the fan site for Vibram FiveFingers toe shoes aka barefoot shoes or "birthday shoes." Most popular as barefoot running shoes, the thin five-toed sole allows for ...
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As for barefoot biomechanics, the nature of a boot design makes for are a strange beast. In my experience, ranging from the FiveFingers Bormio to the VivoBarefoot Off-road Hi or the Gobi to OTZ Troopers (review pending), the higher sides of the boot hugging your ankle and lower calf m...
In practice, the ground feel of the Hi-rez is absolutely tremendous. Surprisingly you can’t really feel the individual hexagons underfoot, but rather it feels like one uniform sole. In a side by side comparison with the Vibram El-X, running on a varied terrain of asphalt, grass, and d...
With some hesitation I wanted to bring you guys a Vibram FiveFingers success story. As a quick background, I've been an exclusive VFF runner for the past 2.5yrs. Since transitioning over to FiveFingers I've taken 8 min off my half marathon PR (current PR- 1:10:57) and 59 min off my ma...
Seattle mountaineer, Jim Whittaker, became a part of world history when he became the first American to summit the Earth’s highest mountain, Mount Everest, on May 1, 1963. As we approach the 50th Anniversary of this climb, Whittaker is regarded as a ground-breaking figure in North Ame...
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While I really love the Minimus Trail 10v2s for all aspects of use, I can’t really get behind the Minimus Road 10v2s for running. I think they look great casually with a pair of jeans, but I don’t think that New Balance got the fit quite right. The toe box is quite wide, which is grea...
Wouldn't ya know it? Merrell's much-anticipated Vapor Glove is now available for sale. Check it out. These are the shoes I reviewed a few months back (here ). I've spotted the men's in black at CitySports and the women's in blue/orange or pink at REI . The Vapor Gloves retail for only...
Luna hasn't been able to keep up with the demand for these socks. These special tabi socks are carefully crafted in Japan and then imported a few dozen at a time. Now, I was a humanities major so I have no idea where Japan is actually located, but sources* tell me that it's far away. ...
