The truth, you speak it. Make sure you learn how to run/walk properly *before* getting them though. It took me about 6 weeks of barefooting to retrain my stride for a proper barefooting/FiveFingering step to feel natural, and it's *still* really easy to fall back into a decade and a half of bad habits when I'm not paying attention.I could be entirely incorrect, but I seem to remember reading an article claiming those sort of shoes were extremely good for running in, due to ergonomics, lightness, blah blah blah.
http://tobyspeople.com/anthropik/2007/0 ... g-to-walk/
read this, practice barefooting, then go for the fivefingers. After 2 years of barefooting, my callouses+visual pathfinding habits mean that I don't really *need* them, but they're amazing to have for situations when shoes (particularly close-toed shoes) are required. It's crazy how 2 days in sneakers will start giving me excruciating heel pain now, when that was the norm for 16 years of my life, and I had no idea how much damage I was causing to my body because it was "normal." I cringe at other's people shoe-damaged strides now, because, even on pavement, I can feel the pounding vibrations they send out through the ground with each step.
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