freeheel runningpad^® even less shoe

The freeheel runningpad® is even more minimalistic than the most ultra-minimalistic barefoot shoe and received the ISPO award for performance footwear in 2012. Strictly speaking it is not even a shoe, as it coveres only the sole of the forefoot. It has turned out that it is a reinvention of an old Japanese footwear called "ashinaka", which was used by rice farmers, fishermen and samurais.