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RE: Forest Medicine, Wild Water, August 30
Yeah, the movement that's possible in barefoot shoes is really awesome! This is my first pair, I'm going to eventually try more too! Have you heard of movnat? It's an approach to exercise and movement as a way to interact with your natural landscape.
Check it:
@riverflows, what about a natural movement archive? :)
I like to run around barefoot a lot (which is interesting in the city sometimes... ), and my footfall is entirely different with and without shoes. No shoes, I walk toe-heel, or more specifically ball of foot-heel; with shoes I feel like I'm clunking around going heel-toe. It feels rather like my feet are blind. People who are always strapped up in hard shoes probably find the phrase "my feet feel blind" weird, but I can't think of any other way to say it. It's like when I first learned to drive a car, I did it barefoot, and could feel the engine through the pedals. Then someone told me it's illegal to drive barefoot (which apparently isn't true? But I didn't know that in the 90s), so I had to practically re-learn because I couldn't feel what I was doing with my feet and how much the engine was revving. This was most notable driving stick - barefoot, I could feel when to change gears, but with shoes on, I was like, "WTF am I doing, AAAAAHHHHH!" LOL
Lol I drive barefoot more since Melissa told me it's illegal 🤣 I'm not a contrarian, I promise. Ball-heel is the natural way, and I totally feel you on being foot blind! We have to wear steel toes at work, and I can't feel a damn thing.