Mike Carroll

Mike Carroll Instagram – I had a Pro Shoe back in the late 1900’s and @ronebrand, @tonyferguson’s brand recently made this pretty rad interpretation of it.
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Supreme also re-released the originals back in 2011 in a few different colors.
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A pair of the original design that was released in 96 if not late 95. The Internet says 94 but I I didn’t even have a shoe sponsor in 94. Vans flowed me shoes here and there(that’s kinda how it was back then). But in conversations with the Team Manager in 95 I would tell him Vans should make a shoe that I kept daydreaming about seeing/wearing. I explained the idea/design. A couple months later I was asked if I would be interested in having a pro shoe with them. “Shit! What the fuck!? Really!? Why!? Of course though!” And that’s when I officially got my first shoe sponsor. During the design process I mentioned the same idea that I had and couldn’t get out of my head. It was a mid-top like the Half Cab but mix it with the Airwalk Enigma and a splash of the Sk8-Hi and put their stripe™️ on it. But for some reason. At that time they didn’t want their stripe on a pro and/or skater shoe. My memory was they didn’t want it on a “skate shoe”. Cuz they wanted skate and whatever they were branching out to to look separate. But maybe I was misunderstanding and they didn’t want it on a “Pro model”. I don’t know. Either way. I forget the reason. Maybe cause I didn’t even try to hear it anyway. It didn’t make sense to me. Putting the stripe on the shoe in my thoughts was what would make the shoe be so rad! After a little bratty-ness from me. I asked “what about, if we perforated an outline of the stripe(probably inspired by the Stan Smith perf stripes cuz we were skating in those also back then, not sure though🤔) It’ll look like it’s not on there”. So In the end we compromised with that idea. And I had the stripe that I wanted. I was stoked. And I’m stoked it still gets honored here n there. ✨👟✨ Always #InspiredBySkateboarding | Posted on 14/Apr/2018 02:47:22