How do you break in boots without getting completely destroyed and be unable to walk for days due to blisters?

>>64002987 (OP)
Yes.

>>64002987 (OP)
Wool socks

>>64002987 (OP)
wear them around the house and while you sleep for 3 months

>>64003051
wtf

>>64003063
yea
while you watch tv
eat
take out the garbage
fold laundry
jerk off
cook
clean
play fetch
bird watch

also
bike rides

>>64003078
That *is* how you adjust to five-finger shoes but that's your foot adjusting, not the shoe.

>>64003096
I don't know shit about 5-finger shoes but that anon's dead right about that being the best way break in boots (well, not in bed, but the rest of the time yeah).

Wear them to sauna.

>>64003314
>I don't know shit about 5-finger shoes
They're super-thin and flexible since they're essentially gloves.
This means that your feet need to be nearly as strong as if you went bare-foot 24/7 and therefore, if you just started walking on concrete with them all the time without training, you can damage your feet.

Shoes do in fact weaken a lot of the musculature in the foot because it's just not required when wearing pumped-up pillows on your feet whenever you're on a hard surface.

>>64002987 (OP)
I have two pairs of black jungle boots. and just got some Thorogood Genesis Series – 8″ Chestnut – Nano Safety Toe – Waterproof ealier this year. do what this anon says besides sleeping in them >>64003051 took about 2-3 months. As for the jungleboots your posted in OP those took maybe 4-5 weeks

>>64002987 (OP)
Double layer socks, swap them regulary, and let your feet breathe when possible.

>>64002987 (OP)
get boots that fit ?

>>64003392
>Double layer socks,
That shit never works i don't know man

>boot manufacturer
>mischievously remove padding at the heel
>generations of grunts get fucked heels as a rite of passage
For what purpose?

>>64003440
It's (very) bad advice.

>>64002987 (OP)
two layers of socks

>>64003440
>>64003444
16 years of using boots on a daily basis, double socks has always worked for me, no blisters for over a decade.

>>64002987 (OP)
Tape you feet and dunk the boots in water and walk around on a hot day. I mean absolutely drench them. Then let them dry and rub them in with lots of beeswax type leather conditioner.
Should speed up the process a fair bit.

I got some surplus jungle boots from Wellco, and they were pretty dry out of the box. Now they fit like a glove and I love wearing them.

>>64003467
I red somewhere that ww1/2 soldiers used to piss on their boots to make them more supple


Wouldn't applying some urea creme or sometimewhere by that logic have the same effect?

>>64003452
>Boots on a daily basis
Pack marching (rucking), or just milling around job sites or whatever? I have seen hideous shit from patrolling or pack marching in double socks.

>>64002987 (OP)
Just tape your feet man

>>64002987 (OP)
normal boots require 200 hours to break them in, thats 6 weeks at 8 hours per day.
start wearing them until you feel a blister form.
take them off for 3 days until blister heals some
put boots back on until the blister forms again
rinse and repeat until your blister turns to hard skin and its no longer an issue
.-t owner of many cowboy boots.

>>64003478
>Pack marching (rucking), or just milling around job sites or whatever?
both, though the latter by much more, I can usually break in new boots for at least a day or two before having to walk several km in one go, but I have also had to go on long marches with brand-new boots & when that happens it's double socks, usually one sports sock & a wool sock top, if I can take my time I usually wear just wool socks.

>>64002987 (OP)
They say you soak them in water and then wear them till they dry up.
Honestly I just don't waste time with classic boots anymore, fuck that torture and if you're just after style you can get cheap chink fakes which are ofc not as rugged as originals but are much more comfortable.

>>64003496
If you can wear boot with double wool socks aren't they too big in the first place?

>>64002987 (OP)
Boots
Boots
Moving up and down again.

>>64003500
I didn't say double wool, did I? But actually the next smaller size is usually too small with even one sock, boots have laces for a reason.

>>64003498
I dont know why anyone would fucking wear 10 inch boots for style. Obviously hes in the army and is some retarded grunt crying about blisters.

>>64003551
>I dont know why anyone would fucking wear 10 inch boots for style.
Well now you know.

>>64002987 (OP)
man up

>>64003332
I like my bare foot shoes. Same affect at 1/5 the cost and you don't look like a monkey.

I actually run in them on the treadmill, yeah they definitely use more muscles. Had to get used to em. Also they stretched out that tendon that runs up the back of your leg to your butt.

Here's the secret: Wear TWO pair of socks.
One ordinary pair, one woolen on top of the first.

Blisters happen when fabric or leather causes fricktion against your skin.
By wearing two pairs of socks the friction happens in between the socks, rather than on your skin. Less blisters.

This is one of those unofficial lessons that you learn in the military. If your sergeant is kind, he will tell you up front. He he is an asshole, he will teach it to you hte hard way.

>>64002987 (OP)
Endure the pain for a week or two

>>64002987 (OP)
You don't break your boots in, you buy the proper size.
"Breaking in" means breaking your feet to accommodate ill-fitting boots kek.

>>64003627
>I like my bare foot shoes. Same affect at 1/5 the cost and you don't look like a monkey.
I googled Barefoot Shoes and most of the results had toes anyway, the ones that did were practically identical to Vibram Fivefingers so yeah, exactly the same thing, just more generic branding I guess.
Vibrams were first I think so charged a premium for it.


>I actually run in them on the treadmill, yeah they definitely use more muscles. Had to get used to em.
That was the advice given to me when I bought them too. I think there was a note about it with them too.

>Also they stretched out that tendon that runs up the back of your leg to your butt.
I suspect that if I hadn't worn them in a bit (and used to being barefoot or wearing very thin slippers in martial arts), that tendon might be what gets damaged.

They're good for your feet though, I dated a ballet teacher for a while and she was shocked that how much strength I had in my feet as an office worker.
Dancers or maybe just dance teachers, are really into feet.

if your shoes need to be broken in it means they are bad shoes.

>>64003712
Shoemakers take up to five different measures of you feet: length, width, height and various circumferences for your shoes to fit.
If you're buying boots off the shelf then more often than not you must try many of them to find the one fits your foot shape.

>>64003631
>Blisters happen when fabric or leather causes fricktion against your skin
If you say so sergeant major

>>64003467
>>64003498
Finally some good advice. Do this OP. And we're talking 101% drenched here. This works on gloves too fyi.

>>64003712
stfu noob.

>>64003787
>.t

>>64003800
what the fuck happened to his foot? i dont think those are blisters.

>>64003442
This. Fucking this.
My work boots used to have a small square of foam under the heel and when it fell off walking in the boots immediately started to take a toll on my knees.

Boots tend to have flat bottoms for stability, but that means you suffer way too much impact when walking on hard surfaces. The thick soles help but they're hard soles.

Anyone who wants to call me a faggot for crying about it is welcome but my entire lower back, bladder, hips are fucked. It's not a trivial complaint, my life is shit now.

>>64003505
Keep me from going lunatic

>blisters
>boots

First, you get boots that fit

You're welcome

>>64003839
>First, you get boots that fit
"The private wears what was given."

>>64003824
Just land on your mid foot like God intended instead of your heels then.

Tape your heel
Wear 2 socks
Vaseline your heel till its slick
Tighten your laces
Walk gently

>>64003857
Carry a big stick

>>64003862
Carry a pacing stick
Speak in gibberish
Be unreasonable to junior enlisted
Brown nose the officers

>>64002987 (OP)
wear them for shorter distances over the course of several days? Like literally any other shoe?
honestly this is a retarded thread, i will write something in the options field to not bump it.

>>64003744
>she was shocked that how much strength I had in my feet as an office worker
How on earth did she determine you had so much strength in your feet? Did you dance on point for her or sth?

>>64003824
Danner MEB don't have these problems. Also they're inexpensively rebuildable.

>>64003500
Your inner sock should be very thin and finely woven, either a dedicated liner sock or a dress sock. You want any slippage to be between the inner and outer sock, which won't happen if they're both thick

>>64003890
retarded grunts are commonly teens. they dont know much

>>64003505
THERE IS NO DISCHARGE IN THE WAR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNZ5qylG3qk

Kipling is or should be, required reading for any military recruit.

>>64003917
>Did you dance on point for her or sth?
I can't go en pointe or anything but she did try to teach me some dances and I could do some basic ballet techniques ok.

>How on earth did she determine you had so much strength in your feet?
Because she couldn't keep her hands off them. We lay in bed and she'd be massaging my feet and stuff because her world is all about feet.'
Dancers (and teachers) are essentially professional athletes and her feet were always blistered, sometimes bleeding and generally fucked up; my feet are baby-soft because I don't dance on them for 20 hours a week but because I wore five-fingers a lot, they were way stronger than they looked like they should be.

Best of both worlds of going barefoot and keeping them protected.

>>64002987 (OP)
Mole skin.
If you wear new boots for a few hours, you will quickly identify the "hot spots" and then you just put the mole skin on those places.
Mole skin is a basic medical kit item along with imodoum (anti diarrhea meds) and diaper rash cream. Nothing sucks more than blistered feet, and an exploding and/or chapped ass. Your freinds will worship you if you can provide any of these three things when they are needed.

>t. Been camping with blistered feet, the shits and a rashed up B-hole. (Thankfully not all at once.)

>>64004423
What about pain meds? Food? runny nose meds?

>>64003375
Fellow boot enjoyer..

>>64003927
The soles are rebuildable… still a little pissed about the tops of two sets of my danners ripping out around the eylets and getting told danner won’t do shit

My surplus Norwegian army boots I ordered 2 sizes bigger than I need so I can put on 3 pairs of socks, which is pretty handy for winter camping.
Them being so big made it pretty easy to break in, as my foot isn't touching the tip or the sides.

>>64003078
Reminds me of Rumsfeld from the Burbs who comes out in ranger panties and combat boots.

>>64004892
You do know it's legal for people other than Danner to work on your boots - your local cobbler can fix that sort of thing no problem.

>>64003474
>I red somewhere that ww1/2 soldiers used to piss on their boots to make them more supple
the same guys today teach you how to charge your iphone with the microwave

>>64004621
ibuprophen is good for a kit but for runny nose and shit just man the fuck up

>>64002987 (OP)
>soak in water
>wear in house with socks
>repeat

>>64005165
how does one actually find a local cobbler? all the ones in my area seem to have vanished during covid and the one guy whos shop is still existing is never open.
iv had a pair of boots ive needed resoled for years now.

>>64005473
>how does one actually find a local cobbler?
The last time I had some shoes fixed properly by a cobbler, it was in an alley in fucking China.
I wore a pair of shoes over there that were on their last legs and they fell apart while I was in Tianjin, I asked a taxi driver to take me to a cobbler and he did and the guy sewed the soles back on (plus glue) and they lasted for another year.

Back in the west, one cobbler glued soles back on for me but they fell off a week later, repeated that a few times with him and he could never make them stick.
Another cobbler I asked to sew them gave me a half hour rant about how no cobbler would waste their time sewing soles back on because they couldn't get needles or something. He wouldn't give me back my shoes until he'd finished ranting but I was young and much nicer back then so I didn't just vault the counter and grab them.

>>64005473
>he doesn't know about google
grim. ngmi.

>>64005512
Honestly anon, if you want a cobbler who can do this, they're going to be a 70yo immigrant who doesn't have a smartphone.
Repair is a dying craft in a world where manufacturers hate the concept of goods that last a lifetime.

People that can do this won't have listed their shops on google maps. They barely know it exists.

>>64002987 (OP)
Pee in them

>>64003442
To make the higher grade expensive gucci boots more palatable to you.

>>64005563
>Pee in them
You mean on them, right?

>>64003712
Might be true for canvas boots but leather boots absolutely need to be broken in even if they are bespoke shoes.

>>64005541
Don't be dense anon, it's leather stitching not rocket science. I live in a middling sized midwestern town (Houston) and there are a hundred or so cobblers in the area that can do this sort of thing.

>>64005165
Unfortunately I think that ship has sailed and they’ve crossed the “cost effective to fix vs just replace” line…. On a side note.. if your breaking laces all the time… don’t buy “unbreakable diamond laces”…. Which 100% do live up to their name and will not break… but will instead rip the eyelets off your boots… instead… don’t tighten the laces so much… or move to a taller boot… which is what I ended up doing for more ankle support…. Rip danners, wore them every day for the better part of 4 years…. Now they have been relegated to garden boots.. and of course I damaged the same boot in both sets so I can’t just pair up the good ones…

>>64006139
Houston is an enormous metropolis, anon

>>64006907
>2 million population
>Metropolis
Its a shitty hamlet

>>64006994
Anon, did you move to Houston from Chongqing?

>>64006907
It's no New York or LA, or even Chicago. I'd say "middling" describes it pretty well.

>>64007838
>it's not MegaCity 1, 2 or 3 so I'd say "middling" describes it pretty well
no

I just suffer through it. Be miserable on the job site for a bit but I always make it.

I have steel toes coming in for a new job and I’m dreading the break-in process.

>>64002987 (OP)
Stop buying gay larp boots and start dressing like an actual person instead of an autistic ZOGbot costume

>>64002987 (OP)
I never had a problem until I bought a pair of Thursday leather boots. Tried to break them in with thick wool socks. Worst blisters I've ever had. Had them stretched, that helped some. My advice is two pairs of socks. Mix equal parts water and 93% rubbing alcohol and wet down the leather before wearing. Wear them around for a few hours each day. I personally will never go through this again for a pair of fucking shoes. I just didn't want to waste $200. Plus, they are nice boots.

>>64002987 (OP)
>jungle boots
>break in
Your problem is elsewhere. They're either the wrong size or you need to change the lacing pattern for a better fit at the ankle.

If that's just a generic picture of a boot and you mean leather, you just wear them around places you're not doing much walking until comfy. Two pairs of socks helps, if you need to use a pair that's not quite there yet cut the feet off some stockings and wear those as well as socks. Don't forget your feet swell so loosen and re-tie your boots whenever you sit down for a rest. Moleskin is for when the problem's already happened.

>>64009983
Do thursdays seem like legit boots? Honestly they look like they were made for targeted advertising on social media… which of course is where I first saw them..

>>64010164
I like them. Seem well made. Only wear them off work though.

>>64003467
>>64003498
This is correct. In the Navy we would break in a new pair by wearing them while doing Freshwater washdown on deployment. They get thoroughly soaked and you wear them in the heat until dry. Fit like a glove afterwards.
Double socks is a prophylactic, prevents the blisters until enough sweat and humidity can work form the leather, that’s why it takes so long.

>>64006139
>I live in a middling sized midwestern town
>(Houston)
This has to be bait right

>>64010100
>Moleskin is for when the problem's already happened
No, you apply dressing (no idea what moleskin is, hydrogel dressing is good tho) preemptively in places where you feel pressure or rubbing. It stretches boots where they need to be stretched - and protects your feet BEFORE you have a problem.
Just wearing boots in the house (with dressings) should solve what can be solved as the leather will be both slightly heated and moisturized which helps shaping it. Sitting in your boots will be gentler on you feet than walking in them and it will still work.
No "breaking in" will make the boots longer and it can only make them microscopically wider. Buy proper size in the first place (internet shopping only if you are fully prepared to throw this money away - or you're buying shoes that you had already wore before)

>>64010100
>>64010903
Don't know what the hell hydrogel is, but duct tape works better than moleskin and has the advantage of being cheap and multipurpose. And yes, tape your feet before you get blisters.

The other thing that I don't think has been mentioned yet is just toughen up your feet. I get blisters if I haven't hiked in a while even with broken-in boots. The more callused your feet are, the easier it is to break in boots.

First, put a good coat of quality oil on the outside. I use Obenauf's boot oil. Let them dry overnight. Wear them daily. Use quality socks, wool is preferable around all seasons, and use sock liners if necessary. Move around in them. Squat, bend the toe box, tip toe, walk on your heels. Just move in them every day. Next week, put another coat of oil. Do the same. Give it about a month. Once you're done with the break in and want some water resistant boots, use a grease (I use obenauf's heavy duty lp). Rub the grease in on the inside and outside of all leather parts every day for a week, letting the boots set in a warm area, every week for a month, and as needed after that. Been wearing PNW logging boots for years. Jungle boot break in is a joke compared to those. Just deal with it. The boots are breaking in your feet as much as you're breaking them in.

>>64003491
>200 hours
yeah, more like 50 hours to break them in 80% of the way.

What break in?

>>64002987 (OP)
Drink water change your socks and take Motrin

>>64002987 (OP)

>>64002987 (OP)
i put these on my heels as padding, then put on 2 pairs of socks.

>>64003500
i put on a thin sport socks over the thick hiking sock.

that way the thick sock is touching your skin and not moving.

>>64014604
>tucking jeans into combat boots
you're a special kind of retarded aren't you

>>64014604
sheepfucker

>>64006139
>>64005541
>>64005511
If you don’t have a good cobbler near you, you can mail boots or shoes to a good one. Bedo’s Leatherworks in Falls Church, VA is one I see recommended a lot, and also one I can recommend personally. They have resoled several pairs for me.

>>64002987 (OP)
>How do you break in boots without getting completely destroyed and be unable to walk for days due to blisters?
just get the fucking blisters. they get less intense each time. hike around enough and you'll get durable feet.

rn you got pussy feet

>>64002987 (OP)
Alternate them with a pair of boots/shoes you already wear

>>64016388
jeans over boot is fucking beta as fuck, why even wear boots.

>>64005473
They're mostly dead. The best places to look are near old folks or fancy fuckers. I found one in my city and he's the tops, but I live in Granolada in the PNW so we still have niche folks like this. I about died the other day talking to my lady and her complaining about shoes and I said take them to a cobbler, she had no idea what the fuck that was

>>64016563
nta but youre wearing skinny jeans, gaaaaay

>>64016605
tbf women’s shoes are almost without exception overpriced poorly constructed shite whose primary purpose is to show off her feet

>>64016605
That's because women's shoes aren't rebuildable. The only thing a woman might use a cobbler for is dyeing that one pair of white shoes to some other color that better matches her latest outfit.

>>64002987 (OP)
Wear two pairs of wool socks and you never get blisters

>>64002987 (OP)
Oh they suck actual balls in hell for a couple of weeks but then mysteriously one day they become comfortable.
Took me two weeks to break in my Lowas but I got six good years out of them.