Barefooting in the street

I would really like to start barefooting. BUT I have my fears...

Barefooting in the street could be dangerous. What do you have to say about broken glass and plastic.

Is that a problem?

 

depends on where you live...i have a lot of litterbugs by me unfortunately, and i live in a rural area, so we have no street cleaning crews. but if you live in a city where they clean daily, it should be ok. but just keep an eye out! it sort of depends on how tough your feet are too. my feet are very rough, so glass doesnt go in easily. the only way to 'condition' your feet is to barefoot more often!

ps your sig pic made me smile

 

it also depends on how you walk, if you shuffle your feet then you'll have a higher probability of getting a sliver in your foot. actually it isn't as big a deal as you might think. also, most of the glass and everything else ends up in the gutter or edge of the street.

peace,
bob

 

Its really not that bad of a problem.

I know a ton of people are afraid of glass and stuff and I always get comments about how I am going to step on glass or get injured. Its been 5 years and not once have I stepped on anything.



There is just a few things. When you first start out you do need to be a bit careful what you step on, just keep an eye on the ground. After a little while you feet get a bit more adapted to it and get a bit tougher. Once that happens gravel and small pieces of glass would not even bother you and you sorta wean yourself off of watching everywhere you step.



Right now I can walk through glass with no problem (Even though I try to avoid it) as long as you don't drag your feet it should not be a problem since most glass lays flat. I mean if its a bottom of a beer bottle then yea anyone would get cut by that but you should be able to see big pieces like that before you run into trouble.

 

Many mis-informed people think that barefooting is dangerous.

Long before shoes were invented or became standard ware, our bare feet did just fine. Otherwise neither you, nor I, nor anyone in this forum would be here to talk about this. Right?

As a starting point I suggest always going barefoot at home, around the yard and expand from there. After several weeks of constant barefooting your feet will be much stronger and the soles will begin to thicken. The soles of our feet are double the thickness of the average skin on our bodies, and yet by going barefoot the soles will eventually double their thickness again. Then you have real working feet.

I have gone barefoot for all of my non-working time for almost 15 years and after a while you will develop what some call as a "mind-eye-foot" coordination, which automatically will steer you in the right direction.

In short, you will see glass, plastic, shit, metal and anything else you can imagine long before you get there.

I wouldn't worry too much about it if I were you, just do it!!

 

I meant to reply before now, but MirrorBallMan pretty well covered what I would have said. I would just add that the only people who seem to be all that concerned about the danger of glass in the streets are those that never go barefoot. Experienced barefooters know it's just not a problem at all. Broken glass in the streets being a problem for bare feet is just so overrated, it's ridiculous. I've gone barefoot for many years, and I have never had a cut or other injury from stepping on broken glass, but of course I wouldn't be stupid enough to step straight down on a large broken bottle shard sticking straight up. Little bits you see in the street will not hurt you, especially if you walk properly and don't scoot your feet along the pavement.

 

I went barefooting for a bit today. My god, it makes you feel a bit nervous. It was alomost like walking naked through the street.

It's quite good actully. I walked through the university distrct. The pavement was cold but it was better than I thought.

 

oh jeez.
when your barefooting alone through the strrets in town or whatever.. it makes you feel so free. acually it sound pretty weird but it does. if i stand on glass i get over it but it doesnt even happen that often. ive barefooted sinci was the age of about 3 and ive only got glass in my foot about 4 times. no harm done.

 

It's wierd because you feel free, but it was my first time in the street barefoot, so I was quite nervous...

 

I only wear sneakers at work, everyplace else, I am barefoot.

 

I hate when you walk/run barefoot and you step on those little rocks lol

 

I think all our fellow members inputs are right. We could tell you a lot, but I guess you have to step by step build up your own experience.

 

When you first start you will be nervous. It actually tends to wear off realley fast.
I remeber the first time I ever went in a store Barefoot my heart was almost pounding out of my chest. Second time not as bad but I was shaky. After about 5 times I was totally over it.

Its a sorta RUSH you get from barefooting in the begining. Once you have done it for a few months though it just starts to feel normal even if you don't go barefoot all the time.

 

I'll start leaving pieces of glass outside, I will get a barefooter one day lol

 

That's not nice, why would you say such a thing .

 

I was just joking.

 

see.. this is what i mean sir. you're being a troll.. play nice with us or don't play at all.

it's weird but i only seem to get glass in my feet when it's on carpet!

 

Okay baby

 

there was a friend of mine who always inadvertently shed her fucking toothpicks on my wool carpet, that happens to be very thick and 'hairy'. Her goddamned tiny vampire poles stood point up waiting for my feet stinging me until one time I got one of them in the outer side of my foot, the toothpick trespassed the thick skin and exited in the other side of the foot giving me an unwanted piercing .

once in Rome during a protest I walked barefoot all day long (my shoes decided to stay at home, they're such insensible assholes) and some places were literally covered with broken glass, no escape, but I didnt get any splinter though.

moral: carpets also have their own dark side ... they can transform otherwise harmless things , which normally lay flat on the ground, into traps, and just where you tread confidently.

 

what are shoes??? honestly my mom use to tell me my feet would get too wide if I didn't wear shoes. Well a size 6 shoe wide but I'll tell you this....anytime I can I take off my shoes and run around barefoot as much as possible. God didn't invent shoes...man did.