Vibram FiveFinger KSO High Top
By Rocky Thompson on August 6th, 2008
Vibram’s kicked off a new FiveFingers shoe, though we have to assume they were wearing normal shoes when doing so since they’re not walking around with five broken toes. The FiveFingers KSO is a slightly burlier version of the foot glove than previous models and addresses problems with gravel and grit creeping into the shoes. I have yet to try these things, but if I ever get a pair I’m going to give them to this woman I saw who fired up a cigarette lighter with her toes and see if she can still perform. The new FiveFingers KSOs cost $80.
via Gear Addicts
For safe feet? Dude, I’d be afraid of a woman with that kind of dexterity.
I’ve had a pair of these for months. Excellent shoes and much more comfortable, IMO, than the originals.
I tried these for about a month. Just couldn’t make the pinkie toes fit right. Love the idea, though.
At least you won’t find any feet floating to shore in these. They could even turn that into a marketing campaign: Vibram Five Fingers, the you won’t slip, fall, hit your head, drown, float to sea, sink to the bottom, decompose, be eaten, then finally rot apart, have your feet drift to shore since they are still attached to something that floats like a running shoe, shoe for your next trip to the river!
I ran the Angeles Crest 100 mile trail run in a pair of these.
BFT
maybe this:
I had a roommate who could do a mean pinch with her toes…
Vibram, no killer will want to chop your foot off with these on. your toe pinching abilities are still there, so pinch away and then run away.
So you weren’t exactly barefoot, now were you, Ted? I dub thee: Occasionally Shod Ted.
So a hippy and the $6mil man do it and here we have their offspring’s feet. Although a true core barefoot runner could just carve off a 1/4″ layer of their burly callouses, stitch on nylon webbing and sell THAT to the masses.