text: Alright, I rarely ever find the motivation to write reviews, but after throwing down 100 bills for these shoes, and enduring the experience I have endured with them, I gotta say something.<br /><br />Official score: 2.5/10<br /><br />These shoes are pretty awful in most ways.<br /><br />The suede is good not great, you'll get ollie holes after a hard 3-5 days of skating. That's whatever I guess, durability in suede uppers is never expected to be great, especially if you skate technical. Shoe Goo fixes that, so the upper is not what bothered me.<br /><br />It's the SOLES.<br /><br />Just awful soles. Each section of tread resides on its own raised platform, so there's all these little tunnels running between these raised platforms. Picture that? Google 'Nike Nano SB Soles' or something. The problem is that every time one of the platforms and its tread slides ever so slightly against the grip tape, which they do constantly of course, the tunnels around the platforms enable the grip tape to begin to RIP the treads off their platforms! You'll be cruising, shifting your feet, setting up for a trick, and you'll feel this floppy thick piece of rubber (the tread) bend and roll up underneath your foot. Its an incredibly frustrating issue. You can superglue the crap out of them, which I do, but it's a temporary fix. The ripping will occur again.<br /><br />Alright, yes, the board feel is pretty superb. I have a pair of Nike Frees and I love them, that's why I couldn't pass the SB version up. I knew the sole would stretch, bend, and twist to my foot's every whimsical desire, but still, purchasing these shoes was a mistake, no doubt in my mind. I could of gotten two pairs of Lakais or Fallens for the price of these. Nike is onto something with the minimalist approach to skate shoes, but these soles need a complete redesign.<br /><br />Oh hey last thought, shoe runs pretty narrow.<br /><br />Goodbye.