Thread: You're walking wrong!

http://nymag.com/health/features/46213/

Cool article...

What do you all think? I'm walking barefoot whenever i can now lol

I'm getting moccasins o.o

omfg i love moccasins, but they always seem to wear out too fast

Anyone know of a place to get traditional moccasins online? Not ones with rubber soles or anything.

I love going barefoot, but I live in a big city and don't really care to step on any number of nasties around here.

I like not wearing shoes, only I never do it long enough to get calluses, so I usually cut my foot on something.

Originally Posted by cygnus

omfg i love moccasins, but they always seem to wear out too fast

Yeah, I'm currently wearing my favorite pair of shoes ever into the ground at around the one year mark, and they're not made anymore

http://www.kaboodle.com/reviews/mens...bantrack-palms

These things give me about a +2 walking speed, +4 agility.

I might get one of the elastic one-piece shoes from the Urban Track line, but none of them have the elastic velcro strap that makes these so convenient to slip off and fit snugly back on.

They're far from traditional moccasins, but for me any leather shoe that fits your foot like a glove = moccasin.

Wow... that was a long read but very interesting

"Okay, now I know what you’re thinking: What’s my other alternative?" rofl! I loved that part.

I go barefoot all the time inside. But I HATE dirty feet and stepping on hidden glass etc, so I wear shoes outside.
I have worn these http://www.planetshoes.com/itemmatri...en&cc=Footwear for a couple years now but I'm getting aggrevated with them. I wear out the toe area in a matter of months. But I wear them year round unless I have to be out in the snow, then I grudgingly set them aside for boots.

I've noticed some foot problems with them though. I don't wear the elastic strap unless I need a lot of speed or am doing chores where they might fall off lol. But I noticed that with my right foot, I tend to raise my big toe to help keep them on. I've been getting cramps along the top/inside of my foot. So now I'm trying to wear the strap more.

The toe shoes look interesting I could never wear anything like that though because my second toe is bigger than my big toe by the entire nail.

Thankfully, for the most part, I know how to walk I'm very stealthy quite naturally because I walk softly.
But why do I want to walk up stairs and such on my tip toes?

I don't care what the article says, walking barefoot outside is 100% infeasible in a society where broken glass, rusty nails and various other health hazards are found literally all over the ground. I'd take poor "forefoot pathology" over catching Hepatitis from stepping on a nail any day.