Comments on: What Does Nike’s Involvement in Skateboarding Mean?

By: DrordCota

DrordCota — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:53:53 +0000

I wore Nike Sizeable Span running shoes mould year. At any rate, this year, we are not allowed to wear tennis shoes to work. We be obliged have medicate shoes. I write up on ancient tangible floors and am on my feet all day. Doctor reprimand shoes are causing blisters, travail in the ball of the foot, and cuts. I cannot espy any shoe that is relaxed all day. What can I wear?

By: julie

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By: Bobbert

Bobbert — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:22:34 +0000

Fuck Nike, and Koston. used to be legit with prod, now its about the money, and i don’t want to hear about his daughter, Lakai was paying him fine. Sole Tech, no good anyway. Vans is key. Always been here, always gonna be here. As far as Vox goes, they seem to be doing a good thing for the industry, their Trooper Relief a solid shoe for 40 bucks? very good, especially for todays youth. maybe Nike will prove to be usefull, and get some skate plazas built, but most likely not. however, Omars shoe looks tight. not that im going to even try it on. anyhow, Off The Wall till death.

By: Fritz

Fritz — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:34:18 +0000

From my perspective I like the product but not the company, if that’s possible. Nike had no interest in skateboarding and snowboarding, and did nothing to support skateboarding and snowboarding, until they thought they could make money off of them. I will admit that they make nice shoes, but they have a bad name in terms of business practices. Much has been made of supporting companies run by skaters and how it supports skateboarding, well Nike bought into a skater owned company called Savier out in Oregon, piece by piece, and then closed it down. Savier was a well regarded company with good products, but it had one thing wrong with it from Nike’s perspective, it wasn’t run by Nike executives and was viewed to be in the way.

By: Jles

Jles — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:15:53 +0000

First off….good article about a good/interesting topic

I’ve gotta say Nike skateboarding shoes were never really on my radar until i went to Barcelona and some guy at Free was trying to push Nike SB’s on me…. From my perspective, it seems like the marketing was very much within the skate shop (Here’s some stickers..etc.) and not really a mass-marketing campaign like D.C commercials (could be wrong…that’s just my experience).

Then about a year later I actually saw a pair of the P-rods in a store in NYC, bought them, and I’ve gotta say I was pretty blown away. They were way more comfortable and solid than any other skate shoe I had worn (could just be inexperience) and really felt more like the support of a snowboard boot than a flimsy skate shoe. My desire to jump from higher heights increased dramatically.

I kinda like Nike’s involvement in skating b/c, like you said, it will really step up the game in terms of quality. I don’t really necessarily agree that “everyone can see they’re going to make stupid decisions” with regard to skateboarding. It’s a $30 billion company that’s had a pretty solid run in making good decisions so far. If you don’t like their stuff or have a problem with Nike, don’t buy it. But if they’re gonna keep making quality stuff, I’ll probably keep buying it.

I’d LOVE some suggestions for great skate shoes considering I’m always in the market, and not always looking to spend $100 on new P-rods. jles@dreamtard.com

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:25:56 +0000

Nike make good shoes, but everyone can see that theyre going to make stupid descisions with future skateboarding. The day nike start selling decks and other skateboard equiptment (not clothing) is the day I protest. I like them as a clothing line, but skateboarding in gerneral is too far. Luckily, they have not spoken about further sales yet.

By: Kalvin

Kalvin — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:11:31 +0000

I think that skateboarders need to think about their role in the world. I used to think that alot more people that skateboard would be into things like human rights or the environment. This is really getting out of control and materialistic .I don’t think there is anything that cool or hip about having some limited edition/color shoes that are made by a huge coroporation.
They just have the means to put out all those different shoes. They want to make money and skateboarding culture is another way to do that. They are just shoes but what do you know about them? Where do the materials come from, who makes them, etc..? I guess people don’t care about things like this and would rather concern themselves with colorways and designs. What kind of future is this creating?

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:31:48 +0000

The Nike SB is a great skate shoe dont get me wrong, but having Nike involved in skating is wrong. Then again, having such a popular well known brand bought into skating has kids lining up for them. Sorry to say, but you cant argue with success, and as soon as they got P-Rod involved, It gave them a huge marketing boost.

By: Housewrecker

Housewrecker — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:11:38 +0000

I’m also anti-Nike for personal reasons. However, I find them to be brilliant at marketing. They have limited edition colors and have introduced the idea of collecting shoes into the skateboarding community. Back in the day, we were lucky to be able to afford one pair of skate shoes and now Nike is convincing kids they need many pairs in order to be hip. It’s great business for them when instead of selling one pair to a kid they’re selling 5 pairs and thus 5x the profit for them.

By: andrew

andrew — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:07:24 +0000

look i’ve rocked these nikes

they dont skate so good and you are afriad to ruin them after paying 100+ dollars on a pair but i do know that they were in videos in the 80′s

its nothing new there just getting bigger and upping the ame for other skate shoe companies