Nike Skateboarding
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- Blofeldt0
Nike are a sports equipment company and skateboarding is sport. So what?
- unknown0
you'll never get it
:P
- Blofeldt0
I don't understand the fascination with skateboarding. Anyone care to enlighten me on why it's wonderful? Because lot's of people seem to think it is.
- fits0
nike was never around until skateboarding became BIG. We had to rely on shoe companys that were true to skateboarding so i will continue to support the real companys. nike has a good team.. but wtf is up with those shoes? those are almost as hideous as their basketball shoes. who do they think the market is?
They did have an excellent campaign awhile back with all the joggers, golfers and what not getting hastled by the cops.
- fits0
blofeldt... get a board, ride it for 10 years... you will be in love.
- skonge0
Have you ever done it?
- unknown0
blofeldt, enlighten yourself I couldn't care less.
actually dont bother.
- estro3230
yea no shit. i was rocking the first air jordans, black and blue, in 87, for skating. They were the shit. Lots of support, you could feel your board, a problem i had with the Converse Weapons, and they were very rugged. I think skating, like hiphop, is all about using what works, even if it was not made for it. Creative use of what available. Now i just wear chuck taylors cause the damn skate shoes look like shit and they cost way too much.
- Finnegan0
Back in the day, if me or any of my friends were skating in Nike's or Converse, or any other big name brand sneaker, it was because that is what was on sale on the tables in the middle of the sneaker store.
- CAJTBr0
man, there was a really big thread about this only a few days ago.
- sephil0
hope kids suport cie who really care about skateboard.
- gfro0
Can someone explain this:
- k0na_an0k0
sk8 or die dudes.
- auricom0
i thought that thread was about the design of the nike site, could be wrong.
- mynameisgod0
It looks like some tie-in with the Vacant thing. I don't think that big companies like nike or adidas are by anymeans going to tap the heart of the skate shoe market. If they luck out and have a shoe that gets adopted by skaters, it will probably have nothing to do with the advertising.
I contend that the Converse "Larry Bird" Weapon was the greatest damn skate shoe ever made sometimes.
I got really interested in this idea last year, so i walked around the streets and looked at the shoes that real skaters were wearing. I noticed several things. First, no bright colors. When i skated, this made sense. Bright colors show how much damage you are doing to your shoes. Black, grey, and other colors hide the fact you are riping your shoes up. Also, they are no bullshit colors. If nike or adidas wants to crack the market, i think that they should make almost an anti shoe for their market. Hit up skate shops and give insane deals for old inventory. Skaters go through shoes like crazy. Give them great shoes for 29 bucks and build up a cult following.
- mynameisgod0
I can understand that they would want to have a skate market. I've never seen their shoes in a skate shop or even in a sporting goods store. I have no idea who or where they plan to sell them. By design, they wouldn't be my shoe of choice to skate in.
I know that you think that i have no idea what i'm talking about and thats okay. I have built two skateshops in my life, but that was a long time ago. Maybe the market has changed. It just didn't seem like back then that a company like Nike could be something I could sell in my shop. It would have actually hurt business to have them in the store.
- Finnegan0
I agree, god, yet I also know someone who is a hardcore skater, works in a shop, and has every color combination of the Dunks. Maybe he is just spoiled....
- mynameisgod0
As I said, it was a long time ago and maybe times have changed. Is Nike cool in skateboarding now?
- Finnegan0
I don't think so. And I hate the site. They will still make money in the skatemarket. I just hate how they pitch it, stating how they do every other sport, why not skateboarding.
- 2cents0
i think it would be pretty bold move for a core skate shop to carry nike product.
i know people who skate and rock nikes, hell skaters were rocking the old high cut nikes along with the chucks back in the day cause they stood up to the abuse but that was when the market was almost non-exsistent.
if nike would have supported the sport then and stuck through it till today they would have gained much respect, but they didn't. they've decided to jump in right while its hot and to all the core kids out there they will see right through it.