suede backed twill CTAS pro. Never skated in anything from converse but some bog standard chuck hi back when my mom paid for my shoes and she couldn't afford anything more expensive at that time, these are insanely comfortable with the lunarlon and probably the grippiest shoe I've been in yet. Breaking them in was easy though, thankfully. Might have to start buying more of these now that I've given up on trying to relive my childhood strictly skating the accel OG.