My wife disliked me wearing the vff's, but she dislikes it when I go barefoot or in my huaraches in public more. I've been making my own huaraches for a little while, and I think I may have come up with one that will be less embarrassing to her as it looks more like a normal sandal. Hopefully they will last. They are pretty dang comfortable.I know that my wife is not fan of the aesthetics of VFFs but she is even less receptive of BF in public locations like stores.
My wife disliked me wearing the vff's, but she dislikes it when I go barefoot or in my huaraches in public more. I've been making my own huaraches for a little while, and I think I may have come up with one that will be less embarrassing to her as it looks more like a normal sandal. Hopefully they will last. They are pretty dang comfortable.
You mean in yoga socks, right?it annoys me to have to explain what I mean by barefoot all the time.
I'm curious as to whether you really meant vffs or min. shoes in general. I think the bf runners who hate vffs just have individual complaints with them. I hate them because my toes don't want to be forced into little pockets and they give me the heeby jeebies whenever I've tried them on. I always hated toe socks when those were a fad back in my middle school days too. Heebie jeebies again. The ones who hate minimal shoes all together I think are different though. Some really just get annoyed by the blister points or just enjoy running barefoot more, there are probably the snobs out there who just refuse to admit some people like shoes, but I would guess that a very large amount of it comes from the incessent version of the following conversation.
"oh so you are a runner"
"yeah sure something like that"
"I run a bit here or there I have these great shoes"
"yeah I run barefoot"
"oh you mean in those toe shoes?"
"no barefoot"
quizzical look
"like with my feet and only my feet"
I love my minimal shoes when I need them but in the summer when I'm actually running barefoot most the time, it annoys me to have to explain what I mean by barefoot all the time. Granted with me normally I say "oh I only run in minimal shoes or barefoot" even then I have to explain what I mean by barefoot. I imagine the nearly 100% barefooters out there are even more annoyed by it and I think this colors their opinion of minimal shoes to be really far on the negative side, much more so than it would be otherwise.
Wait people wear socks to do yoga? Why would you wear foot covering in the one place you are sorta expected to be barefoot. People are crazy.You mean in yoga socks, right?
What do you say to that? As someone mentioned earlier, they just have no idea what they are missing, what the differences are, how they could go barefoot, what they could gain, etc... I mean, at least they are aiming in the right direction, but that sort of comment isn't much of a conversation-starter...
Probably because "most" VFF wearers say they are running barefoot with barefoot shoes.
It makes no sense whatsoever.
Bingo! It's not the shoes I hate, it's the fanclub. Same goes for christianity.
I think the biggest knock on vff's is that they don't fit everyone. I have long fat toes that don't fit. I would love to own a pair of kso's. Unfortunately in order to do that I would have to have them custom made for my feet and I don't even know if that is possible, let alone feasible cost wise. I'll just have to make do with my huaraches for now. I wish vff would make some models with slightly different foot shapes. I think this would boost sales for them as well as provide an option for those with different feet than their standard layout.