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Ultimate on-road / in-gym barefoot performance shoe. Three years in our heads, careful optimisation on the plantar pressure plate, and months of road testing. Two feet: ONE shoe.
Here’s a very insightful video from Edge.org featuring Professor Daniel Lieberman. Asking why and how the human body looks and functions the way it does, Lieberman combines experimental biology and paleontology to find the answers.
This interview goes into more details on the origin of bipedal walking, the biology and evolution of endurance running, and the evolution of the human head.
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…
Glasgow Parkour Coaching have been try out some barefoot movement in recent months and have seen a number of benefits that supplement our regular Parkour training. Using Vivos on light training days, and practicing small movements with maximum proprioception definitely improves co-ordination, balance and precision which are absolutely essential for parkour. Any training that we can do that strengthens the ankles, allows them to move around their full range of motion, and promotes a natural foot movement will support our jump and landing strength that we need to practice safely. Read more…
“The essence of VIVOBAREFOOT is very pure and very true to what the name means.“ Our managing director, Galahad Clark recently spoke to Rashmi Kumar from Campden FB.
Galahad talks about the origins of VIVOBAREFOOT: “It was one of my friends, Tim Brennan, who came up with the idea of VIVOBAREFOOT shoes and we developed it together. VIVOBAREFOOT kind of grew and grew and became the cuckoo in the Terra Plana nest.” Read more…
Tina Dubois from Natural Runner takes our Breatho Trail for a thorough test and tells us what she thinks about it. If you’re considering the Breatho Trail as you’re go to shoe for hitting the trails then this is a great opportunity to take a closer look at our best selling barefoot trail shoe.
Here’s what she said about the Breatho Trail:
“If you are looking for a great-priced, warm weather, highly breathable, comfortable, and durable minimalist trail running shoe Read more…
