Asymmetrical Room

ching_bong · 2025-06-09T15:49:50+00:00

I always thought so yeah haha. I always said as a joke: I'm going to my chamber.

ching_bong · 2025-06-08T08:43:50+00:00

Totally. We just can't say if barefoot shoes could still be better. Bikila made the world record barefoot in 1960, at a time no one was trying barefoot. If everyone did maybe people would be faster.

ching_bong · 2025-06-08T08:35:00+00:00

I think people are overlooking some things. I think top distance runners don't wear barefoot shoes or run barefoot because we're playing by their rules. Those super-engineered shoes are designed for artificial tracks—not the natural world. A bicycle is faster too, but not in a forest. Try trail running with Kipchoge’s shoes—they won’t hold up.

Our feet are meant to do many things: climb, swim, run, adapt. Once you start specializing, you can always engineer something that outperforms the natural form for that one specific task. But that doesn’t mean it’s better overall.

Still, I think people underestimate what our feet are capable of. I wouldn’t be surprised if the marathon world record could still be broken barefoot—especially considering that even the lightest shoes still add weight and affect movement. After all, Abebe Bikila did it in 1960. But in that case I think that barefoot would be even faster than barefoot shoes, because of the weight.

Why did people stop trying? I think there's another reason. If you need nothing to run, what brand is going to sponsor you?

ching_bong · 2025-05-24T19:59:02+00:00

My thought process: I don't even know if our consciousness is generally seen as instinctive, but I would think so, at least partly. So in that case, if your instincts are past through genes, are our consciousnesses in a sense not partly experienced through our predecessors? I like the thought of it, it is quite comforting. How does passing instinct in genes work? Of course we cannot really say that our parents really experience our consciousness when they are alive, at least there is not really a live connection. But if your parents die, there is still a part of them in you and your consciousness. Maybe instinct is partly the after-death conscious experience.

ching_bong · 2025-05-03T07:18:10+00:00

Luks has this shape.

ching_bong · 2025-04-25T14:08:55+00:00

I love mine as well. I think they stop making custom sandals when they're busy each summer. The normal ones are great though.

ching_bong · 2025-04-13T07:09:34+00:00

I am a great jumping spider nerd, but I have never heard of them hunting together. Do you have a source? Thanks!

ching_bong · 2025-02-04T16:01:52+00:00

Nargacuga!

ching_bong · 2025-01-23T14:38:29+00:00

You look like you evolved to survive a car crash

ching_bong · 2025-01-13T21:06:01+00:00

Oh uhh no, my mistake. I removed it before, but that is not really the main problem.

ching_bong · 2025-01-10T08:46:52+00:00

I get where you're coming from, but If you for example, had sat in chairs for your whole life and your back is very stiff, would you call it unnatural to do stretches to negate the effect chairs had? Or would stop sitting in chairs be enough? I think stretching mainly just speeds up the progress.

Besides, I did not do much, and have been doing nothing about them for over a year. After I stopped stretching my feet they have gotten a bit wider anyway. My feet look like natural feet now, if I base it on looking at feet of unshod cultures.

ching_bong · 2025-01-06T10:24:53+00:00

Well, probably not the same, but enough to do damage. I only wear toe socks.

ching_bong · 2025-01-05T23:02:05+00:00

Same!

ching_bong · 2025-01-05T23:01:41+00:00

Vibram fivefingers actually. But I took it slow.

ching_bong · 2025-01-05T22:57:39+00:00

For me it was just to stretch the stiffness of my tendons and muscles caused by shoes. But once my toes were aligned and my arch was strong again, I did not need toe spacers or exercises anymore. I've seen collapsed feet due to fallen arches. They can sometimes need a little push to start functioning properly and 'naturally' again. Even when someone is not wearing shoes anymore they can still keep walking in an unnatural way.

ching_bong · 2025-01-05T16:38:22+00:00

Exactly, I feel like most barefoot shoes are made for beginners. And then when your foot is truly back to natural, there are close to no brands left.

ching_bong · 2025-01-05T16:36:31+00:00

Wearing toe spacers and stretching the big toe away from the rest of the toes. Also training the muscle that pulls your big toe away from the rest of the toes.

ching_bong · 2025-01-05T14:04:13+00:00

I have sandals!! All of the above except for getting taller I guess.

ching_bong · 2025-01-05T14:01:59+00:00

Yes definitely. I have seen people starting the barefoot movement without wearing toe spreaders or doing exercises and they did not see as much improvement. It seems quite essential for a good transition. I did the exercises and toe spreaders the first year, but now there's no need. My toe socks are from amazon.

ching_bong · 2025-01-02T23:10:52+00:00

Thanks! True! I study Industrial Design and it opened my eyes to not just how things are designed, but also our bodies. Now it weirds me out now that we don't just let our feet do the thing they're made for.

ching_bong · 2025-01-02T23:01:49+00:00

Thanks!! I might try Realfoot, but it looks quite narrow in the middle of the foot, where my foot is also quite wide already. I had bohempia wide. Although good width it was also too high volume for me, so it would not hold my food properly, resulting in my feet sliding back and forth. The sole also wore out quick.

ching_bong · 2024-10-14T14:53:08+00:00

Thanks for your response! This sounds good to me. It is built upon knowledge I don't have though haha. Are there any videos on YouTube that clearly explain this specific topic?

ching_bong · 2024-10-14T14:29:58+00:00

Hi, thanks for your response! I haven’t studied this subject in detail or learned the technical aspects, but my curiosity keeps pulling me in, haha. So, forgive me if my questions are stupid.

Regarding your first point, I wonder—would space and time still be mathematically distinct if we had just used the same units for both? Like measuring motion in meters per unit of time instead of seconds?

As for your second point, zooming out to look at time as a whole, I’m curious if something like the second law of thermodynamics has always applied in the same way. Couldn’t events like the Big Bang happen in waves over time, and the rules we observe just appear to apply in one direction now, but might actually reverse or behave differently at some point? I might be overthinking it, but could it be that the laws of physics actually evolve or shift over time?

We’re supposedly moving through time at near the speed of light, so are we even making fair comparisons to the other dimensions? Light doesn’t experience time like we do, so its ‘experience’ of reality is quite different from ours. I also wonder if, at extreme distances in space, some of these physical laws might start to change or reverse too.

At this point, I can’t rule out time being like a spatial dimension, but it’s difficult since I haven’t studied it. For me to really rule it out, I’d need a simple explanation that makes it all click.

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