Shoes

welcome back you guys um today we're going to talk about shoes I have no idea how I titled and thumbnailed the video I may have done something stupid or I may have done some that was a sudden movement I saw that I know yeah we also have a special guest U my daughter is holding the camera and I have her miked up we can get a uh a gen Z opinion outside of skateboarding on like the shoes and clothes a little bit look what somebody did look at this thing they left this right here right by the ledge it'd be so easy for me to fall on that come on that worked okay um yeah actually I'm going to talk about these as6 a little bit and um no none of this is sponsored nobody's paying me for anything um if it was sponsored it would say it at the start of the video and I'd make it clear so these were just sent to me so the only bias I have is if I like them maybe I'll want to say nice things so I get more shoes but um at this point I can get shoes from almost anywhere so I don't have the hugest incentive to do that anyways that was a flex yeah that was a hard Flex thanks I'm glad you noticed that that's not flexing right it's like that yeah sort of yeah okay so first I tried actually I've been skating these more the yellow the orange ones and they look good in these pants um these pants by the way are the carheart whip Landin when I was in LA I was feeling spendy and I bought a pair of them from like the really fancy store in Hollywood and I you know it was like 130 150 or something right and I'm like yeah that's a lot of money for a pair of pants but I did it anyways and then when I got home I see the bill it's like $200 Canadian I'm like oh my God I can't believe I spent that much money on a pair of pants and what did you think Lou when I said like how does this look for a $200 pair of pants um I think they look kind of like everyone else like all like a lot of the other clothes she thinks they look like she your exact words were they look like a $50 pair of pants yeah yeah that's what I said but you know it's like they they're clearly better material and they look feel really good like the movement every I spent like an hour trying on pants and these were my favorite ones um and then when I finally wore them I wore them skating those bright neon uh aves and they looked horrible in that shoe this pant definitely needs a bulky shoe or they look funny anyways um you know I never promised a shoe review so I could talk about anything I want and you're just gonna have to deal with it but I am gonna talk about the shoes now so first I started skating these ones what do you think about these ones Lou color way and look I mean I like the color but I feel like there's a lot of green shoes around right now so it's like they're kind of just like fitting in the trend okay yeah so so they don't stand out enough to make you want them over any other shoe no not massively I like your red ones better yeah these orange ones are they're really good yeah they're fire pure uh I do like this quick this little silver detail though on the um on the logo right here I didn't notice that yeah I didn't notice that either one thing I don't like about the A6 is they don't have easily removable insoles they're glued in so they obviously intend you to skate these ones and nothing else um but yeah I did skate these ones a bit and the flicks are amazing right out of the box both kick flips and heel flips but the sole is as thin as it looks this is definitely a cup sole with no midsole right and you feel that right away when you get into it so much board feel but um very little impact protection as well even from you know like like a Primo is pretty vicious or um even just Landing with your foot like really hard on the edge of the board when you're doing a trick like you can feel it so great performance in terms of of skating but you sacrifice a lot in terms of like foot protection um they also feel a tiny bit tall in the heel um I didn't really like that too much like I kind of feel like my foot's on a slope and yeah I don't know how durable they'll be there's very little rubber here like that's going to wear out fairly quickly especially if your kick flip heavy and your grip is nice and fresh you know but that's me making assumptions without actually having skated them a ton um still though I liked them more than I thought I would now these ones these ones absolutely they must have a midsole I mean I could be wrong but like they have that feel of a midsole where one of the things I like about a shoe that has a midsole is it makes my setup feel lighter when I kick down on the setup um it just feels lighter I feel like I can ride heavier trucks without it feeling too heavy and um I don't get as tired through the sessions and I definitely also notice that my feet don't get as sore because there's just more protection here these ones fit really narrow definitely like they're snug on even my narrow foot they might stretch out a bit because there's not a lot going on there these ones definitely fit a bit wider but not so wide that I have to have it cinched up and like that you could see the toe box getting strangled whereas almost every pair of New Balance that's what happens I just like have to strangle the shoes to even skate them I'm between sizes and my foot is too narrow for almost all new balances and no I haven't tried the 440s yet I know everyone every time I make this complaint they say have you tried the 440s no and that's only because I tried so many new balance and had the same experience so many times that I just didn't want to I mean most of the time I get shoes for free right so I didn't want to ask them for another free pair of shoes that I'm then not going to skate so that's why I didn't um The Flicks on these are pretty darn good definitely you can't get like the poping control that you can in these shoes but um these aren't even fully broken in right they're only like four sessions in um but it's good enough the heel flips are pretty decent uh not the same kind of lift that you get with like a vulcanized shoe or this one even like I can definitely lift higher easier on this some of it is just me not being fully used to these yet I think if I skated them the whole way through the life of the shoe I wouldn't have a problem and it's not like it's not enough to stop me from skating them it's just like I have to adjust to it but yeah I like these a little better I like the aesthetic better for sure um and they definitely you know like I said they look really good in a baggier pant which I've been enjoying baggier pants these days let's try these ones on though let's try these ones on in these pants and you'll see what I mean it just they look too pointy they're not an overly pointy shoe but in a big pant they look like it yeah they make your uh feet look like they've been like cropped to be smaller you mean like like uh like Photoshop yeah yeah it's not not horrible right it's not horrible but I I definitely feel like my feet are too small in these big pants although the regular car Hearts like the work ones that I wear all the time are a little Slimmer and they're probably perfect for these anyways yeah I would say all in all um a really good first offering from as6 and I know they do have a couple of other models but I definitely think these are the most on Trend aesthetically right now yeah so you know at first I was like God do we really need another logo heavy sports brand in skateboarding and I even you know totally complained to the rep I was like uh I guess you could send me the shoes I don't know if I want to skate them and I just like complained for a long time to which he responded I don't know if I told this in my last video but he responded you know what the problem is all the plain shoes aren't selling right now the kids don't want them the kids all want Loud logo heavy shoes so you know unfortunately the market dictates what we get and um this is the market but I do actually love these ones um but yeah let's get into another one so these guys sent me a pair of shoes and these to me look like a Croc combined with a skate shoe which who knows may maybe maybe they'll hit right because like you know maybe the kids like maybe the younger generation of skaters is going to put these on and because Crocs are so trendy they'll be like dude I feel like I'm skating Crocs like the Gen Z generation is is hilarious because like my son um his like Prime Footwear is a pair of Lightning McQueen Crocs dude they're goated though like they're actually they're so sick Lightning McQueen Crocs are the ridge yeah yeah he owns it hard he does really well in those no he really does if they weren't too big for me I'd wear them too see there you go right so so maybe this Croc uh shaped shoe could actually take off now when I look at them the vibe is like actually too basic even for me um they scream Millennial gy dad like that's that's the vibe that I'm picking up here okay but they are incredibly comfortable and I have had one session in them The Flicks are decent um I think I would need it to break in more to really know because even something like a Nike Blazer The Flicks on your first day aren't perfect like they take about half a session to really break in I would say they almost seem to fit a quarter size small in length cuz my toe is like touching but when I was skating it wasn't hurting so it's not a super hard shoe that makes your feet hurt when they hit the ends um they save that the that it's wide and anatomical that's the whole idea right it's supposed to be a w a you know it's supposed to be the shape of your actual foot um they definitely hug my feet they're nice and snug but they don't pinch anywhere there's plenty of padding in the heel collar so my foot does not slip out and are incredibly comfortable they also offer something that's kind of different in that they are a cupsole right when I look at these when I look at these they're definitely a cupsole design but what they feel like is a they feel like a vog with a midsole that's what they feel like in skating them like there's a little bit less board feel than you'd expect from a shoe that can Flex like this so yeah I would say the best way to describe these is rain it's raining yeah that was sudden yeah we'll have to wrap this up pretty quick okay vulcanized with a midle that's what they feel like heel flips lots of Pop kick flips I don't know how well the shape's going to work and um you know they might not be your Vibe aesthetically but you know what we need to look at is the look down Factor the all-important look down Factor so give me the camera look down factor is everything and this is the part that's weird to me I feel like I'm wearing ninja boots it's definitely like not what I'm used to and I haven't seen them skating yet okay okay maybe we should go inside cuz it's raining a lot yeah don't poo in my potatoes he's going to you think he's going to poo in yeah look at him oh no he decided against it he was B he's going to do the poop that's the face of a cat who's [ __ ] did he he did you just filmed and poo didn't you yeah I did he pooed in the hole didn't he yeah he did don't eat it tblo don't eat it he's gonna eat it he's gonna eat it get out of there hi yeah you're right those are pretty fire yeah yeah 100% yeah uh she she doesn't agree CH lame oh yeah um I mean now that we're back and seeing as how you guys are made of time and don't have anything better to do why don't we talk about my shoe crisis right here that that should be a lot of fun okay so Vans love these they hurt my feet so I just wear them as like sort of a chill shoe they look good with just about everything agreed yeah so these um my favorite skating shoe probably but they just don't make me like super stoked you know like they're not a badl looking shoe but they're like too boring you know they're they're so safe like what do you think Lou yeah yeah know they're nice they're like they're clearly go with a lot yeah yeah they're they're a safe Choice they're easy but for some reason I don't get super excited and that bums me out I really should actually just be skating these because they're such a good shoe I like the brown so kind of cool yeah maybe I'm just being a dick you are okay these um Nike cost and Blazers I was so stoked on these because I think the GT outsole is way better than the regular Blazer outsole but um they don't fit me they don't fit so basically if you're a size 10 I mean they're a 10 and a half but like they don't fit me they're too short I think something about um this heel pushes my foot forward I've tried to skate them like even just standing in them my toes are right up against the end and it's Agony and this taller outsole than the regular Blazer it won't allow it to stretch out so but they look awesome they look really SI yeah these are really nice so if you're a size 10 and you live in the Vancouver area hit me up I'll just give them to you I don't care I mean I should keep them and be selfish and be like yeah I'll wear them once a year just to be a total ass but um no I should give them away all right they're nice all right the old half capab okay I I really want your gen Z opinion on these because they're probably one of the most popular shoes in skateboarding right now but but is that like do you think that's warranted when you look at these are you like that's a SI shoe or are you like that's a dad's shoe okay um I was actually thinking it's like I don't know I was thinking it's like a skater shoe I don't think it's a dad shoe um just because of how like far forward and big the the tong tongues are dude the tongues are straight out of 95 yeah no so because because of that I'm think thinking like teenage boy kind of thing like okay yeah a lot of teens wear them and then a lot of 40 plus wear them yeah okay uhhuh I I love the aesthetic of these I really want to skate them but um I just like nothing makes me feel like I can feel my board less than these shoes board feel on the sole is okay but on the side I have zero connection to my board it's literally like my foot's wrapped in a pillow and then I'm trying to skate and not in a good way yeah but I love the look of these I'm going to hang on to them okay another shoe that I love the way they skate but it's not these ones really aren't doing it for me anymore when they were new it was cool but um what's your take on these what's the I mean they like they almost look velvety like oh yeah they are they are yeah you want to put them on your face yeah mhm mhm um but they're also kind of like I don't know too pointy yeah that's what I was going to say like too pointy and kind of velvety they're like it's almost like they're skate shoe but they're trying to mimic like some sort of like fancier shoe okay but like in a bad way yeah so are you just filming my feet the entire time cuz I'm up here yeah basically yeah okay I mean that's fine that's fine do you do you um but you know what they look like to me is they look like Danny DeVito's hands in the penguin and you probably haven't seen that cuz that's Batman it was from when I was like uh six or seven years old but he has these flipper hands that are really long and pointy and that's what these shoes look like when I skate them I'm like I feel like I have Danny DeVito's uh penguin flippers that's funny yeah yeah so I love the way they skate but once these and they bag out and don't look nice pretty in pretty short order yeah okay dunks I've made two videos about these love the way they look hate the way they skate um I don't know how kids skate so well in these shoes there's literally like these are actually my least favorite shoe to skate in and I think this is a Mei thing right it's not a everyone else because they skate them and skate well in them but I just cannot skate well in these shoes all my tricks are 3 in lower instantly um my feet hurt like I just I don't like dunks and I don't get the rage I weirdly love these um they didn't look good in these pants I don't know if you can make these shoes actually look really good and go with anything but I I like the skate Clips in these shoes um I don't know they just pop they skate really well this part of the video is not sponsored by Vans yes I you know did do a sponsor video but um so far like in the last two months of trying shoes I actually haven't found one that makes me skate better than this shoe like that's my honest opinion so I love the sole love the flick the plastic for the heel flips is kind of I'm a bit meh about and I don't like getting karate chopped by my board on the top of my foot in these but you know what I'm really hopeful for there was uh that leaked photo of the a that's going to come out that doesn't have the knit sock it's got the suede upper I'm actually pretty hopeful about those because I think it's going to add the little bit of protection that's needed for these shoes but it's still going to have uh the same Sole and the same toe for flicking so um I think I'm hopeful for those if I like the aesthetic of those ones and they have some good colorways I might go for it and what else do we have these I never skated these much because they just didn't they felt too long I'm between sizes and a lot of a they either feel too long or too short and then the snakes you guys were wondering about the snakes um they have a really wide toe box and I would say I just wasn't skating that well in them um they're comparable to dunks so if you think dunks are an awesome skate shoe and you can skate well in them you'll probably be able to skate well in these they're very comparable in that sense but I would say slightly better in terms of skate ability so that but they have a much wider toe box than a dunk dunks are pretty tight especially when brand new and these are you can see that I had it cinched up right you can see I'm kind of strangling the shoe just to try and skate it so I love the way these look when I'm skating them and in footage they're they're pretty wild they're pretty out there like it's it's not my aesthetic but um I love the white laces the white outsole the black shoe um I actually like all the contrast stitching so yeah I think these were a solid um I think they're a solid move by etes but I don't think this is a high performance skate shoe and especially if you leave these insoles in they're really soft um they deaden the feel of the shoe and you can't get a solid connection to your board so I replaced the insoles with a jlin insole and they were much better okay but we have more we have more I'm not done my shoe crisis we also have I was doing a job I did a little construction job for the drive skate shop and they gave me a free pair of shoes out of the deal so these ones um yeah Last Resorts the Spitfire collab when I looked at them on the Shelf I'm like these are ridiculous I would never wear those okay those are actually really sick though like I think they're flashy like they look really cool just wait till you see them on these might not be the right pants but like so um I was like I've never never even tried on a pair of Last Resorts let's try them on so I put them on and this one's unlaced or not tied up because oh you guys are going to see that I still tie my shoes like a kindergartener watch this my wife makes fun of me I figured out how to do this by myself when I was five and I just never learned the like rabbit around the loop way I just do the double knot the two Loops yeah I'm still five okay but when I actually put these on and then looked in the the mirror for looking at your shoes I was wearing a nice pair of Levis like Levis 550s which are a little baggy but not too too too baggy but like these shoes look good like yeah I don't know why they just do it's cuz they're flashy like yeah no and this this isn't the pair of pants it's got to be in the Levis in the Levis they look really good something about this white contrast stitching um just like makes the shoe pop it stops it from being too boring and um they feel pretty good but I did change the outsoles or the outsole I changed the insole I really didn't like the way the um the insole in these shoes felt so I put a Vans one in and it feels much better I don't know why something about the one that was in this felt too soft um and whenever my foot feels like it's squishing or sliding around in a shoe because the insole is too soft I hate it um I like a firmer insole and the Vans one is a little bit firmer so I mean I'd love to say I'll skate these and I probably will someday but like I have like a shoe crisis you know what I really want you guys um I would love to have like a proper shoe sponsor not like not necessarily because I need it for my ego I need a shoe sponsor so that I'm forced to stop having so many options um one of the really cool things about doing the board thing with Deluxe was it forced me to have to keep riding the same board like I designed it so it's what I wanted but if I okay let's be clear Deluxe isn't forcing me to ride it but I would be like a total dick to start riding other boards after literally designing my own shape with them right so so it's more like a moral obligation to continue to ride the thing that I helped design and because of that I've been improving and and um having a better time on my skateboard so I I kind of wish I had the same opportunity with shoes so that I was forced to only skate the same shoe but instead we have this you can have too much of a good thing you guys you can have too much of a good thing um and I want to show you the irony box you guys are going to love this a don't look at this side no you can't see side no it's okay I'm just zoomed in on your face pH okay okay this is the irony box so you guys love karuma you loved the way the barracks was going but um what do we have in here core Skate brand Wheels I don't know I just love having all these Spitfires in this karuma box the the contrast is really funny to me um and partly it's because they make such good boxes so doing the sponsored review for Kuma was like kind of lame you know and like having to read off the script and one of the thing that they were really clear about in their script was oh God I hope I don't get sued for even talking about this but like they really wanted to make it clear that they have really nice boxes you know oh like o what a luxurious box such a such a premium product but you know what these are some of the nicest shoe boxes I've ever seen this is like four years old now still holding up my massive collection of Wheels here so uh yeah Kuma you make a good shoe box thought you guys might appreciate that I see one other thing I bought that I've never done anything with I love Indies even though I'm skating Ventures um I have an indie collection this is the latest one got this a while ago so I do have an indie collection this is the latest one even though I bought it at least a year or two ago these ones uh were from Jamie Thomas he was selling them on eBay and uh yeah this is a stage I think it's a stage six indie before they became the double bolt hole pattern could be a stage five but you know it's cool they have weirdly long axles like when you put a regular wheel on here there's way too much thread showing so that's kind of funny but even though I'm riding Ventures I do love Indies I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for Indies um but they turn too much for me right now I'm used to Ventures okay this is been the most rambly video very wait there's more there's more there's more I was doing a job for somebody and she gave me this got to take a good look at this made in Canada number 2,930 Bower um this is from the 1960s she said she got it for Christmas one year and it's been sitting you know in a basement ever since and it's roller skate things so bower for anyone who doesn't know makes hockey skates they also make roller blades and stuff but you know they were a skate company so they made roller skates back in the day and as most of you know they would just take um the things that were for roller skates which is trucks these were called trucks back then too and just screw them onto a piece of wood can you imagine trying to skate this thing like it is so dangerous it's like no wonder people would try skateboarding once and then never try it again even on a conventional skateboard like a current skateboard most people's experience is step on the thing slam hard and never try it again yeah and you know if they're lucky there's no ER visit um skateboarding is Exclusive by its very nature you know we don't have to be Gatekeepers about it because um just the fact that it is incredibly difficult and very painful will keep most people out of it forever you know so all we have to do is is make it look easy so they're foolish enough to try it and then give up no no all we have to do is stay enthused and stoked about it enough we we we will always need a core group of people who love skateboarding enough to keep it alive and as long as we have that we're good you know what we don't want to lose is a core group of people who love it um but yeah that's how we went from that's how we went from this to this is you know by always having a core group of people who love it and um if you've watched this far I know you're one of them so thanks for being a part of what I've done over the last uh six years oh you know what I totally forgot to say um and I feel like such a jerk but a huge amount of you actually did the T tics thing and I'm super grateful for that so thank you right like you you made your purchase through the link on tactics and that was awesome um a big thank you I actually meant to open the video with that but at the same time I don't want it to feel like it's a hard sell at the beginning of every video saying thank you um because that would be kind of like a like a sneaky little way to like pitch it you know by saying thank you and I I didn't want to do that so a huge thank you to anyone who made a purchase through that link um I'm I'm hungry by the way yeah you're hungry yeah it's early okay now it's time to go yeah bye you know I'm zoomed into your nostril

Channel: Ben Degros

Views: 27,981

Keywords: skateboard, review, tutorial, Ben, Degros, best, easy, ollie, kickflip, grind, slide, trucks, deck, wheels, bearings, bushings

Id: Z-rCv3BMBX4

Length: 31min 11sec (1871 seconds)

Published: Sun May 19 2024