Eleanor Put Your Boots Back On (actually no, take them off)

[rubah]

Here, a couple of articles for you to peruse:

How We're Wrecking Our Feet With Every Step We Take -- New York Magazine
The Anthropik Network » Learning to Walk

Some of you might know that I am very fond of forgoing the shoes on my trek to classes, so of course, when i found the topmost article linked on metafilter, I read it hungrily!

And when I read the description of what is supposed to be the natural way to walk barefoot, I was happy because it was the way I walk barefoot! The entire description down to the 'smaller steps' and 'feeling sore muscles that normally don't get used' fits just perfectly. They didn't mention of course the grating effect concrete tends to have on feet, but that's cool 8) they're being typically liberal and wearing shoes to simulate the real thing.

Anyways, I guess this is a post to tell you guys to try this kind of thing out once in a while. If you're in high school, I can understand having to wear shoes to class (hell we weren't allowed to wear most flipflops, and none at all until a couple of years ago), but you others who walk places, give it a try!

I have to walk past nasty glasslot of death (thank god for sidewalks and heavy rain), so don't be all 'OMG MY FEET WILL DIE'.

Do it before it rains (hookworms ) and before it gets hot! (hot )

[Kes]

Saw something about this on my NPR feed this morning and it inspired me to walk around barefoot for a while. Unfortunately, I stopped the barefoot earlier than usual last year, so my feet are all chewed up. Woe.

I've always felt that shoes are for the weak (even though I have a lot of them).

Yay for nice weather.

[Aerith's Knight]

I walk on my socks a lot.. outside too.. but never when actually going somewhere.. thats just weird.

[Jess]

I wouldn't be able to walk around without shoes without my feet getting cut massively. Lots of glass and stones and ow. My feet would also be likely to get very wet from poor British weather and lots of rain. I probably would if this wasn't an issue.

[Peegee]

Way back in the day when I went to a cottage...place for fishing, I would go barefoot. It rules.

[Jessweeee♪]

Where I live the ground is sand and sticker burrs. Sometimes there's broken glass and sharp shells and bees! I want to treat my feet a little better but I am NOT walking barefoot. Ouch.


WHAT DO I DO????

;_;

[Roto13]

I actually had a dream last night that I was walking barefoot in the mall. Also, someone was shooting a porno movie in a photo booth.

[Rye]

I love that song.

I go barefoot around the house and sometimes in the garden.

[Cz]

Feet are not cool. Also, walking "correctly" means walking without getting cuts or dirt on your feet, as far as I'm concerned. I like to go around the house barefoot, but I don't think I'll be leaving my shoes at home when I go out.

[Bahamut2000X]

I actually had a dream last night that I was walking barefoot in the mall. Also, someone was shooting a porno movie in a photo booth.

Hey we had the same dream, except there was a guy walking barefoot in the mall looking at me while I was hard at work in a photo booth.

And bare feet, ew. Feet are nasty and disgusting, I'll keep to my shoes thank you very much.

[Old Manus]

So we're destroying our feet by not tearing them apart walking down the street? That's the whole reason they were invented.

[Araciel]

We're only going to fall apart anyway. My body is an amusement park, and the maintenance crew is on strike.

[rubah]

wussies xD

I wore shoes this morning because I had just bought them and wanted to wear them with my outfit, but i tried to emulate walking barefoot in them going to class and it was interesting xD

Then on the way back from class I just took them off because my feet were getting hot and the sidewalks felt really nice

Anyways, it's not about tearing up your feet, it's about tearing up your tendons and muscles which weren't made for walking like we do, and which these guys seem to think is the reason we have so much foot and knee strain and pain.

(I also watched other people walking while waiting on stu to get out of class and usually people with really thin shoes stepped forward with their toes pointed straight out like how you kick out with a marching band roll step, but people wearing something with thick soles or a thicker heel tended to throw their toes up really high.)

[fire_of_avalon]

If the city wasn't so damned dirty, there'd be no problem walking barefoot in it, would there?

[edczxcvbnm]

So you are saying that when I was young and people told me to pick up my feet...they were wrong? I know that I must end up walking at least semi correctly because I take long but fast strides all the time. So I hit the heel pretty hard but at the same time I am moving so fast that I probably roll correctly XD

Either way, time to use this as the argument against more shoes XD