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VIVOBAREFOOT is please to announce we have teamed up with Total Warrior as their footwear sponsor! We are going to be joining the 5,000 strong warriors taking on the toughest 10k and 10mile events on Earth!
Saaj from SB-Fitness recently completed a 1-day Instructor course workshop with the VIVOBAREFOOT Training Clinic.
I hope the title caught your attention. Fact is I had the most amazing experience learning proper barefoot running technique from the coaching team of VIVOBAREFOOT. I literally felt liberated and born again, no exaggeration.
Of course, it’s not as simple as just taking your shoes off and running. Luckily I had the priviledge of learning from the students of Lee Saxby, the authority on barefoot running. A lot has been made of this book called Born to Run, Chris McDougall. The book that allegedly sparked a revolution. Well, Lee Saxby was McDougall’s coach. Also present (as a learner) was a London Marathon expert and advisor to over 50 charities on long distance running, Greame Hilditch. His book on running marathons has even helped BBC presenter Sophie Raworth to complete her marathon, a year after collapsing in one. It was thus an honour to be in such esteemed company, training in a centre just down the road from me at Premier Global, North London.
Here’s a crash course in barefoot biomechanics from Lee Saxby. Lee discusses the practical reality of the biomechanics of barefoot running and the science that underpins skilful movement and natural human locomotion. Whilst at the same time acknowledging the importance of the story tellers of barefoot running, like the Barefoot Teds and the Chris McDougalls who deal with the emotional side of barefoot running. Read more…
We’re sponsoring this year’s Action Duchenne Love Run 2013 in Finsbury Park London and Bute Park Cardiff on Saturday 16th February 2013 at 11am.
We’re sending our Certified Coaches to spread the skill of barefoot running and will be doing barefoot workshops all day – come along a say hi! Read more…
The VIVOBAREFOOT crew are heading to the Westcountry this Saturday to race the Wild Night Run, Jonno Gibbins and I will be making our way up and down the 10 mile course, with our support team, including Mark Esteban, back at base.
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This weekend some of the VIVOBAREFOOT team are heading to Montilla (Córdoba) in Spain to support the Batalla de Munda trail race and the first barefoot runners meet in Spain. We’ve sent one of our Certified Barefoot Coaches and Director of the VIVOBAREFOOT Training Clinic Ben Le Vesconte to deliver a talk on Barefoot Running and participate Read more…
VIVOBAREFOOT is very happy to announce we are supporting and sponsoring next year’s The Ultimate Jungle Ultra Marathon – a race from The Andes to the Amazon.
The first 10 people to sign up for the race before 28th February will WIN a pair of VIVOBAREFOOT shoes to race in!*
More about the race…starting on the 24th May 2013 the 230km race will make it’s way through tough jungle trails, mountain roads and village tracks leading down from 10500ft in the Cloud Forest to Amazon Jungle below.
