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Walking, running and living barefoot.

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A nice day in town (toobnix.org)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by ExtremeDullard@piefed.social to c/barefoot@piefed.social

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It's midsummer day today and the weather was nice, so I went to town for a beer after doing the groceries. And I went out with a proper camera to capture some enjoyable barefooting action 🙂

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[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Not really. I've lived in 7 countries and went barefoot for 20 years, and I never really had a problem. I'm not saying something bad can't happen, but in my experience, glass and needles just aren't really a thing. And if you develop enough leather under your feet, the odd nasty bits you may have missed have a surprisingly hard time to pierce the skin.

The golden rule when going barefoot is to look ahead and scan the ground. If I can't see what I'm walking on or it's to sketchy, I don't go there or I put shoes on - or my trusty chainmail "barefoot" shoes. That includes streams, rivers or lakes I can't see the bottom of, or grassy parks with junkies.

I think in 20 years I might have stepped 5 times on something that I had to spend 5 minutes digging out of my skin, and I got caught only once without shoes on a properly hot black tarmac surface that was only minutes away from burning me for real (in Belgium of all places 🙂).