Vivobarefoot is a shoe technology aimed to offer the optimum biomechanics and posture commonly associated with walking barefoot

Barefoot

Barefoot is the state of not wearing any footwear. Being barefoot is regarded as a human's natural state, though for functional, fashion and social reasons footwear is worn, at least on some occasions...

 and barefoot running

Barefoot running

Barefoot running is running while barefoot—without wearing any shoes on the feet. Running in thin-soled, flexible shoes, often called minimalist running, such as moccasins is biomechanically related to running barefoot, but alters sensory feedback from the plantar mechanoreceptors...

, invented by Tim Brennan and developed by British shoe company Terra Plana, and advocated within the barefoot movement and barefoot running

Barefoot running

Barefoot running is running while barefoot—without wearing any shoes on the feet. Running in thin-soled, flexible shoes, often called minimalist running, such as moccasins is biomechanically related to running barefoot, but alters sensory feedback from the plantar mechanoreceptors...

community. It has been described as "as close to going barefoot in the city as you can get." The most prominent shoe using this technology is their Evo running shoe.

External links

• Barefoot Running blog, by Tim Brennan, inventor of VivoBarefoot talks about the benefits of running barefoot and how these led to the creation of VivoBarefoot footwear.

• Vivobarefoot Shoes on BarefootRunningShoes.org, additional information about Vivobarefoot shoes