopian and Kenyan distance runners that have been dominating long distance running the past couple decades grew up running barefoot and didn't get a pair of running shoes until they were good enough to join a team/club sponsored by a Nike, adidas, et al. | |||
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I wear, & absolutely love Vibram 5 finger shoes. Those things in the link are just plain decoration. I even wear WellRox sandals that have a thong between each toe. Again, those things in the link do not offer any protection from gross stuff like dog poo & discarded gum & they do not separate the toes so I don't see any benefit of them unless you wanted some kind of decoration on your limbs. I get corns between my toes so any time I'm having an issue, I'm wearing Finger shoes or WellRox. They really do help in my case because a conventuals shoe pushes your toes together which hurts. They do make socks with individual toes sewn in too. My favorite brand is Injinji. | |||
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| His diet consists of black coffee, and sarcasm.  |
Isn't the point of a shoe to protect the soles of the feet, since that's what you walk on? Either that, or you'd better have some mighty thick calluses. BTW, my ISP's anti-virus blocked the website in the OP for some reason. | |||
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All I can think of is being out and needing to hit the restroom. Most are fairly nasty and I want something (shoes) between me and that nasty. It also occurs to me that skin is the largest organ of the body. Skin can absorb chemicals. Again I want a barrier on the bottom of my feet. | |||
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| No, not like Bill Clinton  |
The wife would promptly divorce me for wearing those | |||
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From their website: At Barebottoms we are redefining primal footwear. There is a barefoot movement underway that is focused on our right to be barefoot, Earthing, a minimalist approach, and improving biomechanics. Our feet are the foundation for the entire body and they are designed to be barefoot. There are over 100,000 sensory nerves receptors on the soles of your feet and they provide biofeedback to the brain so it can adapt all the systems in your body to adjust to the environment you are in. For them to work, we must bare our soles. A right to be barefoot? Foundation for the entire body? Biofeedback so the brain can adapt all systems? um okay i guess. . | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Ain't no way I'd ever trade in my hippo skin cowboy boots for those absurd things. And yeah, my wife would no doubt divorce me too if I started walking around with those foot spangles on my feet. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan "Once there was only dark. If you ask me, light is winning." ~Rust Cohle | |||
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Still finding my way |
It's the sweater vest of the sock world. | |||
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Footwear for Hobbits? --------------------- LGBFJB "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." — Mark Twain “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H. L. Mencken | |||
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Chip away the stone |
On the bright side, if you are handy with scissors you can convert your worn out boxers into a new pair of these "shoes" for the wife, as a gift made by your own loving hands. | |||
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If those are the official footwear of liberals, you could stop them with a box of Legos. | |||
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| It's not you, it's me.  |
I’m a barefoot athlete. Started as a high school sprinter, moved onto college. Have done probably 20 or so tri’s barefoot, and other road races with vibrams. Most I’ll run barefoot on asphalt is 13 miles. I wear a suit every day, but as soon as I’m in my car. Shoes come off. We’re not meant for running with shoes. We’ve evolved many millions of years without sneakers. When I went exclusively barefoot, my back, knee, and hip issues disappeared. | |||
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| It's not you, it's me. |
Try and tell me that when I pass your ass carrying a full load. My feet are strong as fuck due to barefoot running and that translates through my whole body. (FEET HAVE MUSCLES) | |||
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Get Off My Lawn |
Add me to this club. I don't get it. "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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It's a dang joke about stepping on Legos in the middle of the night. Perhaps an experience you've mercifully avoided. BTW: I have no doubt you could pass me and I seriously don't give a crap. | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine  |
Then just go barefoot. I like minimalist shoes - thin soles and minimal or no drop - but I don't see the point of these foot decorations. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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