Adolescent Kenyan Running Barefoot - Slow Motion

This is an adolescent Kenyan who has never worn shoes in his life and runs a significant amount every day. He forefoot strikes.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• barefoot
• running
• shoes
• slow motion
• foot strike
• forefoot strike
• heel strike
• impact transient
• gait
• gait analysis
• endurance running
• human evolution
• Daniel Lieberman
• Harvard skeletal biology
• Kenya
• Nature

[drchaffee]

Grace and power, thanks to evolution. I need to unlearn the ideas that Nike and others put in my head.

[ironcheftruth]

That was sublime...

[camreeno360]

Obviously the shoe companies won't tell us this, or else they won't make money.

[aussiearu]

@themattburns well you're the first one running on toes and probably the last, every toe striker will land the rest of the foot, just like the sublime guy in the video.

[Darthmaio]

Yes indeed, now just imagine what those small changes can cumulatively add up to over the course of, say, a million years.

[talltooth]

@Darthmaio no lmao evoulution is changing through out species and adaptation is small changes passed on through genes to fit an environment

GG NO RE

[Darthmaio]

@talltooth

They're one in same.

[renkinjutsu01]

Seeing something like this in slow motion is just amazing.. Watching a human run is just as amazing as watching a cheetah run in slow motion.

[talltooth]

@drchaffee not evolution, but adaptation

[TheNaturalRunnerVanc]

@themattburns Technically anyone running at an efficiently will TOUCH DOWN ahead of the center of mass, but when the foot is bearing all of the weight aka completely flat, the foot is underneith the body. An easy way to see that is by pausing the video when his hips are at their lowest point. The only exception to this would be sprinting, where the forefoot momentarily strikes the ground underneath the body as the hamstrings/glutes pull the lag backward

[hellomate639]

@themattburns

It's not good running form if you're wearing running shoes. But if you have no shoes, running on your toes is the only way to run without damaging your knees.