Archive for the ‘trainers’ Category

Posted this week over at lakai.com is the new Vincent Alvarez commercial which showcases the skills of Chocolate skateboards rider Vincent Alvarez. As per usual the production on is silky smooth as it is on all Lakai video media. Check the nollie full cab super slow mo’!

Vincent amongst other styles is sporting the new Lakai Pico style which has just been released, looking super nice in the blue red suede.

The Lakai Manchester select flag ship model in the Lakai range is just starting to hit stores with 2 new colours for the spring summer 2010 line. Updates include a bright and fresh orange and white suede and a bit more sensible black charcoal suede. We love this Lakai style and these colours definitely don’t disappoint.

Now live over at Nike skateboarding the latest instalment of the Nike SB tour video featuring the Nike SB amature team on their tour of the US. Part 3 of Don’t fear the sweeper picks up where they left off in pt 2 and see’s the Nike SB team finishing up in New York then and heading over to Pennsylvainia and Miami then on to their final stop of the tour in Texas… Yeeeeehaaaaaaw!

You know you’ve made it as a footwear brand when you start doing cross brand collabs with New York skate boutiques. Supra stepping the game up with the Supra x DQM Heartbreaker Skyyop. Muska was at Daves quality meat on the 12th of this month signing stuff and “rapping” with the kids.

the shoe looks pretty nice however you’d be pretty lucking to get hold of a pair, keep your eyes peel and your ebay Supra Skytop search results bookmarked.

Fresh for spring 2010 Pointer footwear comes with some updated colours in one of our favourite casual sneakers the Fairbank. The Pointer Fairbank is available in four colours this season, electric blue, black, natural and white, but the white for us is the stand out piece giving a nice mid 90’s feel utilising the much overlooked gum sole.

New for spring 2010 Supra have updated the Cuban to give birth to the Supra Cuban 1.5! The introduction of laces instead of of the chain gives it a less del-boy feel and almost re-invents the shoe. Available in four colours TUF black perf, TUF white perf, red canvas and grey canvas and being released over the next few months.

When it comes to snow / street wear cross overs no one does it better than 686. Amongst the many limited edition products for this season from 686 this one caught our eye the most. 686 and shoe UK shoe brand New Balance have come together and produced a snowboard boot remake of the classic MT580 sneaker.

“Based upon the original MT580 sneaker, the 686 design team recreated a fully functional, technically advanced snowboard boot with a sneaker-like fit. The intense process utilized New Balance’s proprietary features like Rollbar® and Abzorb®, as well as combining BOA’s® proven Focus® lacing system. The end result is a true masterpiece of New Balance’s quality footwear heritage and 686’s technical snowboarding history.”

it definitely seems that the sneaker to snowboard boot cross over is taking effect what with the new Nike snowboard boot range and DC using the manteca silhouette for ever. maybe it’s played out already or maybe its just getting started, all we know is we like it! to accompany this 686 release New Balance have also made the MT580 in the exact same colours as the snowboard boot…

To celebrate 10 years of Moto X mayhem Metal Mulisha have teamed up with action sports footwear veterans Etnies to collaborate on two shoes. The Etnies Chrome in black gold and the Etnies Fader in black white, both featuring Metal Mulisha branded print detail.

Metal Mulisha have been directly involved with Etnies since team rider Brian Deegan co-founded the Metal Mulisha in 1999. Fellow Metal Mulisha members Jeremy “Twitch” Stenberg, Todd Potter, Josh Grant, Seth Enslow, Luke Urek, Nixey Danielson and Beau Manley all ride for Etnies so this collaboration seems to make perfect sense. Definitely and easy one for their PR department!! go to etnies.com for more.

While we’re the the Nike tip, on the other side of their action sports program, the trendier older brother, Nike SB are making waves about their soon to be released tour video “Don’t fear the sweeper”. The video was filmed during last falls Nike SB tour of the US and is scheduled to be released in 3 parts. The first part due for release on the 11th January 2010 on nikeskateboarding.com.

Featuring skating from the usual Nike heads, peep the trailer below:

Nike 6.0 team rider Coco Ho has just been crowned ASP rookie of the year, well done Coco! check out the below video for more on Coco Ho and Nike 6.0.

Nixon Rubber Player June Release

Out today the 3rd intallment of Nixon watches 4X4 rubber player. To recap, every month from april to July Nixon release a new colour of the Rubber player watch. the colours are kept stictly secret so we don’t know what’s coming until it hits the shops, pretty cool eh?! We had blue for April, red for May and this Months colour in the Nixon Rubber Player is green. This only leaves one more colour released on July 1st. I’m claiming yellow but your guess is as good as mine!

You can get these uniquw player colours either at nixon’s website or from participating stockists.

Well, we’ve seen the it pioneered by the Nike ID studio for the past few years with great success and now Nike turn their technology to Converse. The Converse One program some how seems better than the Nike ID program.

If you haven’t come across the Nike ID website, essentially you can colour up a shoe of your choice exactly how you like and add your own ID tag for ultimate personalization. This is a great idea from start to finish and we’re stoked that they have rolled it out for Converse. Whether it’s the combinations of colours or the styles offer we’re not sure, we just like it and think it suits Converse as a brand! Check it at for your self at the Converse website

Vans Era LX

The Vans Era shoe was the first shoe in the Vans range to feature the off the wall logo way back in the days of pool skating and fish tail boards. The Vans Era is an update of the “Authentic” featuring a padded collar, outside heel and the Vans classic waffle sole.

The Vans Era was made legendary in the world of skate shoes by Tony Alva and the Dogtown crew, subsiquently becoming skateboarding’s first shoe back in 1976. Over 30 years on and the Era is still an iconic shoe and this LX version of the shoe adds some new depth. Cool multi coloured red, yellow and blue colour blocking mixed with different material applications really set this Vans shoe appart from all its Era brothers.

Available now for around £37.99 – Vans Era LX

DVS Daewon CT Almost

DVS and Almost skateboards have collaborated this spring summer to give us the Daewon CT Almost shoe. This is Daewon Song’s 10th pro shoe on DVS shoes and as always it’s looking nice. Features include vulcanized out sole with black suede upper and some really nice colourful pinstripe detail on the collar. This DVS shoe takes the basic black suede look but adds some really vibrant orange pop colour which works really well.

Available now for around £55.00 this shoe should sell out fast! DVS Daewon CT Almost

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Supra Chad Muska Skytop high tops

Back to work with the blues after a scoarching back holiday? Well, here’s something to cheer you up, the new Supra skytop high top trainers from Supra footwear. These skytops feature some really nice material application utilizing the ever glamorous faux croc in black coupled with a luxurious black suede. Not an outrageous colourway for a Supra skytop or for supra that matter. however, the back to basics black upper with white vulcanized outsole caught our eye.

This skytop some how sparkled at us from the sea of colour in the rest of the supra line for this season. Maybe it’s that with all the colour around at the moment what made us sit up and take notice was this trainers modest simplicity and subtle detail. Or, maybe it was something else…. either way well done Supra footwear on yet another banging skytop colourway!

available to buy now at route one: Supra skytop black / croc suede

£74.99