Post your first 'real' skate shoe

[yourfuckingdad]

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Kind a weird to see so many Adios here. Were they really big at the time or just in every mall?

I'm not sure which was my first one but couple first ones were those callicut etnies posted earlier, some adios from the mall and sykum's if anybody remembers them.

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Actually got all my early shoes at a shop, Adio was huge at the time but I settled because they didn't have accels in my size. Malls near me didn't carry anything "cool" back in 2000-2001

Got my Adio's at a shop too. The 'core' brand thing didn't really exist back then and Adio was considered pretty cool iirc.
They were sort of the predecessor to Fallen which was hugely popular among skaters for a while.

[Seadramon]

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Kind a weird to see so many Adios here. Were they really big at the time or just in every mall?

I'm not sure which was my first one but couple first ones were those callicut etnies posted earlier, some adios from the mall and sykum's if anybody remembers them.

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Actually got all my early shoes at a shop, Adio was huge at the time but I settled because they didn't have accels in my size. Malls near me didn't carry anything "cool" back in 2000-2001

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Got my Adio's at a shop too. The 'core' brand thing didn't really exist back then and Adio was considered pretty cool iirc.
They were sort of the predecessor to Fallen which was hugely popular among skaters for a while.

I loved Adio until their demise. The team was stacked.

[MattyOKC]

i'll let you fill in the blanks of my childhood from here

This was my first pair as well back in 2004 I think it was

[yourfuckingdad]

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i'll let you fill in the blanks of my childhood from here

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This was my first pair as well back in 2004 I think it was

These Bam's I keep seeing are really sick. Super wide

[Mystical Leader]

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Kind a weird to see so many Adios here. Were they really big at the time or just in every mall?

I'm not sure which was my first one but couple first ones were those callicut etnies posted earlier, some adios from the mall and sykum's if anybody remembers them.

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Actually got all my early shoes at a shop, Adio was huge at the time but I settled because they didn't have accels in my size. Malls near me didn't carry anything "cool" back in 2000-2001

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Got my Adio's at a shop too. The 'core' brand thing didn't really exist back then and Adio was considered pretty cool iirc.
They were sort of the predecessor to Fallen which was hugely popular among skaters for a while.

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I loved Adio until their demise. The team was stacked.

Actually now that I think about it their team was really versatile and big.. How come they fell so hard off of skateboarding? Was adio the first major shoe company to die when the athlete companies crashed the market?

[UserFame]

Axion Kareem Campbell's...

First skate shoe and still one of my favorites!

I had those, my looked dope, but were the most uncomfortable and unskateble shoes, I ever had. Also, the air bubble exploded after a week of just walking in them.

[Matthew_James]

Loved those so much the first two weeks I had them. Then I broke my leg in them.

These shoes in this color way were the fucking best, wanted them so badly in that particular color with the icy sole

[Ankle_Lift]

These were so sick. I actually wish I could get a reissue. I got these in I think summer of 2000. The sole eventually ripped off when I was learning bordslides at the shitty original skatpark my town had. I also wore them raving.

[Quique]

All of my friends said they were clown shoes but i loved them

[MattyOKC]

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Kind a weird to see so many Adios here. Were they really big at the time or just in every mall?

I'm not sure which was my first one but couple first ones were those callicut etnies posted earlier, some adios from the mall and sykum's if anybody remembers them.

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Actually got all my early shoes at a shop, Adio was huge at the time but I settled because they didn't have accels in my size. Malls near me didn't carry anything "cool" back in 2000-2001

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Got my Adio's at a shop too. The 'core' brand thing didn't really exist back then and Adio was considered pretty cool iirc.
They were sort of the predecessor to Fallen which was hugely popular among skaters for a while.

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I loved Adio until their demise. The team was stacked.

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Actually now that I think about it their team was really versatile and big.. How come they fell so hard off of skateboarding? Was adio the first major shoe company to die when the athlete companies crashed the market?

This is just my theory so nothing is factual. I think what happened was when Bam was away from skating from getting deep into alcohol, drugs, and shit adios market started crashing. Bam had a huge networth and anything he got involved with it sold and sold in masses this is an example of the jones effect and how powerful of a sells tool it is. Due to his involvement with jackass skaters and non-skaters alike followed Bam like a cult following. Before Viva La Bam nobody knew who the band HIM was once the show became a hit and bam slapped HIMs heartagram  on everything HIM became a hit during that time and soon everyone knew who they were. It was free marketing and advertising for HIM to let Bam use their trademark heartagram. Once Bam hit rock bottom you quit hearing of HIM and the adio brand died

[MyUserName]

I think it's a lot simpler: they made shitty shoes, their image was dorky, and they were too slow to adapt to trends.

[yourfuckingdad]

the shaun whites were dope too




I think they went after the middle schooler's money too much, like Lakai did and ended up making their brand look like a joke and too niche compared to Nike, Vans, etc.

That said, I think Fallen and Dekline did a decent job adapting and they still went under. Their shoes were always good generally decent.

[AsianVegan]

DC's too. I thought these looked like the Truth's that I couldn't afford (they don't). I was bummed because I couldn't wear through the toecap learning to Ollie.

[GardenSkater77]

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Vics for me too. Still don't know who this dude was, but I had his shoe

even more era-specific, I cut them down too

Yup, my first pair of real skate shoes were Vic’s in seventh grade. I was so hyped until I skated them. The leather lace saver dug into my foot causing blisters and the soles were hard and thin with very little grip. I think I went back to skating my Nike Airs which were probably Flights at the time. Also Cons weapons were the bomb. Basically any basketball shoes of the era were light years away from any skateboard shoes at that point. For me, it wasn’t until 96 when I began buying DCs, which I always liked better than Etnies/es.

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The all black Vics he's wearing in the ad were my first 'real' skate shoes. Had some sort of knock off Vans hi tops before that, in addition to some pretty embarrassing department store kicks. Traxx... so bad. Think I had Airwalk Cloud Nines after the Vics.

[Hypnotoad]

This one's a little tricky.  I started skating in spring of 6th grade, which immediately led to me hanging with some kinda rough teens and getting busted by the cops for weed at 12 years old that summer ('96).  My first pair of skate shoes then were some Airwalk jacked that I got for my birthday. 


after that weed bust, some guilt shit kicked in and I kinda regressed back into kiddo status for a while and stopped skating.  I picked up a board again at the end of my freshman year('99) and ended up in these bad boys... Globe Gershon:


These are the exact colorway/model of each shoe. 

Side note:  Those Airwalks would totally fly today, and the Globes are fucking hiking boots.

[CrumblingInfrastructure]

These

#metoo

Black/blue colorway. Every single person at my school had these.

[j....soy.....]

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Vics for me too. Still don't know who this dude was, but I had his shoe

even more era-specific, I cut them down too

Yup, my first pair of real skate shoes were Vic’s in seventh grade. I was so hyped until I skated them. The leather lace saver dug into my foot causing blisters and the soles were hard and thin with very little grip. I think I went back to skating my Nike Airs which were probably Flights at the time. Also Cons weapons were the bomb. Basically any basketball shoes of the era were light years away from any skateboard shoes at that point. For me, it wasn’t until 96 when I began buying DCs, which I always liked better than Etnies/es.

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The all black Vics he's wearing in the ad were my first 'real' skate shoes. Had some sort of knock off Vans hi tops before that, in addition to some pretty embarrassing department store kicks. Traxx... so bad. Think I had Airwalk Cloud Nines after the Vics.

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Mine too....you could buy essentially dunks or weapons for $40 at a blow out place...airwalks were like $100. In Canada at least...The Vic's were cheaper so made more sense.....

 I don't think Vic's lined up too well with cutting shoes....I remember that was around enigma times ie after the prototypes were too wild...skaters started going backwards.....Vic's were more on the way up.. 

[Randozzi]

I remember having some airwalks that sort of looked like the Vic but without the ollie pad. Had a couple pair, recall that the soles didn't last too long. Had a pair of black and white 720s after that, then Enigmas.

[Sk.A.T.A.N]

This one's a little tricky.  I started skating in spring of 6th grade, which immediately led to me hanging with some kinda rough teens and getting busted by the cops for weed at 12 years old that summer ('96).  My first pair of skate shoes then were some Airwalk jacked that I got for my birthday. 


after that weed bust, some guilt shit kicked in and I kinda regressed back into kiddo status for a while and stopped skating.  I picked up a board again at the end of my freshman year('99) and ended up in these bad boys... Globe Gershon:


These are the exact colorway/model of each shoe. 

Side note:  Those Airwalks would totally fly today, and the Globes are fucking hiking boots.

Those airwalks are so good!! Love the double layered toecap and the assymetry.

[Dad you're embarrassing me]

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Actually a really good shoe from memory. Before these I skated in Dunlop volleys or runners, and I was able to get cheap Osiris for a while after, but the first cut is the deepest!

Sorry, dumb fuck still can’t embed!

[Alan]

^^

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[givecigstosurfgroms]

shitty airwalk prototypes

[art hellman]

[dstrytruitt]

1990 or so.

[Baron Samedi]

2000 was a truly disgusting year for shoes

[GardenSkater77]

If they remade these I'd rock em today.

They did. I am wearing them today. Bought a pair at active last year off their clearance rack. It’s the pro edition for the 30th anniversary. They are really fun to skate on ramps with.

[Seadramon]

Wasn't the story that Adio got bought by some big name company that canned the team over night?

[Matthew_James]

These were so sick. I actually wish I could get a reissue. I got these in I think summer of 2000. The sole eventually ripped off when I was learning bordslides at the shitty original skatpark my town had. I also wore them raving.

I had these, same timeframe with the same colorway. They skated so well, better than the K3’s imo. I was surprised that they didn’t catch on as heavy as the K3, which skated like trash but everyone ran em.

[brother bob]

I was so pumped

[Lloyd Braun]

I was so pumped

Not sure if these were the exact ones, but I had a similar pair in red/white. I remember not being stoked on circa after because the soles blew out. Looking back it's because I skated them for 9-12 months