“Wearing MBT makes me more aware of my posture and helps me place less stress on my knee joints (especially after I've had three operations on my right knee) by making me activate my quads and hamstrings more. MBT definitely makes me work harder when I train and run in them.”
Gino is a national tri-athlete, twice National Triathlon champion, 6 time winner of the National Vertical Marathon & 4th in the 2001 Asian Duathlon Championships. He has also traveled widely with the Singapore medical teams, for major overseas events such as the SEA Games, 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games and the 2004 Athens Olympics. After 3 knee surgeries, he has comeback this year to qualify for the SEA games training squad for triathlon.
2007-07-25
Mind Your Body
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2007-03-12
Walk It Out
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Jodi Downes,
A big hearty congratulations to Jodie who has won the MBT best testimonial contest! She gets an MBT of her choice free! Below is her amazing testimonial of using MBT.
"I am an Australian who lives in Singapore and have been here for 3 years. I have been using the white MBT sandals for 18 months and I have to say they have been the most incredible saving grace to my body, mind and soul, so i when i saw the opportunity to share my story, i just wanted to let you know how much i just love them.
I was a dancer for 18 years and had curvature of the spine, chest and bum out, as my dance teacher would say, so with that now being 36, having also fallen down concrete steps and chipped both my knee caps, when i was 19 and was to never dance again, that put a huge stress on my knees, which limited what activities i could do. Then when i was 34, I had a roller blading accident and broke my ankle in 4 places and have 2 metal plates, and 8 pins.
So with all of that shoes, trainers, were all difficult to wear, my knees would hurt, my back would ache, my ankle would hurt and i loved excersise in many different forms and i taught different styles!
I had cervical cancer & i was given 3 months to live at the age of 28 years old as a single mum with a 3 year old child, so my determination was so strong, that i kept going to find what would work to help me find the balance in every area of my life and so exercise was such a vital part of my rehibilitation, that i only wish i had the MBT's then, as i know it would have helped so much.
So i came to Singapore and read about MBT's and bought a pair and have never looked back. The curve in my spine has been measured and has straightened by 85%, my knees no longer hurt whilst doing any form of exercise when i wear them, my ankle i don't even know i have metal in it and i have just recently come back from walking Mount Everest with them and i have told so many people about them and have sent them as presents to people, i feel, they are truly are remarkable product and all my family wear them including my 12 year old son.
I wear them every where and travel to all over the world and never do i ache, feel tired, or have body pains. I wear them every day for my walk and they are perfect for living in the tropics and they are the first pair of shoes that don't cut into my ankle that i can wear.
I love them and thank you for this incredible opportunity to have such an unbelievable product."