21 January

My whole life I've struggled with shoes. (They really did once x-ray feet in shoe shops, to fit shoes.) So many debates about what's best - arch support, cushioning, flat shoes better etc. I've now decided a 'supported' shoe is best. The opposite of my previous view, which was that it should be flat to mimic the ground. The problem with flat shoes I think is, your foot is still constrained by the shoe. So it's trying to cope with a flat ground by spreading, while at the same time being constrained in other directions. It's trying to be barefoot and shod, at the same time. A supported shoe makes the shoe just an extra external layer of the foot, working as a single unified thing. It's not supporting the arch, it's just an extension of the arch.