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Buying a different model of shoe every time seems crazy to me, how do you guys ever get anything done
I buy different variations on slip ons. They’re not that different. If I bought D3s one month and then half cabs the next that might be an issue.
I was always trying new models, vulc or cup, even slip ons, but at somepoint around 2013 I moved to one of the biggest cities in my country: spots everywhere, better weather, a huge local scene, a LOT of skating. I had to stop using vulc cause my feet would hurt daily after so much pushing out there with the dudes. VANS got forever erased from my shoe option list quickly.
Since then this is my method: Of any shoe I like the way skates/feels I'd try to get as much colors of it to skate (or the same one i dont care really) I'll even buy them on sale months even before actually skating them. I liked to skate the same shoe/board always, if possible.
Its been mostly corpo shoes and some DC'S since then, some memorable ones: NB#868: 7 pairs, Adidas sheltoe: 6 pairs, Nike Project BA: 4 Pairs, Adidas copa nationale: 4 pairs, Adidas Busenitz: 5 pairs, DC Kalis s 4 Pairs.
In between these periods without an stable model I've fallen in the struggle of skating a lot of shoes I finally dont like, whatever long gone and discontinued "core" brands model I'll find in the thrift store and some other non-skate shoes. Isn't an easy task to find a good model nowadays.
On the funny side, last year became a dad and now have a 3 month newborn, which meant my current skate shoes are the longest in use in my whole adult life, these ishods are still holding since april 2022
and stopped buying the same 8.125 american-brand board cause prices are too damn high and our diapers never get discounts