Under The Palms

Name's Bryan, live in Bloomington, IL (couple hrs South of Chicago). Have been a part of NikeTalk since 01' and was a member of the original OTWS site. Meet tons of cool people and have been fortunate enought to get hooked up on a number of occations from other memembers of both groups...which is nice, because when you live where I live, there isn't any other access aside from the internet.

First pair of Vans were blue/white checkerboard slip-ons because I decided I wanted to skateboard and was told it made sense. It did and I've been rocking vans ever since.

My first obsession with shoes was the Converse OneStar, where I felt like i had to have every color I could get my hands on. The second was the first Rowley shoes Vans did.

I think the Vans Chukka boot is about as close as you can get to a perfect shoe.

Aside from shoes, I skate, play the drums, work constantly on my 90 year old home, mess around with my two dogs, and annoy the shit out of my girlfriend. It's a pretty sweet life.

Figured I'd edit this with my collection:

That's sweet! Hehe, thanks for joining man, and let us know if there's certain kicks your trying to get. Especially us SoCal heads have a lot of hookups, and spots that we live close to.

stoooooopz......what's good my dude.

Cris.

what's Cris. glad to see someone got this thing back up jumping. Hope all is well with you.

nice collection

Nice collection

great collection Stoopz. I love your Rudeez they are way clean I cant tell if thats all three colorways minus the 011 or if its just the brown and black with the black pictured twice. Keep it up

^Thanks all, I've got some additions that I need to get on here. Those are all 3 of the original colorways of the Rudeez. The black pair is beat to peices, the brown was given to a friend, and the grey pair have been worn maybe a half dozen times and have been sitting...maybe moving them on in the near future. I don't think I spent over 40 bucks on any one pair of them. I wish I would have bought 5 pairs of the black ones.

thats a good deal on those for sure! I never bought any of the Rudeez until I saw the blue one released in the 011 and after I got that and wore it once I've got the black and the brown just need the grey. For some reason thats the hardest one to find.

Not to bad at all Stoopz, good stuff.

Nice Chukka collection.

Good thing we have the same size.
Supreme Chukka's..