Nike SB Air Jordan 4 Retro SP Skate Shoes - Sail/Pine Green/Neutral Grey/White
Between buzzer beaters and back lips, triple-doubles and tre flips, crossovers between basketball and skateboarding reside on a mostly subliminal level: two pastimes teeming with dogged determination, peak athleticism, and perpetual progression.
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Nike SB Air Jordan 4 Retro SP Skate Shoes - Sail/Pine Green/Neutral Grey/White
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Between buzzer beaters and back lips, triple-doubles and tre flips, crossovers between basketball and skateboarding reside on a mostly subliminal level: two pastimes teeming with dogged determination, peak athleticism, and perpetual progression.
But beyond that, they share a journey. At the precipice sits sponsorship and sanitised competition, flashing bulbs and screaming crowds, and whilst every hooper or skater sees their name in shining lights sometime, that’s not what it’s really about, nor where it starts.
The raw form of a craft, the root foundation of a culture. The streets, the blacktop, the skate spot. Urban evolution demanding innovation, reappropriation. Skateboarders have been reappropriating since the beginning, seeking outwardly for answers to infinite questions imposed by necessity.
Roller-skate trucks and tennis shoes make way for kicktails and sneakers as the fundamentals of a more technical way of skateboarding are forged, a revolution owed in part to basketball’s progressive and protective footwear advancements with Nike’s 1985 Air Jordan leading the charge.
Four years on, the Air Jordan goes global. Designed by masterful footwear mogul Tinker Hatfield, the Air Jordan IV released with four colourways in 1989 and has since solidified itself as one of the most sought after on-court silhouettes of all time for its dependability, comfort, and highly wearable look.
Skateboarding embraced the Air Jordan IV in the same way previous iterations were adopted by the subculture, repurposing the shoes for unparalleled ankle support, lasting durability, and the impact dampening properties that Nike’s cushioning Air technology provided.
2023 marks another significant moment as the Air Jordan IV returns, closer to Hatfield’s original interpretation than ever before. With the blessings of Nike SB’s late founding father Sandy Bodecker, the rumour-weighty whisperings of a Nike SB x Air Jordan 4 are true.
