Will, Tate, and 144p - you guys put some time into the SB Free, would you recommend it? I tried it on, but the heel is scaring me off a little bit. I can't tell whether or not the shoe would be stable in the heel.
that's really my only real gripe with the shoe performance-wise. It's good enough for ledges, flat, & other types of low impact stuff but for me its a total no-go down anything with moderately high impact or weird banks where you'd be prone to awkward landings. Your foot stays locked in the shoe but your heel might roll over the sole and into the sidewalls on the inside if you land with too much force in one direction. i actually really love how responsive the sole feels and it's more supportive than I thought it'd be but I feel like it needs better overall construction on the upper to fully bring out the potential with the shoe. I'd buy them if you can get them for cheap, but probably not retail. if they beefed these up and replaced the phylon midsole with lunarlon, it'd be a killer shoe. i wear mine on mellow days where I'm mostly skating flat and just riding around at the park and they feel amazing for that type of stuff, they just got a major weakness with that lack of heel containment.
Also, Nike needs to fuckin chill with these prices. I was thinking those SB Free Nano's were gonna be a "price point" version of the free's but they're still going for $100. fuckouttahere with that nonsense. i actually like the free's but I got them for $85 and that's exactly where it should be priced IMO. I dont even think the nano's are
that bad looking but they really fuckin trippin if they think that design is worth $100 retail. a lot of their retail pricing seems to be $10-20 too high lately while all the real gems are going for like $35 on sale in various parts of the internet. I think they're starting to fall off a little bit honestly