Are you kidding me? Shelltoes are great to skate in. And you don't feel the shell at all, it just feels like the inside of any other shoe. I don't know why some of you guys think that. Maybe they've never actually worn them, in which case their opinion is pretty much invalid.
Watch H-Street's "Lick" to get pumped on shelltoes. The whole team (all 436,865 members) rocked them.