Reviews
GAŠPER STOJC: For me, it all started at a scout camp when I walked around barefoot for a week. I soon extended that week into months.
Photography: Rok Lužnik
GAŠPER STOJC is a Highliner, theater educator, actor, mentor, scout. A person who loves life and enjoys it to the fullest. His desire to experience everything has led him to start walking the world barefoot.
He primarily develops his body and mind on highlines, which he and his friends set up in idyllic locations high in the mountains, sometimes several hundred meters above the ground. On these lines, with the group @slackalien, he practices the Slovenian highlining freestyle. This means that it’s not just walking on the slackline that brings him joy, but also doing handstands, swinging, walking blindfolded, and spinning in all directions. A challenge for the mind and body.
Photography; Matic Komel
Photography: Nik Bertoncelj
Photography: Fotokorak
“Once I got used to being barefoot, it was difficult to endure tight shoes. On stage, I had a hard time staying still, as everything was causing blisters and squeezing me. It probably looked like I was nervous and had stage fright from the audience’s perspective. All of that quickly stopped when I got my beautiful Proalp Contact C1 leather shoes. Everyone likes their appearance, and on stage, I was able to convey a sense of relaxation and naturalness once again. It seems to me that this is what people like the most.”
“For me, it all started at a scout camp when I walked around barefoot for a week. I soon extended that week into months. Then winter came. I kept wearing my hiking boots all the time and only then noticed how significant changes had occurred in my foot. My foot was freer and had expanded in the front, and my old footwear had slowly pushed back all the development in my foot. It was painful, swollen, and red, and my pinky toes hurt again. I decided that from now on, I would rather be barefoot all the time, I was convinced it could be done, but unfortunately, it can’t be done in our climate zone. Proalp footwear saved me. I stay warm during the winter, and my feet maintain all the acquired functions. I develop something new every year. Currently, I am very interested in how I could climb on rocks and boulders with bare feet.”
Photography: Karmen Zalokar
Photography: Fotokorak