Quote Originally Posted by Pancho Villa View Post
If you're interested in the science behind it, and also a really neat story, pick up "Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen" by Christopher McDougall. He was a runner who kept injuring himself in running shoes and also a journalist. His doc one day told him that humans just weren't designed to run; being stubborn and getting paid to find interesting stories anyway, he went in search to see if this was true.

One of the more interesting things to come from this is the earliest form of hunting, called endurance hunting. Our ancestors would literally just chase a deer or elk or whatever until the animal collapsed from exhaustion, and then just brain it with a stick or rock or whatever.

Check it out. These guys have shoes but ancient man did not, and our old hunting technique was apparently to run our prey to death:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o
Cool story. Kinda makes sense. Some other scientist made shoes based on how africans' feet ran through the sand (MBT, or "Masai Barefoot Technology"), but they were big clunky boat shoes, not minimalist at all. I think I'll try it (the minimal toe shoes, not chasing elk). Just for grins, check out the big ass running shoes that guy is wearing at 3:09 in the video! Thanks for this info!