By Justin on Sep 1, 2009 | In classics, kso, sprints, moc, kso trek, flow, performa, vibram five fingers
What are Vibram Five Fingers?
Five Fingers, which are the ground-breaking first "shoe" by the Italian company Vibram, are at the forefront of emerging minimalist footwear and barefooting movement, a movement that has gained huge momentum thanks to Christopher McDougall's national best-seller Born to Run.
Not a sock nor quite a shoe, "VFFs," which I also refer to as "my birthday shoes" (see a full list of alternative names), are one of the strangest-yet-intuitive, compelling products to ever be created for feet. What exactly are they? FiveFingers are little more than a five-toed Vibram sole with a thin-fabric (or neoprene or leather depending on the model) upper.
Current models of VFFs include:
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For the official Vibram FiveFingers website, go to Vibram Five Fingers dot com.
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