Can your running shoes do this? Mine can.

Balancing on rails with my new Vibram FiveFingers Sprints.

BFT
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Barefoot Ted's Adventures

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• fivefingers
• balancing
• barefoot
• shoes

[vivitar45]

these things are like 100 bucks jsut get a paire or pools shoes there like 5 bucks there just as good but not as fancy with the toes on them thats all

[barefootted]

So, you have tested both yourself and speak from experience, right?

[xrebelkittenx]

C'mon ted... what happened to the raramuri way? Where's your huaraches? Man, i hate to say this but the influence and benefits you got from the raramuris now you're using to advertise a product for profit. Shame, shame.

[barefootted]

@xrebelkittenx hate to say, but that is a lame argument. I have been running barefoot for years before I met the Raramuri and wearing FiveFingers.

Come on down off your high horse please. No need to be judgmental, especially if you've got the facts wrong. A big thank you would be more appropriate in my opinion, but I could be biased. :-)

BFT

[barefootted]

@tentonbrick not closed minded at all. I just don't see how you do yourself any good in balance sports by adding trainers to the picture. They are less optimal then a barefoot for balance. I mean, imagine gymnasts on a balance beam wearing trainers...absurd, no?

Of course young folks can do it. It is just not optimal. I would imagine that the best traceurs are not wearing big padded, high-heel trainers. Some of the best I have seen train barefoot.

[soundofgeek]

Sure my running shoes can do this - these /are/ my running shoes. Got them sometime last year, and haven't looked back.

I do find if I run for long they get sweat in them and then I start slipping around in them - is that a common problem, and should that problem go away if I start wearing sweatbands on my ankles?

[rodjnemedez]

Haha, I can't wait till my KSO's to come in, then I'll be able to do ninja stuff like you.

[HitTheTrailRunning]

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[burninmunkeys]

@Degenskonto I agree that it can work that way, and I agree that my grandparents don't have high school diplomas even, but that is completely away from our original point.

[Degenskonto]

@burninmunkeys Or the other way, smartass

[burninmunkeys]

@Degenskonto Yes, having less than adequate amounts of money automatically dooms their intelligence levels. Great logic, dipshit.

[Degenskonto]

@burninmunkeys Or, your lineage is just stupid.

[burninmunkeys]

@Degenskonto Yes, and my grandmother's family was a farming family too. They had just enough for a nickel pepsi occasionally and sometimes a quarter for a huge bag of candy, along with one pair of shoes that they only wore to church because that was the only pair they owned. Not everyone has always been able to have shoes... sorry, your argument is still mute.

[Wolf3fd]

I just read Born to run and you are my favourit character, I always like barerunning - or running on thin shoe sole, but about vibram five I have never heard as today... I looked how much they cost and I was very disappointed, becouse 100$ it´s too much for me... maybe once I will find compromise between quality and cost. Martin

[Degenskonto]

@burninmunkeys Not so much buying, but making. Either clogs or shoes made out of leather and fur. Where I live most people were farmers, so hides and wood were plentyful. Ive seen clogs from the 1500th century with leather around it to make them watertight. They used them as wellingtons.