Lately I've been lucky enough to find time in the mountains with only my Vibram Five Fingers between me and the mountain below. Taking on normal mountain hikes using your feet the way they were designed really changes things. My feet are finally tough enough to handle hours of rough terrain without any of the 'support' my normal shoes were offering me. In the same sense as a cast can be supportive. Though you can expect the same muscle atrophy that results from any cast.
The barefoot culture seems to be enlightened to the notion that our feet really do have a function other than something to fasten a tight fitting highly padded wedge shaped running apparatus to.
A great site I was recently turned on to,
birthdayshoes.com, shows all sorts of folks out enjoying their feet and learning how to walk again. They've also posted a
picture of me!
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Thanks again for sending in the photo, and I think the cast analogy is spot-on -- it's actually something I want to commit a post to at a future date on bday shoes.
I'm in Jamaica for a week so I'm going to be enjoying as much full-fledged barefootedness as possible - hopefully getting a chance to check out some waterfalls.
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