Place Magazine #22 which features my review about the Nike SB Salazar is slowly arriving at better skateshops and various news stands. I got my personal copy last saturday and it looks great, keep up the good work Benni, Sebi and Holger! The extended English version will be posted at the end of May. Photo…
I finished the review of the Nike SB Salazar this week. The shoes are on the way to the photographer now and the new issue of Place Magazine that the review will be a part of will hit the stores soon. The translated version will follow just a few weeks later. Martin Ottosson( www.semesterskate.com ,…
Last Thursday I was invited to the launch event of the Omar Salazar pro model by Nike SB in Amsterdam. The invitation came kind of out of the blue, I got a call a week before from Pascal Schmidt who takes care of Nike SB in Germany if I wanted to come and of course…
I just received a pair of the Nike SB Salazar that I will test for the next MadeForSkate review in the German Place Skateboarding Magazine. As always, I will publish a translated version in English shortly after the German version is published.
2009 was a year of a few very iconic new skate shoe releases. Here are my personal top 3 in no particular order. Adidas Busenitz Pro The first pro model of Adidas Skateboarding was maybe one of the most successful shoes of 2009. The soccer inspired style with the characteristic long tongue set a new…
The second episode of the Slap Shoe Blog went online today. Check it out by clicking on the picture!
For all that requested the Nike SB Bruin to be reviewed next I have good news. The next episode of the Slap Shoe Blog will be about this new Nike model. If everything works out as planned, it will be online in just a few weeks. Thanks to Nike SB and Mark Whiteley from Slap…
This is the redone Nike SB Dunk Low review, Tim Weissberg had a look at the spelling and I updated some parts. The original one has been published only at Nikeskateboarding.org in autumn 2007. It was my first review about a skate shoe, so this is how all started…. PDF-File: nike-sb-dunk-low-review
Here’s the redone Nike SB Blazer review. It was one of my first attempts to describe why a skate shoe is made good/bad in a certain area by having a close look at its design and workmanship and by skating it as long as possible. The PDF file: blazer-sb-review-v2
Here’s the complete review. Download it as a PDF file for better quality: nike-sb-tre-ad-review