F*ck Shoes - Daniel Vitalis #107

ReWild Yourself

Daniel Vitalis

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2016

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

This solo episode is a comprehensive breakdown of my experiences with barefooting. As a long-time barefooting proponent, I’ve traversed thousands of miles of various terrain with bare feet or minimalist footwear, and I’ve learned quite a bit about the often unknown and under-utilized capabilities of the human foot. I detail my experiences wearing minimalist footwear in challenges like the Tough Mudder and GoRuck, as well as during my recent backcountry hunter course. I break down my favorite minimalist footwear brands, unpack the myth of arch support and share some not often discussed benefits of barefooting that I’ve discovered over the years. Note: This podcast is best enjoyed while walking barefoot on a forest trail.

EPISODE BREAKDOWN:

Daniel elaborates on his Moon Dance experience, how he learns, mentors and detoxification
Bear hunting update and thoughts on bio-regional animism
Beards
No shoes, no shirt, no service
Cody Lundin and barefoot extremism
Connection to our earth mother
Daniel’s personal barefooting journey and barefooting shoe progression
Experiences wearing Vibram’s during Tough Mudder & GoRuck challenges
Recent experience wearing Vivo boots at Magpul Backcountry Hunter Course
"Are those comfortable?” — other people’s impressions of minimalist footwear
Homunculus explained
Treading lightly
Heels and conventional footwear
What about arch support?
Some of the cons of minimalist shoes
Prehensility
Breakdown of Daniel’s favorite barefoot shoes + his current shoe collection
What’s in Daniel’s first aid kit
Feet that are adaptable to the urban and natural worlds
Staying in touch with our environment — feet as sensory organs
Being a fully developed human

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to the rewild yourself podcastakens. Your instincts.
0:14.0	Awakens.
0:16.0	Awakens. Awakens.
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0:57.0	Looking for the world's healthiest bed, I was too, and I searched around for years, until I Samina and now I can't imagine sleeping on anything else.
1:07.0	This is not like other conventional or organic beds.
1:10.0	It's sleep brilliantly re-engineered from the ground up. Go check out my photo essay on the topic. Daniel vitalis.com over on the right side. Check out the resources page and you'll find the world's healthiest
1:25.1	bed. It's like an article that I did kind of talking about my semina bed and
1:29.5	photos kind of showing how the bed's put together So if you're interested in learning about that
1:33.9	and wondering why I keep talking about it,
1:35.8	and why I keep saying it's not like other beds,
1:38.6	go check out these photos
1:39.6	so you can see how this bed is put together.
1:41.3	It is really different than the standard mattress box
1:44.4	spring kind of configuration we all grew up around and if you haven't checked out
1:48.0	episode 84 of the rewild yourself podcast that's where I interview my friend Klaus, all about Samina beds.
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