Traceur By Day, Ninja By Night.

Few days ago decided to train at night. I was doing the usually vaults, wall runs, etc. I came back in to look at the computer. See I was thinking about my training and realized that I never trained barefooted though there are a lot of plus sides to doing so. After watching you tube videos and reading articles. I finally decided to try, at 10:30 at night.

When I first tried a few vaults they seem to be really easy and so I didn't focus on them to much. Instead I tried some rail balancing drills. I soon realized that it was hard with no shoes than I expected. Before I knew it a rail that only took me a couple of minutes to walk back and forth was now taking a hour of hard work and sweat ( Yes, Sweating ). Eventually I started think of what I was doing wrong. After many times of in completion I realize that I was leaning to much on the right side of my heel on my right foot. This was something I could have never discover if it wasn't for the sensitivity of my barefoot. Though it still took a while of changing something I have been doing for two years. I finally achieved walking back and forth on a long rail ( maybe 15 feet, long it's pretty long. ) 4 times without falling once. I was so hyped. And ready to move on to my next challenge.

So I looked around trying to find out what I should do next. I was passing by a wall at that time not that large maybe 7-8 feet up. I thought I should give this a go. As I was doing this a few times I found out how pain full it was. I was stunned on why it was hurting so much. So I changed my technique and tried not to put my foot on the wall so hard. The pain stopped but I was getting over the wall much slower than usually. I finally decide to give it another go like I normally did.... No pain. I did it again... No pain. I was shock that I was not feeling pain and I was not trying to change my technique. So I tried again... Pain I suddenly realized that I was springing up the wall on the toes of my foot. Not the Ball. When I used the ball of my foot I felt no pain and sprung up it a lot more efficient. I found that the constant toe sprain I constantly got was from improper form. And I quickly caught on to the new technique. Again I never would have known this without barefooted training.

Peace in the middle east!!! LOL

-Unique