My FiveFingers – Vibram, FiveFingers, Toe Shoes, Minimalist Shoes

One of the best parts of Vibram FiveFingers is how they have helped so many people change their lives.  We love hearing of  how people discovered FiveFingers and the impact they have had. The stories are often unique and interesting, so we decided that we wanted to highlight more of these and share them with [...]

It is a question we’ve heard time and time again:  ”What FiveFingers should I wear when its cold or wet outside?”.  Unfortunately, to-date, we haven’t really had a solid answer. This all changed last month when Vibram announced the FiveFinger Lontra at Outdoor Retailer.  The Lontra is a new VFF model that has a micropile [...]

My fascination with FiveFingers on the TV show Survivor continues. We’ve posted about all of the contestants this season wearing them and also perennial survivor Ozzie wearing KSO Treks last season. The love continued last night as Troy ‘Troyzan’ Robertson’s bright yellow KomodoSports showed up prominently in the episode where contestants needed good balance for a balance beam [...]

We typically post our favorite videos from the week on Friday, but today we are breaking tradition. A few weeks ago we featured the video Sh*t Barefoot Runners Say, and judging by the comments on our Facebook page and the tweets we received, it really resonated with our community.  So when I saw a follow-up [...]

This year I have a few ultradistance goals on my schedule: Ecotrail de Paris in March (80 km), Limburgs Zwaarste in April (100 km) and my ultimate goal is the TDS (Sur les Traces des Ducs de Savoie), part of the Ultratrail du Mont Blanc (110 km). I don’t think I can run the latter [...]

While traveling to Outdoor Retailer Winter Market 2012 last month I decided that I’d spend my time on my flights to SLC reading some running related material. I had just recently purchased a Kindle Fire and brought it along for the trip. While waiting for my flight to board I quickly found the $1.99 section [...]

Reddit is the source for internet gold, I’m convinced.  You need not look any further than the video of Al Bundy’s FiveFinger prototype (God’s Shoes) that we found there.  I say this because I also found this week’s featured video on said site.  Titled “My Friend’s Submission Video for Ninja Warrior. Is he doing it [...]

Outwit. Outplay. Outlast.  That is the Survivor motto, and contestants will do anything they can to get an edge in any one of those categories.  So, it doesn’t come as a surprise that a lot of participants are now wearing FiveFingers to get an edge in the challenges.  Last year we spotted Ozzy Lusth, Survivor [...]

Leave it to the Swiss to take minimalist shoes to the next (lowest?) level. I present to you The Swiss Barefoot Company’s Swiss Protection Sock for that “absolute, perfect barefoot feeling”.  Here’s their promotional video (like Justin at birthdayshoes.com, I picture a scientist  in some crazy high-tech Swiss lab narrating this): Basically, The SPS is [...]

About a month ago we posted some picture from the Vibram store located in the SM Mall of Asia in Manila, Philippines. We weren’t really aware of this store beforehand, so we were all amazed that such a store existed and wanted to know more about it. As fate would have it, two weeks ago my [...]