Slip-on shoes for street?

[Painted Baby]

whole ass foot

I like your phrasing and there's a lot of truth in it. The flipside of the too tight slip-on is that when they get really broken in they bag out like no other shoe and are just kind of a gum sole floppily strapped to your foot. Also they get so loose that they offer zero support. This may sound like I'm anti slip-on but that's not true. I just got too old and hurt to wear them full time but I still wear them as chillers I can fuck around in from time to time.

[Black Frycook]

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Slip ons only work in non-street skating - especially slalom or freestyle.  Good thing you checked in here before trying a pair.

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Exactly. Slip ons were invented so laces wouldn’t fuck up your caspers, get stuck on your trucks while pogo-ing, or cause mud on your slalom shalom runs.

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[FS-OverKOOK]

Until Timberland releases a slip on version of the classic 6 inch there really is no "street" appropriate slip on

a big part of that is loose and untied laces so we might run into some issues.

make sure when you get the slips that you have at least 4 cuffs on your chinos and make sure your beanie is not in contact with your ears.

[FrenchFriedClownFingers]

For the first time i tried to skate a pair of slipon janoski sbs and while i liked the way they feel and respond, they leave me feeling naked around my ankle.

that is something i just can't trust even though i don't tighten my laces at all when wearing shoes that have them.
i can just foresee a blowout and i've heard when that happens you have to wear two pairs of socks, something i aint done since i was broke and 16.

go with a pair of ht janoskis, they last forever or take some time and stitch up the elastic parts of the shoe near the ankle that rip after a few sessions, i think they are the main reason why skating slip on shoes sucks. there's no durability in that region of the shoe since skating isn't taken into consideration when they design them but that's just my guess since most folks don't skate slip on shoes..

[weon]

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Slip ons only work in non-street skating - especially slalom or freestyle.  Good thing you checked in here before trying a pair.

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Exactly. Slip ons were invented so laces wouldn’t fuck up your caspers, get stuck on your trucks while pogo-ing, or cause mud on your slalom shalom runs.

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Fixed that for you

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Shalom.

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(:

[Black Frycook]

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Slip ons only work in non-street skating - especially slalom or freestyle.  Good thing you checked in here before trying a pair.

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Exactly. Slip ons were invented so laces wouldn’t fuck up your caspers, get stuck on your trucks while pogo-ing, or cause mud on your slalom shalom runs.

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Fixed that for you

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Shalom.

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(:

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[weon]

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Slip ons only work in non-street skating - especially slalom or freestyle.  Good thing you checked in here before trying a pair.

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Exactly. Slip ons were invented so laces wouldn’t fuck up your caspers, get stuck on your trucks while pogo-ing, or cause mud on your slalom shalom runs.

[close]

Fixed that for you

[close]

Shalom.

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(:

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[Hevonen]

Feel good first but get too lose after some time. Get velcro janoski's if you don't know knots

[El Nugjar]

Anyone? I always wondered how different they feel when riding street.

If this is a real question, focus your account please. Shoes are shoes. My guess is you are under the age of 18, grew up in a skatepark thinking street skating is in the “street section” of a skatepark. In actuality it’s park skating. Street skating takes place in the actual streets of cities and towns and villages. And I’d put my money on you haven’t ever actually skated street since you asked this pathetic, worthless comment. 

[talklessSkateMore]

this pathetic, worthless comment.

[moonordie]

A slip on, at least Vans, is going to feel pretty much like any of their other shoes when it comes to the sole and in sole. It feels like a Old Skool but you don't have to worry about laces. They can be a bit tight at the top where the elastic is for some people.

Personally I like a mid top like the Blazer Mid. Slips skate great in my opinion, but leave basically your whole ass foot susceptible to damage from your board.

Exactly what this guy just said.