- an error of mine in a previous post, where I confused the two girl’s names
(or the Feetosopher is wrong at the end, but as the Feetosopher can’t be wrong on bare feet, let’s say I confused the two names!! 
)- the toughest barefooter appeared here so far, that’s Elsa
- an involuntary confrontation between her and a ... “normally tough” barefooter, that’s Nora and that from time to time appears in the videoclips as she was an amateur, while she’s pretty good, but the ground is very hard and Elsa is... incredible, forcing her “colleague” to an impossible level.
So I write here a little review, under the “confrontation point of view”.
I wanna clear: I’m not anyhow linked to Hal.
Therefore I ABSOLUTELY RECOMMEND THIS CLIP TO ANYONE in a complete DISINTERESTED way.
First of all, I want to partially correct what I’ve said in a previous post: Elsa shows a liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittle staggering, almost imperceptible : at the first step (!).
Ok, analysis follows. Numbers are the timeline.
CLIP1
- Beginning: the two girls show her soles. Nora’s ones have more (and more) callosity. The ... strange rule seems to be confirmed: callosity probably WEAKENS THE TOUGHEST.
- 0.20: they come down from a little wall. I write “come down” because the way is... VERY different. Nora extend her legs cautiously looking for the ground. Elsa JUMPS DOWN. RAISING her ankles. She INCREASE the momentum of the jump.
And this is her ONLY AND SOLE “human moment”.
She’s probably resting for minutes, and with my girlfriend we’ve verified that “the first steps after a break in a walk on stones” are the hardest.
Jumping down that way, Elsa lands in an unbalanced way overloading HEELS.
She probably feels pain, and she probably ... is not used to.
The first step is uncertain, and for the second one she instinctively AVOIDS HARD STONES, looking for a smooth shelter for her left sole: she visibly needs some seconds to recover. For a single step in a 15 mins walk, Elsa can’t walk straight, and takes a step like a ... normal person. In a few steps the situation normalizes, and she will never do anything similar.
- 0:53 - 1:07: the first hard stones are coming. Nora vacillates more than once, a couple of times deeply: she has to compensate with arms to keep her balance: her soles can’t be posed normally. Elsa ... seems to be walking on a lawn. And at 1:07 she shuffle a sole on the ground, in a ... bored way: does she have a ... stone stuck on it? Incredible.
- 1:08: they climb a hip of large stones. Elsa has one single problem: the ... balance (stones obviously slip). Being barefoot is an insignificant detail. Nora tries and tries, adjusts rocks under her right sole and tries again, but ... to no avail. Meanwhile, Elsa, who was behind, overtakes her as she ... “still is on her private lawn”.
At 1:17 Nora looks at her with a smile that says all: “how can you do it that way?”. She tries again, but she simply CAN’T. She can’t pose her weight on a single bare foot on those rocks. She CAN’T CLIMB. So she do it .. on her knees. While Elsa RUNS DOWN. Easy, isn’t it? 1:28: a brief touching moment for who loves extreme barefooting. Nora has to come down from that hip of stones. She has seen her colleague doing the same, and I’m sure this MAKES HER FEELING MORE VULNERABLE. (Barefooting is a walk on sensations too!) She does it like... any normal barefooter would: MINIMIZING the time a single foot is raised. She can’t stay longer with a single sole posed there. When she is at ground level, at 1:33 she... finds a way through rocks, a little “path free of stones”. Pain is probably great. At the end of that path, Elsa’s bare feet are calmly waiting for hers.
(The camera angle is on the ground.)4:14: after some balance tests and a cigarettes extinguishing that some of you will love, for more than one minute they face a very various terrain. At 4:24 Elsa simply ... chooses hard rocks instead of sand on concrete: why not?
)))) At 4:31 she calmly turns towards the hardest situation: again, where’s the problem? Meanwhile, Nora uses the concrete path for the longest possible. At 4:40 they both are on the difficult part, or maybe better: while Nora’s arms raises continuously to keep balance, Elsa walks on her private lawn posed on those rocks. )) At 4:47 Nora has a VERY HARD step, she has to stumble on her side not to fall. Elsa ... why writing it? At 4:52 Elsa falls down from a slippery tube ... where’s the problem? ... there are the “safe rocks”. ))) Nora, meanwhile, has found again the concrete path.5:03: Elsa too finds again the concrete path on her way. And she ... crosses it (!!!), continuing waking on hard stones ... after all, where’s the difference?
)) For some steps, we see the wonderful show of real, extreme barefooting: Elsa and Nora walking on a very wild terrain. Both at ease, without problems. But Elsa is ON HARD ROCKS, 10 cm sideways of the concrete path where Nora is. They’re walking IN THE SAME WAY. No difference is visible. Neither the most little one.5:45: the two girls taste the caress of ... rusty planted nails on their bare soles. Saying that Nora does it “lightly” wouldn’t be fair. A rusty nail stick in a sole would be too much for Elsa too, obviously. So she did it cautiously too, just like it has to be done.
CLIP2
0:39 - 1:09 the two girls cross a hip of scrap iron. Elsa is ... on her bedroom carpet, not to exaggerate.
Nora is in deep trouble, like it’s human to be, but she’s instinctively inclined not to swerve on her side: it’s understandable, this is not a real challenge but her colleague is in front of her, walking without any problem on the same path. If I would be her boyfriend, this is the ONLY part of the two clips where I would have said to her “don’t follow her on it, love, too much painful for you, don’t hurt yourself”. (I would have had a sting in my gut saying it, but this is another story and it’s a personal feature of me. I wonder how many of you would have my same feeling.)1:33: the RUN ON STONES, SIDE BY SIDE. Come on ...
It has to be said that Nora DOES IS a barefooter, and surely this run on stones it’s not a poor figure for her!!! ... on the contrary, she does greatly.
Moreover, she’s closer to Elsa than in any other moment: evidently, Nora fears pressure more than strokes.
However, even if the run is very brief, she has to slow down more than once, and she looses.
Elsa is simply too tough.
2:25 - 3:59: the two girls climbs some heaps of rocks. It’s a little bit heart-touching for us, barefooting lovers (at least for me) because Nora is in front and Elsa follows.
Nora is visibly weaker than in the beginning, and that specific situation begins to be closer to her limit. It’s hard for her to proceed, there. Elsa follows her with a visibly BORED stance (“bored” not in the negative meaning!: that one is a simple walk for her, that’s all), and when she sees some pieces of glass she overtake her colleague to test her soles on it.
4:04: pieces of glass: just a moment. Pretty, but easy for both of them. What’s visible is that Nora needs (rightly!) some time to recover: while going to test glass, she has to use hands, her bare soles are severely weakened, and don’t bear her weight any more on bricks. Probably it’s just a matter of a while of rest, but she needs it.
Well, I enjoyed a lot writing it. After all, it’s my (our) passion, isn’t it?
If some of you will buy the clips, I’d read his opinion with pleasure.
To anyone else, I ensure you: in this video there’s the toughest barefooter ever appeared/linked on those pages. BY FAR the toughest.
Bye to anybody.
