Tony Post at VibramUSA sent me a pair a few years ago to "test drive" when they first came out. I didn't run in them, but did a lot of walking in them, especially on lava fields in Hawaii. (I am an exclusively barefoot runner and have been since April 2004.)

Since I have ran barefoot the past several years, I would not know about feet losing their "barefoot-readiness". Makes sense to me however.

Personally, I know how stupid I used to run in shoes, and have always been fairly certain that I would revert to my stupid ways of running if I was ever to try to subsidize my running in shoes again.

BR

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--- In RunningBarefoot@yahoogroups.com, "markoroblek" <marko.roblek@...> wrote:
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> I recently bought pair of Vibram FF and then try them on a run. I
> acctualy could run better on trail surfaces with less abrassions etc..
>
> But after couple of weeks I notice, that my barefoot running had
> become harder - my feet where somewhat softer and unprepared??? What
> is your experience? Do you ever wear FF? How many of you actualy try
> them or train in them reguraly?
>
> ...I didn't see many runners (just one so far) running in FF. I saw
> more of them barefoot! How many runners generaly find FF usable? Maybe
> one out of 20? out of 100?
>