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Posted by: flowwer Aug 11 2010, 06:18 PM

Fellow barefooter's admirer,

look here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT7aP2X3LyU

this is my woman, my joy, passion and love.
I've build this little video with some sequencies filmed last sunday to show her barefooting to all of you, and to ask you a favour.

She is a ... ULTIMATE barefooter. But during last months some things happened, taking us completely by surprise.

It has been an hard period for us, and she went very close to loose her barefooting. Luckyly, she's a TOUGH woman, as well as a barefooter "as you can see" (but could the two things come separately? ... IMHO the can't!), and she loves her soles toughness maybe a little more ... than she loves air to breath.

So she never gave up.

Don't want to bore you with details, but only to say: now, she's barefoot ... AS YOU CAN SEE in the video.
And from time to time... it's not enough.
The process of rebuilding a cracked self-confidence is very long and hard.

To me, she's STRONGER NOW THAN BEFORE, and more exciting too. Because now she does know what a sentence like "too much pain in a bare foot" means, and she's learning how to feel the ground living with the feeling that such a thing CAN happen.

But I can comprehend that coming from the feeling of being unstoppable, such a situation can be from time to time summarized with these words:
"I'M... WEAK".
Not as ... a "brain thougth", maybe, but more as a "body and instinct thougth".
That affects the way to walk, for example. Or to approach an hard situation.
THIS is the problem.

So I ask you: please, COMMENT this post. All of you.
Please comment, I mean, the toughness or weakness of her goin' bare feet.
You can compare her with other girls appeared here, so this is the reason why I ask this to all of you.
I don't ask you to say "she's tough", but EXACTLY WHAT YOU THINK. Word by word. We accept anything... polite, even if hard-to-be-read.
Webmasters comments too, would be an honour.

Thanks to God, in a couple of weeks we'll leave for a three-days in the woods, WITH HER SHOES LEFT AT HOME. We feared, some time ago, it wouldn't happen any more.

We will focus those days on US, and on her BARE FEET, barefooting and training, with the little help of your comments too, if you will decide to leave them.
We will maybe documentate the result in a video, who knows.... also to thank all of you.

Posted by: Claire Aug 11 2010, 07:19 PM

wut?

tl;dr

Posted by: feetonly Aug 11 2010, 11:08 PM

QUOTE (flowwer @ Aug 11 2010, 06:18 PM)

Tough is really the right word. Just go on the same way, for your pleasure and ours

Posted by: DG2001 Aug 12 2010, 03:09 AM

It's great to see she's back...well done!

Posted by: DG2001 Aug 12 2010, 03:11 AM

It's great to know she'll leave her shoes home when you'll be in the forest. Take plenty of pictures and videos, show us how tough she is, put her feet, her soles into real endurance tests.

These days will be magical for you two...enjoy!

Posted by: flowwer Aug 12 2010, 09:09 AM

QUOTE (DG2001 @ Aug 12 2010, 03:09 AM)

It's great to see she's back...well done!

Yes, it's really great for us. She is now "learning again" barefooting.

You can see in that video "how weak she is"

))))

But she's getting in love with this new state, she only needs time.
In the sequence when she's sitting she's saying "I feel all of my strengths .... so why do I FEEL so much?"

It's PEOPLE SEEING, the "confrontation", that now scares her so much. The idea of someone saying "but .... put on your shoes.. don't you see you feel pain?"
That's the reason why I hoped for a hundred answers affirming "the toughest barefooter ever seen here", but you can't force things.

Cheers my friend!

Posted by: barefootken Aug 12 2010, 07:05 PM

Her feet are perfect. The tuffness of her soles is amazing. The ability to run on the gravel path is mind blowing let alone the incident with the thumbtack and the thorns. Her feet should be bare 24/7 and never in shoes. Keep the videos coming. You are a very lucky man.

Posted by: Clipper Aug 12 2010, 09:28 PM

First of all thanks for this very nice videos,I hope that more other will come

Second i think you are a very lucky man,you have only to encourage your woman to continue to go barefeet,every where and every time,and it will be easy for you because she love barefooting.

And last but not least,from your video is clear that her soles are not yet covered of tough leather callous,but anyway she can walk/run on gravel,without problem.
So I'm starting to think that the ability to walk barefeet everywhere is not only due to callused soles,
but also from something more mental, inner....

Posted by: flowwer Aug 14 2010, 02:16 PM

QUOTE (Clipper @ Aug 12 2010, 09:28 PM)

her soles are not yet covered of tough leather callous

for some reasons her feet don't produce calousity, or at least they produce it in a very smaller quantity than NORMAL people... at the touch, her soles are unbeliavably soft!

I think it's both because she often treats her feet and because of more holistic reasons: she REFUSES callousity and her body seems not having had any need of them through the years, as she never felt pain at all

now that a lot of things have changed and are changing in her way of barefooting, I wouldn't be surprised if callousity begin to form

QUOTE (Clipper @ Aug 12 2010, 09:28 PM)

I'm starting to think that the ability to walk barefeet everywhere is not only due to callused soles, but also from something more mental, inner....

you're right Clipper, you do are
it's an interesting matter
in the past, it happened that I told her "you'd need callousity here": on THORNS, that were her weak spot as were able to make the pain appear
but her answer always was: "NO, I NEED TO FEEL TO STAY BAREFOOT"
I think that a rational explanation of this feeling of her should be: callousity prevents you to feel ... 10%, 20%, maybe 50% of the pain you could feel?
well, ok... but it leaves you at the mercy of the remaining 90%, 80%, 50% or what it is.... and it's enough to make you vacillate, or put on shoes too from time to time

to go barefoot THE WAY SHE DOES, you need to have the innate inner capability to convert in the "PLEASURE OF BEING BAREFOOT" what people usually classify as "pain"... and to develop this innate capability too

Posted by: b'ftlvr2008 Aug 14 2010, 04:37 PM

I agree with mental ability or "desire"
I've dated many barefooters. Callouses dont HAVE to be hard, cracked or ugly.
By definition: A callous is a protective thickening of the skin that develops as a result of abnormal recurrent friction and pressure. LOCATION; Most callouses are found on the ball of the foot or on the heel of the foot.
I noticed that thumbtack didn't even seem to leave a mark.
For example I had just started dating this one gal who always walked around inside barefoot. I asked her about walking outside. She said she had to toughen her feet up more. Then she said "I can put a cigarette out barefoot" and before I knew it, she crossed her leg, took a couple of long draws on her cigarette and got the "cherry" real hot and then SLOWLY ground it into the heel of barefoot

.
And to look at or feel her feet. You would never she could do that. They were soft and smooth. Even latter that summer when she was used to walking outside and rocks didn't bother her, her feet still looked soft.
Check out some of my pictures on "photobucket" under bftlvr2008.
And flowwer, I can't wait to see that next video. Tell her she is great!

Posted by: flowwer Aug 14 2010, 05:19 PM

QUOTE (b'ftlvr2008 @ Aug 14 2010, 04:37 PM)

Very very interesting, all of this.

Thanks for comments, B'ftlvr!

I guess the TOUGHEST barefooters have SMOOTH soles! ... evidently, they "need to feel", as said above.

As you've stated "I've dated many barefooter", I wanna know: how many of them could run that way on such stones, as you can see in the video?

Obviously, I need a COMPLETELY SINCERE answer: that's the reason for this post of mine. I've not said to her I made it: wanna tell it making her read all of the answers, pleasant or not.

Posted by: b'ftlvr2008 Aug 14 2010, 06:49 PM

Umm, probly many. But she is above the curve. Meaning she is very impressive.
Smoothness is mainly a maintenance issue. I was just saw one the other day. I could feel her callouses where like thick pads, probly 1/2 inch thick. But very smooth and soft, like soft leather.
Your gal is VERY good. Not only for ability, but attitude.
I have a question, did the thumbtack leave a mark? And was it hard to pull out?
That would tell you how thick her feet are right there.
Go to www.photobucket.com and look up bftlvr2008. Especially page 5

Posted by: Barefoot Guy Aug 14 2010, 07:57 PM

I dated a girl who had very thick skin on her soles. I massaged one girl's feet at a Dead concert. She had very thick callouses, cracking skin on the soles and sides. She was heavyset and never wore shoes. The one I dated could walk on hot pavement, gravel, city streets, etc. very comfortably. There was a woman who used to hang out in Washington Square Park in NYC. She was always barefoot, had the filthiest feet all over. I think she lived in the park. She let me feel her soles once. They were soft and smooth yet she walked with ease on very hot pavement all the time.

Every person has different tolerances and their skin adapts differently. There is no right or wrong answer. When I was in HS, I briefly dated a girl who ran away from home and didn't take footwear. Her soles were very calloused. We walked along the RR tracks once and she said the rail was too hot for her. Strange, I was fine with it yet her soles were a lot more calloused than mine.

Posted by: Clipper Aug 15 2010, 12:07 AM

flowwer,you are perfectly explained the "mental question".

I (and the most path of people that connect to this site) like girls with tough callused feet.

But a real barefooters,go barefeet to "feel the ground",to get the sensation that the ground generate.
Soles like leather allow to not feel any pain,but also do not feel any sensation....so will be about like wear shoes.

But there is another open question : how she can walk over very sharp things,with soft soles,without get any "phisical hurt" : like cut,blister or bad abrasion.

b'ftlvr2008 : cigarette ashes produce very hot temperature on the skin,but only for very short time and in a small part of the feet,and do not cut the skin.
Sharp gravel is worse for soft soles....

Posted by: b'ftlvr2008 Aug 15 2010, 07:54 PM

All good points,
Flowwer, so when is the next update?
What is next for her extreme session?
Can't wait to see the next video,,

Posted by: flowwer Aug 16 2010, 08:47 AM

QUOTE (b'ftlvr2008)

Umm, probly many

Really?!

This is a very interesting answer, and the real reason why I posted all of this.
It honestly touches us ("me", and "her" when I will show her this post), but ... not so much, as she did that run without any effort.

So saturday we went to a harder training, that's HIGH pressure on single points.
I will post the video: again with the same honesty, tell me how much barefooters you do know able to do that.

(We did it on the soft arch too, that's the situation where she has been suddenly and unexpected stopped and outdid months ago, so please consider psychological implication ... or maybe better DON'T: no alibi.)

This is maybe the most important training, to deal with 24/7 barefooting: if you're used to bear all of your weight on a little sole point, you'd never vacillate while WALKING, wherever you'd do it. We invented it years ago, after she found herself in trouble climbing a steep embankment, because all of points of support were ponted stones the embankment was made of.

QUOTE (b'ftlvr2008)

All good points,
Flowwer, so when is the next update?
What is next for her extreme session?
Can't wait to see the next video,,�

As above ... try to do asap.
Please comment it as I'd like this to be an exchange, not a show.

QUOTE (Clipper)

But there is another open question : how she can walk over very sharp things,with soft soles,without get any "phisical hurt" : like cut,blister or bad abrasion.

Really don't know, Clipper.
First of all consider that she DOES hurt herself .. this is why we train to handle this too (the thumbtack is an example).
But it happens rarely.
If I'd be able to run that way on stones, I'd destroy my soles with blisters in doing it, I'm sure.
This idea could help: I think that human body develops protection where needed.
However, how she can go barefoot that way is a little mystery.
Think to Fee's barefooting, as appeared on this site ... she's a wonderful barefooter, but with very callous soles she's in clear trouble over those stones (I say it with much RESPECT: none of us would probably be able to STAND where she walks). While that situation, that's "normal walking", wouldn't bother my girl, and her soft soles, at all.
You could say she pretend: well ... no one could pretend to be tall

... or to walk barefoot without feeling ANY pain for miles on stones.

However, this post is interesting. I will read to her when, in a few weeks, she well be without shoes for days in the woods. So I'd like very much to hear other voices.

Posted by: Clipper Aug 17 2010, 10:58 PM

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Think to Fee's barefooting, as appeared on this site ... she's a wonderful barefooter, but with very callous soles she's in clear trouble over those stones

Sorry but I disagree with this point.
I reviewed the videos of Fee : she do not have any problem with gravel / rock path,she only flinch when climbing over piles of stones and rocks,due to balance problem,but not due to feet problem.
On plains she walk like on a carpet,and in the sole close up is clear that her soles do not have any marks.

If your girl can do similar path with soft soles is an "exceptional" things,difficoult to explain...

Posted by: flowwer Aug 18 2010, 07:49 AM

QUOTE (Clipper @ Aug 17 2010, 10:58 PM)

QUOTE

Think to Fee's barefooting, as appeared on this site ... she's a wonderful barefooter, but with very callous soles she's in clear trouble over those stones

I fully respect your opinion, as it's obvious and due do to, but don't agree.

Don't want to insist as I'd have to write ... another person's name, who maybe is not interested at all in this kind of speeches, and moreover talk about a "protected content" (by Toes In Action).

But my girlfriend and me we're highly interested in barefootin' toughness, it's our primary and common shared passion (more than many other ones, but this one is the main one.... and it's wonderful to us sharing it believe me).

So let's say it this way: in a few days, we'll find a railway embankment covered of the same kind of stones and I will shoot her walking there. Then, if you want to buy T.I.A.'s clip, you could write here if you notice any difference, focusing on the sentence "walking like on a soft carpet".

If you don't, obviously no problem! But we both like barefootin' investigation, so we however thank you and anybody else who wants to ... judje this light competition

.

(We also owe a RUN on such a terrain, to an old friend, so we'd combine the two thinhs ...)

Thanks again for sharing, Clipper!

Posted by: Clipper Aug 18 2010, 07:56 PM

QUOTE

I fully respect your opinion, as it's obvious and due do to, but don't agree.

It's only my opinion,it can be wrong...

QUOTE

But my girlfriend and me we're highly interested in barefootin' toughness, it's our primary and common shared passion

Barefooting is, first of all,a very healty way of life,so,a part from tough or soft feet,continue this way,that is the right way.

QUOTE

we'll find a railway embankment covered of the same kind of stones and I will shoot her walking there

I can not wait to see it (videos will be better...),I will see,compare with other videos,like the one of Fee,and I will wrote my simply opinion.
It will be a "friendly competition",in order to understand more about conditioning of soles...