SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!

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Editor’s note: This S.F.U. drop is from longtime DP Dot Commenter, now Com-tributor – GRANDMASTER.

To the DP Dot Com faithful, the addicts, and fiends,

I know Dallas’s dunk game reigns supreme, but if there’s one thing that he’s been holding out on us all has been the SB line of Dunks, so I thought I’d come through and just spread the love out some[||].

After months(maybe years) of reading Dallas’ drops about sneakers, I decided to follow in his footsteps*, and go outside of the box* (*puns most definitely intended). I started naming my kicks after whatever I felt like calling them. Eff some NIKE businessman for telling me what to think about shoes I paid for with money I couldn’t afford to spend.

In my arrogant ass opinion, Dunk SB’s are the most comfortable shoes Nike puts out. Some people, especially the Europeans and Asians, prefer Air Maxes (360’s, 90’s, and 95’s mainly), but I claim this shoe as the pinnacle. Regular orange-boxed Dunks are basically retro basketball shoes, but the Dunk SB’s take a boxy shoe and beef up the padding to make them suitable for skateboarding.

The late comedian Mitch Hedberg once said some real words: “I don’t have to be sweaty and holding a basketball to enjoy a Gatorade. I could just be a thirsty dude.” Paraphrasing his logic, I don’t have to give two deuces about a kick flip to be wearing SB’s; I could just need some fresh, comfortable shoes. And it’s not hard to notice that (a) Nike spends some real development time on the colorways for this shoe, and (b) the padding that helps suicidal skateboarders not crack their shit open also makes them more comfortable to rock on the regular.

I’ve recently been wearing a lot of high-tops, because it’s been getting colder than your momma out here in New Haven and, seeing as how I pretty much only rock ankle socks, that part of my leg between my pants and my shoes has been getting froze off. For that reason, I copped this pair of SBs.

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This pair of SB Dunk Highs are officially called the ‘Skateboard Pack – Deck’ Dunk His, They’re part of a three-pack of Dunk SBs that are supposed to represent the three major parts of a skateboard. There’s the ‘Grip Tape’ Dunk mids, the ‘Deck’ Dunk his, and a to-be-released pair of ‘Truck’ Dunk lows.

But whenever I slip these on in the morning, I like to call them the ENDOR FOREST COMMANDO SB Dunk Highs. See, like most 70s-80s babies out there who grew up as nerdy as JALEEL WHITE (and for some of y’all who didn’t), I grew up on a steady diet of Yoda, Luke Skywalker, and dreaming about one day having a shorty with a cinnamon-bun-roll-looking hairdo. This shoe takes all the concentrated badassery of the forest guerilla battle of the third movie (eff what GEORGE LUCAS has to say about a prequel trilogy, Episodes IV-VI are the truth) and distills it into my footwear of choice. Good thing I was real young when I first saw that movie, too, or I might be catching feelings about Ewoks like I did Jar Jar Binks, but that’s another story.

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nike sb

These shoes are officially a “Tweed/Classic Green” colorway, but that doesn’t even describe the half of it. These aren’t just any SB Dunks. They’re Premiums baby, because of the use of a special print leather combined with premium materials. The entire rear panel of the shoes are covered in a special leather printed all over with a wood grain pattern only seen in one super-limited dunk low before (the MICHAEL LAU Dunk low, only available at one Nike event in Hong Kong), while the entire upper and side panels are composed of some real buttery-soft, suede-feeling material.

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nike sb

These joints also have one of the biggest bonuses in my book – non-white midsoles and cupsoles. There is nothing that I hate more than popping open a new pair of kicks, wearing them once to class and back to my place, then finding half of my city stuck between the tread. Well, that will still happen with these joints, except you won’t notice it because of the darker colored bottom cupsole. [||].

Anyways, the “Classic Green” swoosh and stitching reminds me of some kinds of crazy jungle plants, plus Luke’s green lightsaber, the wood panel printed leather in the back looks just like some old growth forests or trees, and the mixed brown uppers look a lot like the forest camouflage that everyone’s favorite Rebels was rocking in the backwoods.

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That’s enough for today. But yo, you don’t even know about my own little Transformers pack that I been putting together on the side. Maybe some day Dallas will let me put you all on to my Bumblebee Dunk highs and Megatron Air Force III highs…

GRAND MASTER

24 Responses to “SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!”

  1. Luq says:

    I’ve got the griptapes… among other SBs… and can’t skate to save my life… but they’re def the most comfortable shoes i own.

  2. I need to get up on my dunk game. I am seriously lacking.
    Wait, lacking isn’t even the word. I’m not even in the game at all.
    But if they’re that comfy…maybe I need to chill on the stilettos for a while and focus on something different for a while.

    Your shoes remind me of turtles, but I like them.

  3. Dan Love says:

    I’m one of those Europeans who would always go for Air Max over SB, but I gotta admit that these are fresh. I’m personally amped about the recent reissues of the Air Structure and the Air Burst: copping one or the other as a self-given Xmas treat.

    Stay up sneaker heads!

  4. Dart_Adams says:

    Aww man, I finally get on top of the DP Dot Com Pro Football Pick ‘Em leaderboard and I can’t do my “I’m in first place!” post yet. My Bostonian brain will never be able to grasp what’s so great about Nike Dunks and Uptowns, though.

    One.

  5. Grand Master says:

    yeah, Dart, what do heads rock in Boston?

    my only sneaker memories of Boston are being up there during winter break, copping easter Air Max 180s and blue Adicolor highs for 40 dollar each at the Tannery on Harvard Square. i never really got a sense for the local flavor, seeing as how 99% of the people i know in boston just wound up there for school.

  6. Big Homie says:

    I need those kicks in my life

  7. Grand Master says:

    Skate Park of Tampa still got nearly a full size run, $89.95 w/free shipping. Don’t nobody say I don’t give back to the community.

  8. Casey says:

    lol @ hypin the shit outta these like you discovered SBs…I got DOOMs…so fuck your Decks lol

  9. Grand Master says:

    And I got tiffanies, but who gives a shit? haha.

    you know what my favorite pair of shoes is? a pair of Air Force III highs that no one cares about. They look good, wear great, keep my feet warm, and i got em for $40.

    If you think this post was about hype or me telling some other head that my game is sicker, you’re already losing…

    Much respect on the DOOMs though, that was definitely the sickest premium drop in the last few months. Even more respect if you can name three of DOOM’s aliases/albums without hitting up google, playa.

  10. 40 says:

    Peep – Now this is some sneaker shit…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90fRlMQTdSs

    Before the whole sneaker game turned into shit for candy ass trendinistas, asthmatic nerds who exchange pics on the interweb, boutiques and hoarders… When ATHLETES sold ATHELETIC products, not cool guys, or people with tight jeans who are considered “taste makers”. Back when you bought kicks to eventually go outside and catch some wreck on the asphalt… Back when you actually went to SPORTING GOODS STORES to get sneakers. When it was all about watching sports to see the hotness. Not going to stand around conventions where the main act is a rapper that most of these kids don’t even understand why they have the respect they do. Back when you had maybe 3 models of kicks a year from a brand and you searched high and low to get that one colorway that was different even though it matched nothing else in your wardrobe… Back when you walked out the house with a pair of Air Jordans or any thing over $75 you had to be hardbody enough to carry it, or be prepared to walk home in your socks… Yeah I’m a sneaker fiend but they company’s have been putting out some bad dope as of late. So I’ve checked my ass into rehab…

  11. Dart_Adams says:

    @ Grand Master:

    Boston is an Adidas city. We do have sneaker heads that rock everything (Nikes included) but for the most part we rock Adidas here. I did a drop about it on my blog this past summer:

    http://poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com/2007/05/same-ol-rebellion-with-different-name.html

    One.

  12. J™ says:

    “Casey Says:

    December 12th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
    lol @ hypin the shit outta these like you discovered SBs…I got DOOMs…so fuck your Decks lol”

    Congrats on those ugly ass reflective shoes… and your apparent degree in hating.

    Anyway, 40 for prez. Bring back simple colorways on shoes, and tell these kids to take off their sister’s jeans.

  13. the_dallas says:

    Pour some good shit on the ground for the man that gave wife beaters their prestige…

    Ike Turner has passed away.

  14. J™ says:

    I just read that a minute ago. You know he’s waiting in hell with them five fingers, ready for Tina to walk in the door.

    D.P., you check that mix I emailed you?

  15. “and tell these kids to take off their sister’s jeans.”

    YES!!!!!!!!!!

    There is not much visually that I hate more than being stuck walking behind some chicken-legged guy wearing some size 2 skinny jeans that has the absolute flattest ass ever and he ends up looking something like a denim ironing board that somebody was trying to chainsaw in half lengthwise but didn’t finish the job.

    I used to stay calling people out for that one. These days I give up.

  16. You this dude is kinda of a nerd, No Disrespect………… and not one a cool nerd like myself….*grips up* *pours out some amaretto for Ike* *slaps girlfriend*

  17. the_dallas says:

    True story, I felt this drop[||] because homey talked that Star Wars shit.

    Fuxxx, you my nigga that don’t get no bigger, but I hope that Amaretto you was pouring was from your chicks’ cup. Amaretto in NOT.a hardbody beverage. Pour out some whiskey or some cognac my nigga. Fuck it, Budweiser Select that shit. I don’t want to hear no more shit about you pouring out fucking cordials or desert wines. Next thing you know you gonna start drinking with your pinkie finger extended.

    Another true story is that I took a bottle of Fuki plum wine to the face and then I gave my lady drunken monkey style kabuki love.

    As is y’all cared. R.I.P. Ike Turner.

  18. Sangano says:

    Dunks are ass.

  19. the_dallas says:

    J,
    I see that joint you e-mailed me. I am fucking around at some holiday parties tonite so I may not get to hear it until I sober up. It looks good though.

  20. omegaSB says:

    these suck so much dick ….

  21. Casey says:

    Nah I got hotter shit too…some Mark Smith Forces 1 of 2500…Im just sayin this article made it feel like ur only into Dunks cuz theyre hot

  22. Grand Master says:

    @ Casey: all i know is, these shoes are comfortable and get me on that STAR WARS tip… and what it come down to anyways is

    “why don’t you kill me, I give a fuck if you feel me…” (c) Hypebeast West

    keep doing you, buy the sneakers you feel, and i’ll be over here doin the same

    @ Dart: good post, thanks for the knowledge. ill now be wearing those adi highs i copped from up north with a little more understanding.

  23. the_dallas says:

    ^ Nahh fuck that. The Endor Forest Commandos are church. Anybody saying anyhing to the contrary prah’lee copped their swagger while dickriding a rapper.

  24. Casey says:

    Grand Master: Nah, the Decks are cool and all, and I’m sure your kick game is nice, I’m just saying the article didn’t make it seem that way. Just a misunderstanding. Peace.

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