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hey what's going on guys this is Tyler
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how's the kicks.com and uh about a
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couple of weeks ago I went to my local
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Footlocker and came across the triple
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black New Balance 550. for all you guys
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who don't know the 550 has been really
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trending and the brand has really done a
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great job of producing a lot of
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colorways and you know the success is
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really due to Teddy santis he kind of
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revived the entire shoot and now he's
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been trending and there's people are
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just buying them and they actually have
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some sort of resale value now for you if
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you don't know the 550 actually
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originally dropped in 1989 and it was
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made by Steve Smith if I'm not mistaken
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and she was supposed to be a basketball
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sneaker but it was kind of lost in the
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midst of all these other uh brains that
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were making some killer shoes like this
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Reebok Pump Nike the Jordans and you
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know like Adidas all this brand was kind
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of like making their own basketball
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shoes and New Balance kind of got
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overshadowed but now the 550 is back
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thanks to 30 sentence and David dropping
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some pretty nice color winner the triple
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black one is just pure just conservative
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color and it's again it's a great
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looking shoe price point is nice 110 and
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it's built with a combination of a
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couple of things that I kind of want to
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talk about real quick so this one I came
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across and I think they still have them
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on the wall actually a local Footlocker
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so you may want to check that out all
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right so now we're going to talk about
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the component too quick and what I think
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uh the shoe is worth and and where to
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get it all right so basically what you
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have from the top to the back is all
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um some kind of synthetic leather
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coating on top and then there's a little
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thin layer of leather underneath but for
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most part this is synthetic leather
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that's the downer but other than that
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the shoe looks great black all over and
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then perforation on the side the New
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Balance logo in some kind of nylon
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material now the perforations are not
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really conducive of a lot of air because
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there's a guy that did uh some kind of a
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test on it and they weren't really
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releasing a lot of smoke so you're not
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gonna get that much preparation that
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much airflow out of that other than that
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issue is great okay mesh on the back and
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it's really well padded on the ankle and
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you have your new balance to go on the
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back side again more synthetic leather
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all throughout the panels and then mesh
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again and again that synthetic leather
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with a little thin layer of leather
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underneath and then mesh on the tongue
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and its extension a little bit of
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perforations on the toe that you can
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kind of see that it holds on even like
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show any kind of depth to them and then
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your tongue is pretty flimsy and it's
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stitched on there kind of with some
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Little Stitches now the midsole is where
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the good thing is you have a fiber uh
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component there and then a thick layer
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of foam so you're gonna get a lot of
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cushioning and the outsole is of course
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pretty much standard for most New
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Balance 550 but she was incredible man
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like as far as like quality it's nice as
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fast like the component but just the
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leather they could have done better with
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a leather but other than that it's a
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dope shoe you want to pick it up I'll
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have a link for you in the description
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again thanks for watching this is time
