Sunday, October 16, 2011

Nike Dunk High Custom Red Bull

!±8± Nike Dunk High Custom Red Bull

Nike Dunk High Custom Red Bull is one of the products in the rather huge 'High' Nike-Dunks family. Its other siblings in this family include the likes of Nike Dunk Hi SB Glow In the Night, the Nike Dunk Hi Pro SB Hay High Don Quixote, the Nike Dunk High - Collection Royale Dontrelle and the Nike Hi SBTG X Lazy; to name but just a few of the other 'high' Nike Dunks. Now of all the Nike that I have gotten the opportunity to wear, I have to confess that it is the Nike High Custom Red Bull that I have gotten most enchanted with.

When you look at Nike High Custom Red Bull, the overall feeling you get is that of serenity and peace, the presence of many colors on the shoe notwithstanding. As it turns out, Nike's choice of colors for use on the Nike Custom Red Bull, combined with the way they are employed throughout the shoe ensures that it is not a 'loud' shoe. In other words, Nike High Custom Red Bull is a shoe you can wear comfortably; even if you are a person who doesn't like attracting 'undue attention.'

The bottom part of the sole on Nike High Custom Red Bull, the part that is in contact with the ground, is colored red; quite a dark hue of it. The upper part of the sole, the part where the sole gets joined to the upper body of the sole is colored white. The shoe's upper body is quite an amalgamation of many colors; thankfully quiet colors; so that we have the front part where the toes go in being grey, with the upper portion above that being white; with these being the most dominant colors on the shoe. Other colors that make a showing on the shoe are red (which shows on the Nike tick and a few other spots on the shoe), yellow (in at least two patches, one where the 'bulls' are depicted), and blue, in quite a huge patch towards the back end of the shoe.

Height-wise, Nike Custom Red Bull is quite a tall shoe; though not conspicuously so. Indeed, an untrained eye would probably have difficulties trying to classify this shoe as either a 'high' or a 'mid' Nike. The highest point on this shoe is, as one would expect on a 'high' dunk, towards the center (where the 'tip' of the shoe's tongue is to be found). But after this peak, the shoe starts receding in height as we head backwards; so that the very back end is rather low, compared to the peak height. This makes for comfortable wearing - and comfortable removal of the shoe from the foot.

To help wearers keep the shoe secured on their feet, Nike provides the traditional shoelace (string) mechanism on the Nike Dunk High Custom Red Bull. As is almost standard on all 'high' Nike, there is provision for a whopping 18 shoelace holes, although one does have the option of leaving some of these unthreaded.


Nike Dunk High Custom Red Bull

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Saturday, October 8, 2011

Nike Dunk Mid Premio SB - Donatello - TMNT

!±8± Nike Dunk Mid Premio SB - Donatello - TMNT

The Nike Dunk Mid Premio SB - Donatello - TMNT is one of the products in the Nike 'Mid' dunks family. Other products in this rather large family include the likes of Nike Dunk SB Mid Beijing, the Nike Dunk SB Mid Premium Workwear, the Nike SB Mid Premium 'Television' and the Nike SB Dunk Mid Pro, to name but a few of Nike's Mid-sized dunks. I am personally a fan of these 'mid' dunks. But of all the Nike Mid dunks I have gotten to use over the years, I have to confess that it is the Nike Dunk Mid Premio SB - Donatello - TMNT that I have gotten most impressed with, and that for good reason.

Size-wise, Nike Mid Premio SB - Donatello - TMNT is a 'mid' dunk in the realest sense of the word, manifesting as it does, as something truly between a low dunk and a high dunk. The gradient on the shoe starts right from the front part, right after the point where the toes go in, and climbs gradually; to reach the highest point at the tip of the tongue, where the shoe meets the wearer's foot-trunk. Of course, this is the structure that one expects on a dunk. At its highest, Nike Dunk Mid Premio SB - Donatello - TMNT towers at just about half a foot, definitely not high enough to be termed as a 'high' dunk, but then again not short enough to be termed as a 'low' dunk.

Color-wise, Nike Premio SB - Donatello - TMNT is a colorful shoe. On my particular pair, I can identify at least 5 different colors. First is light grey, which colors the bottom part of the shoe's mid-sized sole. Then there is white, which colors the upper part of the sole. Further on is the black, which colors the patch which connects the various parts which make up the shoe's upper body. Finally, there is dark brown (which colors the patch where the Nike tick originates), and purple, which colors the Nike tick itself.

Talking of the Nike tick, as on all modern dunks, Nike has chosen to elongate it on this shoe; so that it originates on one side of the shoe (with the hooked shape), then goes all the way to the back of the shoe, to terminate on the opposite side of the shoe - with the sharp end. This approach to the Nike tick has come to be seen as the identifier of all 'modern' Nike Dunks.

For a tying mechanism, Nike has chosen to use a combination of the traditional shoe lace and a flap mechanism. This is a great departure from its other 'mid' dunks; where it typically tended to use the shoelace only. On Nike Donatello - TMNT, the shoelace is quite a short ten-hole affair, but this is supplemented by the flap mechanism, to make for a secure way which ensures that the shoe doesn't fall off when the wearer is walking.


Nike Dunk Mid Premio SB - Donatello - TMNT

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