okay so a couple of things i do want to point out with this shoe is um it has a wide toe box here
that really allows your toes to spread out and it gives a good feel where it's just not too
tight and and confined as i find out as i find in in most of the shoes that i use uh for cross
training it's just way too tight but again i don't want it too loose so this is really good with that
another thing is this shoe is made entirely and from animal free products so um it's nice that you
know that you're not um i guess participating in any of the cruelty to animals with leather and you
know and things of like of that nature so um it's completely made let's see what it says on the site
produced using animal-free products and processes so that's just another pro another thing that they
mention here is that it does have a removable sock liner if you really want to get more of a
minimalist or ground feeling uh result out of it i have not done that i don't want that i think that
this gives a sufficient amount of give in here and i really do like that and then um it does have
a true rubber sole here so it's thick enough where i've run on
on twigs and um i've stepped on sharp objects and it hasn't penetrated or really affected my
foot at all so still thick enough but still flexible enough has a lot of give in it
um where it's still comfortable but still gives me enough protection and i've run
on quite a different amount of services but that's running let's talk about calisthenics shall we
all right calisthenics wise so we do know um we don't know exactly what the weight of the shoe is
i do know that the shipping box that it came in is 12 ounces so the shoe itself is definitely lighter
than that um so if that's 12 ounces divided by two um at maximum the shoe is you know six
ounces per shoe but to be honest i think it's much lighter than that these bad boys are so light and
i have to tell you they're extremely comfortable um so what i'm doing in this in these shoes when
i work out generally it's a calisthenics um exercise style so i'm doing push-ups pull-ups
um i'm doing course squats and um pistol squats and handstands and i have to tell you just having
such a light shoe um and anyone who out there who actually does practice calisthenics will know
that often when you're doing or you're practicing handstands or you're working on um
you're working on planche and you're doing any of those type of workouts that the more weight
that you have on you you know the harder that it is i find so you often take off your shoe
and so you're doing it barefoot i find that i don't even have to take off my shoe when i use
these so which is really great not having to do that especially when i'm out at the playground
or i'm outside doing my workouts and maybe i don't want to take off my shoe because i live in florida
and there's freaking fire ants everywhere number two they are extremely uncomfortable
i mean i i love the way that they feel i have thin feet um but i like the fact that they
they the toe box spreads out so it allows for better balance um and i can really feel like i'm
like i'm more in communication with the ground beneath me if that makes sense so i i just you
know we always talk about this like mind muscle connection uh i really feel like i'm
one with my environment when i have these shoes on what they do also have is instead of having laces
they've got this kind of drawstring here and you draw it up and make it as tight as
you want and then afterwards it's velcro you just stick this bad boy on right here
and it sticks well and this right here allows it to um strap to your ankle
and it straps pretty well the fit is really good it's true i'm normally a size 12 shoe uh
this is a size 12 and uh it fit perfectly so two another pro that i do love about this shoe
is the flexibility man look at this thing this it's great i mean how can you not not love this
and sometimes i'm doing just a regular push-up on the ground and which the shoe may be like this
but if i'm saying doing handstand push-ups against the wall you know it's just it's not
impeding me at all which which i definitely love another thing too is when i'm doing pistol squats
uh when just not having my foot just kind of pushed up a little bit from the heel of what which
you see with most shoes is really great so it's it's nice to have such a light shoe but also a
shoe that feels like it's part of your body so i've had nothing but good things to say about
this so far right so what are the cons what do we not like about this damn shoe number one
it's ugly so most people would say it's ugly um i think these are so comfortable that i want to
wear them out to when i'm just running errands and my daughter always tells me that these bad
boys she's like dad these shoes are just not cool they don't look cool so you know what let's
just see what she has to think i'm going to call her she hasn't been prompted or anything hey riley
riley come here babe i want to get your opinion on something
so my daughter is 12 by the way which uh we would think who am i talking to i'm talking to youtube
i'm making a video what do you think about this shoe you guys need your opinion for okay for
one minute she can't keep me straight what do you think of this shoe do you think it
looks cool do you think definitely not i'm sorry what's that no you don't think my shoe is cool
it looks like you're wearing hard socks looks like i'm wearing hard socks okay
so it you heard it here folks from the coolest of the cool it looks like you're wearing water shoes
thank you for your opinion i appreciate that so we've established that this shoe
is not cool looking even though i bought this shoe for calisthenics i have um i have run in them some
of the benefits of a minimalist shoe the the fact that it instead of us running on our heel our heel
it promotes running on the forefoot or the mid foot which number one is more natural running
it also promotes better balance it also promotes uh the us humans to take shorter steps which is
more natural which in turn helps us to go faster so i will say i don't run more than three miles in
it and the first time that i ran in these only did a mile after i run in this shoe my calves
my quads um even my shins are just a little you can tell that they've been worked you know um
they're a little little tired and a little sore in the beginning when you first start using them
and that's just to show you that in when you're wearing a regular shoe though you're not using
these muscles because of you know the shoes designed these days to to number one absorb a lot
of shock they also promote heel running the foot becomes lazy pretty much and the bones and the
the muscles and the ligaments and your foot aren't being really utilized to the fullest capability so
what i would say is good for short distance running um excellent for calisthenics man i
think i'm gonna get i'll probably buy another one of these um eventually maybe one that looks
a little bit better but great for calisthenics so you're looking for a calisthenic shoe it's light
it's durable it's able to move with you never tried a minimal shoe this would be the one to try
because if why do i keep pointing with the shoe it's called the witton men's trail running shoe
i will include a link to it in the bio if anyone's interested in getting it
i don't have any affiliation with them i don't get anything from it i just think it was a
good find and i didn't see many people talking about this and i think it's worth trying out so
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