My Vibram Five Finger Shoe Site

People ask me that when they see me at the gym with my five fingers shoes.  Because I don’t wear socks with them, they assume that all your foot sweat just oozes into the shoe.  Well, I guess it’s true.  I don’t think you can do anything to get pass that except wash them regularly or wear socks.

I learned this while in boxing class.  We use the same gloves everyday and they get sweaty and smelly.  However, what I do is that rub hand sanitizer on my hands and then put my hands into the gloves.  I also do this again at the very end of class.  My boxing gloves have never smelled.

So, with my shoes, I don’t use hand sanitizer, but I do use baby powder and I do put some into the shoe and shake it when I take them off.  It’s been working.

But even with all that, you have to wash them once in a while.  I just toss mine into the washer and air dry them.  They come out good as new!

If you wanted to go the sock route, I suggest getting the Injinji five finger socks.  But honestly, if your feet fit into them without socks, it will be real tight with these socks.  So if you plan to use socks, I would get a size larger than what Vibram suggests.

I workout in a boxing gym.  During boxing, we normally go barefoot or wear very thin soled boxing shoes. Look at the boxing shoes below.

I didn’t want to buy boxing shoes so I was going barefoot for months.  Barefoot was not very good for boxing because of a few things.  First, the mat got slippery once your sweat dripped all over it, this was very dangerous.   Not to mention the gross feeling of stepping on other people’s sweat with bare feet.  You couldn’t wear normal shoes because then you lose the feel of the ground.

Also, I sucked at jumping rope.  We used these plastic jump ropes and whenever I missed a jump, the rope would hit my big toe and hurt like hell!  Jumping rope was the worst part of boxing for me.  My five finger shoes provided all the protection on the front of my toes needed.  They saved me from alot of pain from many missed jumps.  So if you box, give them a try!