Summarized Version - Stop Being a Newbie & Start Training Barefoot!

[SheffParkourMovement]

Been looking all over for a video in this context! thank you so much, now hopefully i can persuade some of the guys i know to start training barefoot/minimal with me!

[CrisVidBlog]

Sometimes I train with my feyues and I really enjoy to train with it! Are they good for parkour? I think my evolution in parkour is slower than if I wear kalenji or other shoe, but with feyues I have never have the ankle thing!

What is you opinion about feyues? They are not dangerous for the knees?

[DemonDrills]

@CrisVidBlog Feiyues are a good in between shoe. Not as good as barefoot shoes but not as bad as most shoes.

[GuyGoesParkour]

@DemonDrills This video really piped my interest with these shoes, so i spontaneously decided to get a pair for my birthday, cost me $135 all up.

Ive done about 4 wallclimbs in them so far and ive found that they have almost no grip, and that the sole gets instantly destroyed.

i was just wondering if these happened to yours also? because on precision jumps im sliding everywhere even though ive been training in feiyues and my running technique is already the one that the vivo website suggests.

[GuyGoesParkour]

@GuyGoesParkour i know you said you had to re learn precisions but i find that only on optimal surfaces is the grip of any use, which has made me quite dissapointed in the buy :/

[DemonDrills]

@GuyGoesParkour did you get the aqua lites? i've been wearing the same pair since september and they are just now getting close to the end of their life. if your's wore out that fast you can probably email VB and they will replace them. their grip isn't as good as Ariakes but it has been good enough for me.

[GuyGoesParkour]

@DemonDrills yeah i got the black aqua lites, same model as yours, everything you say in the video is true and its great but going from volleys to feiyues to these, the grip just seems terrible for things such as wall climbs and precisions. although i love the aspect of how light they are i just feel that the grip on the sole (the squares in each hexagon) has now dissapeared on the pad of my foot, and the V paint is already about half gone, just doesnt seem like theyll last the distance to me.

[bollotraceur]

solo es cuestion de tener buena tecnica y podras entrenar descalzo sin ningun problema!

[thepantherx12]

Oh also, you look so different with a beard man!

Didn't realise it was you until someone told me ha ha, come a long way since the videos you used to post on UF.

[thepantherx12]

Great video, was just discussing the benefits of this yesterday.

Been using Feiyues since 07 and wear Onitsuka Tigers* when I want to wear something with a bit of cushioning.

*Nice n thin! No fancy torsion bands or arch support etc.

[peterpan187]

In addition to the Titanium Ankles I would also look at "3D Ankle Mobility"(&Strenghtening) by the Diesel Crew which adds a few more aspects to ankle strengthening&mobility, which is also important for barefoot movement - without it you will go around bad mobility with bad movements and might get hurt. @Ryan: Great video, I think its good, that you stress how important it is to start slow and improve in small steps, cause that is imo the most important thing besides starting to train barefoot

[kclayt88]

Hi, I have been doing Parkour for 3 years, but I have very bad feet over-pronation and fallen arches. I have to wear special shoes which offer plenty of support. I would love to try barefoot pk, however even walking barefoot begins to hurt me very quickly. Do you think that barefoot pk might just be not for me? Or should I attempt to work up to that. Also, is there a way I can contact Dr Kao about this? I'd love to see what shoes he would recommend for pk. Thanks.

[DemonDrills]

@kclayt88 Go to vital balance chiropractic's website and send an email to Dr. Ken. Or if you are lucky, he might comment here. :)

[cstormpk]

@kclayt88 The way I know to explain it... If you know anything about architecture.. an 'arch' is a non-weight bearing surface. It's kinda like overmedicating yourself by using arch-support on your feet. If you've been doing this since childhood (like most of us have) you've likely to atrophied some muscles. Have to work on strengthening those muscles again...

[freerunOz]

When ever iland barefoot, it always hurts

[DemonDrills]

@freerunOz Listen to 5:55 in this video. It might hurt at first because your feet aren't conditioned for it. You have to start out with only a little bit of barefoot style training. As the months go by, you can slowly train barefoot more often.

[MRmattconnell]

Barefoot training hurt me. Shoes it is.

[DemonDrills]

@MRmattconnell Listen to 5:55 in this video. It might hurt at first because your feet aren't conditioned for it. You have to start out with only a little bit of barefoot style training. As the months go by, you can slowly train barefoot more often.

[MlsterMaven]

Been using Feiyues for over 3 years. I love them! Easily the best shoes i've ever had.

[rorosamy]

this is great info.

i have a qustion: if this shoes is so bad for runing and jumping why dose a lot of olympic athletes uses this shoes?

[RJPBurtonBoards]

@rorosamy For the same reason that most people wear shoes, because we have been taught as a society that it is necessary. Many track shoes are very light, and have things like spikes for better traction. There are some olympic level distance runners that run barefoot.

[DemonDrills]

@rorosamy Actually, track shoes are like barefoot/minimalist shoes because they have little cushion and support.

[rstott49]

I think the feiyues are pretty close to those 'barefoot shoes', than an inbetween shoe.

[oMetalMindedo]

An awesome shoe that's super cheap is faiyues. Haha I think I spelt it right. they are a martial arts shoe that is also great for parkour or tricking. They cost 15 to 20 bucks a pair.

[oMetalMindedo]

@oMetalMindedo haha didn't wait far enough into the vid too see that he mentions them, my bad.

[afran17]

titanium ankles really saved my ass man, thanks!

[neonbowser]

I thought flatter foot was a bad thing

[Exzi]

I'm gonna hate... Nah, I'm joking! I love Feiyues. :]

[tylers911]

I love this video. i was going to go train before dark in regular shoes and after watching this i put on my vibrams :)

[live2freerun1]

I just recently got the feiyue's, and i would recommend them to anyone because they give you a feel to things, they really show you what you are doing wrong and right, but you need to go slow when you start out with them, i bruised my heel the first day i used them and have been having trouble with that ankle for awhile now. But bear foot is the way to go.