BirthdayShoes
More and more companies are releasing barefoot style shoes, and it should come as no surprise to see more being offered to golfers. We’ve previously reviewed barefoot golf shoes by TRUE linkswear and Vivobarefoot. Another option in this minimal golf c…
I have been wearing Vibram FiveFingers for nearly three years, and am totally sold on their “wonderfulness.” I started out wearing them at the suggestion of a physical therapist, who was trying to help my foref…
While I’ve been getting more minimalist with each passing day, choosing mostly to run in thin huaraches, I definitely think there’s a time and a place for full coverage. Most especially in cold weather and in the gym. In those cases where I need full co…
I love huaraches. I’ve raced in the bare minimum clothes and bare minimum shoes you could have without being naked. I wore them for my first marathon. Heck, huaraches have even started to take over as my default CrossFit shoe on days where any running i…
Lems not only recently released their “barefoot shoe boot” ? a.k.a. the Lem Boulder boot (reviewed here) ? they also updated their original shoe, the Primal Origins with the “Primal 2.”
You can read my original review of the Primal Origins* here or…
Lems Shoes (the barefoot shoe company formerly known as Lemming formerly known as Stem Footwear) recently dropped their new boot for Spring 2013—the Boulder (see Meet Lems Boulder, the Barefoot Shoe Boot for the original release announcement).…
Buying footwear for your growing babies, toddlers, little boys/girls, or kids would be simple if there weren’t so many shoes out there that were clunky, narrow, heavy, stiff, or high-heeled. Unfortunately, outside of the moc-like slippers worn by infan…
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 dirt, there was virtually no noticeable different in ground transmission. It’s really just amazing what New Balance has been able to pull off in this regard.
I’m planning on doing a GoRuck Challenge (GRC) in a few months, and I was at a loss for what type of shoe to use.
For those of you not familiar with the GRC, it is a 12 hour “adventure” designed by the GoRuck company to test their back packs, which…
I’ve been told I can get away with all the bizarre styles that minimalist shoe makers keep producing because I’m rather odd myself. Apparently I look like the kind of guy who would have shoes with individual toe pockets or run a race in sandals with soc…