On the heels of the Fall 2010 Five Fingers Sport Trek announced at Outdoor Retailer a few weeks back, and last week’s news regarding the Five Fingers Sprint and the Smartwool Classic Five Fingers, comes news straight from the mothership — that is,…
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Below is a thoughtful follow-up review of the KSO after 1,200 miles of wear. Vibram Five-Fingers, 1200 Miles in at Rambling Outside the Box [KSO]:Shoe manufactures would like you to believe that you need to replace your running shoes every few mon…
Armin over at Voycontigo.de was kind enough to pass on the above photos snapped at the recent (February 6 – 9, 2010) ISPO Outdoor Trade event in Munich. Here are the details:Smartwool Classic Five FingersThere’s been some scuttlebutt recently ab…
Below are this past week’s latest reviews: Product review: Vibram Five Fingers KSO at The Normans in North Africa! [KSO]:My initial results have been positive. I’ve only run about a dozen times, each between 2 and 4 miles, but my joints feel grea…
Robert Fliri is the original creator of what we now know as Vibram Five Fingers. Fliri was a student at an Italian design school back in 1999 when he originated the concept of a foot glove for outdoor use, specifically in the mountains. It was only lat…
This week’s latest VFF reviews: Vibram Five Fingers (VFF) KSO Trek at Rundurance [KSO Trek]So this is a review of the KSO Trek’s, which are very similar to my classic VFF KSO’s, except with new and hugely improved traction on the sole. The original…
Last week and weekend was the winter market 2010 Outdoor Retailer trade show out in Utah. Vibram apparently had a booth and thanks to Byron over at iRunFar, we get his scoop — seems Vibram is working on a FiveFingers Trek Sport for fall 2010. The…
This is interesting — an open letter from Jim Weber, CEO of Brooks, on barefoot running. If you have a second, go read it. Here’s a clip from his letter:Let’s call a spade a spade. We make running shoes: High-quality, biomechanically mapped,…
Review: Vibram Five Fingers “Sprint” at Give Me Back My Five Bucks [Sprint]:So it works for most of what it was designed to do. Whether you can get used to them in terms of looks and fit, is up to you. For me personally I’m not ready to give up on my reg…
Bit of a delay in posting last week’s latest reviews — I was out of town. FiveFingers After Six Months at Not Buff, Not Brilliant [KSO]:Third — they are still useful for other applications. I wear these for Krav Maga classes and other condi…