Author Topic: Post your first 'real' skate shoe (Read 25381 times)

Righteous Victim · « **Reply #30 on:** July 12, 2016, 06:01:07 PM »

Didn't know Airwalks were so common. I had them too, don't remember which, sometime around 2000. They lasted forever.

duffmanshredder · « **Reply #31 on:** July 12, 2016, 06:45:19 PM »

Jesus Christ...

Wizard Fight · « **Reply #32 on:** July 12, 2016, 06:55:31 PM »

Navy and white, 2001. I guess DC is still making a couple colors of these too.

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I think I had these before I started skating, maybe 1999?:

Willie · « **Reply #33 on:** July 12, 2016, 08:17:18 PM »

First shoes bought specifically for skating were purple Chuck Taylors but first shoes that called "skate shoes" were these Airwalks but colored black and red with bats or pterodactyls where the knives are here.

Quote from: HATE! on July 12, 2016, 01:35:18 PM

Almost certainly picked due to having swords on them:

danjtony · « **Reply #34 on:** July 12, 2016, 08:21:14 PM »

Quote from: heritage on July 12, 2016, 01:43:54 PM

I bought a pair of those Vision high tops (yellow) on amazon for like 20 bucks. They skated well and fit great, but the sole came unglued fast. I wish they made them in a better quality (I don't think the amazon ones are the OG ones), cause I like them way better than chucks or skate-hi's.

Bubblegum Tate · « **Reply #35 on:** July 12, 2016, 08:38:02 PM »

In the blue color, bought at FTC, when still on Shrader st.

Madam, I'm Adam · « **Reply #36 on:** July 12, 2016, 08:48:03 PM »

DC Substance in this colourway, back in 2000.

Quote from: BMCsteve on July 12, 2016, 11:17:15 AM

First pair that I bought with my own money mowing lawns

You must've been the envy of the neighbourhood! Those are so nice.

Chavo · « **Reply #37 on:** July 12, 2016, 09:16:40 PM »

Vans "Era" custom ordered with blue/red/blue checkers (the opposite color scheme of these below) with red checkered foxing in 1982.

Chavo · « **Reply #38 on:** July 12, 2016, 09:23:17 PM »

Quote from: botefdunn 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

He was a fictitious pro played by Airwalk marketing guy, Sin Egelja (R.I.P.). I think the joke was that skateboarding was becoming so commercialized that they may as well have signature shoes.

Smell Good · « **Reply #39 on:** July 12, 2016, 09:36:49 PM »

Bastian Salabanzi Vans. These are the exact color.

Bought them at a Vans store in Orlando Florida while on vacation. I was unbelievably stoked on them. I had to have been like 12 or 13.

fur lined sea · « **Reply #40 on:** July 12, 2016, 09:45:56 PM »

Good to see I wasn't the only one who started out with DCs in the early 2000s. This was DC's peak, right? After the DC video I only remember seeing and wanting the Lynx because of Wenning in the mid 2000s, but by then I was all about Es Kostons and Emerica Reynolds.

DC Spectres in 2002. Got them on sale with no shoe box for under $50 at my local skate shop that closed a couple of years later

I wanted DCs because my friends and other skaters had all these models and Mantecas:

http://skately.com/library/shoes/dc-shoes-diablo

PeanutGallery · « **Reply #41 on:** July 12, 2016, 11:17:39 PM »

Still remember asking the parents to get these for christmas

Cosme · « **Reply #42 on:** July 13, 2016, 12:03:27 AM »

1992 - The previous year I destroyed all my regular shoes. I found these in a Rollerskating shop in a city near my hometown. There were almost no skateboarding shops in Spain back then and Vans were nearly impossible to find. I bought two pairs and destroyed them as well but these ones I kept using out of sheer necessity/pride.

broken_teeth · « **Reply #43 on:** July 13, 2016, 12:30:59 AM »

the first "skate" shoes i got mightve been these or Rowley XL's:

but the first shoes i skated when i actually started skating were these, and i liked em a lot, not just because they had skulls on em

Hercules Rockefeller · « **Reply #44 on:** July 13, 2016, 01:41:29 AM »

i`m 95 percent sure it were these duffs, in that colorway, hard to tell on the photo, and didnt really find a better one. mostly remember it due to the shoebox.

Howie · « **Reply #45 on:** July 13, 2016, 05:55:04 AM »

I'm not quite sure but the first I can remember were some really fat Vans with the puffiest tongue I've ever come across.
They looked pretty much like these shitty DC's but I'm prety sure they had a vulc sole.

I also remember having some Vans that were bascially a fattened up Era which were really good. I think they might have been some Rowley model but I can't remember.

breathnaigh · « **Reply #46 on:** July 13, 2016, 06:25:00 AM »

Maybe 93?

Sk.A.T.A.N · « **Reply #47 on:** July 13, 2016, 07:10:38 AM »

I not sure if I bought those first or some Vans La Cripta Dos (Those were shieeet). Bought them at the mall, Year 2008 I think.

They werent regular canvas, more of some kind of nylon. Didnt skated that much in them, but were comfy.

I think the first real skateshoe I had and skated till they're dust was those Prod 2's. They were indestructible and next level comfy. Lasted over 1 year! I even gave them after to a skater friend and they lasted half a year more.

Krooked antihero · « **Reply #48 on:** July 13, 2016, 07:15:54 AM »

99/00

PC500 · « **Reply #49 on:** July 13, 2016, 08:59:51 AM »

Quote from: duffmanshredder on July 12, 2016, 06:45:19 PM

Jesus Christ...

Dude. Appreciate your honesty.

noileum · « **Reply #50 on:** July 13, 2016, 09:18:25 AM »

had a few pairs of Chuck Taylors - but these were the first by a 'skate' company

Similarly to my first board being a result of being overwhelmed in my virst real skate shop visit - these bad boys were the same. For some reason I figured they were cool as hell while on holiday thousands of miles away from home. Think I wore them for a week before realising how fucking lame they were

yapple dapple · « **Reply #51 on:** July 13, 2016, 09:27:18 AM »

If they remade these I'd rock em today.

hsggreen · « **Reply #52 on:** July 13, 2016, 09:51:20 AM »

DC Titans blue/grey 2001. So good.

botefdunn · « **Reply #53 on:** July 13, 2016, 10:53:54 AM »

Quote from: PC500 on July 13, 2016, 08:59:51 AM

Quote from: duffmanshredder on July 12, 2016, 06:45:19 PM
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Jesus Christ...

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Dude. Appreciate your honesty.

had the exact same thought

botefdunn · « **Reply #54 on:** July 13, 2016, 10:56:06 AM »

Quote from: breathnaigh on July 13, 2016, 06:25:00 AM

Maybe 93?

these have stuck in my head over the years, tried to find some recently, would love to skate some. I think they were ahead of their time, just a nice clean midtop vulc. '93 sounds about right, but might have been as late as '95

UserFame · « **Reply #55 on:** July 13, 2016, 01:47:39 PM »

Quote from: OldManSkate on July 12, 2016, 03:58:54 PM

Had these joints in '95 or '96

yeah, I had this ones also!

UserFame · « **Reply #56 on:** July 13, 2016, 01:49:47 PM »

Quote from: art hellman on July 12, 2016, 01:17:56 PM

Quote from: BMCsteve on July 12, 2016, 11:17:15 AM
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First pair that I bought with my own money mowing lawns

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yeah, I remember this ones, they were really beautiful at the time!

truthislie · « **Reply #57 on:** July 14, 2016, 02:53:01 AM »

And I know Airwalk has been bought by a shit corporation a long time ago, but damn I really want to see the Jason Lee reissued.

Jim and Dan · « **Reply #58 on:** July 14, 2016, 07:24:16 AM »

Them black joints all the way on the right.

Xen · « **Reply #59 on:** July 14, 2016, 10:10:29 AM »

OG Vans Sk8 HIs in Black and Olive.