You've Made the Switch to 0 Drop - Did you go back

[Hnthrdr]

I use both, my merrel 0 drops feel like dang moccasins, but I wouldn’t want to pack heavy loads in them, I prefer a more traditional hiking boot for that.

 

[Mule3006Elk]

I had Hallux Rigidus. Surgery bilateral great toes. I went with shoes as flat as possible plus a wide toe box. Great for my feet. Toes aren't meant to be in continuous extension at the MTP joints as happens with shoes with heel lift nor are toes meant to be squeezed in a narrow tapering toe box. Most shoes are designed with aesthetics in mind not proper biomechanics and long-term foot health.

I have a pair of Merrell shoes that I like. Altra shoes work really well with my feet (flat with wide toe box). Meindl hunting boots are fairly flat and have a wider toe box so I use those.

If I'm in the house I wear flat stiff flip flops or barefoot.

Personally, I believe my footwear choices caused my Hallux Rigidus. But you don't know what you don't know. FWIW.

 

[ElPollo]

I wore wildland fire boots and mountain boots daily for 35 years until I couldn’t wear them anymore due to my feet being a mess. I’m about 2.5 years into the zero drop world and have been wearing Vivo Tracker Forest ESCs for about a year now. I can’t imagine wanting to go back to stiff boots with narrow toe boxes and high soles. My ankles and feet are way healthier and stronger, and they hurt way less. I’m not the smartest person in the world, as evidenced by the fact that it took me 35 years to realize that the boots I was wearing to protect my feet were actually causing problems that don’t go away. My wife refers to my tendency to do things until I hurt myself as Y-chromosome poisoning. But I can learn. No way I’m going back.

 

[dgfavor]

I have a pair of zero drop work boots and hate them. I feel like I'm leaning backwards all the time, or walking up hill on flat ground. I like having a heel on my boots.

Dang, that's sad...you're too far gone man, shoe and boot companies got ya' right where they want ya'. [Moment of silence]

Do you tip over walking around barefoot or like in the shower? JK! I'd be surprised if that degree of dependence and posterior chain dysfunction didn't cause upstream effects...because, well, that ain't normal - hips? back?