Future Research Ideas?

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Barefoot_AK

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Oct 31, 2011
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#1
Hey everybody...Next year I will begin working on a research thesis for graduate school and I was hoping to look into doing something to investigate BFR, minimalism, or natural running form at the least. I was curious if anyone had ideas on specific questions that we need to look into and investigate.

I figured I would open the concept to ideas here because there might be many people out there who have ideas for studies or research questions that are unable to perform research themselves.
 
#3
Good treadmills and cameras that capture frame-by-frame?
 
#5
Study the stress on joints between BF and shod. Which puts more stress on your joints?

Or the amount of muscles used while BF and how many in shoes. Do you use all your feet/leg muscles in shoes?

Something like that...
 
#6
Get "real" "experienced" barefoot runners to run barefoot for you, since a more mature barefoot runner will have a good, solid gait down much better than a new one, and it wouldn't be fair to analyze someone who has not "learned" their lessons yet. (Unless that's what you're after, to see how someone brand new at it sheds their shoes and reacts to barefoot running.)
 
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#8
Perhaps looking into optimal knee positioning and bending. ie we always say bend your knees, but at what theta is our energy used vs. impact optimized, I also kinda wonder what the optimal step length per radian is. It could probably be modeled as a spring mass damper system (just my initial thought, its actually pretty cool to think about). In and of itself this would be pretty simple, but its easy to see how one could change variables and develop a pretty cool study.
 
#14
I second what TJ said about experience. I think the hardest part in designing a good experiment is to find people experienced enough with barefoot running to take part in it. An even bigger problem if you're in some way going to compare barefoot and shoes is that these people need to be used to running in shoes as well or else your data is going to be skewed.

What I'd like to see is a study on cushioning, if there is such a thing as good cushioning in terms of efficiency and if so, how much is enough.
 
#15
Barefoot Gentile said:
Stop researching! There is nothing to research, it's getting ridiculous now. ... Science has no clue.
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lol... You realised that you just typed that on a magical electrical box and I read it moments later, thousands of miles away on my own magical electrical box?

Feel free to continue thinking you know better than everyone else, but there are also others who are humble enough to acknowledge that we don't know it all. I appreciate those who are dedicated to furthering our knowledge as a race, whether they be at CERN discovering the building blocks of our universe, or at college and learning how to discover something that might change the world some day.

Shoes, form discussion, and now research... Have you ever considered just not posting in threads that you don't like and letting everyone else get on with want they want to talk about?
 
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Blind Boy said:
I second what TJ said about experience. I think the hardest part in designing a good experiment is to find people experienced enough with barefoot running to take part in it. An even bigger problem if you're in some way going to compare barefoot and shoes is that these people need to be used to running in shoes as well or else your data is going to be skewed.
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Exactly. It would be like taking me, for example, and putting me in running shoes to see how I do and expect the data to be exact. Wrong! I would mess the study up so bad, since I can't run in shoes and probably forgot how to.
 
#20
I would suggest there is some mystery feature to barefoot running that hasn't been explained yet, I'm not talking religion or god but something the science hasn't caught up to yet. There is something a little too good to be true about it that many us know is true but can't give a reasonable answer to why. This raises a bit of a problem as I'm not superstitious or religious but this mystery still remains unexplained!

I've seen several reasons for this suggested like grounding, Proprioception skin feedback but I think there is more going here than any of those...but still no for sure answer. Maybe some research like that...its not bio-mechanics unless its micro bio-mechanics.
 
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