@mike808 My cats don’t like my Clawz. The outdoor strays I feed are afraid of them. But these, at least one of my cats would love them. And by love I mean try to eat and likely make herself sick. I think I’ll stick to my regular flip flops and standard crocs.
These have no redeeming qualities. I don’t like anything between my toes or bare feet. I wear sneakers or full shoe type slippers pretty much full time. The lobster crocs are at least wearable and yes I would if it was warm enough.
Isn’t “redeeming qualities” variable in the opinion of the potential wearer?
I thought about buying the astroturf sandals because they might be worth a giggle at a family BBQ. If they had cost $10 or less I prob would have gotten some.
I love my “running sandals”, which are similar to these:
I have some from Xeroshoes, and a few different ones from other sandal makers. I just kinda wish I invoked the discipline to use them more often for running, instead of lazing around.
Mine are a US version modeled on the best-known originals, hand made from used tires, in the Tarahumara region of Mexico
These sandals are ultra-marathon ready. That’s how the Tarahumara use them.
@f00l Definitely meant my opinion. Even as a kid I didn’t like between toes flip flops or bare feet although I was more tolerant than I am now. I have gotten old. I would buy these as a gift if they were were cheap.
K, cool. Just don’t run in any sandals that aren’t specifically built for running, unless you wanna get a nose job anyway and don’t mind risking an accompanying concussion.
I have several iterations of this (the Cloud), plus one of the ones where the strap doesn’t go between the toes.
Love them all. Once i discovered I liked them, I would pick them up for cheap off Ebay once in a while so have some backups. I also have an unused kit for the homemade ones around here somewhere, but never bothered to make a pair since I already have some.
I have not tried the very latest designs, or the actual foot-covering shoes this company makes. Want to try those sometime, maybe.
Also have some of these (Luna Sandals). Also got off Ebay. Like them as well.
I started messing with these after listening to the audio version of Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen Paperback – March 29, 2011 by Christopher MacDougall.
If anyone is considering these, these sorts of shoes are nearly indestructible, compared to many regular sandals.
The Xeroshoes ones have rather thin soles, not sure everyone will like that: you can, to a decent degree, feel the earth under the sandal base.
Some other versions of “running sandals” have thicker soles and might be more comfortable for some people who want a little cushion, or want not to feel very rocky ground under their feet.
(Tho Xeroshoes brand are supposedly quite popular for mountain trail use in Boulder, CO, where the company is located.)
Several nice things about these sorts of sandals:
Your feet don’t get any more nastily sweaty than the rest of you.
No need for socks unless it’s winter (and there are socks for these out there, if those are wanted.)
And the sandals, if snug against the foot, stay exactly placed under your feet, which makes them safe for running etc. I’ve heard that some people climb in them, tho I don’t know how far that goes in technical climbing terms.
(Hint: don’t run in flip-flops or normal sandals unless you like “face-suddenly-meets-ground” situations)
Fitting is easy to do, and larger sizes of many running sandals can often be simply cut down to fit a slightly smaller foot. Many of these shoes are designed to allow for the wearer doing that. (“Snug against the foot” doesn’t mean “uncomfortably tight”.)
There is no raised heel or arch support etc. Someone trying these out for running or just normal wear might go easy on getting used to them.
(Unless you wear flip-flops all the time anyway. My normal alt footwear is flip-flops, even in winter, so no prob for me.)
Part of the point of these shoes (for the normal person with normal feet and ankles):
the claim is that you don’t need a raised heel if you are running properly;
and you don’t need a raised heel for walking, once you get used to not having one, and your feet and ankles adjust;
and normal feet accustomed to these don’t need arch supports either, your foot is supposed to flex naturally as tho you are barefoot, and these shoes allow that.
But if someone is used to putting in the miles walking or running in normal shoes with built in arch support or raised heels, it might make sense to allow a transitional time for letting feet, ankles, muscles/tendons posture, and walking/running strides adjust.
(I know nothing about specific or general biomechanical or medical perspectives. Just sayin’)
@f00l Thanks!
For what it’s worth, what little I’ve seen suggests that the uppers on on Xeroshoes’ closed-toe shoes aren’t super durable. That’s not super surprising, given that they’re prioritizing light weight.
There is no step up from Clawz. Clawz rule. All runway models should saunter down the runway in their couture suits and matching Clawz. Political candidates should only conduct town hall meetings and debates while wearing Clawz. Weddings should require all participants to wear appropriately colored and decorated Clawz. It would be a better world.
@f00l Proof that people will pay big bucks for shoes that are both uncomfortable and hideously ugly. The real Clawz are at least cheap and fun to wear.
The real Clawz are at least cheap and fun to wear.
Perhaps for values of “fun to wear” that include blisters, sole perforations from tiny, sharp stones, and the overwhelming stench of unventilated toes when they’re taken off.
I would pass, but it seems safer to run away swiftly in the opposite direction instead.
As for “cheap”, I cannot recall ever seeing these actually offered for sale, so I have no idea what the demented purveyors of molded plastic torture devices might have thought they were worth.
There is. $24.99 and they’re yours.
https://www.coddies.com/collections/all/products/coddies-lobster-slippers
Here is the entire collection
https://www.coddies.com/collections/all
@mike808 Oh, I should get those taco slippers for my brother in law!
Those are so last year.
THIS
is the new hotness.
@mike808 Chia flops?
@werehatrack Premium microfiber astroturf.
@mike808 Do they require water and fertilizer, or just mowing?
@mike808 My cats don’t like my Clawz. The outdoor strays I feed are afraid of them. But these, at least one of my cats would love them. And by love I mean try to eat and likely make herself sick. I think I’ll stick to my regular flip flops and standard crocs.
@mike808
I actually thought of buying a pair of those (was in a gas station in E Texas earlier this week. Near Nacog I think? Or Palestine?)
But $20? Naw.
These have no redeeming qualities. I don’t like anything between my toes or bare feet. I wear sneakers or full shoe type slippers pretty much full time. The lobster crocs are at least wearable and yes I would if it was warm enough.
@speediedelivery
Isn’t “redeeming qualities” variable in the opinion of the potential wearer?
I thought about buying the astroturf sandals because they might be worth a giggle at a family BBQ. If they had cost $10 or less I prob would have gotten some.
I love my “running sandals”, which are similar to these:
I have some from Xeroshoes, and a few different ones from other sandal makers. I just kinda wish I invoked the discipline to use them more often for running, instead of lazing around.
Mine are a US version modeled on the best-known originals, hand made from used tires, in the Tarahumara region of Mexico
These sandals are ultra-marathon ready. That’s how the Tarahumara use them.
@f00l Definitely meant my opinion. Even as a kid I didn’t like between toes flip flops or bare feet although I was more tolerant than I am now. I have gotten old. I would buy these as a gift if they were were cheap.
@speediedelivery
K, cool. Just don’t run in any sandals that aren’t specifically built for running, unless you wanna get a nose job anyway and don’t mind risking an accompanying concussion.
@f00l If I am running, you should too. Must be a fire or something
@f00l @speediedelivery
@blaineg @f00l @speediedelivery there should be a period instead of a comma after that first statement. this bothers me more than it fucking should.
@blaineg @carl669 @f00l @speediedelivery
Maybe it was a semicolon with shitty printing and that part of the character came off, leaving a comma?
@f00l Which Xeroshoes model do you have? I’m about to put their classic DIY kit (the one with the Vibram cherry soles) on my birthday list.
@Limewater
I have several iterations of this (the Cloud), plus one of the ones where the strap doesn’t go between the toes.
Love them all. Once i discovered I liked them, I would pick them up for cheap off Ebay once in a while so have some backups. I also have an unused kit for the homemade ones around here somewhere, but never bothered to make a pair since I already have some.
I have not tried the very latest designs, or the actual foot-covering shoes this company makes. Want to try those sometime, maybe.
Also have some of these (Luna Sandals). Also got off Ebay. Like them as well.
I started messing with these after listening to the audio version of Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen Paperback – March 29, 2011 by Christopher MacDougall.
https://www.amazon.com/Born-Run-Hidden-Superathletes-Greatest/dp/0307279189
Now, I just need to start running regularly.
: )
If anyone is considering these, these sorts of shoes are nearly indestructible, compared to many regular sandals.
The Xeroshoes ones have rather thin soles, not sure everyone will like that: you can, to a decent degree, feel the earth under the sandal base.
Some other versions of “running sandals” have thicker soles and might be more comfortable for some people who want a little cushion, or want not to feel very rocky ground under their feet.
(Tho Xeroshoes brand are supposedly quite popular for mountain trail use in Boulder, CO, where the company is located.)
Several nice things about these sorts of sandals:
Your feet don’t get any more nastily sweaty than the rest of you.
No need for socks unless it’s winter (and there are socks for these out there, if those are wanted.)
And the sandals, if snug against the foot, stay exactly placed under your feet, which makes them safe for running etc. I’ve heard that some people climb in them, tho I don’t know how far that goes in technical climbing terms.
(Hint: don’t run in flip-flops or normal sandals unless you like “face-suddenly-meets-ground” situations)
Fitting is easy to do, and larger sizes of many running sandals can often be simply cut down to fit a slightly smaller foot. Many of these shoes are designed to allow for the wearer doing that. (“Snug against the foot” doesn’t mean “uncomfortably tight”.)
There is no raised heel or arch support etc. Someone trying these out for running or just normal wear might go easy on getting used to them.
(Unless you wear flip-flops all the time anyway. My normal alt footwear is flip-flops, even in winter, so no prob for me.)
Part of the point of these shoes (for the normal person with normal feet and ankles):
the claim is that you don’t need a raised heel if you are running properly;
and you don’t need a raised heel for walking, once you get used to not having one, and your feet and ankles adjust;
and normal feet accustomed to these don’t need arch supports either, your foot is supposed to flex naturally as tho you are barefoot, and these shoes allow that.
But if someone is used to putting in the miles walking or running in normal shoes with built in arch support or raised heels, it might make sense to allow a transitional time for letting feet, ankles, muscles/tendons posture, and walking/running strides adjust.
(I know nothing about specific or general biomechanical or medical perspectives. Just sayin’)
@f00l Thanks!
For what it’s worth, what little I’ve seen suggests that the uppers on on Xeroshoes’ closed-toe shoes aren’t super durable. That’s not super surprising, given that they’re prioritizing light weight.
@blaineg @carl669 @f00l @mike808 @speediedelivery
Nah… the “I” in ‘if’ is capitalized. You might get away with a comma between running and try, but that’s a stretch.
We were at the beach.
Everybody had matching towels.
Somebody went under a dock,
And there they saw a Croc.
It wasn’t a Croc.
It was a Croc lobster.
Croc lobster
Croc lobster
Croc lobster
Croc lobster
There is no step up from Clawz. Clawz rule. All runway models should saunter down the runway in their couture suits and matching Clawz. Political candidates should only conduct town hall meetings and debates while wearing Clawz. Weddings should require all participants to wear appropriately colored and decorated Clawz. It would be a better world.
@rockblossom
/image Clawz “Christian Louboutin”
/image Clawz “Manolo Blahnik”
@f00l Proof that people will pay big bucks for shoes that are both uncomfortable and hideously ugly. The real Clawz are at least cheap and fun to wear.
@rockblossom
But those expensive shoes are so very fashion forward. They might get you noticed at the Met Gala.
(I always skip the Met Gala. Guess I’m just too cool for the room.)
: )
/giphy fashion forward
@f00l My invitations to the MG always seem to get lost in the mail.
@f00l @rockblossom
Perhaps for values of “fun to wear” that include blisters, sole perforations from tiny, sharp stones, and the overwhelming stench of unventilated toes when they’re taken off.
I would pass, but it seems safer to run away swiftly in the opposite direction instead.
As for “cheap”, I cannot recall ever seeing these actually offered for sale, so I have no idea what the demented purveyors of molded plastic torture devices might have thought they were worth.
Too bad Meh got in on the clawz closeout/liquidation too late to offer these gems:
https://www.viatrading.com/wholesale-products/shoes/clawz/#lg=1&slide=20