Abstract: Shoe, including a relatively thin inner sole, an outer sole and an elastic intermediate sole disposed between the inner and outer soles, defining a tip, a heel, and regions accommodating the toes, the roots of the toes and the ball of the foot including a step point, the inner sole being substantially horizontal from the tip of the shoe to a location between the step point of the region accommodating the ball of the foot and the heel of the shoe, the intermediate sole having a relatively strong construction in vicinity of the region accommodating the ball of the foot and having an upwardly tapered section from the region accommodating the roots of the toes to the tip of the shoe, the intermediate sole having a multiplicity of holes formed therein in the region accommodating the toes for additionally reducing the hardness of the intermediate sole in the region accommodating the toes.