Vibram FiveFingers Classic

As a kid, I can remem­ber many a day run­ning around out­side dur­ing the sum­mer, shirt­less and bare­foot. We would run over con­crete, asphalt, grass, gravel, you name it!

I’m too old to pull off the shirt­less gig any­more and frankly, I don’t think I could walk across more than my home’s hard­wood floors in my bare feet. How the mighty have fallen…

Enter Vibram Fivefingers. As you can see by the image to the right, these are some pretty unique shoes.

What’s so cool about these shoes is that they let you expe­ri­ence the feel­ing of going bare­foot again, with all the ben­e­fits that entails, with­out sac­ri­fic­ing your ten­der, del­i­cate sole. According to Vibram’s web­site, “FiveFingers enhance your sense of touch and feel, while improv­ing foot strength, bal­ance, agility, and range of motion.”

Because FiveFingers fit the nat­ural con­tour of your foot, you nat­u­rally shift your weight off your heels and more for­ward to the ball of your foot, less­en­ing the stress on your knees. As I’m in the process of recov­er­ing from knee surgery as I write this, I plan on pick­ing up a pair of FiveFingers soon.

You can order Vibram FiveFingers online from Kayak Shed, Rock Creek or Amazon, or check the Vibram web­site for a store that car­ries them in your area.

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