Not that I mind, but… wearing shoes has a purpose… and the most important one IMO is to make sure our feet stay harms way from broken bottles, nails, stuff like that.
I’m not even gonna get into how cold it must be not wearing them in the winter… or how hot the asfalt might get during the summer. The asfalt can go up to 80, 90°C where I live during the summer, people have fried eggs on it for kicks.
They talk about the benefits of being barefoot as if the grass required to give those health benefits is anywhere in sight. The city environment has as many chemicals as a natural environment has bacteria and vitamins. It really won’t help them, and I’m surprised nobody noticed, since shoes aren’t like skirts where the exposed part is always facing down, unless they were taking baby steps the whole way.
I have a couple pairs now of Vibram Five Fingers and they’re the most comfortable shoes I own. My feet are pretty wide, so my choices tend to be “squash the fuck out of my little toe” or “wide but heavy as hell”. I went barefoot places I could regularly (and still do camping when putting on shoes is too much for a short trip or whatever), but these let me do similar everywhere. I find hiking a lot easier when I can feel the ground and use my toes scrambling over rocks and in streams, etc.
Just cutting off the bottom of your shoes is dumb as hell.
I’ve got a pair of Lem primal zens and I love them but they’re not that great for hiking due to the lack of trees but everything else is so great I just do it anyways
I’m thinking about getting some toe shoes though as I think that they’d be better for hiking
I’ve been on the fence about it for awhile but I think I’ll do it once my tax return rolls in
Pretty sure this is also a good way to verucas and other infections.
I grew up being barefoot in the tropics, but in colder climates there are reasons for shoes.
Used condoms are great for moisturising bunions.
Why would they not just buy some cheap shoes to destroy.
They did. And then they lied about the value.
good question, but how they will get views if they dont destroy their 20k shoes?
By spending $100 at Goodwill.
Don’t be like the idiots in the video. If anybody actually wants something like this, barefoot shoes are a thing. They’re thin enough that you can feel the ground underneath you, while still protecting you from random nails and glass and shit. If you like being barefoot, give them a try. They’re a nice middle ground.
I totally think it is not a thing. Just two random ignorant fools doing it (maybe, and maybe not).
Barefoot shoes are a thing though, with a very thin sole and a very direkt Response to ground texture. I have a small collection of these and i am a big fan of them. However, if i want to go completely barefoot (or simply forget my shoes again), i just don’t Wasser shoes.
What is the appeal to you of feeling the surface you walk on more directly? In my experience, having bulky soles enables your feet to take rough terrain for longer ( I did some multiday hikes in the Alps )
Also the soles (of B or A/B class hiking shoes) can have a very comfortable bedding, so it feels like a luxury item to me. I guess that’s why if feels strange to me to that some would rather forgo them all together :-)
You have thin soles so you can tell where you are in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
I hike a lot in my barefoot shoes
I’d say the biggest benefit of feeling the surfaces you walk on more clearly is that my balance is a lot better
But the biggest benefit IMO is that the shoes being super flat improves my posture relieving some shoulder and back pain. And the shoes being super wide in the toe box also improves my balance and means I can walk longer with fewer breaks.
The last hike I went on with my barefoot shoes was 18 miles and I felt better than before I started
It might sound silly, but different terrains tend to be „interesting“. I also feel it has an impact on how i walk and how i stand - so actually back problems and (minor) aches are either easier or gone.
I, too, travel the alps, nock mountains, katschberg mountain, Dachstein etc. I totally wear bulky hiking shoes in the mountains, though, as you definitely want the protection for your foot and ankles. However, i more often than not even hike easy trails in those barefoot shoes. I guess i just am used to it so much that those protective shoes feel too heavy and bulky, even if the bedding is comfortable.
But fir the day to day footwear you have to wear necessarily I almost always choose barefoot shoes over the few remaining normal ones. I will keep one set business shoes, one pair of winter boots and my mountain equipment, everything else will be gone quite soon.
Thanks a lot for elaborating. I can definitely imagine different terrains being interesting. Your explanation of when you would (and wouldn’t) use them is very useful for understanding the appeal. If I ever find a nicely priced pair that fit me well, I might give it a whirl!
My sock collection is worth 10k.
I went in to Sephora and people complimented me on my socks.
Are there any show people here than can confirm 7-10 pairs of shoes are $20k? I find that hard to believe
Not only that, those were some grungy nasty ass beat up sneakers. None of those were worth a damn thing anymore.
I doubt that there’s any real benefit to walking barefoot. There seems to be very little science to support it that I can find, but I’d be interested to see if anyone can find some.
I question the benefits mostly because it’s well known by historians that before the invention of modern shoes, most people walked very differently than we do now. Heel-to-toe walking basically didn’t exist until modern thick-soled shoes became commonplace, and instead toe-to-heel or rather ball-of-the-foot-to-heel was the norm.
If you’re going to walk barefoot, make sure you learn how to walk barefoot safely. Here’s a pretty good video about how to do it correctly: https://pi.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=3iLJ0frWE9E
Don’t most people already do a substantial amount of barefoot walking in their homes? I’m somewhat sedentary and work from home so my % might be different, but I image at least half of my walking is inside barefoot already.
At home is a different beast, because the terrain is known, managed and mostly flat or stairs
Well, this is fake.
All I can think about is how disgusting their feet would be. For me shoes are a berrier between all the dog piss/shit, and other grime and filth and are to be removed at my front door. No way I’d let these animals walk into home with those nasty feet.
They should cut off their feet next so they can really be closer to the fucking earth or some shit. What a bunch of fucking morons.
Looks like a YouTube stunt. I like going barefoot, but I just go barefoot (and carry a set of flip-flops for when I need to enter a business).
I took up running in cheap home made huaraches using some vibram cherry sole rubber bought from xeroshoes a long while ago. Tiugh material that has not degraded in the 15 years I’ve had them (though i no longer run daily, so who knows how long they’d really last).
It solves the hot asphalt issue, improves running posture (you can only run with a short gait, and only on the balls of your feet), and builds strong callouses on your feet. When i took up other sports where pivoting on your feet was a common occurence, I noticed my feet never developed blisters like the other players. I attributed this to this minimalist, nearly barefoot running (and jump rope).
Finding a safe area with little debris on the ground is a good idea when starting out. But after a few months I was bounding up trails with a wide variety of terrain and surfaces, adjusting my footing quickly because the feedback to the nerve endings in my feet was so much more immediate than with shoes.
Highly recommend trying it at least once.
I hope it’s not a thing, that’s nasty. If you believe going barefoot is detoxifying I can kinda understand, like you do you, but on city streets? 🤢
Even if that’s how detoxifying actually worked, you’d still be doing the opposite on a sidewalk.
No, I don’t walk barefoot as well, I just saw this video and the couple seemed like they’re addressing a certain niche crowd, people that like to walk barefoot, so I didn’t know if this is somewhat of a community of people that seem to like this.
Sorry I didn’t mean you specifically. It was a general ‘you’
There is for sure going to come a time when they step in shit barefoot.
Shoes are prisons for the feets.
Still i think this is dumb tho.
