THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL SKATE SHOES?!?!

Are skate shoes controversial? Depends on who you ask! But so many people have asked us to test these shoes out we just had to.

[BadBoyV]

Modern skate shoes are a step backward in skate shoes evolution.

Loved my Etnies Mike V's back in the day

Osiris the storm is a epic skate video

[stinkinburrows]

I grew up skating in the 90's and early 2000's and the osiris d3's and the kareem campbell axions were my favorite shoe, still have some.

[RaziAvel]

100% Glo needs to rock these all the time, he’s got the perfect amount of drip to complement them properly. One red & white and one red & black maybe?

[kelvinclark]

Hey just wanted to say that thanks to you guys I'm learning to skate at 39. I left school in 1999. Also Aaron those pants rock, I still dress like that today or the oversized jorts. Keep up the great work been watching since the beginning and glad to see you back. Much love from the UK

[bcarl]

You don't go through both loops. You use the outside loop to protect the laces.

[ghost_]

At the risk of being a poser, I learned in the early 2000s that "skate shoes" were the most comfortable shoes for people who had to spend long hours on their feet. And the big puffy ones usually have a pretty wide base, which is great for somebody with thick feet/ankles. I can totally see why they might not be optimal for skating performance, but man...they're still my everyday shoe as a 40 year old dad of 2, haha. I started with Etnies, but I've been wearing DC Court Graffiks for over a decade now, lol.

[ColonelSandurz]

That A Perfect Circle ticket stub is actually a pretty cool find! They're an amazing band.

[lukeyeager]

The Storm was so sick for it's time. Unforgettable moments and unforgettable music. Nearly everyone who skated had D3's at some point in time. You couldn't feel the board at all whatsoever but you did it for the style. You had to wait for your next phase in skateboarding to realize that other shoes served you better. Glo in these shoes is 100% my mid-highschool years. No one knows why we wore them but CCS catalogs said we had to 🤣

[DaxLikesFallout]

Hard to watch this video after aaron lost his mind

[Jerred_with_Es_and_Rs]

I was at a skate shop in the mall recently and noticed they had a few early 2000s style puffed out shoes including the D3s, I was telling the person working there (who was probably 19 or 20) that we used to stuff socks in them to get them more puffed out and she though I was making it up until someone else backed me up about stuffing them. She was blown away.

[yahwehisdead]

High school 2006. I never had those shoes, but I knew what you were talking about from the jump. Lol. Times were different lol.

[logandoherty]

I remember when these shoes came out. The old DC shoes were big and puffy too

[Hypnos]

“Sometimes pain is beauty”
-Aaron Kyro

[realmackle]

These and globe's shoes were my favorites back in the day. obviously the sky tops too

[Victor-ylst]

Hii Braille, i really appreciate your content, you helped me do my first ollie and i love you for that, it fell so awarding. Thank you!

[MarioGodoyMusic]

I remember being soo incredibly jealous of my friends in middle school who had these. I thought they were the coolest things I’d ever seen.

[MyCoolBrett]

Back in the day you were only allowed to wear these if you were the best skater at the park, or the worst skater at the park, no in-between

[clappedoutsubie]

D3s, ES Accels, IPath Grasshoppers were in rotation until SB Dunk lows were around

[Surfingsucksnow]

Man I used to look at my CCS catalogs front to back as a kid. Late 90s we’re sick!! I remember the “stash pockets” in Osiris tongues as well.

[foxguy]

Graduated 05. These shoes were the bees knees in the day lol. To be honest I still want a pair of D3’s