We figured you were just trying to be as minimal as possible and shave off a little weight. Haha

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Looks like a mid strike to me but it seems to vary depending on gradient

Drone and GoPro. It was fun to film. :-)

Escalante 2.5 is better.

Because the zero drop shoes maybe not immediately but over time can help change your mechanics to a midfoot or forefoot strike. If your heel striker, go run barefoot on the grass and you'll probably won't heel strike. Nothing wrong with heel striking, but runners with knee or hip problems could benefit more from a midfoot/forefoot strike. On the other hand, it's better to transition gradually to zero drop shoes. This way your less likely to develop ankle or calf pain due to not normally using those muscles and joints when running in higher drop shoes.

@@jefreywith1f924 zero drop shoes can and will change your mechanics only if you run the correct way, which is forefoot first. and no, the vast majority of heel strikers automatically change to a forefoot strike once they take off their shoes. landing on the heel without shoes that encourage you to hurts and is awkwardly difficult to do barefoot or in zero-drop shoes. and sorry but i disagree, there are plenty of things wrong with heel striking

@@HenryChinaski11 www.podiumrunner.com/training/is-it-harmful-to-heel-strike-when-running/

@@jefreywith1f924 even from just the first sentence of the article you can understand how ludicrous it is...'Even though 95 percent of runners instinctively strike the ground with their heels'. wrong. they instinctively do it only because of modern shoes being introduced by nike in 1972 that have a higher heel than forefoot, which brings the heel to touch the ground first. the vast majority of people who run barefoot, if not everybody, INSTINCTIVELY touch the ground with their forefoot first. we evolved to run long distances barefoot.

@@HenryChinaski11 First off, I said running barefoot on grass not concreate as a experiment not a routine and for a short period. Instinctively means not thinking about it. In the study 95% of long distance runners (like it or not most distance runners wear shoes with moderate/ high cushion drop off) so it's not crazy that most would instinctively heel strike maybe not all of the time because speed and fatigue also play a role which can change the length of your stride and can affect foot strike thruout your run. Early man and remote indigenous people mostly land on their heel when walking but land midfoot/forefoot when running barefoot or with minimal foot covering. Nothing has changed. It's about the evolution of the technology of the shoe. When Nike developed the Vaperfly 4% to break the sub-two-hour marathon. They at one point produced a prototype with the heel mostly striped off to save weight. All the elite athletes hated it so they went back to the chunky soft heel model. Comfort is more important than the specs, material and foam. You said heel striking is bad. That's theoretical and anecdotal. No current study has shown that a specific running shoe has ever been shown to reduce injury. Most elite marathoners are heel strikers therefore it doesn't affect performance neither. However; When it comes to sprinters heel striking doesn't work well. I'm just being objective. I personally instinctively land on the balls of my feet. I get injuries like everybody else and I wear Altra Escalantes and Sketcher Razors. But my injuries are ankle and foot related not knee related. I have bad knees and other shoes make my knees hurt. It doesn't matter where you strike. It has more to do with striking and then like a pendulum rolling to your toes. Not stomping. No hard feelings. We can agree to disagree.

Good luck , how are they, have you sprinted in tgem

@@ariescandon504 they are my daily trainers. I use them for everything. Favorite shoes of all time

@@paddywiggle are they good for daily running? I was running four miles a day till recently and need to make the change.

You can simply buy them and put yourself to sleep comparing them.

its youtube grandma...thats what they do here!!!