If you were born in the 90s, sorry to break it to you—you’re officially old. The good news? On the “old” spectrum, you’re still on the younger side. Even better, trends from your youth have come full circle. That means your JNCO jeans, jorts, and flex-fit hats are back in style, and you can rock…
At only 25 years old, it seems that Aurelien’s name has been imprinted in our memories for quite some time, especially with his style of technical impact skating and bursting onto the scene at a similar time as Chris Joslin. Hailing from Lyon, Aurelien grew up in the skate friendly city influenced heavily by the…
Over the years we’ve seen some mind-blowing hard flip clips on social media, but the most eye-catching ones that are burned into our retinas are from the French ripper Aurelien Giraud. Aurelien burst onto the scene skating some of the biggest gaps and catching everyone’s attention with not so common tricks down them; the way…
Etnies shoes and Ryan Sheckler have been synonymous over the past 25 years, with Etnies sponsoring Ryan at eight years old and their partnership marking one of the longest running ones in the skate shoe industry. In this day and age with the influx of corporate athletic brands pumping money into skateboarding and snatching riders…
It’s been a while since we’ve got our hands on a pair of Etnies for Weartested, the last one being the Etnies Marana Vulc back in 2015. With that said, Etnies holds a very special place in our hearts as it was one of the most popular shoe brand in the mid-2000s, when many of…
Never change a system that’s running well. This train of thought may have been the exact source of inspiration for Etnies’ newest collection. The successful Marana line features everything a modern cupsole model should have: durability combined with cushioning and stability. This is something that sounds promising, but there’s one major flaw: it’s no vulc….
There are skate shoe releases and there are skate shoe releases. Only a few times a year, there’s actual hype about an upcoming skate shoe. In the case of Etnies’ Marana, the hype was so big that they completely changed their schedule and released it almost a year earlier than planned. We changed our plans…
There has never been a review of a SoleTech brand on Weartested before. It never worked out for some reason, although attempts have been made several times. Now it finally happened with the Etnies Bledsoe low. Thanks again for the samples Etnies. PDF file: Etnies Bledsoe low review
