I recently discovered i'm a bit of a barefooter. Unfortunately i can't go barefoot during the day unless i wanna get my ass fired. The first thing i do when i get home is kicking off those damn leather cages and getting in touch again with the cold floor.
Thats great. I remember when i first started. i got a lot of blisters even though my feet are still soft. Now if someone sees me out of school and with shoes on they freak out. hahaha. My friend painted my toenails the other day and she was like "now when you are barefoot you can have pretty toenails and everyone can see them" it was funny. haha
no offense dcba, but where do you really ever see broken glass on a daily basis? i hear this comment all the time in relation to barefooting and i just find it ridiculous, first of all there is rarely every broken glass on the ground, and second when you walk barefoot yo u by nature watch where you're walking, or atleast i would hope, idk, dont mean to call you out or be a jerk but i just find ur comment somewhat ridiculous
I have long stopped walking around broken glass (except for the huge jagged pieces like entire bottle bottoms). Once your feet get even a little tougher, and as long as you don't drag your feet, 98% of the pieces of glass, all those little pieces that just lay flat, won't hurt you at all. When I go to the bottle bank, I leave my bicycle a few steps away but I walk straight up to it. Step lightly and you do not have to step around them. Barefoot for 14 years, stopped stepping around it after about one year, encounter it several times a week at least, NEVER had a cut. Glass isn't so dangerous. Oh and the only reason I encounter that much of it is because I frequent a few places where there always is some (near the bottle bank, the dumpster and for some time there used to be litter at the bike shed at the train station every weekend, that last is improved since they renovated it). Barefoot Graham is right, apart from a few obvious places there isn't much, it's concentrated in those areas and not that hard to get around if you do not -yet- trust your feet.
i dislike thos big thorny pricl;es along the sid of the road, i go for a hike along the high way and theres lots they stick in and snap off the ones that dont are a bugger to get out its only realy pain full in my arch tho, broken glass theres a bit of ot getting around here tho i usual just walk over it two, like was i look out for those jaggerd edges, my best surface to walk acroos would be melted tar it goes all suqishy under u feet and springy like a trampolie, rock on man and enjoy ur adventuere
it is perfectly possible for the average barefooter to walk on a carpet of crushed beer bottles without damage. tricks: 1.don't run; 2.dont shuffle feet; 3.look to avoid the whole bottle bottoms as Myranya said and other tough shit like big curved pieces of bottle walls that can break under your foot. once i found myself with friends driven by a crowd during a protest and i had to walk on a 5 meter long carpet of splinters and bigger pieces, no way out, no way to turn back. i feared that this would result in several cuts and a public demonstration that barefooting is hazardous. i managed to pass unharmed through the Fakir walk gaining a lot of extra confidence with BFing. basically if your soles are tough enough that you can scratch them, arch included, with the point of a knife without excessive discomfort you can do glass walking.
