While over seas recently I happened on to an amazing shoe not designed for, yet amazingly suited to gung fu practice. It is light, flexible, comfortable, durable, protects the foot and has a nice friction coefficient on the surfaces I practice i.e. concrete, tiled floor, dirt and grass.
I usually like the Chinese Yue fei (red stripe) volley ball/ court shoe. Which sells (when I can find them in my size) for about 20- 30 dollars.
I am arranging to bring them here in bulk and would be interested in speaking to anyone who is interested in individual as well as bulk purchases.
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