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Yep, even dancers who go on point later end up with injuries and issues like arthritis. It’s really that point is a bad idea, period. It’s an archaic holdover. For some reason people don’t view it negatively like foot binding.
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I don't think the raw material shoes are made of is that important. If their shape is correct and you size them right, they should be fine. Shoes with a narrow toebox (pretty much all of them, except the ones that specifically advertise as being wide) should be considered extreme body modification IMO. Fine if that's what you're into, but most of the population should not be subjected to that.
I agree. The US Army already recognized this problem and developed the Munson last before WWI. Some mid and high-end footwear brands produce boots with Munson or Munson-like lasts. It helps tremendously. I cannot go back to narrow toeboxes. Oddly, lots of sports footwear suffers from the same issue and wide toeboxes are not as popular as they should be.
While we’re on the topic, on the last year, NPR interviewed an expert who warned of lifelong debilitating injury (pain walking) that dancers developed by going en pointe too young. The woman recommended waiting until 15. But searching for this to share with dancers, I cannot find the interview now. Did NPR retract this?
You have to specifically look for shoes that don't do it.
(I recommend Whitins on Amazon. $35 shoes.)
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I don't think the raw material shoes are made of is that important. If their shape is correct and you size them right, they should be fine. Shoes with a narrow toebox (pretty much all of them, except the ones that specifically advertise as being wide) should be considered extreme body modification IMO. Fine if that's what you're into, but most of the population should not be subjected to that.
I agree. The US Army already recognized this problem and developed the Munson last before WWI. Some mid and high-end footwear brands produce boots with Munson or Munson-like lasts. It helps tremendously. I cannot go back to narrow toeboxes. Oddly, lots of sports footwear suffers from the same issue and wide toeboxes are not as popular as they should be.
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Can you please avoid generic tangents? This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
"Shoes" is about as generic as one could get in a single hop from the topic.
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I feel like everyone is reading "leather shoe" and interpreting it as "dress shoe," but tennis shoes/trainers are usually leather, too. Sandals, moccasins, etc. Leather is a material. My ON running shoes are leather. My legit hiking shoes are leather. So are the kung fu shoes I used twenty years ago to fly through the fucking air with swords.
Probably interpreting it that way because “bad for running” and “needs shoe polish” can’t possible be describing sports shoes with leather components.
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“This smacks of misogyny!” I say as I cross out “sports where players regularly sustain CTE-causing injuries” and write “boys” https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/cte-concussion-wo...
“I’m so enlightened I forgot women play soccer” is definitely a weird take.
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“I’m so enlightened I forgot women play soccer” is definitely a weird take.
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Nobody talked about any of these things man and you’re incoherent and/or wrong about all of them.
Like normally it is pointless to evaluate word salad on whether it’s factual or not but it’s like you put a bunch of those fridge magnets with words on them in a bag, shook it up and dumped it on the floor, and somehow they all randomly managed to assemble into legible but only wrong statements