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Osiris Rhyme

sneaker god — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:39:44 +0000

The Osiris Rhyme, why the name? I guess because it looks like all their other shoes lol, no, actually they have created a new silhouette here and vulcanised rubber sole. The name is likely music/hip hop related and hence the colab Osiris Rhyme x Del Tha Funkee Homosapien. They’re described as “skate lifestyle inspired” which sounds a lot like marketing BS to me. Nice looking shoes tho.

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Another British Knights Relaunch.

sneaker god — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:35:47 +0000

BK have relaunched their website with an altogehter more refined looking lineup, gone are the chunkey 80’s shoes (they can be found in the archive, and we posted about british knights last relaunch here). The new lineup are just as cheesily named – after the court of king arthur, but new sneaker range is much more premium looking in black, grey and brown and more urban uber-set styled.

Circa Convert Select

sneaker god — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:40:36 +0000

Quite a few colours ways of this circa shoe are available but only the black pair really rock! The convert select is a high-top sneaker with removable studded ankle strap. Cool.

Kustom Triceratops

sneaker god — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:34:16 +0000

I guess I’m posting this basically because I thought the name was kinda cool, apart from the dunlop style logo on the side they’re not a bad looking shoe.

Glover Superfly Vulcan

sneaker god — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:05:23 +0000

Back in January this year I wrote about the Globe Superfly, he’s are hot little special edition with the vulcanised rubber sole (”superfly vulc”): David Gonzalez “Puzzle” fire red.

Osiris Armada XLT

sneaker god — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:23:22 +0000

Curiously named Armada XLT makes a trifecta for osiris starting with the bronx, then tranzor now another similar looking “bronx with a few extra bumpers” the Armada. The side to side air bubble has to be a bit of a minus for the shoe, making it another “skate style” skate shoe, with bronx so ubiquitous i’ll be glad to treat my feet to something less common, like paint splattered effect.

Adidas Diagonal Vulc High

sneaker god — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:48:21 +0000

If nike can have their sb dunks and 6.0 then adidas can have a me too skate brand too.

OCT 1st 09 release available at (with two sets of laces w-hooo, just like real skates shoes

flatspot.co.uk, scenepreston.co.uk amongst others.

1000 pair worldwide limited edition

Puma Slipstream Hi Monster

sneaker god — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:18:49 +0000

With Puma Ulimited’s, Sky hi and Sky II’s, First Round S, L an even LX it’s real nice to see another hi-top offering from Puma… at least this one is a bit different in having have a much more 80’s silhouette to it (not a surprise considering its an 80’s re-release). The Slipstream Monster edition is a real dogs dinner of what Puma describes as “intimidating” new colours, faux horse hair leopard skin pattern fabric and reptile, stingray and ostrich emboss prints – a puma zoo I think, two colours ways already on sale and limited edition black and red on the way for Christmas.

Also up for next year is a release of the first round vulc, as the name suggest a version of the ubiquitous first round with a vulcanised rubber sole.

Nike Snowboarding

sneaker god — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:14:33 +0000

I’ll eat my words: when I wrote about nike releasing snowboard boots back in January the nike snow force 1, I thought it was just like Adidas’s two much hyped “we’re entering the snowboard market” that never materialised. Nikes last attempt of releasing their ACG brand boots on the snow market went down like a slap from a wet fish, it remains to be seen how these will be received. The production zooms (no called snow force) are not quite like the “snow force” previews we saw in January. Two styles currently seem to have hit the shops, with the nike snowboard site showing a few other ways and touting “This team inspired instant classic mealy sets the stage for the future of nike snowboarding”, perhaps their not expecting many sales either. I’m sticking with my 32’s, but nike did manage to get skaters to wear sb’s after years of marketing and puma have managed to infiltrate the bmx market with first rounds!… “who’d a thort”

Zoom Force 1 (white):

Zoom Kaiju (black/varsity):

DVS Enduro and Enduro Heir

sneaker god — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:40:37 +0000

It was the Bexley and Bexley Heir now it’s the Enduro, why? because it’s two years old? who knows, it’s still a great shoe; and the ‘Heir’ title will probably still be lost on 50% of those that wear them.

DVS Enduro

DVS Enduro Heir (yes air….geddit?)

Nike Dunk High FLOM

sneaker god — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:57:00 +0000

Hyped back in JAN, they dropped and now they’re gone. Perhaps I was too half assed about getting a pair, nice tho they are. The Nike Dunk Livestrong x Futura “For the love of money” were only released at nikes premium outlets and not sold online. Nike seem to have made a brand out of their ‘teir zero’ distributor network. Now on ebay for like 550 USD.

Skytop Keyrings

sneaker god — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:39:18 +0000

High on cuteness factor, premierskateboarding are selling supra skytop keyrings. they’re a little pricey for UK delivery… unless you’re getting some new kicks at the same time

Puma First Round Santa Cruz

sneaker god — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:04:45 +0000

Hot on the heels (sorry!) of last months post about the first round skate comes this special edition first round x santa cruz skateboards. Featuring the screaming hand – santa cruz skate/surf seems to have made a come back recently in the shops with tee’s all over the place – that or they just recruited a new agent to do their distro. Seen them in the shops but not online yet.

Air Flytop Premium Quickstrike

sneaker god — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:04:32 +0000

Nike have been releasing sole cool stuff recently, and this aint one of them, just had to make this post to remind myself why I don’t post nikes all that often. high-viz laces, why? flytop such an ironic name. pricey too, available the good will out. It’s an odd design, half race shoe with velcro, half retro 70s shoe.

Osiris Bronx Bad Collection

sneaker god — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:30:28 +0000

The Michael Jackson bronx limited edition… they have been out for a while now, will be interesting to see what happens with the latest news, okay so even though, to paraphrase, “I would slit my wrists before wearing this shoe” here’s a few piccies of the osiris bronx bad collection in tribute to the worlds best known freak…

Thriller

Beat It

History will with record you in mediocrity along with other great legends such as Arthur C Clarke and Garry Glitter, You never did quite reach your true potential, may you rest in your drug induced sleep.

Circa 99 Vulc Select Beach Towel

sneaker god — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:08:16 +0000

lol, I just had to post this, so far this year we have seen even more exotic fabrics that make kangaroo, snake and leopard skin seem quite vanilla, now I’ve seen it all, beach towel! I hear they last about 5 minutes if you skate them, even the leather ones and the ‘look at me’ metallic… hope it don’t rain!

Puma First Round S

sneaker god — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:47:26 +0000

Everywhere I bloody look there’s a high-top puma, S’s L’s EX’s!!!….

The suede “S” skate edition makes for a pretty shitty skate shoe, but all that ankle padding is probably why I see so many bmx’rs rocking them, and to be fair out of all of the variants they are prob the only ones i’d allow on my feet, cool as some of those L’s and EX’s are there a little umm, metrosexual? It seems that there’s a new way dropping every week, it’s getting like dunks with all these different colours and patterns, good to see some creative eye-candy on people feet tho, and for my money a nicer shape than the nike dunk (oh I can hear the knives coming out now)…

A couple of the more interesting styles “first round sketch”

Nike RT1 High

sneaker god — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:16:40 +0000

If the skate manufactures don’t want to realise anything new for me to write about then i’ll write about some more nikes…, the RT1s looks a lot like the nike yeezy but a lot less limp-wristed. A few colours have already been released, available direct from nike, gotta love the lining fabric

Nike 6.0 Air Zoom Oncore High

Tue, 12 May 2009 00:11:48 +0000

This is the first new kick that nike have release in years that I really like. Way better than SB dunks. Nike have been selling their 6.0 range for a few years so far with little impression these are the first hi-tops they have released. Features a few nice touches like the suede ollie area and special 6.0 grippy rubber, I guess nike could get a trademark on oncore and not encore. Real rare for me to say it about a pair of nikes… but, I need these – they so rock!

available from routeone (uk)

The special editions are already about, including the Canadian metal band 3 inches of blood x nike 6.0 oncore

nike6.0 website

British Knights Leader Hi

Sat, 09 May 2009 06:28:28 +0000

So LA Gear came back… now more retro goodness from the rekindled British Knights…. c’mon troop where are you, bring back those troop cobra!

4 Different ways, either from the official BK site , or drjays. The Leader Hi are not the only ones they brought back Ultra and the Kings SL are in the new line up too, lets hope the BK ultimate is coming soon.

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