In high school, have you ever played volleyball in gym in your bare feet?

Question

In high school, have you ever played volleyball in gym in your bare feet?

Answer 1

nope

Answer 2

That is extremely bad for your feet, your ankles, your knees and your back. If you play bare foot you are setting yourself up for injury. Without proper shoes there is nothing to absorb the shock from all the jumping and quick running you do while playing volleyball. Dont try it...its dangerous

Answer 3

Yep. Shoes are much more comfortable

Answer 4

never

Answer 5

I've never been in a gym wearing shoes. Indoor PE was mandatory barefoot when I was in high school, as was the normal thing at the time; all my friends were barefoot too. We did volleyball, basketball, badminton, all the games and other PE activities, all barefoot. And I don't recall any foot injuries happening in my class or even hearing about them from others. It's really quite good to go barefoot playing sports, and the 'support' shoes give can be deceptive. Here are a few excerpts from articles about barefoot running and barefoot sports:

"Modern athletic footwear provides remarkable plantar comfort when walking, running, or jumping. However, when injurious plantar loads elicit negligible perceived plantar discomfort, a perceptual illusion is created whereby perceived impact is lower than actual impact, which results in inadequate impact-moderating behavior and consequent injury.

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Wearers of expensive running shoes that are promoted as having additional features that protect (e.g., more cushioning, "pronation correction") are injured significantly more frequently than runners employing inexpensive shoes (costing less that US $40)...

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In addition, in barefoot populations running-related injuries are rare, which indicates that humans adapted to barefoot running run with lower impact than the unadapted group referred to above. This also suggests that the lower extremity is inherently durable and is made susceptible to injury by footwear use. Based on the above data, not withstanding unsupported claims by footwear manufacturers of improved protection with their products, it seems appropriate to consider expensive athletic footwear from major manufacturers (and perhaps less expensive shoes) as unsafe. "

"With respect to leverage, the barefoot situation has an advantage over the shod situation. The shoe sole increases the lever arm and as a consequence the moment about the subtalar joint.

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All other shoes had one result in common: torsion increased from touchdown to maximum, which, given similar forefoot angles, is equivalent to an inversion moment of the rearfoot relative to the forefoot. Such a movement is not welcomed to improve the lateral stability.

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When looking at the forefoot, there are two different landing techniques that can be observed. Barefooted "the flat-foot approach" is chosen by lowering the metatarsals parallel to the ground. With shoes the medial border of the forefoot touches the ground first causing a forefoot angle of around 20°. Within a time span of 40 ms the forefoot is then lowered toward the ground thereby rolling over the medial border of the shoe sole. In other words, a "rolling approach" can be observed with shoes.

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Inversion is mostly reduced in the barefoot condition.

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The best lateral stability can be observed in the barefoot condition. "

"Ankle sprains are common sports injuries. Inadequate awareness is thought to be the fundamental cause of these injuries. Ankle taping may decrease the risk of injury through improving foot postition awareness.

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While taping improves foot position sense when humans wear athletic footwear, it remains poor compared to the barefoot condition if we use barefoot pre-exercise data available from a previous report for comparison. Absolute foot position error was 4.11°, 3.13°, anmd 1.96° for athletic footwear, athletic footwear taped, and barefoot, respectively. Therefore when compared to the barefoot condition, foot position awareness was 107.5% worse in uptaped subjects with athletic footwear, and 58.1% worse in ankle taped subjects wearing athletic footwear.

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The inescapable conclusion is that footwear use is ultimately responsible for ankle injury. The conclusion is consistent with observations made among populations where barefoot activity is the norm. Ankle sprains are uncommon in these groups.

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From another perspective it suggests that most ankle injuries are not inherent to sport, but rather are caused by footwear. "

I hurt my fingers more than once with volleyball, it was my least favorite sport... but no one allowed me to wear gloves :P :P :P

Answer 6

no... and thats kinda dumb. you could roll your ankle really easy.

Answer 7

hahahaha, no but it sounds like fun!

Answer 8

I have, and if you have a good vertical, then landing will not feel very good. Also it's not very safe in general.

Answer 9

um. can't say that i have but if i ever do I'll be sure to play on a clean floor so i don't slip and make a fool of myself. haha!!!!!!!!

Answer 10

Yes - here are the issues: You will blister up fast, because your feet are not designed for hard stops and starts on court surfaces. You will also be dealing with rolling your ankles, because when you do make a stop, the balls of your feet will grab, and your ankles will roll. Also, the first time two of you jump at the same time, you will get your toes smashed....

Basically, don't do it...

Answer 11

Yes, many times in P.E. we conveniently "forgot" to bring our shoes, just so we could play barefoot.  Felt so good ...

Answer 12

Yeah. Plenty of times. Even though its not good for your ankles, because you could easily hurt them especially if the floor is not swept. Also jumping to hit the ball can make your feet sore. I wouldn't recomend it.