This review was originally posted on Punch Drunk Critics
I’ve loved sneakers (I prefer the term tennis shoe though) since I was a child. Ain’t nothing in the world like getting a fresh box and smelling a new pair of shoes. Holding them and looking at them, checking yourself out in the mirror. Styling on them. Stuntin’ heavy. I got in deeper in college in NYC checking out the serious shops and such up there. Trying to find out how to intern at Nike (still a dream job by the way) and always trying to get a pair of Jordans. Got some at age 23, them 18s. I really wanted to learn even more in the early 2000s around that time a documentary came out call Just For Kicks came out. It was a pretty great time stamp of that time in sneaker culture in my opinion and now ten years later I get a chance to see this new film Sneakerheadz that I feel after watching it twice is also a great stamp of time of the culture.Continue Reading …