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: STYLE
Rating: OVERALL

I thought this shoe would be a dream shoe. Very minimal heel lift, decently wide toe box and very flexible. I have been wearing this shoe without an insole. Normally I wear size 12 in NB, but in this shoe I wear 11.5. I had size 12s of this shoe too, and they were huge so I would say it runs slightly large. Although I’m not wearing the insole so it’s probably true to size. The sole isn’t as durable as other NB# shoes like the 533, but it does flex. The board feel is kind of whatever in this shoe. The flexibility helps the board feel a lot, but the sole construction is some weird compound that kind of kills some board feel. I don’t really care for the sock liner, but it does fit well so whatever.

Got to the dog park around 9:30 and just Fuller was there. I love how he warms up, he takes it easy and warms up slowly. I can appreciate that. Luzius would shortly. Eric about an hour in I think. Warming up for me was pretty fine actually. I had one of those session where I didn’t really do anything new, but I skated alright and landed some things. Got kinda close to halfcab crooks. 50’d and ollied stuff that sometimes seems hard, had a couple flippers. The new black ledge is pretty fun although I struggled on it. Others manualled it like it was nothing, both Dave’s nose manualled it. I got a few basics and a first try switch front nose 270 on it. Came close to nollie tre, ollieing onto the tall box, nosegrind the mini cinder block. Not very close to kick back 50 or kickflip noseslide on the new box. Luzius was on the quick manual to front smith tip, easy front 50s, manuals, ollies over stuff. I think he was close to the kickflip over the wallie barrier. Eric had some sick front lips and tails on the new box, close to crooks on the street bench, heelflips, almost a back heel, lost of wallie front 180s and front 180s over the wallie barrier. There was another dude there ripping. Fakie tre lip a parking block, nollie tre over the wallie barrier. Yeah, he was only 29. Fuller was shredding. Back 180 fakie 50, 50 back 180 transfer the beam, long slappy feebles, lots of cool spracks, back 50s. Hard to document Dave’s stuff, he does cool and unique lines. All in all a really fun day, we were going to skate later, but we didn’t.

(setup  8.25 null curby deck, venture 5.2 awake low trucks custom hollow cast baseplate, doh dohs 88a boardside bushing no washer minilogo 94a roadside with flat washer, 51mm bones stf v1 wheels with 3 speed washers on the inside, new balance numeric 288s white/gum size 11.5, no insoles)
(pain level 3/10)