What are the most comfy shoes?

[Rigel]

12 minutes ago, Basman said:

Barefoot shoes are bad because hipsters wear them, and hipsters are bad. I feel sorry for anyone who feels that they need to leave little footprints that have little toes like they are actually barefeet. It's not funny and you look weird.

They aren’t five fingers by the way. The fact you don’t even know what barefoot footwear looks like says a lot.

[Basman]

14 minutes ago, Rigel said:

They aren’t five fingers by the way. The fact you don’t even know what barefoot footwear looks like says a lot.

I've been to California many times.

[Rigel]

7 minutes ago, Basman said:

I've been to California many times.

Good for you, I’ve never been.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

1 hour ago, SimpleGuy said:

Really? I think without some soft tissue under your feet it really fucks up your knees and joints

We ain't designed to walk on concrete/asphalt. 

Barefoot may be better but not in an urbanised environment.

[Human Mint]

4 hours ago, Rigel said:

Well come tell that to my knees lol. I have been barefoot(on pavement most of the time) exclusively for 3 years & my whole body feels 10 times better than it did before. There is a period of adaptation cause you have to actually learn how to walk for the first time & that creates some cognitive dissonance.

I think you may have developed robotic joints...

[Rigel]

1 hour ago, Human Mint said:

I think you may have developed robotic joints...

What do you mean? My knees allow full lunge matrix 360 degrees, jumping and sprinting on any surface any time without pain. It feels fantastic actually. Oh and effortless resting squat with any kind of distance between the knees.

Edited 5 hours ago by Rigel

[Rigel]

5 hours ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

We ain't designed to walk on concrete/asphalt. 

Barefoot may be better but not in an urbanised environment.

When is the last time you walked a mile in the forest barefoot? You might realize that you can’t actually do it. Nature isn’t as soft as you guys make it out to be. If you actually lived like you were « designed »(your language) for, you would become so strong that asphalt wouldn’t terrify you. Then what were you designed for? That’s an open investigation. 

[Oppositionless]

On 3/5/2026 at 6:52 PM, Natasha Tori Maru said:

They are expensive but, Hokas.

 

These were the favorite shoes of my high school track team. Completely forgot they existed tbh, thanks for the reminder.

[Human Mint]

1 hour ago, Rigel said:

What do you mean? My knees allow full lunge matrix 360 degrees, jumping and sprinting on any surface any time without pain. It feels fantastic actually. Oh and effortless resting squat with any kind of distance between the knees.

It was a joke. But I always have pain in my knees and feet after walking in the street for more than 10 minutes, which doesn't happen to me in dirt. Barefoot might help.

1 hour ago, Rigel said:

You might realize that you can’t actually do it.

I can no problem. I like it, that discomfort is different from the pain in joints of walking in concrete. You adapt rather quickly.

[Rigel]

2 hours ago, Human Mint said:

It was a joke. But I always have pain in my knees and feet after walking in the street for more than 10 minutes, which doesn't happen to me in dirt. Barefoot might help.

I can no problem. I like it, that discomfort is different from the pain in joints of walking in concrete. You adapt rather quickly.

You can learn. It takes some rewiring to stop mindlessly slamming the heels into the ground but it is accessible. We are very adaptable creatures. Gait has a staggering amount of variations on flat concrete as well as any uneven surface & they are all accessible to you if you want or care. Move between different gaits. The variety is what protects from over use injury.

It feels like cheating at being a human body at some point. It’s completely & utterly shocking the transformation possible. I used to be so crippled some days would consist of laying flat on my back on the floor in my appartement cause the pain wouldn’t allow me to sit, stand or walk. My feet are close to an inch wider than they were. Nervous system control of the toes is off the charts and the ground reactive forces control trickled up the kinetic chain into global improvements over time that I could have never imagined before.

It’s the difference between comfort & life-giving movement-intelligence.