Tuesday, February 13, 2007FiveFingers Tight-Rope
You ask, "what can I do in those FiveFingers that I can't do in my regular running shoes?"
My answer: "This!"
The FiveFingers let your feet do what feet do, i.e., really flex, really feel, and still get the bonus of a little protection which goes a long way in some environments...like jumping down onto rocks, or if you go the wrong way, onto yucca and cactus!
BFT
Labels: barefoot shoes, black sabbath, fivefingers, hansen_dam, methode_naturelle, tight-rope, video
posted by Barefoot Ted | Tuesday, February 13, 2007
4 Comments:
I've finally found someone who will ship me FiveFingers to Austria in a reasonable timeframe, and I'm really looking forward to them. Thanks for the intersting post :-)
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
you could fall and bust your ----get off that pipe you could knock an eyeball out too!
from your Mama!
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Since posting this blog, I have come to learn about a sport called slack line walking, or slack lining.
See: http://www.needlesports.com/advice/slacklining.htm
Tony Post, president of Vibram USA, in response to this blog wrote:
Thanks for the link BT, don't know if you have seen FiveFingers getting used
in Slack Lining yet, but they are quickly becoming a product of choice for
that activity.
When I was in SLC, I gave a pair of Sprints to a guy who's in a lot of
Warren Miller movies. They are filming some slack lining and adventure
stuff in Hawaii the next 2 months and he'll be sending some video of that.
I'll pass it along or post it on the site when we get it.
T
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I find that balance sports really build the core. Balance and relax.
BFT
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Just did some more researh on slack lining .
It turns out that one of the originals, a guy named Scott Balcom, grew up near me and was friends with people I know!
I went to his website, http://www.slackdaddytools.com , and found photos of him slack lining in the 1980s in places where I hung out.
It is a small world.
BFT
PS. I want to learn how to do what Scott is doing in this photo:
http://slackline.net/g2/gallery2-007.jpg
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
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