Trainers

nuknow - seriously what have Reebok ever done for skateboarding? Just because it's Palace is the next cool thing to come around and Adidas have a fuckload of money to spend on marketing. Adidas and Palace would have made a lot more sense. Palace should have realised this IMHO. The Umbro collab was shameless as well.

I'm guessing they want to collaborate with a "British" brand but both Reebok and Umbro haven't been British for a long time. It's all a bit meh.

I can honestly see where it's coming from. Adidas would have made it sound a bit "meh" IMO. Specially after what JS has been done to the brand.
I'm just trying to think like Palace...(whateverthefuck that means).
Think - Circa 2006 (UK)Blueprint skateboards launches a nike football shoe, the Zoom FC, as a sk8 shoe.
Palace wants to follow the trend. It's not about masses, it's about collabos.
It's about being limited and only selling for a couple of retailers.

You're looking at it wrong.
IMO.

Even if that means coming out with "weird", rather than "awesome".

'The British Supreme'

^this.

Palace crew rollin' deep at Brixton skate park!

Anyway, it's all bullshit...

agree with joselain on the Supreme comparison.

Putting British in front of it makes it sound very EDL.

Reebok workout was one of the first non-skateshoes to be used to skate in...early 90's. Also the shoe of choice for all gangsta-wannabe's (Kareem Cambell, Menace team....some of whom were and still are ganstas). Palace have totally gone down that route with their appeal, so an 'official' workout to skate in makes perfect sense to me and its actually pretty credible. Nike, Adidas, NB, etc all have their own skateshoes so this makes perfect sense to me,

http://palaceskateboards.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Screen-Shot-2012-12-25-at-11.08.18.png

Just spotted those ^ guys at Brixton Beach... Head-to-toe Palace, coupla fellas with cameras...

I've never seen anyone skate in Reebok shoes, ever.
Must be a UK thing.

It happened...on both sides of the atlantic. In fact, a whole signature shoe line was based off it...

http://www.complex.com/sneakers/2013/05/the-30-best-signature-skate-shoes-of-all-time/duffs-kcks

I've missed that wave....

Anyone buying the camo's?

might have a punt at the French Air Maxim for resales shits and giggles

Reebok workout was one of the first non-skateshoes to be used to skate in...early 90's. Also the shoe of choice for all gangsta-wannabe's (Kareem Cambell, Menace team....some of whom were and still are ganstas). Palace have totally gone down that route with their appeal, so an 'official' workout to skate in makes perfect sense to me and its actually pretty credible. Nike, Adidas, NB, etc all have their own skateshoes so this makes perfect sense to me,

You're right about the Workouts/KCK thing, although Reebook Workouts were hardly the first non-skate shoes used for skateboarding... Skateboarders have always used non-skate shoes for skateboards: dunks, clydes, even before the 90s I think.

The Bones Brigade with 3/4 wearing Jordan I in 1987:

By the way I just bought "Made for Skate : The Illustrated History of Skateboard Footwear" and it's a very interesting reading, including a discussion about this Animal Chin/Jordan thing...

I agree...I knew when I wrote that 'first shoe' thing someone would pull me up ;)

Jordan's were/are pretty much the perfect skate shoe. That's why dunks have been so massive in the SB line. If we're really splitting hairs, all stars were the first non-skate shoe. Converse weapons were also decent for the same reasons as the Jordan's. The problem with the Jordan's is that no one (other than a small number of highly paid teenagers in the late 80's who were an advertisers wet dream) could afford to trash them skating, so not exactly a mainstream thing. Workouts you could get for £15...much like the first states/Clydes/baskets/gazelles/etc wave - good times! So they were accessible and I think they were the first shoe to influence a skate shoe design so heavily. Want that book!

I still have a PP Steve Caballero dragon deck from 86 IIRC. My first serious deck.

#reminiscing

Flyknit Free

Free? Would'nt wear them even if paid.

Didn't know chewbacca wore socks.

Hasn't quite managed to clean the dog poo off the toe either.

noticed that. Free run sole is very comfortable - looks a bit ming though

I like my free runs but think that the Roshe is far more comfortable for every day use.

Love em or hate em, Roshe is the most comfortable shoe out there.

Might have to get some flyknit frees... love my free run 2's. Most comfortable trainer evar.

Those Free Inneva Woven NRG are my mostest comfortablist shoes. Look a tiny bit special, but no denying the 'oooh' effect

The 'oooh' effect as in they're nice or as in why would you wear that?

Or as in the mrs tells you to walk across the road?