Boulder duo promotes barefoot running – Boulder Daily Camera

Boulder duo promotes barefoot running:
Co-founders Michael Sandler, right, and Jessica Lee of the Barefoot Running club in Boulder, are shown while testing out various shoes in Steamboat Springs, to further their minimalist footwear research. (Steamboat Pilot & Today, Matt Stensland)
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — The idea that Michael Sandler would be one of the men leading [...]

Natural running & healthy living

barefootrunner.com : natural running & healthy living » Lead Story » Do Running Shoes Cause Injuries?: “Do Running Shoes Cause Injuries?
By David • Mar 16th, 2009 • Category: Lead Story • ShareThis
Original post on RailRiders.com/blog. Republished with author’s permission.
A very insightful post that captures the history and future of running footwear. Hope you like it. [...]

CNN Interviews Christopher McDougall about his best selling book, Born to Run

What the Video has Christopher McDougall shows a CNN reporter how to run barefoot.

Athletic Footwear and Running Injuries

ATHLETIC FOOTWEAR AND RUNNING INJURIES by Dr. Joseph Froncioni
Original Can be Found Here
Essay on the harmful effects of modern running shoes.
(Written a number of years ago, this piece was published in part in the German ultra magazine Spiridon.)
PART 1 – INTRODUCTION AND HISTORY
Look, if anyone displayed brand-loyalty, it was me. I [...]

Globe & Mail Interviews Living Barefoot’s Al Gauthier & Tina Dubois

There is also the Living Barefoot (www.livingbarefoot.info) site which launched in January and hosts The Barefoot Living Show podcast, launched yesterday. Founder and Vancouver barefooter Al Gauthier says membership has grown to about 140 people, with traffic reaching 4,000 hits a month.

Review – Feelmax Shoes

Feelmax Shoes Review
Note: Feelmax is sending new samples, in larger sizes to both Al Gauthier & Tina Dubois for re-evaluation.  We are very hopeful that these shoes will review far better than the initial review.  We will post the results as soon as possible. (August 11th, 2009)
There are three brands that are always on the [...]

The painful truth about trainers: Are running shoes a waste of money?

Thrust enhancers, roll bars, microchips…the $20 billion running – shoe industry wants us to believe that the latest technologies will cushion every stride. Yet in this extract from his controversial new book, Christopher McDougall claims that injury rates for runners are actually on the rise, that everything we’ve been told about running shoes is wrong [...]

Is your prescription of distance running shoes evidence-based?

Is your prescription of distance running shoes evidence-based?
Richards CE, Magin PJ, Callister R.
PMID: 18424485 [PubMed - in process]
Discipline of General Practice, Bowman Building, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan 2308, Australia. craig.richards@newcastle.edu.au
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether the current practice of prescribing distance running shoes featuring elevated cushioned heels and pronation [...]

Feet First — One step at a time

Stepping in the mud and muck, grass and gravel, has these nature enthusiasts extolling the virtues of going shoeless

By Kasha Stoll
The Capital-JournalWhen a group of 13 barefoot hikers got bottlenecked at a muddy pass on the Emporia State University nature trail recently, Linda Jones reminded them why they were there.
“Just trek on through,” she hollered [...]

Walking Barefoot

Walking barefoot

During today’s BBC Countryfile programme, there was an interesting feature on Edgar Brown – a man who enjoys walking in the countryside with no shoes and socks on.
Now this captured my imagination – as a child I loved nothing better than walking through the fields around our house barefoot, taking in all the sensations [...]