When standing 10 degree posture/gait improvement +28% Buttock Muscle activity +37% rear thigh muscle activity +38% Lower limbs activity When walking 10 degree posture/gait improvement +9% Buttock Muscle activity +19% rear thigh muscle activity +18% Lower limbs activity Increased abdominal activity -19% stress on hip and knee joints

MBT , Masai Barefoot Technology, is the brainchild of Swiss engineer Karl Muller. While visiting Korea Muller discovered that walking on paddy fields barefoot eliminated his back pain. Upon returning to Switzerland, Muller started to develop a shoe that would duplicate the feeling of walking over those paddy fields, sand or any other soft natural terrain. It took several years but in 1996 MBT shoes were ready to be released to the world. Since then, MBT shoes are now sold in over twenty countries