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- Running injuries are just a fact of life... or so we've been led to believe. What if there was a better technique, a technique other countries have been doing for years? What if your shoes are part of the problem?
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The 1972 Olympics were in Munich, not Tokyo.
In his biography, Shoe Dog, Phil Knight says that he got the name for his company from the Temple of Athena Nike, where Athena and Nike are one and the same.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Athena_Nike
I can't believe the shoes you show are the New Balance Minimus, seriously the best shoes I've ever owned--
Or I guess I can, actually...
1:29 maybe not me, but I also run for competition and think the 400 m and a 5k aren't that bad. Also, you make some of the best content on CZcams.
Also, slow down if you have a tailwind, especially if you're going really fast I actually injured my hip flexor that way and I couldn't run for about three weeks.
I wouldn't call Nike a "God" - more a "god" (that is, in the pagan sense of the word). Rather than an omnipotent and intelligent being, Nike was more regarded as a force of nature. In the statue of Athena Nike, she was personified in the form of an eagle on Athena's hand, representative of Athens's victory over the Persians.
Long time subscriber and even longer time runner by the way - loved the vid!!
M'kay?
"Running was invented in 1748 by Thomas Running when he tried to walk twice at the same time"
underrated comment
Google it
I snorted
I thought people from bc have been running while hunting and while waging war
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"I've been an adult for a while now"
Damn, flexing hard right off the bat
Yuh
I love how Knowing Better covers everything from ferret care to genocide to shoes
Ferret genocide shoe care
As if these aren't related?
I like it because the guy has an intangible villainous quality that makes me want to blame him for everything from war to hereditary diseases.
@@SnoFitzroy Not yet anyway...
That's called natural progression, baby!
Raramuri runner María Lorena Ramírez ran in the typical outfit of her people and won an ultramarathon. When offered sponsorship by a big running shoes brand she answered "but everyone I beat was wearing those shoes". *cheff's kiss*
Savage
@Socucius Ergalla Kind of depends on how you define jogging
I saw a documentary about her on Netflix. It was called Lorena, Light-footed woman. Amazing woman.
“Why haven’t I heard of this shoe company?”
13:49 “..rebranding themselves as Nike”
“Ah ok”
A Dude lol same
As soon as I heard "coach from Oregon", I knew.
@@jeffeppenbach I live about 3 minutes from Nike world headquarters and just thought "nice, hes from Oregon too" and didn't even think about Nike at all lmao
Pretty sure its still a popular brand in Japan, I knew it'd sounded familiar
@@analogrhymes Tigers are now under Asics.
Took me over a decade of adulthood to realize that my old swimming coach isn’t watching anymore and I can use whatever stroke I like and feels the best for me :)
Dude, then you need to stop paying your old swimming coach to come to the pool while you swim! ;)
@@ballsrgrossnugly The coach isn't getting paid, he's getting off.
@@BS-vx8dg Well, at least he'll be using the best stroke for the job. :)
@Safwaan If you're a prude, I suggest you don't read the comments :)
@Metal Monkey As a normal comment reader in a comment section about running shoes you don't necessarily expect such a curve ball.
I remember in high school we had mandatory running tests. In one of them I switched to forefoot striking because it felt better, but my teacher told me to stop "to prevent injuries".
You just triggered a memory in me. I had the exact same thing happen!
I remember lacing up my blue acsics in HS too. Although i do remember my HS track coach yelling at us to go up on our balls, i never understood why until now…..which i didnt have such underdeveloped calves back then
This explains so much about why my feet hurt so bad in boot camp. They gave me running shoes with “high arches” and I was in AGONY. Like was losing sleep cause of it. Eventually I went back and asked for flat footed shoes because i can walk barefoot no problem. They looked at me like I was an alien but when they gave me the shoes I immediately felt better and I’ve used the same shoes for the last 2-3 years
I remember when i bought shoes once, i said something about the built-in arch support bothering me, only to have a dismissive “It’s better to have that” thrown my way
Oh, the irony
"Nike ZoomX Vaporfly next%" sounds like a speedrunning category
I really hate that you are correct.
Nike zoomx vaporfly any%
@@syntheticteapot glitchless of course
I mean. . . it is used for speed running
@@caseychapman5726no. Just no. Get out
Woah woah woah: RIOTS caused by watching people walk? Imma need a followup.
Sounds like my kind of party.
Let's all get high on old school cocaine and then riot over a group of other high people walking in a circle. Definitely my kind of party!!
I read this in Milhouse's voice
In the year 2000 when the Sydney olympics happened, there was almost a riot in Mexico because the Mexican jogger was desqualified after the race lol. Amazing times.
The first woman to walk 1000 miles drew a gun on the crowd
If you want to run but hate running, just walk. It takes longer, but it does about 80% of the good and won't damage your feet and legs.
It’s also possible u hate running cause you have not done it enough but the more you do it the easier it gets
@@wyattcreeper6780 Definitely possible. I remember reading articles that jogging is bad for your joints and walking burns 80% as many calories.
Any good cardio involves 70% of max pulse for at least 30 minutes so Walking does not really compare for most people. Biking on the other hand
@@Daniel-uk6yr now we’re talking
@@Daniel-uk6yr bike master race
"Im not fat! My body just operates on a different plane," is a priceless quote. From "pedestrianism" sport to getting fines for running on a sidewalk in a bygone era, this video just keeps blowing my mind.
That "Shoes" call out.
Jesus, that makes me feel old.
Those shoes are mine betch
Omg... Shoes
i guffawed loudly at that joke, it came out in 2006? fourteen years ago... theres kids in high school younger than that song
Three minutes passed by the time I stopped laughing.
That is without a doubt the deepest cut I have witnessed in recent memory
"High jump is just reverse limbo" was a take I did not expect at all to find!
I had all kinds of knee pain when I started running in middle school. Ran into the bare foot running craze and decided to try it out. After a few months of running barefoot I switched to minimalist shoes which helped primarily with protecting the soles of my feet. Now I am running with a pair of Altra shoes as they still promote the same running technique, but have the benefit of softening the ground a bit which helps as I don't run as much as I used to. I feel like this is honestly the way most people should go as if you go straight to padded minimalist shoes you never learn how to run properly. Running barefoot or in real minimalist shoes is very unforgiving, but really builds proper technique as there is no crutch to fall back on. I don't understand how people can still make an argument for heel toe running. Running is natural human action and shouldn't require any modern technology to be possible.
I had the same experience. I was running with knee braces on both knees, but when I switched to minimalist shoes, one brace came off, and then the other. I did eventually have to stop because running outdoors in the air in my city was making it impossible to control my asthma (and the minimalist shoes made that worse because now I could push my lungs harder), and one of my knees has gotten worse since then. Running was GOOD for my knees.
The hard shell fooball helmet was meant to prevent skull fractures. Which it did really well. Going back to leather helmets might help reduce concussions but it would drastically increase skull injuries and chances of death. Helmet companies have only started looking how to reduce concussions in the last decade. But the real way to reduce concussions is rule changes and better technique.
Rugby is the same game without the forward pass... If you play rugby you figure out pretty quick that slamming your fucking head directly into another dude at full speed is stupid as fuck. The solution to solving football injuries is literally just remove the helmet. No rule changes are required because the players will just stop doing shit that will crack their heads open.
Or they could go the rugby way and not allow solid armor in their players so that when they strike each other you dont go against a train but against a bear. Also, tackles bellow the waist reduce head injuries a lot...
They didn't use their heads. What happened? Don't they teach them to look up?
Taking the face shields off seems like a good middle ground. Players start protecting their heads more, and as an added safety bonus they're no longer at risk of someone accidentally grabbing their face mask and breaking their neck.
imagine being an antelope eating some grass and this creature on 2 legs starts walking toward you, you jump and run thinking to yourself,"wow that was weird" then continue to eat grass only to hear the 2 legged creature again....some scary shit right there
Lmao, probably more like 3-10 weird 2 legged things sprinting at you, and then showing up again the next day, and the day after, and the day after
@@Yixdy I don’t think it went for days, I don’t even think most animals could keep it up for that long
If that happened to me I would elope (run away) before (ante) they got me. In other words I would antelope.
@@Yixdy Animals don’t have that kind of energy, once the animal couldn’t keep going that was it. That’s why it’s scary from their perspective, even though humans are slow we last a lot longer so it gives us an advantage.
@@starling1226 personally I wouldn’t take that
"Pain is not weakness leaving your body but your body telling you not to do something." Where were you when I was sustaining stress fractures from running?!
I switched to forefoot running when I started training parkour, about two years ago now. Not only did it completely eliminate any pains caused by running, but it also strenghtened and stabilized my ankles and calves, which helped me a lot with landing big jumps. The mistake a lot of people make when they switch is that they immediately try to run the same distance they did while heel striking. The muscles and tendons are not ready for that, and can get inflamed, so you gotta start slowly.
20:10 "I don't know enough about this serious thing, so here's someone who does" - I gained so much respect for you with that move - thanks you for striving to produce accurate content!
"Pain isn't weakness leaving the body, it's the body telling you something needs to stop".
Wait, a guy with a vested interest in selling shoes wants to promote running as an exercise? Slow down, I need to take this all in.
And people still believe that "in the good old days people were more honorable and wouldn't take advantage of others so blatantly as today "...
@@qaiser648 Its like war, it never changes
@@neooblisk0084never!
I rewatched this after watching the Ayn Rand video, and it's wild how much of this can be used as a metaphor for modern capitalism
Gotta love consumerism
Which one?
How so? I dont see the metaphor
@@gungun5845 one of capitalism's tools is top create a need and then fulfill it. No one needed ruining shoes until someone taught them to run badly and thus demanding they buy these shoes.
It happens all over the place where a company creates a flawed product or makes you feel like there is a post-modern with you and then they sell you the solution.
Front Back Front seems so incredibly inefficient though... Like, so bad. You have to move *backward* during part of your step
"running often goes up in times of crisis" can confirm, I've seen everyone and there mother running in lockdown
It's because all the gyms were closed, so all the millions that were treadmill running switched to outdoor running.
it's all fun and games until you run out of living room.
@@rdizzy1 i can't stand a treadmill. I always get really hot because of the lack of a breeze and the air doesn't breathe nicely.
If you don't live in a tropical climate or on a frozen tundra, run outside.
@@storrho *cries in humid, non tropical summers*
I started running when the pandemic hit, and my community college was closed. I was very lonely at that time, so I took up running to help my anxiety and it really helped.
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I did *not* expect a "shoes" reference in 2020... well played, sir.
EnderPryde I audibly laughed
It's an old meme, but it checks out
A 14 year old reference to CZcams's fetus days.
Oh my god.
Shoes.
I had to look it up, thank you.
This morning, I thought "Man, this Knowing Better dude hasn't uploaded in a while, wonder what he's up to." And later today we were blessed with a new video.
He's SHOES WRONG
Thank you for that thought
same goes for salmonella bro
I did the same thing yesterday and double checked to see if I missed anything.
I come from the distant dystopian future of Galt's Gulch and I'm here to praise your formidable recycling skills!
It's sort of fascinating just what a travesty most shoes are on multiple levels. I first got into barefoot shoes when I started to have what appeared to be chronic foot pains. I did a mindfulness exercise, paying close attention to my feet, and noticed what probably should have been obvious already: the ordinary shaped shoes I was wearing were pinching my feet. I wish I'd noticed this a lot sooner, because some of the damage is permanent, mainly a bunion on my right foot, though it could be worse. At any rate, switching to wide-tob-box barefoots removed the pain within about two weeks and I've never looked back. These days, I wear the widest ones I can find: softstar primals, which also have one of the thinnest soles going.
The full catalogue of regular-shoe ills: elevated heels, soles that are too thick for real ground contact, narrow toe boxes, and inflexibility.
All that said, it seems worth pointing out that barefoot enthusiasts may be guilty of their own cultish over-enthusiasm for the natural foot. I'm just getting this from another CZcams video, so handle with care, but it seems foot injury was common even among our barefoot paleolithic ancestors, and this is because, simply, evolution's not that efficient: the human foot is evolved from primate feet that were designed, essentially, as hands, things that had opposable thumbs and were used for gripping tree branches, hence the complicated array of bones and tendons. Really efficient bipedal feet, e.g. those of the ostrich or of modern robots, aren't made like this at all, they're much simpler.
Even the sports style running legs made for amputees in modern races are much simpler than the human foot. They're basically just an elastic ? shaped curve of metal that stores the energy as it lands then releases it as it lifts off. You don't need a mess of bones and several weak-points to do that, as it turns out.
@@Lankpants Exactly, and the artificial feet are so efficient that they've even been said to give the disabled runners an unfair advantage over those with their original feet.
By the way, an update to my previous post. I've found an alternative to the Softstars that's both better and much cheaper: Freets. I have a pair of Connect 2's from them that are now my favourite shoes - pretty much of all time, though I still wish they were a little wider.
Small factor forgotten in the minimal barefoot cult. Human kind spent a long long long time on mud sand softer surfaces in our evolution. Now we live on cement. I still love to put my old 5 fingers on for any softer situation.
Also remember the influence of stirrups for pointy shoes (most).
Cheers
@@bhansen52 It's not forgotten at all, it comes up often when this subject's debated. Humans also spent a long time running on ground baked hard by the sun on the African savannah.
There are various qualities that make up most barefoot shoes: thin soles, wide toe boxes, zero heel drop and minimal or zero toe spring. Of all of those, the one I actually mind least about is the thin sole, and there seems generally to be some room for interpretation. Sole thickness varies from just a millimetre to around a centimetre (e.g. Lems Boulder Boots), and with the removable insoles many shoes come with, that can go even higher. I wear my freets with the insoles in and they're wonderfully comfortable to walk in on any surface - much more so, in fact, than many traditional shoes.
But not knee-injuries, which is a huge problem with heel striking
"Pain is not weakness leaving the body."
SCREECHES IN MARINE!
TheDancerMacabre The ghost of my PSG screeched in my ear
My cousin wasn’t paid in the marines for 2 years. He finally got paid.
Sir, yes sir!
Pain is your body telling you something is wrong.
@@legoobi-wankenobi3080
Yeah, it's telling you that there is weakness
Stoked to see this one come out! Thanks for having me on my dude 🏃
"Something changed in the early 70s, and we've been dealing with the consequences ever since. It wasn't always this way. What happened?"
I see what you did there, ~a year ago KB.
I see what you did there.
Who knew the answer to today's problems was socialism all along
The entire year has been culminating into a single answer: "Boomers"
@@edwardsantiago9109 - the world had problems before the recovery from the World War, Part 2, coincided with an upsurge in babies being born; and you'll STILL have problems after the Baby Boomers aren't around for you to blame them on.
A more likely explanation is one that I got from writer Pete Hamill, who noted that the problems associated with modern urbanization have always been around, but were isolated; however, all those problems are now combined in the generations that grew up watching TV. So the worst behavior traits are mostly combined in the kids raised hands-off by the busy parents, who trusted TV to instill values.
And it has - self-absorbed and materialist people who don't want to work for a living. And for the powers-that-be, everything's fine; sales keep going up. And for everything else, well - as long as it doesn't cost ME anything, who cares? Fortune passes everywhere.
@@DavidSmith-ss1cg okay, boomer
@@sinnsage cathartic innit
It's a facinating subject. I only discoverd all this a few years ago after reading Born to run. I used to be a heel strike runner and all my life I was taught that heel striking was the best way. I could no longer run without getting sore knees and hips. So I now run barefoot and It's almost unbelivable that it has fixed all my issues. It's so easy to understand once it's pointed out, crazy how doctors and experts in the field have been getting it wrong all this time.
That book was awesome, and it changed the way I walked, since I hardly ever run.
I bough running shoes but when I pressed B nothing happened
Worst scam ever 0/10
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@@Quroe_ Great profile image.
Your showing your age, it's shift now.
I think nike did come out with some shoes that actually do improve run times, like running competitions want to ban them
@@oopsiepoopsie2898 yeah, you're talking about the vapor fly, which he talked about in the video
Oh my god, I almost died laughing when you said the Cortez, oh my god lol
same, it wasn't even that funny of a joke, it was just so absurd and unexpected
I actually did die laughing
@@sampetty1232
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Llll
Lol
@@alexbattaglia8297 ll
I didn’t get it
This video is highly underrated. The entire series is great, but how small and seemingly insignificant the way it starts is absolutely perfect and highlights how this phenomenon has crept into every layer of society.
"show me another sport where people nearing retirement have same chance as highschoolers" equestrian
Isn't like the horse doing most of the work though (I obviously know little about horses just curious to find out)
@@benschuster9792 not really? the horse certainly does work, but the rider also has to be strong enough to control their body and resist bouncing around, or even hold a forward seat (hovering over the horse's back to reduce impact at gallop) for ~15 min straight. Equestrian Olympic athletes look like Olympic athletes, but are sometimes retirement age!
@@Altoclarinets equestrian races: like nascar races, except you dont have to shoot your car when its broken :)
@@kainefenton1 exactly
Golf
*the world is going down*
Knowing Better: let me talk in great length about running shoes
xeilian I was convinced that in the intro he wasn’t talking about shoes but actually the economic world we live in today and how we’ve accepted recessions as just another fact of life
It's actually nice to have a break on the world end feels now and then.
@@MephLeo It really is, especially when I'm trying to curb my overconsumption of Covid content
@@lilbee281 I was thinking the same thing! I couldn't believe that this was the topic, nor can I still believe that SHOES are the only KB video we'll get for the last 30 days and next 30 days.
Exactly. Why this enormous silence about what´s happening right now?
We ran in combat boots in basic training then there was a "command order" and we were all lined up in front of the PX and forc errr encouraged to buy "running shoes" which were heavier and less comfortable as our boots. And I didn't notice the cases of shin splints go down. edit Just wanted you to know that CZcams removed you from my notifications I turned the bell back on.
Shawn Adams really? You were in marine corps or navy?
I walk on the Pinellas Trail, meet up with a old marine DI, he's 90 something, lives at the memory home after 30 yr. Career followed by 30+ as a farmer in Maine... Miles a day for his whole life, Semper Fi guy..
What running shoes are heavier than combat boots??
Josiah Baumgartner yeah I’m waiting to hear the answer to this as well........
@@josiahbaumgartner7643 that's not the problem man. Problem is recruits who never ran a day in their life don't know how to run, and the military blamed the footware. So they get shin splints regardless of what they wear.
This video changed how I walk. I live in a very hilly area and now use toe-striking to walk down hills. It is so much better because putting your toes down first stops you feeling like you're out of control or moving too quickly down the hill. Would highly recommend to everyone, it feels a bit weird at first but you soon get used to it.
I just ran a mile using forefoot striking and just wow. I have always had foot and knee pain when running and the motion never felt natural. You see I tend to walk on the ball of my foot. But I’m not even that winded, I was much more powerful and fast, and my feet and knees are untouched. I will have to work more on this and actually test the results but for now, Thank you.
I'd like to see more "chess-related injuries" turning up in the ER. Or Sly Stallone sitting at a chessboard across from a side of raw beef.
I once accidentally stabbed myself in the hand with a pencil during a chess game and I almost had to get stitches
Chess Boxing
I'll point you in the direction of Bobby Fisher, or most grand masters of chess going crazy or becoming paranoid, thinking too much.
May you get what you wish for.
Next TikTok trend will be...
"How many chess pieces can you shove up your ass."
I mean eSports injuries are a thing. I wouldn't be surprised about chess injuries being a thing lol
I cracked up when you said "shoes". I miss that song.
13:42 "rebranding themselves Nike, after the Greek Goddess, Athena" I'm Dead😂
"Basically NASCAR without the car."
So would it be called NAS then?
History Major 25 I got the horses in the back
You're just reminding me of the Ugandan flag.
It was written
NASFOOT!
National Association of Stock.
I remember my PE teacher having a go at me for my awful technique (this was late 90s/early 2000s). Because I ran with my forefoot first. And I loved the way I ran- I went running almost every day. I wasn’t going to change my technique because my awful PE teacher said so. So I got marked down for refusing to run “properly”. But- I’d also do really well in the cross countries, and anything from and over 800m.
I miss running. It was a great way as a teen to get out of the house, and just clear my mind. Be almost completely without thought for an hour or two- and for a teenager, that’s great! Unfortunately, I’m now disabled and can’t walk more than five steps at a time (and that very slowly and painfully), so running is out of the question. But I do miss it.
If you don't mind me asking, what happend?
I ran cross cross country in Chuck's it mad my couch both happy and mad. Happy cause I always timed will mad cause it wasn't a "real shoe"
Oh wow Im sorry that happened
goatbonnie sorry, didn’t get the notification. In my mid 20s, it was discovered that I had a degenerative spinal condition, and that I also needed emergency spinal surgery like, 3 weeks ago. And because I didn’t get it 3 weeks before, I now have permanent nerve damage from the waist down. I’d always had a bad back. I even went into ballet to help with my posture because of it, but I’d still herniate discs every few months and have to rest for a week or two. The herniated disc I had at 26 didn’t go away, and actually started paralysing me.
But that wasn’t the actual issue, that was a side effect of the issue- the fact that all of my discs are incredibly weak, and will herniate at a sneeze (literally, I’ve done that too many times to count now). And over the years, things got worse, and with that and the nerve damage I have (which I now also have in my hands and a large chunk of my upper back in addition to everything below the waist), I’m now mostly bedbound and use a wheelchair- one that I can’t propel myself, which sucks.
So no more running, and even worse- no more dancing. I can’t walk more than a few steps at a time (and even that is slow, painful and with a lot of support- I tend to fall down without support, and have even broken bones because of it), let alone dance en pointe. Which sucks, but it is what it is. It’s difficult to go from being fit, strong and flexible to barely being able to move your arms or legs. (really, really flexible. I’m still hyperextensive, that will never go away, but I was almost contortionist levels of flexible, but between the lack of mobility and the massive steel rods in my spine, that’s definitely something that isn’t achievable anymore. I still have a perfectly flat turnout though 🤷🏻♀️)
Aww that's tough. I'm always so angry when I develope some kind of a health problem that prevents me from doing things I used to be able to do.
I come back to this video and I see the script of the final video one year before it happened. The shoes really are a metaphor!!!
Man this is so weird. I went out to run after watching this, and I noticed my transition between walking and running had me switch to toe-only, but not my switch to jogging, but only when wearing shoes. I ran around my house barefoot and jogging suddenly became toe-first
I always knew forefoot running was better cause it felt like a spring giving you more speed
Man, there were a lot of South Park references in this episode
Agreed. Started a tally in my head after the 2nd reference - not including the duplicate "You're a towel", I caught 7 separate references
"OH YEAH SCISSOR!"
"Heel-Toe Technique"
People who drive a manual: Visible Confusion.
Made my night 😂😂 thanks
Or drive a tractor, where the heel is what you press to go in reverse. At least the one my dad has that I learned on was like that. You stuck your whole foot on the pedal, and toe pressure was to go forward, and heel pressure was to reverse.
just watching this makes my feet hurt. I ran in track in high school and frequently had injuries. I literally looking at his charts and maps of feet and feel impact on the balls of my feet and the spraining of my ankles.
I was a runner in the early 70's. I wore those low-rise 'minimal' hard sole thin leather track running shoes. They were comfortable-ish and better than running in the sneakers of the time.
50's Cinder tracks, the worst! All those little bitty gritties eating your ankle.
Sweet I had a cameo in this episode
So did President Garrison
I cared NOT AT ALL about footwear and or running before this video yet I think this is my favorite video of yours. This one surprised me the most of your videos in the 3 years I've been watching and Patreoning to you. This is the video I recommend to people and no one ever watches it. It's criminal how under appreciated this video is.
I feel so validated in having been a forefoot striker my entire life and somebody who where’s slides every day, even after a licensed physical therapist told my mom that non waking heel toe caused her planter fasciitis
I thought this was going to turn into some kind of metaphor for the economy or something, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was just a video about running!
Are you kidding me? Neoliberalism is pure economic heel striking, with the housing market as the artificial cushion and rising inequality the hamstring injury. A wheelchair dependent future awaits: the Marxist crisis of capitalism. I thought that was all clearly implied.
Lmao
I would be very interested in seeing a similar video about swimming, specically the high tech suits of the early 2000s
The Proclaimers joke at 3:11 is gold.
Recently discovered your channel. Very thoughtful content. I am a trail runner and I really appreciated this piece and your observations about minimal drop and technique.
"More people get concussions from bike riding than playing football"
Almost like bike riding is something nearly everyone in the world does and football is a sport that only a small group of people play at all.
I was very confused for a second until I realized I live in the US
@@NoorquackerInd Even in the US there are definitely way more people who ride bikes than play football.
It's like when people say most shark attacks happen in shallow waters. Maybe , just maybe, it's because people don't go swimming in the middle of the ocean?
have you ever been to the US i mean i havnt but in canada id say the people who play hockey double those who cycle
also he meant as a sport, not commuting to work
As someone who just got over a stress fracture, this was a very interesting and informative video. You should make a whole separate running channel!
Loving this video and how well researched your storyline is!
tip: ANY time someone tells you that a disease or symptoms is "just because you're getting old" or an injury is "just because" then you can bet there is a reason and lazy people have decided it can't be figured out - people used to tell type 2 diabetics that "you're disease will just get worse", when in fact it doesn't have to and can actually be reversed.
The "Shoes" reference 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I developed knee pain after years of running. I changed my technique to forefoot with some minimalist shoes and my knees felt better after about 2 weeks of adjustment. Then my feet started to hurt. Now I use Altra medium cushion shoes. They have no heel drop and provide cushion for my feet. No more pain anywhere.
I realize this is an old comment but the association of minimal cushioning with low drop shoes has always confused me, altra is an extreme example but plenty of brands have much less drop than nikes standardish 10mm
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"Football players get more concussions when they wear helmets"
Me, european: Footballs players don't wear helmets... Oh, American football XD
Me, South-American: same.
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Helmet gives you the ability to smash someone with your head. That's the problem
I love how your channel Banner is communism
Wow! This is the most comprehensive video on the history of running and running shoes I've seen to date. Mind you, I've done a lot of research on this topic for many years.
I'm a gal who wears heels and heeled booties very often. I run with the "ball of the foot" method. I never thought of my running as being related to my casual life shoes. Interesting concept.
No, no, no it's sexist because correlating the shoes you wear casually with the style of your jog is sexist. It's also sexist to say that high heels are typically worn by women.
I'm losing brain cells over here, the guy is a dumbass.
@@SnapCrackleDeath He's being sarcastic. His point is women wear high heels and thus start with the front foot technique often, which is fair, it makes sense. The knowing better guy is calling it sexist when it's really not.
@@sujimayne @PenguinOfDoom the fact that you both chose to obsess over such a small portion of a 37 minute long video betrays a lot about your views on gender issues.
Putting that aside, he mentioned CASUAL sexism which is often done unintentionally and without any ill intent. The sexist part was not the comment on technique but the assumption that "they" (as in all or most women) are used to high heels. Plus, that entire section was a claim made with a hunch and no real scientific evidence. Nothing morally damning but simply worth pointing out. No moral judgment or anything close to that (as was pointed out at the end of the video). It's something we all probably do on some small scale and it's worth pointing out simply to improve ourselves (you know, knowing better). Everything else is you projecting.
Ball of the foot is a pretty natural way to run. Heel toe is horrible for your joints when running, whereas striking more forward on the foot allows tendons and muscles to act like shock absorbing springs and is much easier on the joints and more efficient
This isn't the only video I've called him a dumbass on. Sometimes he gets things factually and scientifically wrong, as many people and youtubers do; perhaps he should get a pass but it'd be nice if he'd look into dissenting opinions. But when he does shit like he did in this video.. that's a completely different level. I have to wonder why he's like this or why he chose to say what he said about sexism in this video.
I only run if something is chasing me, so I was not expecting to find this interesting. Now I can tell my mom she was wrong when she yelled at me for running on the balls of my feet.
I have to say, KB, this is one on my favorite videos to watch/listen to. Great work
Really good video and always great content! As a runner that raced competitively in high school for longer distances I've got to say that this video hit home. I always hated shoes with huge heels since I hardly ran on my heels and when I did (like going downhill) I didn't have knee pain due to the racing circumstances (once again because of going downhill). I learned from respectable coaches and even very successful running families like the Tills.
"Nike, after the Greek goddess Athena"
Pretty sure those are two separate goddesses.
SC L why the hell does your comment say it was made 7 hours ago
This video was made 11 minutes ago
@@tsunamiscientist568 that's pretty weird
@@tsunamiscientist568 patreon
Ahhhhhh... youtube, one of the few sites I know that says a video game out 8 minutes ago but this comment came out 7 hours ago🤣🤣🤣
Nike is the goddess of victory if I’m not mistaken
1972 Olympics were in Munich not Tokyo.
Steve Prefontaine did not dominate the 1972 Olympics. He failed to medal. He finished 4th in the 5000 meter run. He was not expected to medal in that event. He was a tad too young and inexperienced.
Steve Prefontaine is a legend in running. He is one of America's best. He died way too young.
So his facts are wrong?
That was the olympics that got bombed by Palestinians right?
@@goldenfiberwheat238 it wasn't a bombing. They took some Israeli athletes hostage and murdered them when the rescue went bad
NCR Master Race the 1996 Atlanta olympics were bombed. By home grown terrorists of course.
I know this is an older video, but I wanted to say thanks. I'm a veteran (20+ years) with every foot and lower leg injury discussed here at least once. I have tried and failed to return to running and stop heel striking. I'm still trying, and this was a bit of a motivator to keep rethinking things (and keep going to physical therapy). For now, I'm walking with trekking poles just to keep moving.
I would be super interested to see your take on the BMI (Body Mass Index) and its current use in modern day medicine.
Also that "omg shoes" reference was bloody brilliant.
Wow, I didn't know I wanted a 37 minute video on running shoes.
No. He didn’t take your job.
He _terk_ your _jerb._
Also, only you could put out a 40-minute video on _shoes_ and get me to watch it. Them’s some magic powers, wizard man.
Pro tip: put on 1.5x speed like I did and the 40 minutes will become 25.
Was that really 40 minutes? Man have I lost all sense of time
"Duk ur durrrrr!!"
Turn on Closed Captions (CC). It says "He... he took mer jerb!"
I honestly love this video. It reminded me of my primary school years doing track. In our school, we always did our races barefoot. As a kid I didn't understand why but I did think it made me a lot quicker when our coach in 6th grade taught us to run on our toes ( *forfoot strike* ). He was pretty well known coach in our area so I guess he did make sense. I still run like that till this day...till this day *intense stare* TILL THIS DAY. Now I see why I haven't had as much injuries as others. Currently I'm not doing any athletic activity but I would love to jump back in even with all this new info.
Thank youuu ✨✨
I really appreciate you making this video. It confirms a lot about running for me that I was never confident enough to open question.
i love this moment when my brain hears something super funny and decides to smash like button.
here it happened when i heard "oh yeah scissors" from South Park.
i love the easter eggs you put into your videos ♥
I swear I saw this when it came out, starting working on form, and now a week and a half later I do a slow run with my dogs every day and experience no pain in my knees and my calves and ankles are strong
Shared with a few people and my neighbor in his mid 30s ran 12 miles the other day
Millennials are going to live longer because of you Lorde
I love your videos, very entertaining and educational!
I’m rewatching this video because it has hardly has any views and I find it amazingly researched... even though I’m now afraid of feet
So basically heel striking leads to all the force on your plastic skeleton, and fore foot striking leads to most of the force on your elastic muscles.
Yeah honestly just try to go out for a jog and feel it out youll probably feel great toe striking ur muscles will feel springy and in control
Yup. And the muscles and tendons are evolved to take it better.
@@ernststravoblofeld in my experience, though, it takes a while to train up those elastic muscles.
I can run barefoot with a toe strike for a while, but the strain on my calf eventually leads me to revert to heel striking over 3km or so.
@@ernststravoblofeld not if you're not used to it. Like if you can run 5 km heel striking, your muscles can actually do that, push it and you will get injury. But if you then think you can run the same 5 km fore foot striking, then it's likely going to fail too because you're not used to that - however, with enough training you will likely run faster and further fore foot striking, but all in moderation.
I spent my training period in the Army being told that I need to work on my form, but with no actual help to do so.
Once I got to Korea, my first line gave me a one time demo on running- high kicks and forefoot.
After my stress fracture was diagnosed, I was referred to my hospital brigade’s physical therapist.... who happened to have helped right the most recent update of the physical fitness regulations. In fact, his image was in the PT app at the time.
This video is more helpful than all of those, and I honestly wish I had it before my bilateral femoral tendonitis came about.
Good thing I like my bike.
I watched this video, I loved it! Completely agree with the effect running has on your life. So much of my life just works since I picked up running in earnest at 5 years ago.
I switched to forefoot striking about 15 years ago after hearing about it on NPR. Haven't experienced shin splints or knee pain since. But it wasn't an easy adjustment. Took a few months to build up shin and calf muscles that were underdeveloped. Another bonus is the monetary savings in footwear. I can use running shoes until they fall apart instead of buying new ones every few months when the cushioning is worn out. Without a doubt, this is the way the body was meant to run.
16:48 Although it is not common, some other animals do sweat. I’ve seen many horses sweat after a hot day.
It's not so much the sweat, but that we only have two legs, it's a much more efficient way to move than four. It's also the theorized that's why our brains are so much more developed than other animals, because between that and cooking we had extra calories that can go to the brain.
Aren’t horses also good runners? Our lack of fur helps the sweating work a lot better too :)
GoogelyeyesSaysHej They are good short distance runners.
I don’t remember the source. But there was indeed a race between a marathon runner and a horse. Across some barren part of Africa. The human won. Humans can beat pretty much any other animal in long distance running. We conserve energy so much better with our two legs. And can move while sweating and cooling down.
Most other animals need to stop to cool down and pant.
It's more that humans don't have fur so the sweat cools us down much more efficiently
I was about to scream because I've run through all my favorite creators' content at this point in the quarantine... and then appears a 37 minute KB video!
You dumb
I'm really grateful for this video! With nothing better to do because of the Covid quarantine, I thought I'd give running another try despite always bailing out due to knee pain (I'm 49). Sadly, the knees still hurt. Then you made this video! Everything in it made so much sense to me that I began the journey anew, and I now consider myself a runner! I use flat-soled shoes by Xero, comfortably land mid- to forefoot, have no joint pain, and, to top it off, my calves are much stronger and don't bother me when I play tennis now (my primary sport)! Can't thank you enough, and keep up the great work!
Full of information!!! Thanks!
Knowing Better's been binging South Park during the quarantine
Next time someone comments how I walk on my toes I’m going to say “I’m forefoot striking”
THIS was the episode to get me to check out curiosity stream and nebula!! Congrats mister know so much.
This is the 3rd KB video I’ve watched this week where the starting ad is surprisingly accurate for the video.
-Mailbox ad on the USPS vid
-Tom’s of Maine ad on the Oil vid where he uses a clip of Tom’s admitting they can’t actually recycle their plastic
-Xero Shoes ad on this vid
Yeah buddy! I was extremely fortunate to have a Soccer (football) coach that was from overseas for the better part of 15 years, and form was very important to him. Not falling on your heel has always just seemed normal to me.
Same. My college soccer coach was a former player for a notable UK team, and he would often get on the ground and grab/train our feet to show us the correct way to kick, run, and reduce injury. It was unbelievable how, even though many of us on the team had been playing at highly competitive levels for years, were making subtle movements that were risky. I also had a high school track coach who really emphasized proper technique (at least for the better runners), so I was fairly lucky to have learned such things at a young age.
Thank you for this! I have high arches, and started the process of switching to fore-striking when vibrams became big, and I discovered that it actually works with my feet.
I'm just gonna say, Onitsuka Tigers are dope. I walked my pairs to completion (holes in all the soles) and I need new ones. I think overall I prefer somewhat thicker soles, but they're just so comfortable and stylish.
I have no clue how good they are for running though.
I changed to forefoot running at the age of 50, and all my problems vanished. When I was heel striking in my 20s, I had constant issues. Forefoot running all the way!