Rating: STYLE
Rating: COMFORT
Rating: BOARD FEEL
Rating: BREAK IN PERIOD (Good rating means it doesn’t take long to break in)
Rating: SOLE DURABILITY
Rating: UPPER DURABILITY
Rating: OVERALL

My first Vans in forever. I’m gonna say that although the sole blew apart I still really liked these shoes. The board feel and grip was amazing. They kinda hurt my feet when trying flip tricks, but whatevs, they are great shoes. Stylee as most Vans are of course.

Rating: STYLE
Rating: COMFORT
Rating: BOARD FEEL
Rating: BREAK IN PERIOD (Good rating means it doesn’t take long to break in)
Rating: SOLE DURABILITY
Rating: UPPER DURABILITY
Rating: OVERALL

Actually experimented with a corporate shoe. Everything about this shoe is great, except the sole blows out immediately. Which is a big problem! The sole was bare of tread within a week of skating. If you are gonna whore yourself out in corporate shoes, they should at least be durable!

Rating: STYLE
Rating: COMFORT
Rating: BOARD FEEL
Rating: BREAK IN PERIOD (Good rating means it doesn’t take long to break in)
Rating: SOLE DURABILITY
Rating: UPPER DURABILITY
Rating: OVERALL

This is not a good shoe. I really don’t have one good thing to say about it. The fit is horrible. The sole is kinda thick which could be ok, but combined with a super thin upper it’s just weird fitting shoe. Neither the sole or upper last long. The style isn’t all that either, but at least it doesn’t have a swoosh on it.

After work I played football with Ollie for awhile then unloaded ~600 pounds of skateboards. I was super tired and exhausted, but it was so nice out I wanted to enjoy it for a bit. For the most part I enjoyed it, but oh man I struggled with some tricks. Halfcab flips were gone again. Heelflips were impossible. Treflips happened and I put my foot on one right in the middle of the board and made my totally cracked board totally more cracked (totally). I hucked cabs for awhile. I really want to learn that trick so that I can eventually do cab flips. But I think I get closer when I try with the flip anyway. Got so close to many nollie tres. Kinda close to a fakie varial heel. Frustrating night. My board was so cracked at the end that I knew I would have to set up a new one so I took some frustration out and focused it. Felt good.

On a rainy night Matt came over and we skated Rampy for almost an hour before I watched a movie with the kids. It was Matt’s first time skating Rampy and his first few runs were pretty funny. But he got it together and landed some front tails, front d and back d. I had kind of a weird night and felt like I was way inside on every trick. I got the tiniest hurricane and front feebs possible. Got quite a few fakie pivoty tricks. Pretty fun brief session.