First of all: definitely buy one size larger because this company has their EU=US sizes listed completely wrong.<br />Secondly, wow, I was hoping for a natural soled shoe like vibrates -- the whole point of a five-finger shoe is to let your foot stand on the ground in its natural shape -- but these shoes have a huge bulky rubber chunk on the base of the foot, the toe sections are bizarrely chunky, and your foot overall just feels like it's wobbling on thick rubber, not your own natural foot base.