Eric Koston Goes Sneaker Shopping With Complex

what's up everybody its Joe from complex were in LA a flight club with skateboard legend Eric Koston hello everyone he wants me to basically deconstruct it with my board and you know I want to tear him apart gonna do some sneaker shopping today gonna see what he's feeling what he's not and then hopefully he's gonna buy some sneakers for sure let's go [Music] Eric I want to talk about 1994 you take a trip to Japan and that's really when you started collecting sneakers I started to realize people cared I didn't think about I should actually should have saved these things even made me think back like why didn't I save these shoes from like 86 of a starter ski but they gave me the realization of how much they they cared about it it was like they appreciated it the stories behind it there's moments and and little things that that that actually created some sort of value to it like stories yes you have stories yes exactly it was the first Jordan ones I remember you said the skaters that you looked up to at the time while we're in Jordan once I started skating around 1986 and like all of my heroes Mark Gonzales Lance mountain Neil blender Tony Hawk Steve Caballero my guys got is like the ultimate signature shoe for decades skated in Jordan once and they all had different versions like Lance's would Lance did is like it's funny because this is something that I looked at photos of like in every magazine I was like looking at his shoes like what you know I use it just black royal Jordan ones any paintings and spray-painting and white yeah and you can see the spray paint fading and kind of see the color underneath it when he actually did one this is what he did and I remember as a child like just looking like at all the little details if you took the 12s into your third model of s do they know exactly what you were doing or you were always ahead of design and like kind of brought it to the table I switched it up a little bit but obviously I know I'm just straight knocked it off too at the same time but with a little twist of my own I would look to the shoe I was like you disliked kind of meant for skating these panels are where you need it the most asymmetric toe a simple clean up or a clean looking a nice day when I saw it I was like this is it's gonna be weird and when I went a symmetric with it was a little freaky but it actually worked well there's always a push of fashion versus function and you kind of mended both you know the 12 is a popular shoe yeah it's not the most popular Jordan yeah I'm a function standpoint you're saying that it really worked for actually I mean it was work for skating you actually worked for playing and I to play yeah play is off they're like I played in it and I mean it was the shoe that that he murdered that Utah yeah and which I was so hyped because the Jazz took my Lakers out you know this playoffs of NY I'm just yeah kill them Eric you're an OG supreme guy how do you feel about the air force twos that just came out you skated in them a couple days ago and then like supreme doing Jordan fives and just how those collabs in modern-day sneaker culture have come about I think they've all been great every time they do an SB you know they bring something back I really I'm super into the to I know people are probably like wait a minute and sometimes that's how it should be you don't want everyone to like it absolutely cuz if you do then you might not like it after a while talk about this this is this one of your favorites this is one of my favorites still have one of these when I first saw these you know I wasn't I didn't skate for Nike and I was just like jealous yeah oh I saw Reese poor he was skating and I was like damn he's skating you know what is it like uh-uh but I saw him and I was just like I need him in a jealous talk about a new drop that everyone's been talking about the off-white shoes that Virgil did and you you know we have the press those in the vapor Max's here but you skated in the Blazers stayed in the Blazers when I got him I got the message that burden wants you to skate them I'm like I want to skate now yeah look at this it's like aside from the fact that there's that nylon on that panel right where you ollie yeah it has like high taping it's got the rubber toe and that big rubber swoosh coming down the suede I stay everything is like its skate he wanted me to basically deconstruct it with my board you know I want to tear him apart [Music] Air Max 95 yeah still that loves them and are they the first Air Max are you were into you know I was going to Europe for 95 and we had a lot of colors actually the air max one out there then that they didn't have here in the US so I doz go out there and gobble him up bring him back you know but uh once a 95 came out I just love the way it look and it looks so good on on feet and I still do I still love it 97 s came back this year they came back yeah big fan of 97 s my oh jeez a bubble crack and I got me 9 Wharram you know so like yeah and right over here a short trip man Nike SB what was it like getting signed to Nike during the SB era what they were doing was really cool they definitely was jealous of like all the dunks that they were coming out like I said before but I never thought I'd actually be a part of that you know I was thought it was gonna be where I was gonna be so you know I was entertaining and talking a lot of people but obviously there's so much history like I've studied Nike more than a lot of employees there probably yeah you know just cuz I collected so much and there was an opportunity to bring me there they really made it count what was it like I need to know it's when I got there it's like we're walking all over the campus you want to go grab a coffee over here the baristas like at the cafe turn around they're wearing like these costume custom shirts on them where they mocked up old Nike typefaces or different logos and then I go to the gym the gym they got a different shirt on with Boston on it that's like thick it's pretty pretty good hard to write there yeah so what was your favorite SPO at that early era when I wasn't on I was I was still I was still actually collecting and I was trading stuff at skate shops cuz you can just get it I was just keeping them the frenzy was there and I'm like I want to collect these you know just like I'm not gonna be able to probably wear them in public but I can at least appreciate him you know at that time you have three signature models with Nike the one that a lot of people love to talk about you being such a Lakers fan is the healthy collaboration what was that like Kobe collaboration when that was getting talked about like pinch me wake me up but I was like okay it might happen it might happen I'm like and then once it was might happen I'm like we're pushing this through we got a got how to get this through it was his 6u at the time and it fit right on my tooling but we saw it samples it was it was over it's a special moment like I and that's never gonna never gonna forget it it's crazy there's some desert rap from San Bernardino skater and I'm doing a shoot collaboration with like the guy that got me how many chips for my team so Eric we covered everything now yeah get the browser she'll see what you want to buy today alright this is the hard part I think I want these cause fors size 11 please all right gravity right know something for every day is the flying a trainer in size 11 and a half classic and I used to have them I left him somewhere cool then that's it I'm cool with that can't fill the house up any more I'm not a space alright boss man so you totally just don't tell me 1939 dollars was right on this you go alright thank you alright - so Eric came through told a lot of classic stories thanks so much for taking the time yeah happy to be here make sure everyone checks his brand numbers Edition local skate shops around the country [Music] [Music] you

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Id: PeciGDri_C8

Length: 8min 26sec (506 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 09 2017