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
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):