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Post your first 'real' skate shoe
« on: July 12, 2016, 10:55:38 AM »
This was my first proper skate shoe. From a small town with no skateshop, I think I started OK -1992:



The proceeding years were ugly.

What you got? Don't forget the year for context.


 

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Re: Post your first 'real' skate shoe
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2016, 11:00:06 AM »
These beautiful things, I was like 14, so 2002-ish?


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Re: Post your first 'real' skate shoe
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2016, 11:07:36 AM »
but black/white


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Re: Post your first 'real' skate shoe
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2016, 11:12:23 AM »
I believe it was one of these two, I had both early on ... late 80's ish



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Re: Post your first 'real' skate shoe
« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2016, 11:17:15 AM »
First pair that I bought with my own money mowing lawns


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Re: Post your first 'real' skate shoe
« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2016, 11:23:49 AM »
first i bought


but before that i had some second hand airwalk prototype that were too big and second hand airwalk vic like these

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Re: Post your first 'real' skate shoe
« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2016, 11:29:37 AM »
Vics for me too. Still don't know who this dude was, but I had his shoe

even more era-specific, I cut them down too


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Re: Post your first 'real' skate shoe
« Reply #7 on: July 12, 2016, 12:31:33 PM »
i think these, or something really similar,

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Re: Post your first 'real' skate shoe
« Reply #8 on: July 12, 2016, 12:52:18 PM »
I had Airwalks and stuff before this, but this was the first "real" skate shoe I had. I was stoked.


Mine was grey instead of blue though.
Not long after I got these, wish I would have held on to them.


*EDIT* Not to dismiss Airwalk's legitimacy as "real skate shoes" but at this point they had already been reduced to a Payless brand more or less.
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Re: Post your first 'real' skate shoe
« Reply #9 on: July 12, 2016, 12:53:08 PM »
i'll let you fill in the blanks of my childhood from here


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Re: Post your first 'real' skate shoe
« Reply #10 on: July 12, 2016, 01:02:29 PM »


rowley shambles, mine were tan tho

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Re: Post your first 'real' skate shoe
« Reply #11 on: July 12, 2016, 01:07:21 PM »
The old ones from 99 though

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« Reply #12 on: July 12, 2016, 01:09:07 PM »

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« Reply #13 on: July 12, 2016, 01:10:22 PM »
These bad boys are the first I can remeber. Must've been 2000ish

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Re: Post your first 'real' skate shoe
« Reply #14 on: July 12, 2016, 01:11:26 PM »
Loaf pincher knows what's up

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Re: Post your first 'real' skate shoe
« Reply #15 on: July 12, 2016, 01:17:56 PM »
First pair that I bought with my own money mowing lawns


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Re: Post your first 'real' skate shoe
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Re: Post your first 'real' skate shoe
« Reply #17 on: July 12, 2016, 02:09:12 PM »
Bought them from the vans skatepark in Milpitas I wanna say around 2003

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Re: Post your first 'real' skate shoe
« Reply #18 on: July 12, 2016, 02:14:09 PM »
Bought them from the vans skatepark in Milpitas I wanna say around 2003


little did you know you would never have to buy a different shoe ever again.
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Re: Post your first 'real' skate shoe
« Reply #19 on: July 12, 2016, 02:49:44 PM »
Plain black old skools or rowley xlts. I can't remember which came first for me.

After that it was a duffs wave for a while

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Re: Post your first 'real' skate shoe
« Reply #20 on: July 12, 2016, 02:59:24 PM »

I only got these because the older dudes at the park would wear them.

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Re: Post your first 'real' skate shoe
« Reply #21 on: July 12, 2016, 03:23:22 PM »
Black and white airwalk ones. I had airwalk gto's after that.
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Re: Post your first 'real' skate shoe
« Reply #22 on: July 12, 2016, 03:26:07 PM »
Got them around 2005 or maybe 2006 not sure anymore.
Just found the picture i took of them. Must be 28th of August 2006, that's what the data from the pic says.



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Re: Post your first 'real' skate shoe
« Reply #23 on: July 12, 2016, 03:58:54 PM »
Had these joints in '95 or '96

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Re: Post your first 'real' skate shoe
« Reply #24 on: July 12, 2016, 04:32:30 PM »
^ Had those as well!

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Re: Post your first 'real' skate shoe
« Reply #25 on: July 12, 2016, 04:34:24 PM »

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Re: Post your first 'real' skate shoe
« Reply #26 on: July 12, 2016, 04:40:03 PM »
Had these joints in '95 or '96


^ Had those as well!

Me too but also in the green/tan that Markovich had in the Color video ... had to have them haha

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Re: Post your first 'real' skate shoe
« Reply #27 on: July 12, 2016, 05:02:05 PM »
Had many skate shoes when I was younger, but these were the first I skated hard. Like 2007-ish. I'd skate them again if possible.

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Re: Post your first 'real' skate shoe
« Reply #28 on: July 12, 2016, 05:27:55 PM »
Almost certainly picked due to having swords on them:
haha! My mate had these (probably his first too?) chucked them on ice for a minute and then cut them down to mids/ silver duct-taped them when he got his first pair of blind jeans ;D
Great memories!
Mine were these:

although I'm pretty sure I had a pair in the red/black speckle colourway too (and not sure which ones I owned first). This was 88/89-ish after which time we were all just rocking bulky (white) adidas/ reebok/ cons high tops because they probably skated the best/ were the most durable. I remember my mum buying me chucks and getting so angry because I tore through them in one afternoon. Did anyone else ever to the reverse "ollie bolts"?
I think the next pair of actual skate shoes I rocked after that were some chukka-inspired airwalk vics . No actually it wasn't the vics, it was these (in this exact colourway):

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Re: Post your first 'real' skate shoe
« Reply #29 on: July 12, 2016, 05:40:55 PM »
dark blue, grey accents
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