Jordy Geller, a journey through the world's largest sneaker collection

What's up, guys. I'm Jordy Geller, and I'm the holder of the Guinness World Record for the world's largest sneaker collection

Have a look over here at these Nike Zoom Air Anguses. Before Nike was Nike, the company was called Blue Ribbon Sports, and they used to import Onitsuka Tiger shoes and sell them out of a van at track meets

Then Nike started making their own shoes, and you can see right here a pair of Nike Cortezes alongside the Onitsuka Tiger Corsairs

And a lot of the really early Nikes looked a lot like the Onitsuka Tiger shoes

Have a look at these shoes right here. These shoes were made for Steve Prefontein, who's the soul of Nike

These are called the Pre-Montreal, and Nike made these shoes for Steve to run in the 1976 Montreal Olympics

You see four pairs right over here, alongside a couple of bobbleheads, Steve's autograph

and a poster of Steve where he's actually wearing the pre-Montrials. Before we move on though, I want to show you what's in this box right here, which is a completely brand new pair of pre-Montrials that's never been laced up

These are amazing. All right, come on over here. I want to show you my shoes inspired by school supplies

So I always wanted to have an office and have my shoes that are inspired by school supplies and office supplies on display

And that's what we have here. Shoes inspired by the ABCs, crayons, Elmer's Glue, Whiteout, Bick pens, Scantrons, chalk

Check out the number two pencils shoes. These are one-of-one customs that a famous sneaker customizer made for me

Over here, shoes inspired by composition books and scissors, and then these are inspired by a pack of highlighters, and I'm wearing a pair right now

I went to college at the University of Arizona, so I included some U of A shoes in my back-to-school section

And then behind me over here are some of my sentimental shoes

I painted all of these right here, and I was inspired by this dunk, which is known as the splatter dunk, and this one's known as the unsplatter dunk, and have a look at these right here

This shoe was painted by Mr. Brainwash, who you may know from Banksy

Banksy, but he splatter painted these. They're one of 11. They're worth about $5,000

Let's have a look at this table right here. These shoes are very, very special to me

These are part of my Doranbecker collection of shoes. So Nike partners with the Doranbecker Children's Hospital

and allows children to design shoes. And that's what you're looking at here

These right here are one of 11 pairs and the only pair of size 11s in the world

And these shoes are known as what the Dorenbeckers, and they're a mishmash of all the other shoes

that you see on the table right here. Even more rare than these are these Dorenbecker dunks

and they actually light up. Nike only made two pairs of these, that's it

They sold at auction, one of them went for $26,000. Pop the other light on over here

Very, very cool. Alright, come on back here and have a look at my fish shoes

All of these shoes were inspired by fish and sea creatures. You've got Nike dunks inspired by Oracle whales

dunks inspired by sharks, Ahrmax Pluses and Kobe's inspired by sharks. A lot of the artwork that you see here was done by my two-year-old daughter

Come on over here, these are inspired by abalone, and pearl foam posits and Air Jordan Poor These were inspired by salmon These are called Gone Fishing Foam Posit And have a look at the lobsters down here

So we've got red lobsters, blue lobsters, and the very coveted yellow lobsters

These are worth about $20,000. There's only three dozen pairs of these shoes in the world

Next to the lobsters, we've got shoes inspired by crawfish and crabs and up top

octopus-inspired shoes, dunks, cobies, turtle dunks over here, and even more fish shoes

I want to walk you around right here to this table. This is the history of airpack

When I was a kid, my dad used to run marathons. He ran 10 of them, and he ran a lot of them in Air Max shoes

This is the very first AirMax, and you can see that it has a visible air window right here

They originally came out in 1987 and these shoes changed the game

What you're looking at here is the evolution of Nike Air. And year after year, the air bubble got bigger and bigger and bigger

This is the Air 180. They call it 180 because you can see visible air going 180 degrees under the sole

These were my dad's favorite shoes when he was running. And we'll skip all the way up here

to the Air Max 360. And you can see right here, 360 degrees of visible air

So this pack celebrates the growing of Nike Air. Come over here, I want to show you some more air maxes

These ones are really sentimental to me. This pair is one of five

It comes in a giant air bubble, and it's autographed by Tinker Hatfield

who's the greatest sneaker designer of all time. I mentioned that my dad's favorite pair of

running shoes was the Air 180. These are actually his shoes, and you can see right here pictures

of my dad running in them. If you look really closely, you can see he's wearing those shoes. And this is

his marathon shirt from 1992 that he wore after he finished the race. Over here, some AirMax

97s. These are my favorite airmaxes of all, and I had these shoes autographed by the designer

Christian Tresser. One of the cool things of living in Portland, Oregon

is this is the sneaker mecca of the world. And so a lot of the designers and executives

responsible for all of this stuff live here. And I've had an opportunity to meet and make friends with a lot of them

Let's wrap around and have a look over here at some Air Jordans

My name is Jordan Michael Geller. So I've always felt a really strong connection

to Michael Jordan, and I always wanted his shoes. When I was growing up, my parents would not buy them for me

because they were way too expensive. but then when I became an adult and had some of my own money, I started buying it

I actually never intended to collect sneakers. It's just that when I was a kid, I really, really wanted all of these shoes

and then finally as an adult, when I had the money to get my hands on them

I couldn't even fathom wearing them, because to me, they're art, and I just wanted to keep them perfect and collect them

Over here is a pair of band Air Jordan Ones. These shoes are very sentimental to me, because believe it or not

actually banned me from shopping at their stores. For about 10 years, I used to buy shoes at the Nike

outlets and resell them on eBay, and Nike got wind of this, and they banned me. They sent me

a couple of letters, one to my office and one to my house, and the gist of the letters is that

Nike will no longer sell me products. They won't take returns from me, and I'm not allowed to talk to

anyone at Nike about these letters This is actually what inspired me to build the shoes When Nike banned me I thought wow what am I going to do I got this big giant warehouse and at the time when they banned me I had 15 pairs of shoes

I decided that I was going to sell off all those 15,000 pairs and convert the warehouse into the world's first sneaker museum

Over here is another very special pair of Air Jordans. These are Air Jordan ones from 1985, and they're game worn and signed by Mike Jordan

Jordan. At one point I actually had 600 pairs of Air Jordans. I had every single Air Jordan

retro that Nike ever made all brand new in boxes all in my sizes. I've sold off most

of those and the shoes that I've kept are the ones that are really special and sentimental

to me. Have a look back here at these Nike pumps. These are called the Nike Air

Pressures. This is an original pair from 1989. These are the shoes that made

fall in love with Nike's. When I was in seventh grade, Nike came out with these shoes

and I wanted them so badly. They were $190 and there's no way that my parents were going

to buy them for them. They came in this really cool case and as a seventh grader, there was nothing

I wanted to do more than show up to school like this with fresh pumps on my feet. But

there's no way that was going to happen. Get this. These pumps actually deteriorate and crumble

over time. So when you look closely at the midsole, you can see little cracks right there

and it's starting to fall apart right here. That's the reason why these shoes are shrink-wrapped

I just wanted to keep them together as much as possible. Interestingly, a couple years ago

Nike retroed the air pressure for the first time ever, and they came shrink-wrapped. I can't

ever think of another pair of Nike's that came shrink-wrapped from the factory. So that's a pretty

cool detail. And then lastly, here's an original track suit that matches the 1989 air pressures

Very cool. Let's work our way over there. I want to show you some more sentimental Air Jordans

So my first Air Jordans were the Air Jordan 11s. Here's an original pair from 1996

My parents would not buy me Air Jordans when I was a kid because they were too expensive

so I had to wait until I was away at college and used some of my own money to buy them

I wore my first Air Jordans for about four or five years

and then I actually sold them on eBay. It was the first thing I ever sold on eBay

And back in those days, I didn't even have a digital camera, so I had to take real pictures and get them developed to sell the shoes

I ended up getting married on 1111, and of course the Air Jordan 11 is my favorite of all the Air Jordans

So my wife and I wore matching Air Jordan 11s. We broke them out fresh dead stock pairs and I have never worn them since

And then at our wedding, I surprised my wife with these two pairs of Air Jordan 11s

that were customized by Tinker Hatfield. So you can see right here it says, For Natty from Jordi

Right here is Disneyland. My wife loves Disneyland. We met at Zappos

Here's a wedding ring. My wife's allergic to nuts, but I'm the biggest nut of them all, so Tinker Hatfield drew my name, a nut, and a wedding ring

My wife loves turtles, and we met in Vegas, and then Tinker signed his shoe

And then he did the same thing with a pair for me. We visited 60 Nike factory stores on a cross-country trip

There's Minnie Mouse, and it says Natalie underneath there. Tinker drew my logo, Roachusium, and a Nike swoosh

So these are needless to say very very special to me Also over here is a pair of Air Jordan 11 lows that were worn by Michael Jordan I was gifted this pair of shoes by Judd Bushler dad Judd played

with Michael Jordan on three of his six NBA championship teams. These are a holy

grail. Down here we've got 50 pairs of moon shoes. We recently celebrated the 50th

anniversary of Man Walking on the Moon and I collect a whole bunch of different shoes inspired by the moon and that's when you see over here

Come on over here and let's have a look at some more vintage stuff

So we mentioned earlier that Nike started off importing Onitsuka Tigers. So here is an Onitsuka Tiger marathon and then here is a Nike marathon

And you can see the shoes are almost identical except that these are branded Nikes and these

are branded Onitsuka Tigers. Believe it or not, I actually won this pair of shoes on

eBay and the second high bidder was Nike. Over here is an original waffle iron

from the 1930s. The first major innovation at Nike was the waffle sole and Bill

Bowerman who was the co-founder of Nike invented it using his wife's

Waffle Iron which was a Waffle Iron just like this. This shoe was buried in Bill

Bowerman's yard alongside his original lawful line. Have a look at the out souls

right here. That sole was inspired by waffles. Bowerman was creating sheets like these to put on the

bottom of shoes. And that's what you see right here is a pair of Onitsuka tigers that were resold

with waffle souls. Come on over here. I want to show you the vintage couch. Here's a bunch of vintage

shoes from the 70s and early 80s. Here's another pair that I won on eBay

and beat Nike. They're in University of Oregon, Ducks colors. These are absolutely

brand new. Look at those gorgeous waffle soles. I want to show you another really fun pair

of waffles. These are called LDVs. There's the Waffle Souls and this right here is called a Nike

Disco which has the same upper as an LDV but Nike removed the waffle soles and

and made these shoes for disco dancing. Check out those red and glittery soles

Very, very cool. And while we're looking at these funky soles, here's another pair of dancing shoes

And let's look at the soles on these. Swooshes. Hundreds and hundreds of swooshes

You know I love these shoes. So when we started out, I mentioned

that I'm in the book of Guinness World Records for the world's largest sneaker collection

I'm actually gonna be in the book of Guinness World Records again, because last week, I broke another world record

I sold the most expensive pair of sneakers at auction. They went for $437,500

Check these shoes out right here. You're looking at four pairs of vintage original Nike moon shoes

These shoes were owned by Mark Covert, who was the first person to ever cross a finish line wearing Nike waffles

And these were the shoes that he wore when he crossed that finish line. in the 1972 Olympic trials

This is the identical model shoe that I sold last week at Sotheby's for $437,500

It shattered the previous world record and more than doubled it. These shoes show the evolution of the Nike Moon shoe

and Nike's first innovation, which was the Waffle Soul, and I'm so lucky to have them

these are my favorite pair of shoes in my collection. You know