Nog een overeenkomst tussen hoefijzers en mensen schoenen is
de ongevoeligheid waardoor een slechte looptechniek bevorderd
wordt. Ik neem tenmiste aan dat dit bij paarden precies zo werkt?
Of heeft iemand daar een ander idee over?
Deze tekst over de looptechniek van maratonlopers
verduidelijkt dit:
www.runningbarefoot.orgI like to run barefoot because that's the way my body likes it. It's easier, it's gentler, it's apparently, even faster than running with shoes on. It's more comfortable. In hot weather, it's a lot cooler than inside shoes.
Since that first barefoot marathon, I have completed dozens of road marathons, hundreds of shorter trail and road races, and even a 50 kilometer ultra-trail-marathon, which reportedly, was more than 33 miles, barefoot! After each race, especially the long events, I often watch in wonder as the finishers painfully peel off their running shoes, the same running shoes which were supposedly protecting them from PAIN!
But, therein lies the fatal flaw, the painful paradox, of all running shoes. They block pain! But not the pain which they cause. Shoes block the pain which we would feel, if our bare feet were allowed to slam into the running surface. Sure, that sounds like a wonderful benefit. But, we are not designed to run without the benefit of feeling pain when we are running badly. Shoes, by blocking pain, allow us to run badly - to continue pounding the pavement, when if we were barefoot, we would have quickly adapted the way we run, to land more gently!
Ken Bob Saxton
Warboel
