Understand your stride to choose more suitable footwear.

Evaluating footwear features to suit your everyday life.
Evaluating footwear features to suit your everyday life.

A site connecting how your foot moves - underpronation (supination), overpronation and neutral pronation - with footwear features and finding suitable shoes for real-life situations.


Choose your starting point

Not sure how you pronate?

Learn about underpronation, overpronation and neutral pronation, and use some simple starting checks.

Know your pronation type?

Identify footwear features that matter for how your feet move, such as cushioning, flexibility, and structure.

Trying to solve a footwear problem?

See how stride and shoe features apply to footwear decisions, such as casual or indoor footwear.


Explore scenarios which matching your stride, footwear features and different demands of life.

Shoe descriptions do not always explain which models suit different pronation types. OutwardStride explores how to look beyond brands, and find shoes that meet your own stride pattern.

Running shoes as a starting point

Learn how running shoes designed for your pronation type can help you recognize and experience the footwear features that are important to you.

Indoor slip-on footwear

See how Birkenstock Bostons work as structured indoor slip-ons for different pronation types.

Golf shoes

Golf shoes are designed for performance (stance, rotation, grip, and fatigue) so filtering out which ones work for your pronation tendency can take some work!

Casual shoes

Use practical checks to assess features in casual shoes that matter for your pronation type, can be a challenge.


A practical approach to choosing footwear

OutwardStride is designed to help link general information to practical decisions to:

  • understand your stride and what it may mean for footwear choices

  • learn about footwear features may matter most to your pronation type

  • make footwear decisions which suit the specific demands of the situation.