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It's all about running technique, not the shoes. If you switch to minimalist shoes, but continue with the same (wrong) technique then you'll have problems.

Big, padded shoes are for a specific (wrong) technique. "Barefoot" running technique doesn't need fancy shoes.

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Big padded shoes are making the fastest long distance runners in the world faster.

It's all about running technique, not the shoes.

Nike, et al., spent millions of dollars demonstrating that this statement is untrue.

Big, padded shoes are for a specific (wrong) technique.

Demonstrably untrue, as TFA discusses at length. TFA isn’t talking about the Hokas that your grandmother wears to the grocery, these are race shoes. You going to go tell Kipchoge that his “technique” is all wrong, and he needs to switch to Vibram Five Fingers?

Can you describe the technique? Or provide a link to it? Thanks

I learned from a book called "Chi Running", there's similar book if you search for "barefoot running".

The book "Born to Run" is also educational about the natural running gait for humans, as we didn't wear special "performance" shoes for running until the 1960s.