Nike SB Introduces New Team Rider you'll never Guess ....

[MF JORDAN]

I'm skating the Blazer's/Bruins. an i love them both. But i think when skateboarding Loses Popularity.
i'm sure Nike will leave. An we'll be Left with more "Core" brands. I'm sure i'll be Fine with that too.

[Clayfighter]

I'm skating the Blazer's/Bruins. an i love them both. But i think when skateboarding Loses Popularity.
i'm sure Nike will leave. An we'll be Left with more "Core" brands. I'm sure i'll be Fine with that too.

the thing is I don't feel they will leave I mean Nike has been in skating for a while and their original team consisted of mainly dudes kids don't recognize like Daniel shimizu and Childress. It's really only in recent years that Nike as a skate brand has taken off

[Hitmanx123]

meh.....whatev

[Slamooh]

Go occupy Nike SB !!

[briden]

the thing is I don't feel they will leave I mean Nike has been in skating for a while and their original team consisted of mainly dudes kids don't recognize like Daniel shimizu and Childress. It's really only in recent years that Nike as a skate brand has taken off

That's not the original Nike skateboarding team. They first tried breaking into skateboarding in the mid-late 90s and had Bam on their team... they lasted a few months

[PyR0MaNiAc225]

http://emerica.com/shoes/

[MF JORDAN]

http://emerica.com/shoes/

Loved Emerica shoes..but sadly now they are way to "hipster". wish they still made these.

[Clayfighter]

I can respect what Brian's saying my thing is everyone kind of left skateboarding in the 90's it was dead, and I really like nikes resurgents as far as supporting dudes most company would have left a long time ago. I mean seriously they've been supporting dudes like Gino and Danny Supa for a while, even though they haven't been doing alot over the years, and with how sketchy alot of core skate brands have been acting lately it's kind of hard to support some of the core companies anymore.

Also I don't really understand this whole " their shoes are too expensive" thing because honestly most "core" skate brands are crazy expensive. I mean all pro models cost around 80 bucks these days and just like any shoe you can find nikes for cheap.I have only paid full price for a pair of nikes twice, as apose to shoes like es where I've had to pay full price all the time because of the rarity of shoes in my size. I'm just a fan of nikes from both an aesthetic and performance stand point.

[andreas]

Fuck my bitch based god so much misinformation in this thread. Where is all the progression in shoe tech coming from nowadays? Lakai? Emerica? Vans? None of them. Nike and sti tech are completely murdering the market with shoes that use technology which actually works. Why would I drop 65-70 bucks on a pair of plain black and white vulc shoes with a paperthin shit foam insole when I can get some fucking rad lunarlon shit or those gorgeous etnies footbeds. The money you would spend on a pair of sb's doesn't go to some bullshit golf shirt. What the fuck are you thinking? You think that all their R&D is cheap? Nike is becoming the forerunner in innovative tech in skating shoes and this tech is definitely a step in the right direction.

On the snowboarding boot: Them joining the snowboarding culture is a-okay to me. They use all of their previous knowledge in running and skating and whatever shoe they make, and put it into snowboarding, and you know what? It works. It works better than any of the other 5 (DC, thirtytwox2,rome,k2) boots I've used snowboarding.

[MarcoPoloUSN]

It's more about supporting companies that were started by skateboarders and are there for skateboarders, for me.

I wear Vans a lot and they use sweatshops I'm sure, haha. However, their roots are in skateboarding and they don't use money they make else where to dupe kids into thinking they're the epitome of skateboarding and start monopolizing the market and the pro riders.

Stokenstein for president

Loved Emerica shoes..but sadly now they are way to "hipster".

I honestly enjoy and appreciate hipster shit.


<3

[r0ke]

Purists ruin everything. Buy what you want. Wear what you want. Listen to what you want.

It's not like society gives two shits about skateboarding anyways. If you combined the attendance and viewership of every single Street League contest/Triple Crown Series/X-games skateboarding, it still wouldn't equal the viewership/attendance of the Super Bowl...

Think for yourselves and don't mindlessly follow trends in either direction. I'd wear a pair of Airwalks if I had no other options in terms of footwear to skate in (true story as well).

[Demzilla]

supporting nike is not supporting skateboarding.
supporting nike has nothing to do with skateboarding at all...
putting the words 'skateboard" and "nike" in the same sentence makes no sense whats so ever.

if you understood skateboarding.
you wouldnt even have this conversation.

nike is not..
will not..
no matter what they do for the rest of its lifetime.
have anything to do with skateboarding.

if you understood skateboarding youd understand this.

ive argued with clay over live many of times about this.
but.
clay wants them..
he likes the look...
there comfy...
so be it.
it still doesnt change the fact that skateboarding to nike is purely dollars and cents.

back when nike started there bullshit the first time kids got jacked and there shoes ended up on the telephone wires.

for a reason.