Skate Feet!Carla Fowler!

Project Summary!

Culture !

Style!

Problems !

“the bottom of my right foot, which is my foot breaking foot, all worn out, and the bottom of this foot is starting to wear out too from where I turn on the grip.”

“it has to be real comfortable, because when you’re constantly kicking, you’re right on the ball of your foot and after a while the tension builds up and it hurts, so if you’re just starting to skate, you have to have really comfortable shoes or just get used to the pain.”

“they get torn up, ripped up, shredded to pieces.”

“They have to grip well on the board.”

“… flat on the bottom, really comfortable, quicker for turns, and you have to make sure that they’re good for when something happens you can step off, and that you don’t have to worry about anything.”

“When I’m slowing down, its taking off half of my shoe.”

“I tie my laces on the inside so that way they don’t flop around or get caught or stuck in the wheels.”

“ I burnt through these shoes in like three months just riding around on the board.”

“I wasn’t really good at skating when I bought them, so after I had them for a whole summer it started to wear, but I didn’t really care, because it’s kind of cool to have a shoe that is like ‘oh cool, lat at me, I skate really good,’ even though I didn’t, because my shoes were worn in.

Problems !

“Yeah, it kind of sucks… it used to last like four months, but now its two.”

“Most important part of the shoe would be comfort, and sole… they don’t last that long.”

“I have a favorite pair I use, just not brand new ones so I don’t feel bad wearing them out.”

“They wear too much to be a functional shoe.”

“If I’m skateboarding I wear flat shoes.”

“The part that you hit the most gets worn down very easily… this is maybe an eighth of an inch away from my foot”

“Stitching on the toe lets you know if it’s going to last”

“When I was skating at a race, I fell and it wore straight through into my foot and I have a cut on my foot.”

“Snug fit is a big one for me. I hate feeling like I have enormous shoes on. Kills the feel. “

“My favorite thing about all these she’s is that they are mid high, and it protects your ankle bone… you don’t have to worry about that getting hurt, and it gives you more support on your ankle.”

“I switch a little bit, but I don’t have one specific pair of skate shoes and one specific pair of going out shoes, just like ‘whatever’ shoes, because then you have to buy skate shoes all the time, and this way I swap them out back and forth and they wear at the same time.”

“They wore through in one skate session.”

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