Hi Justin,

I found these details for Yoshi in case you want to enlighten him
about how to run barefoot:

http://www.sdri.net/bios.htm#yoshi

He performing postgraduate research into barefoot running.

Yanni
Barefoot runner since December 2004.




>
> Yikes! The beginning of that article is BRUTAL. Hey, I live in San
> Diego, maybe I should hook up with Tsuyoshi Yoshino and let him
> understand that he will not need to lance 100 more blisters to reach
> his goal of a crusty foot...he just needs to change his running
> mechanics.
>
> It sounds like he's one of the people who one day just decided to take
> off his shoes and run as many miles as he did shod using the same
> old "shoddy" form as before without taking the time to stretch and
> build up his neglected muscles and tendons. (<-- Run-on sentence alert)
>
> Ouch...I think I'll go back to running shod now, despite the fact that
> I ran six blisterless miles barefoot the other day and I only just
> started running barefoot in August of 2006, as opposed to 18 months ago.
>
> Justin
>
> PS - Tsuyoshi, if you're reading this...email me! We need to
> talk...and then run barefoot!
>