Yeah I agree with article
Yeah I agree with article 100%. It is a discussion I have had with folks many times. Most give me a stare like I speak another language. Sometimes I even see it on this board with some of my responses. Personally I can do without shoes the majority of the time. When I do have to put shoes on which is limited for work. I tend to find myself unhappy with the shoes on. Yeah they are min shoes, but min shoe industry has a long way to go to get it right. As I have a decent selection of shoes I'm finding myself in the process of starting to sell some of them. Or at least that is my intentions in days/weeks ahead.
What bothers me most is min shoe companies charge a lot of money as if their products are perfect. When they are in fact still needing numerous design enhancements. That they market shoes as "barefoot" like. The other thing that bothers me is these folks that have on shoes for running, and say they are running barefoot when they clearly are not. Or these shoe reviewers who seem to focus on barefoot running, but review shoes. Then compare it to BF running. IF your in a shoe you are not barefoot running. Your gait will never be natural in any shoe. This is just the bottom line.
quote from the article - "Most people, including medical practitioners and shoe people, test for shoe flexibility in a wrong manner, by grasping the shoe at both ends and bending the sole. But that flexes the shoe behind instead of at the ball. If the foot were flexed in the same manner, the five metatarsals would be fractured." It makes me so happy when others identify this. I totally see shoe reviewers doing this practice with pics on their reviews. It's just too funny, and cracks me up. These reviewers seem to have the physical ability to wear shoes, and run many miles in them. Though their knowledge on proper/natural shoe design seems to be limited. I say that just based on the actual review of the product. It seems they miss key elements of the shoe design. Really we need to be much more critical in these reviews so the companies can further improve design. We tell them they have a great shoe, and it gives them the impression their is limited room for improvement. My hopes is that in the future we will get new reviewers that desire to wear a shoe, but are forward thinkers. Forward thinkers that will be much more critical of shoe designs.....
At end of day the best shoe is no shoe, or a leather moc(not soft star moc. A real all leather moc on bottom, and top.).......