WHAT'S GOING ON WITH DC SHOES RIGHT NOW!? | NEW JOSH KALIS PRO MODEL! 

I think that's what it takes, dude! Cause the new fresh gotta understand what it takes to have such a thing as DC

Agreed 1000%

Thank you dude for real. I will do my best to keep this stuff coming

Thank you man. We gonna try to do this alot more often

That makes sense then

Vans was able to bounce back and they still sell at Payless and stores like that.

@@pauliewalnuts5241 I guess anything is possible but it seems like a long and difficult road. I used to wear K-Swiss back in the day. I can’t see the brand ever bouncing back.

Champion did lol.

Etnies is only selling very cheap models at Walmart. You won't see Estrelllas there.

I agree. A lot of people liked that second iteration of the super team (Kremer, Mike Mo, Taylor, Evan, Nyjah, etc.), but I could never get into it. I liked most of the skaters, but I absolutely hated the shoes. I’m not a Vulc fan to show my bias, but even when I had to choose, there were other companies making much better shoes. I have been excited with some of the releases over the last couple of years. Completely understand why they let people go (especially in this tanking economy) and have been excited about the perceived route they’ve been going with creating an idea around that iconic Philadelphia scene. Those skaters they have on the team from out there are amazing. I really hope they don’t fuck up what they have left.

There was some fairly recent (5+ years ago) interview of Ken Block talking about them selling the company to Quiksilver. Ken stated although they were making a good amount of money they were taking out very very large amounts of credit - in the millions. Remember those huge ass 300 page Transworld Magazine skate shoe catalogs in the 90s and 00s.. I mean skate magazines? Think about the huge amount of models every skate shoe company was putting out during the late 90s and early 00s it makes sense why Damon, Ken, etc sold. Even though they were making a LOT of money they were investing in a ton of different tooling for all those amazing different models/soles. They had their own factory in Korea that just made DC, and a full website dedicated to it. That's a TON of overhead they operated with, it sucks to look back on it but it made sense. They were a bunch of young skaters and with all the corporate backing and investment it made sense for them to sell to Quiksilver. The market was changing sadly to generic ass vulc and cupsoles, and designers of the classics like Sung Choi (Lynx OG) went with Caroll to Lakai. If there's some place to send hate twords its Authentic Brands and Jamie Salter, they're a big conglomorate who bought out DC. Danny Way tried to but couldn't. Just look at their portfolio of brands they own.... Reebok, Vision Streetwear, Volcom, Eddie Bauer, and a lot of other brands who have been sold multiple times and have lost a lot of money. Doesn't look good for DC, it was a good 6 year run where we got a bunch of our nostolgia back and the best styles too. Thank John Shanahan, Jahmir Brown, Kevin Bilyeu, Aleka Lang, Adilson Pedro, and even Tiago. These guys along with the skaters from Soletech brought the 90s goldenera back.

@@ponmlk What is a "vulc generic cupsole". vulcs and cupsoles are different. Maybe you just meant vulcs, that makes sense. Seemed like everybody was skating generic vulcs for awhile and many still do.

@@ponmlk Also, not really right on ABG. They purchased DC at the same time as they purchased those other companies, so pointing to their record of ownership of those brands makes no sense. Boardriders Inc formerly owned DC, Element, Reebok, Billabong, Quiksilver etc. ABG bought Boardriders. There's levels within levels of corporate ownership. Also, are people really saying that DC has been bad since 2004, when they were bought by Quiksilver - insinuating all those early super puffed out shoes were their peak? Wow uh....can't agree with that take

@@mstunameow What the fuck are you talking about? You comment like a new visitor to this channel, it shows. I've always refered to the post 2004'ish era as a vulc and generic cupsole era, it was. The soles in that era for almost every company were generic vulcs and generic cupsoles same'ish soles compared to the COUNTLESS bespoke soles and uppers that DC, Soletech (es, etnies, emerica, 32, since you're obviously fuckin' slow LOL), dvs, adio, lakai, genetic, reef, kastel, axion, c1rca, supra, etc put out during the "golden era" of skate shoes STARTING mid to late 90s. I KNOW when they (Boardriders) purchased DC. I know that Authentic purchased Boardriders You lost all credibility when you just stated they (Boardriders)owned Reebok which they never did. You even edited your comment and still fucked up LOL. My point which went over your thick head is that THEY (ABG) have bought all failed brands and that ABG is a BIG company that buys bankrupt and failed brands and cleans house, which they obviously did kicking out more than half the team and are in the process of cleaning out management and even their social media team. See skate snow surf dot com dc shoes tags for all that info. DC got bad when they started chasing trends during the tight pants generic vulc generic cupsole era, thats obvious culminating in 2015. That take is pretty universal that DC has been bad post 2004 when they went copied and chased trends, even the guys who were in "core" skateboarding have said that see 9 clubs DC Williams highlights video. Holy shit bro, swing and a miss.

All the Kalis shoes look fire in my opinion

I will say that his upcoming shoe looks pretty interesting

Yea after the vid I realized I had forgot the kalis s

Yea so far I'm digging them

Don't use this sticker as a condom, it doesn't work. Brandon's mom had to pick up some plan B

@@GoldenEraCollector SHIT

I'd pose an alternative theory that DC is currently in a limbo where it knows new management is incoming and they are just dropping some leftovers/quickies to tide them over

shaq and david beckham don’t own abg abg owns their likenesses

Well that makes sense now why it seems like they are like that

They Also skate for the same board company

You and your crew the best ❤

yeah thats the reason

Ah I didn't even think about that

Hoodstar 🙌

Yea I forgot about the 2 colorways they dropped last year. I couldn't stand those

This is true

Shanahans sometimes hit big discounts after a bit. Saw some going for like 70 a while back

@@GoldenEraCollector thanks

Ah damn. Well hopefully everything straightens out man

yeah they should always have lynx ogs kalis truths and lukodas in stock

Oh yea I forget they do boards too. Some reason I just think of their clothing

For real man

And, he's pro for Palace!!!

@@DariusBlue-sx3fmI haven’t seen a Palace board with his name on it 🤔

@@utterutternutter I think ur right actually. I guess they had to make SP PRO FIRST? IF JAMAL AND SP ARE PRO NO DOUBT IT SOON COME

he wears skinny jeans now wtf do u think?

Represent swisher house

Ah goddam

That’s crazy…

They didn't make it cool in the same way Kalis and Williams did though.

Before

Nope, there’s a new model he’s been wearing too

Kalynx zero

DC had a resurgence about three years ago. Obviously not to the effect of the 90s and early 00s . Now it does seem like it’s not looking good at all.

Probably ebay

Yup ebay. Pretty sure dc hates me for talking trash on insta lol so I won't be getting any boxes from them

@@GoldenEraCollectorThanks for responding. I’m finally about to get a pair myself. Had to track them down all the way in Spain but I’m finally getting some.

They gave him a shoe but it wasn't fitting to his style

@GoldenEraCollector was it a pro model or just colorway? What was the model? 👊

@@IamDjCorrect pro model called the tiago

@@GoldenEraCollector I completely missed that 😅 thanks man!

They bet right on retros since the whole 90s and y2k trend hit hard but you’re right, they not giving pros their own model really hurt them