This is Part 5 in a 5 Part Series. You can view the other parts here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 For the past few weeks we’ve published a series of articles on the very popular Paleo Diet (you can see them here: part 1, 2, 3, and 4). These articles have been wildly popular, and […]
We were recently contacted by Teddy Alexander, a producer of a new online comedy focused on barefooters and barefoot topics. Teddy asked if our audience would be interested in this and we said, “Heck Yeah!”. Four episodes have been released thus far, and we’ve embedded Episode 1 below and linked to the rest of the […]
We’ve created this post so that when someone asks you “why do you wear those weird toe shoes?”, you have a place to send them. 1. 25% of a Human’s bones are in the foot. It is a marvel of design and engineering. 2. The foot sends an enormous amount of data to the brain, […]
Over the past few weeks we’ve had the pleasure of putting a pair of Toddler shoes from Soft Star Shoes to the test. Or, more specifically, my 2 year old super-active daughter has put them through the wringer. But what are Soft Star Shoes, you might be asking yourself? About Soft Star Shoes Soft Star […]
The military clearly has a love/hate relationship with Vibram. A few months back we saw this: Then, a few weeks ago we saw this headline (details here): Following that, a number of anonymous Army brass and ‘rank and file’ alike wrote letters and posted comments condemning the decision. Most didn’t have a problem with the […]
More to come, but it looks like the Army just really hates the individual toe pockets regardless of what they mean for soldier’s feet. Relevant info bolded in the All Army Activity Message (ALARACT ) below: SUBJECT: MODIFYING WEAR OF IMPROVED PHYSICAL FITNESS UNIFORM (IPFU) 1. THE PURPOSE OF THIS MESSAGE IS TO MODIFY […]
It seems like, on a near daily basis, we receive questions via email, Twitter, and Facebook on how to keep FiveFingers clean, how to wash them, how to remove stenches from them, etc. For example… [blackbirdpie url=”http://twitter.com/#!/jennmaclovin75/status/81541987144187907″] [blackbirdpie url=”http://twitter.com/#!/senatorbrett/status/83603676991733760″] [blackbirdpie url=”http://twitter.com/#!/pepdal/status/81823873515012097″] There are many, many different ways to keep your FiveFingers clean. Rather than […]
We’re happy to announce that Sharon from Milwaukee is the latest winner in the MyFiveFingers.com Year Long Giveaway sponsored by River Sports. For those of you who don’t know, we are giving away a free pair of FiveFingers each month. Entering is easy and can be done via Twitter, Facebook, your own website, etc. For […]
We recently met the Rugged Maniac team and quickly hit it off. For those of you not familiar with the Rugged Maniac, here is how they describe themselves: Rugged Maniac was designed with the assistance of Navy SEALs for maniacs who want a challenge. Those who push their limits know themselves in a way those […]
If you are Sergey Brin, one of the founders of a small company called Google, the answer is simple: FiveFingers. Sergey had been spotted wearing FiveFingers as early as November of 2009, so we definintely give him credit for wearing them before they were even sorta mainstream. Here are a couple of pictures we’ve gathered […]