TEST PILOT LICENSE
in Sole Research

If you want to buy and flight test the experimental prototype BARESOLE^TM footwear, you must first volunteer to take part in a real experiment.  You must accept this LICENSE that fully acknowledges your critical new role as a TEST PILOT conducting an experiment in real footwear Sole Research.  By flight testing the experimental prototype BARESOLE^TM in its very limited first edition – actually its first test production – you will become a test pilot directly involved in the most advanced research that exists today in footwear sole technology.

This experiment is the first extensive test of a new and completely different basic design for footwear soles.  Potentially a new basic paradigm for much safer future soles, the first with naturally safe stability like the barefoot.  It is the first real structural change in footwear soles in at least two thousand years.  It is a major change, with hugely better lateral stability, as well as uniquely better comfort.  It is like no other sole ever used in footwear.

This is the real leading edge.  And any leading edge can turn out to be a bleeding edge.  You are in fact taking the first step in boldly going where literally no one has gone before.  To be the first, you must have the right stuff.  This is not for everyone.  It has unknowable risks.

Initial testing indicates that the new BARESOLE^TM design finally solves the dangerous lateral instability problem that exists in all existing shoe soles.  That sole instability defect has existed since at least ancient Rome.  But in initial tests the defect clearly has been eliminated in the new BARESOLE^TM, which instead has barefoot-like natural stability.

As you can see plainly in these pictures, A SHOE SOLE IS EXTREMELY UNSTABLE when tilted to the outside into the typical lateral ankle spraining position (which is as far as the subtalar joint allows the ankle to go).  Like a seesaw, the entire ankle joint and the bodyweight force transmitted through it

pivots on the tiny sliver of a knife-edge of the shoe sole that contacts

the ground. The sole is inherently unsafe.  The opposing forces on

the joint are far out of alignment, creating a powerful destabilizing torque on the tilted ankle, which unnaturally is suppo

rted only by the wearer’s ligaments and muscle tendons.

In contrast, A BAREFOOT IS NATURALLY STABLE when tilted into the same lateral ankle spraining position.  The opposing joint forces perfectly inline and directly supported by leg, ankle, and heel bones in a naturally interlocked position.  The bare sole enjoys a wide base of support, especially under the calcaneus or heel bone, as well as under the base and head of the fifth metatarsal bone.  The barefoot is naturally safe.

BARESOLE^TM FOOTWEAR IS NATURALLY STABLE.  The experimental test prototype BARESOLE^TM has been designed with an anatomically correct structure to provide the same safe natural stability of a barefoot sole in the lateral ankle spraining position.  Opposing forces are in perfect alignment, so no destabilizing artificial torque.  No unnatural teeter-tottering.  Plus, the slides give you the protection, traction, and uniquely good cushioning necessary for the modern foot sole to cope with artificially harsh environments that are often underfoot in the modern world.

The structural design of the sole of the experimental test prototype BARESOLE^TM by Frampton Ellis^TM closely matches the barefoot sole.  It is shown here in the first true performance slide.  The shocking result is that it has far better lateral stability than existing athletic shoes, even the well-known athletic shoes endorsed and worn by professional superstars.  Truly amazing!

But be forewarned: any new design can potentially have unknown risks, especially a design as new and fundamentally different as this one.  As the first of its kind, it is almost certainly not perfect and could have safety defects of its own.  Even a major defect, well-hidden in plain sight, like the stability defect it eliminates.

Initial testing indicates that the BARESOLE^TM is much safer than existing shoes, but you must fully understand that you are among the very first to use these first experimental prototype BARESOLES^TM in the real world.   Problems may be experienced by you that were not anticipated during design.  Real world situations always create surprises.  So, you need to fully understand the risks.   And we want to know if you have any significant problems of any sort.  That is the whole point of this real world test and your role as a SOLE RESEARCH TEST PILOT!

This is citizen science at its best.  Both the footwear industry (and associated academic science) failed utterly to undertake this unusually simple basic science to provide safe footwear for its wearers.  As a Sole Research Test Pilot, you can now prove for yourself and others what the industry does not know: both that the dangerous instability defect definitely exists and that it definitely can be eliminated.

Finally, always remember that by wearing the test prototype BARESOLE^TM by FRAMPTON ELLIS^TM you are one of the first users to flight test an entirely new and different sole design in its first experimental use.  You are literally on what is called the leading edge of an entirely new and different technology.  You are a true test pilot in sole research.

So please try to stay safe.  But our warning alone is enough.  We really want your feedback.  Particularly if you have any stability problems with the test prototype BARESOLES^TM, and most particularly, if you have a serious fall while wearing them that results in the need for medical care of any kind.  Please help us make the safest possible sole design!

Please contact us at this email address:  TestPilotDebriefing@SoleRTestPilot.com

IF YOU ACCEPT THIS TEST PILOT LICENSE, CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE YOUR BARESOLES^TM