Today my sister sms'd me from India, after looking at my blog, and told me about this wonderful product called Five Fingers. I researched it and found out some seriously interesting and innovative things.
Basically Vitale Bramani, the founder of the product, found a gap in the market for foot accessories. He pointed out that the typical human foot is an anatomical marvel of evolution with 26 bones, 33 joints, 20 muscles, and hundreds of sensory receptors, tendons and ligaments. Like the rest of the body, to keep our feet healthy, they need to be stimulated and exercised. Many experts believe the shoes we wear not only cast the foot in a protective form, but also weaken our foot and leg muscles, leaving them underdeveloped and more prone to injury. And while there are many occasions where traditional footwear is essential for protection, safety, and security, it is equally important to stimulate and exercise the foot in a more natural state on a regular basis.
And this is his product. its increadible.
Stimulating the muscles in your feet and lower legs will not only make you stronger and healthier, it improves your balance, agility and proprioception. I really really really would like to get my hand on a pair of these, it almost the perfect happy medium between bare-feet and shoes. I would love to know what David (the rastafarian) would think of these including the fact that they even have a line made especially for vegans using vegan friendly materials. But the thing about these are at the end of the day if i walked into a corporate meeting or something along those lines, or tried to get into a club i would definitely not be taken seriously because this is not what western society tells us is right.
over and out
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