Comments on Barefoot and Grounded .com: Things That Make You Go Hmm...: The Barefoot Editi...

Try not to think so much of the stupidity and try ...

2011-06-05T10:37:03.300-05:00

Try not to think so much of the stupidity and try to hear what they are actually saying. I think more people would like to go barefoot but are too shy. I think they find it hard to admit their shyness so they find out different reasons not to go barefoot. It´s like the childish reaction, when some children think others shoudn´t do activities they are afraid of doing, so for that reason to protect their feelings tell how bad and dangerous it´s to do that activity.

I haven't made up my mind about barefoot runni...

2011-06-05T02:49:23.718-05:00

I haven't made up my mind about barefoot running yet, but my opinion is favorable thus far. If you have them, could you please point me in the direction of journal articles etc. that support barefoot running??

For the record, I run in dunlop volleys; It's about as close as I care to come to barefoot running at the moment, considering the kind of crap you'll find along my route.

Email me please :)

Here's another one: Many beach resort towns a...

2011-06-03T10:44:00.161-05:00

Here's another one:

Many beach resort towns are lined with beach front stores which regularly receive barefoot customers every day. They don't have "shoes required" signs and they welcome the barefoot customers.

But go one or two blocks inland, and many stores have the "shoes required" sign, with the usual liability excuse. How come this is not an issue at the beach front stores??

Hmm...

Here are some more: Store employee says "you...

2011-06-03T08:30:44.192-05:00

Here are some more:

Store employee says "you can't be barefoot in here". Why? He replies, "you could drop something on your foot". Then you look around and see 50 people in there with flip flops on, some of which have straps only a quarter inch wide. Are these made of titanium and have a protective force field around them??

Hmm...

Many elementary schools and high schools did not allow students to participate in the "One Day Without Shoes" charitable event. Many students were complaining on the internet how they were required to have shoes on at all times, and there were no exceptions even for one day. Those who run the school said the liability risk was too high. Unbelievable. These are schools that have football teams - a sport that injures countless students every year across the country. Sometimes permanent injury results from football, like paralysis, and worse than that, death. Many kids have DIED playing football over the years. And that is not a liability???? How could educators have such a lack of critical thinking? What would someone who got hurt going barefoot sue them for? The cost of a box of bandaids?

Hmm...

I read many times on the internet - "barefoot in the store? On the street? Sidewalk? Mall? Restaurant? Ewww! You are going to spread foot fungus all over the place! One person complained that someone was exercising barefoot in a gym mat that she was touching. Another exclaimed "barefoot in a store? Huh? If I saw someone barefoot in a store I would not enter that store! Yet people go to beaches. On that sand, thousands of people have:
1) Arrived wearing shoes that were never washed and they walked all over cites with. They walk with them on the sand. Then they take them off at some point and walk barefoot with hot sweaty feet that were in those shoes all day. All over the sand.
2) Some arrive barefoot after being barefoot everywhere all day and walk on that sand.
Then people put cloth blankets down and sit on them. They touch that sand with their hands. Kids play it, lie down in it, bury themselves in it. And they put food right there on the blanket, not worrying about all those germs around them. What is sand? Just a type of soil. Plants and trees grow in it. Has an entire ecosystem of microbes in it. And seagulls do not use toilets last time I checked.

Hmm...