Free Shoe Assessment
Is Your Footwear Hurting You?
Analyze your footwear against your structural profile. Get sport-specific and daily wear recommendations based on foot type, arch mechanics, and training demands. Your shoes are either helping or hindering your structure.
Your feet deserve better than guesswork
Describe Your Feet
Arch type, pronation pattern, foot width, and any current foot issues. The tool guides you through simple self-assessment positions.
Add Your Activities
What you train, what you wear daily, how many hours on your feet. Different demands need different support profiles.
Get Recommendations
Sport-specific training shoe guidance, daily wear recommendations, and red flags about your current footwear choices.
Footwear guidance built on structure
Foot Type Classification
High arch, neutral, or flat. Overpronator, neutral, or supinator. These determine which shoe categories work for your structure and which make things worse.
Sport-Specific Guidance
Lifting shoes are different from running shoes are different from court shoes. The tool recommends by training modality, not by brand.
Daily Wear Analysis
You spend more hours in daily shoes than training shoes. The tool evaluates your everyday footwear against your structural needs.
Red Flag Detection
Some shoe-foot combinations actively damage your structure. The tool flags high-risk combinations -- heel drop mismatches, support gaps, and wear pattern warnings.
Find out if your shoes fit your structure
5 minutes. No login. Personalized results.
Common questions
Can shoes really affect my structure?
Your feet are the foundation. Every structural compensation starts or ends at the ground. A shoe with wrong support or drop height changes your ankle mechanics, which changes your knee tracking, which changes your hip position, which changes your spine. The effects cascade upward.
Should I train barefoot?
Depends on your foot structure. Some foot types benefit from barefoot training. Others need support. The tool assesses your specific case. Blanket recommendations don't work here.
What about orthotics?
Orthotics can help or hurt depending on the problem they're addressing. The tool doesn't prescribe orthotics -- that requires a podiatrist. It does identify whether your current footwear is creating structural problems that might be mistakenly attributed to needing orthotics.
How accurate is a self-assessment of foot type?
The wet footprint test and visual arch assessment are about 75-80% accurate for classification. Good enough for footwear guidance. If you need a coach-reviewed assessment, the full evaluation includes foot mechanics as part of the structural protocol.
How is this different from the full assessment?
The free tool focuses on footwear matching. The full AKMI assessment measures your entire structural chain from feet to cervical spine, identifies how your foot mechanics interact with every other joint, and builds programming that accounts for the whole system.
Want the complete structural map?
The Shoe Assessment checks your footwear. The full AKMI assessment measures your entire kinetic chain and builds a programming protocol that accounts for how every joint interacts -- starting from the ground up.