2019 A New Start

Thanks for stopping by. Life has been a flurry of activity the past 3.5 years, I went back to school and got a Masters degree in Biomedical Engineering. That adventure has now finished and what is waiting just beyond the horizon is exciting. Academia was an all consuming lifestyle. I didn't have time to post new blogs, now that I am finished, I will be starting to post again. The next 4 posts will be an article series I published on LinkedIn. This is a project I am passionate about. In writing this series, my objective is to be informative and contribute to changing public perception regarding footwear design. I am a proponent of wide-toe box shoes. Nearly every shoe available today is too narrow for the natural shape of the human foot. Wearing narrow footwear daily causes your foot to remodel to a narrow shape, this has been happening to first world humans since our parents placed shoes on our feet. Despite human technology and advances, we are not able to make shoes to enhance our natural foot. In most cases, we have made things worse. On a side note: please don't confuse my approach with barefoot running or the Vibram FiveFinger shoes, I like the concept of going barefoot, but it takes a significant amount of time and calculated progression to successfully recondition your feet and legs to do it, if it is even possible to reverse the remodeling caused by narrow footwear. I have watched friends struggle with injury and injury trying to run barefoot. I have also watched some be successful at it.