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    Relaxation and bending knees

    I'm still trying to get into barefoot running. Still running with shoes, but bending my knees like barefoot
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    Transitioning to Vibrams Causes Bone Injury

    I had a lot of pain with minimalist shoes. Now I'm running with padded shoes or pure barefoot
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    Add yourself to the Member Map!

    I added myself a day ago and still there
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    Add yourself to the Member Map!

    Made it :-)
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    Relaxation and bending knees

    Thank you all together! Thank you for all the good tips! I can not specify the location of my knee pain, because it's variating. But today I ran with naturally bend knees (not too much bend), with a better posture and a higher cadence than usually and had no pain! I ran one whole mile! This one...
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    Running with dubstep cadence

    I just found out something crazy, that running with dubstep music helped me today to maintain a ~190 bpm cadence. I just listened to any 140 bpm dubstep and striked like this: To hear what I mean you can listen to this selfmade dubstep-cadence thingy...
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    Relaxation and bending knees

    First I have to thank you for your fast responses (and for the funny one too :D ). But my problem is, that I tried the last year a lot of barefoot running forms (more knee bending, less bending, more relaxation, upright posture, less upright posture) and I can't get through it to run even one...
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    Relaxation and bending knees

    What do you think concretely? Should I simply stop thinking and run on the ball of my feet?
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    Relaxation and bending knees

    I'm all the time working on my form, but i feel little pain dependent on how I'm running. I just can't figure out the right form for me :oops:
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    Relaxation and bending knees

    Hi everyone, I've got two questions: 1. Am I bending my knees enough? 2. I know that relaxation is very important for barefoot running. But I don't understand how to do so. Should I completely relax my calves muscles too, when I'm bending my knees like Barefoot Ken Bob (Video here)...
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    Hello from Germany

    Thank you all! I've sent a request.
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    Hello from Germany

    Hi everyone, my name is Bob and I'm from Germany. I've started to run barefoot one year ago. But because of doing TMTS I'm still an absolute beginner. So I'm very happy to join this community! :) Why I want to run barefoot: I was an occasionally shod runner an ran up to 13 kilometers. Two...