/fa/ - Fashion

>>17231095
Okay, a clear point. I can work with this.
>Humans evolved to walk on the ball of the feet
Correct so far.
>therefore a heel drop is not automatically catastrophic to you.
I'm assuming you mean "heel drop" as in raised heel in shoes(who knows why the fuckers call it the inverse of what it is).
Here is the issue.
If you reduce the travel area your heel can travel before it hits a hard stop. You are essentially limiting the lever in your foot, that reduces the impact of your body weight hitting the ground in a gradual fashion, stores that energy in the tendons, and then releases that energy once the center of gravity of the foot shifts.
You can kind of think of it as having a spring.
Now, when you put a wedge under your heel, what happens i that you are reducing that travel distance. The tendons have less range of motion to slow you down, capture that energy and then release it afterwards.
So you take an elegant level design with elastic bands.
And turn it into a stump that makes less, or no use of the elastic bands.
Get it? The movement of the heel going up and down, the tendons stretching and pulling back.
That is lessened or removed because instead your heel is constantly resting on some wedge.

Yes, in either case your forefoot is hitting the ground, but if you remove the entire level system behind it and use your foot as a stump, the entire point is lessened or removed.