The Ultimate Gym Shoe for Your Body’s Biomechanics

Introducing Otishi – the fusion of ergonomic design and biomechanical excellence, tailored for those dedicated to fitness.

Why Otishi?

Otishi is more than just a gym shoe; it’s the culmination of understanding the essence of human biomechanics. Lightweight and meticulously designed, Otishi ensures your feet move naturally while offering a grounded sensation during intense lifts. It’s not just about comfort; it’s about enhancing performance by working in harmony with your body’s natural movements.

Otishi – Every Step, Every Rep, Uncompromised.

We’ve journeyed from an idea to early samples, tirelessly working to perfect gym footwear’s prototype. Our goal? To mirror the sensation of lifting in socks while providing the grip, safety, and style of a shoe.

Boost Your Posture and Power: Our zero-drop sole promotes even weight distribution across your feet, aiding better posture and maximizing power in every rep.

Comfort and Control: Experience a wide toe box, allowing your toes to spread naturally. Dive into the comfort and control, enhancing balance, preventing blisters, and allowing muscle engagement just like you would when you’re barefoot.

Daily Wear – Breathe Easy: Our breathable knit upper ensures all-day comfort in and out of the gym. Say goodbye to sweaty feet and hello to a stylish companion for your daily adventures.

Stay Fresh – Machine Washable: Smelly gym shoes? History! With Otishi, relish a fresh pair every day. Just wash, dry, and you’re good to go.

Our Journey: We’ve prototyped, tested, and refined. Now, we bring to Kickstarter an opportunity to be part of this innovation. Otishi is not just another gym shoe; it’s a revolution in workout footwear. But to transform this prototype into a real product, we need YOU.

Shoes That Limit, Not Lift: The Problem with Traditional Gym Footwear

Many gym enthusiasts are familiar with the predicament: the stylish gym shoes you wear lack the support and flexibility required for effective lifting. Traditional gym shoes like blazers, converse, vans, and Hokas might look great, but they often come with a restrictive toe box or a heel drop that affects your biomechanics. Consequently, these shoes can compromise form, hinder performance, and sometimes even lead to potential injuries.

Otishi Revolution: Where Natural Biomechanics Meet Gym Footwear

Barefoot Sensation: With a thin sole design, experience the natural feel of lifting barefoot, enhancing your connection with the ground.

Spacious Comfort: Our wide toe box ensures that your feet never feel restricted, letting them move the way they’re naturally designed to.

Easy Slip-On: With a sock-like upper, slide into comfort without the fuss of laces or straps. The Otishi shoe is designed for ease, style, and optimal performance.

Minimal Sole for Grounded and Stable Lifts

Dive deep into the essence of biomechanically efficient lifting with the Otishi shoe’s unique sole design. Crafted from flexible rubber, our minimal sole mirrors the natural sensation of lifting barefoot. This ensures that your feet remain close to the ground, promoting stability and enhancing your lifting form. Plus, with the added grip and safety features of the sole, you can be assured of both performance and protection with every rep you take.

Better Posture with Zero Drop

The secret behind the biomechanical magic of Otishi lies in its zero-drop design. Traditional running shoes, with their raised heels, can inadvertently place undue stress on your ankles, knees, hips, and even your lower back during weightlifting exercises. This uneven weight distribution can lead to improper form, reduced power, and potential long-term injuries.

Otishi’s zero-drop design ensures that your foot sits flat in the shoe. The result? Weight is evenly distributed across your feet, aligning your body naturally from the ground up. This optimal alignment not only improves your posture but also channels greater power and stability into every rep, making your workouts more effective and safer.

Improve Balance & Avoid Injury With a Wide Toe Box

The Otishi doesn’t just provide style and comfort; it’s designed with biomechanics in mind. With its spacious design, the wide toe box allows your toes to spread naturally, ensuring you have a stable footing and an enhanced sense of balance. This not only aids in preventing blisters and toenail injuries but also ensures you have optimum control over your center of gravity, reducing the risk of slips, trips, and falls during intense workouts.

With Otishi, you’re not just wearing a shoe; you’re equipping your feet with the space they need to function naturally and safely, enhancing your performance and protecting your well-being.

Breathable Knit Allows for Improved Blood Flow

Why restrict when you can liberate? Traditional gym shoes often utilize straps or laces, which can inadvertently compress the top of your foot, hindering blood circulation.

Otishi revolutionizes this with its innovative slip-on design, akin to slipping into a comforting sock. Crafted with a breathable knit fabric, not only does Otishi provide unparalleled ventilation, but it also ensures unrestricted blood flow to your feet. This enhances foot health, reduces fatigue, and ensures optimal foot function during intense workout sessions.

Eliminate Odor with a Machine Washable Shoe

There’s nothing like that unsettling feeling of slipping into gym shoes, only to be greeted by the remnants of last week’s sweat session. With Otishi, that’s a thing of the past.

Our shoes are crafted with a durable yet breathable knit upper, designed to withstand the rigors of regular washing. This means after a particularly intense workout, you can throw your Otishis into the machine and emerge with a pair that smells, feels, and looks as good as new.

The Result? You can step into every gym session with confidence, knowing your footwear is fresh, clean, and ready for action.

What are Your Choices?

Curious about your options? Otishi comes in mens sizes 8-14 in either an all-white or all-black colorway.

If we have enough funding though, we will expand our size range to accommodate womens sizes and a larger range of mens sizes.

Our Prototyping Journey

Every great product has a humble beginning, and the Otishi gym shoe is no different. Our journey was marked with iterations, each step refining our vision and bringing us closer to perfection.

1. The Original Mockup

Raw and rudimentary, our initial mockup was far from the polished product we had envisioned. However, it was an essential starting point, capturing the basic essence of what we aimed to create.

2. Our First Sample

A more tangible realization of our concept, this prototype showed promise, though the colors weren’t quite right and there were aspects to improve upon.

3. Current Samples

Our persistence paid off. The current samples are the embodiment of our dream: precise colors, optimum comfort, and the perfect synergy between style and functionality.

On the left, you can see our initial mockup and on the right you can see our current version.

Shipping Timeline

November 2023

Manufacturing Kick-Off: We begin the manufacturing process, transforming our meticulous design into the final product.

December 2023 – January 2024

Final Quality Checks & Packaging: As we close in on final production, we’ll be running thorough quality checks to ensure every pair of shoes is up to the standard we’ve promised. Once approved, they’ll be carefully packaged and prepared for shipping.

January 2024 – February 2024

Shipping product to the USA: The Otishi shoes will be packaged and shipped to the USA where our team will fulfill all the Kickstarter backer orders by hand.

February 2024 – March 2024

Shipping to Customers: Otishi Gym Shoes will start their journey to you! Expect your pair to arrive at your doorstep this month.

Please note: While we strive to adhere to these timelines, there might be unforeseen delays due to manufacturing complexities, shipping logistics, or global factors. Rest assured, we will maintain open communication, updating our backers on any changes or developments.

Our Story / Our Mission

The inception of our company wasn’t just about creating another gym shoe. It was about fulfilling a dream, a vision – giving every lifter a shoe they’ve always wished for. But beyond that tangible product, we yearned for a deeper impact.

Originating from the rich, vibrant culture of Peru, our co-founder Jose’s journey has been an inspiration for our brand’s ethos. The very name of our brand, Otishi, is a tribute to the Peruvian national park. In the local dialect, Otishi symbolizes ‘peak’ or ‘summit’, resonating with our mission for you – to help you ascend to the pinnacle of your fitness journey.

But our commitment goes beyond just fitness. We are driven by a vision of uplifting communities. Growing up in Peru, Jose witnessed the potential of many young minds stifled by lack of education and opportunities. This is why a significant portion of our profits are channeled into educational initiatives across Latin and South America. We fervently believe in nurturing the next generation of thinkers, innovators, and dreamers.

By choosing Otishi, you are not just investing in unparalleled gym footwear. You’re becoming a part of a larger movement, a mission to ignite hope, foster education, and uplift countless lives across continents.

Meet The Team / About Us

Hey guys my name is Jose Montoya and I helped start Otishi because I believe mental and emotional health dictates how we live our lives. Our bodies are like temples and we should care and build them up as such. I want to give back and inspire the youth of today to take care of themselves to grow to their full potential.

My name is DJ Taylor and I helped start Otishi because I’m passionate about weightlifting and I want to help others maximize their potential. I want to use Otishi as a tool to help youth in Latin America receive an education through our charity program.

I’m Bentley, a co-founder of Otishi. Our mission goes beyond innovative gym footwear. For me, Otishi is a platform to give back, ensuring each stride we take benefits communities in need. Together, we’re walking towards a brighter, shared future.

Risks and challenges

We have worked extremely hard to make this product ready for Kickstarter and full-scale manufacturing. We’re confident in our ability to produce our product at quality in mass and fulfill all our perks on time. However, things don’t always go as planned. Here are a few of risks that may come up, and our plan to address them: MANUFACTURING: We have a trusted manufacturer lined up and will have quality assurance people on site during production. Despite this, manufacturing delays can still happen. Whether it’s an unexpected backlog, bad timing with holidays, or a quality assurance issue on the ground floor, we’ll let you know immediately. Our #1 priority is product quality followed by timely delivery. FULFILLMENT: Sometimes, stuff happens that can’t be planned for: a supplier misses a deadline, a package gets held up at customs, a shipment gets lost, or a global pandemic shuts down shipping ports around the world. Those things can cause delays. We are using an experienced logistics team to get our products to you. We’ll keep open and honest communication with you through our process so you know where your product is and when it’s going to get to you.
Long-lasting design

Our shoes are made to be one piece with no moving parts. No laces to fray and out of a durable knit that can stand the rigors of life.