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Real Vs Fake Air Jordan 5 Alternate Bel Air, Quick Ways To Spot The Fake Pair
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Feb 20, 2025
Real Vs Fake Jordan 1 Japan Co https://bit.ly/2EKFnGw Where To Buy Authentic Sneakers https://bit.ly/324565P A week ago I was able to do one of the best comparisons between a fake and an authentic pair since I had both sneakers on hand. Today I’m not so fortunate but that doesn’t stop me from using my old rigorous method of analyzing pictures meticulously. I was able to pick up a legitimate pair of the Air Jordan 5 Bel Air, and pinned against its fake counterpart using pictures I fetched online. It isn’t the easiest method but it will do. Here are quick ways to spot the fake Air Jordan 5 Alternate Bel Air .
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hey what's going on guys this is ty from
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masterkicks.com
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today we're going to do a side by side
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comparison between the fake
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and the authentic uh jordan 5 alternate
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ballet
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i only have the authentic on hand i
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don't have the fakes on hand so but what
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i did was
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i collected some pictures on on the
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internet of the fake ones
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and i pinned it against the authentic
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predator picture that i picked up from
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my own
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local mall now here's the thing like a
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couple of weeks ago
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uh bootlegger sent me a fake shoe so i
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had it was a fake jordan one japan code
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so if you watch my videos if you haven't
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watched those yet
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i'll i'll give you a link or just check
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the suggestion but um
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it was easier for me to get the job done
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because i had both shoes on hand so this
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time again i went back to my old
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antiquated method of just taking
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pictures and just going side by side
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now this is rigorous work because it
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requires me to really pay attention
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so i was able to get and find some flaws
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that i'm going to be showing you this
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morning
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but first thing i want to do is this i
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want to invite you to first let's let's
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first look at
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on the fix there's two types of fix okay
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there's the first patch which i'm
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showing on my screen right now this is
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the first batch
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and the first batch is always i guess
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the worst ones so this is the first one
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the first patch of fix
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and they got a lot of things running
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here you know the insoles is wrong
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i'll show you that in there when i once
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i do the comparison
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the box label is wrong and then you have
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uh the new the newer version
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which got a lot of things right they got
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the right insoles
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they got the right uh box label
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but there's still some things that are
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wrong here which i'm going to show you
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but again
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these guys are always stepping up their
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game so it's important to stay
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uh updated because what they do is they
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watch what we do
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they watch our comparison then they go
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back to the laboratory and they fix the
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fake ones
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so without further ado let me jump into
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the comparison i know i don't want to
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waste your time so
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the first thing we're going to look at
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is the this is what i
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i wanted to focus on first thing let me
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put my picture here real quick
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so here's the thing like this is the bad
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fake you can see the sloppy job on the
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paint
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see the edge of the shark teeth you see
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the purple is like
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bleeding over there so that's just a bad
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fake and if you look at the insole like
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the outsole
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the indentation here the indent is not
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3d it's like it's a little crooked if
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you look at the authentic you can kind
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of see
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the 3d um in there and then if you look
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at the foggy bottom
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like the authentic pair it's like really
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really subtle here you can see that this
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is like a
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big contrast contrast between the uh the
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foggy bottom here is like black and dark
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and there's no distinction on the face
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on the authentic it's barely you can
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barely see the distinction i'm gonna
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make it a little bit bigger
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so you can see what i'm talking about
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see like the distinction this is like
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dark
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and really black on the authentic is
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like subtle again this is a bad fix so
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i will you know once you see that just
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stay away from it
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and i'm going to show you what happened
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with a better fix now with a better fix
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they've done a better job the 3d is a
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little bit there but again
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that on the on the black bottom you can
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see again there's like a clear
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contrast between this portion here and
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the top portion on the
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on the authentic pair is really subtle
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but here's what i noticed on the fake
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one on the the better fake
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the speckles are not really legible
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on the uh on the newer version of fake
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you can see it's really like subtle on
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the authentic you can kind of see it's
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like very clear you can see there's
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speckles on it again i'm gonna give you
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a better bigger picture here
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see you can see the speckles on the
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authentic you can clearly see them on
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the fake one they are like
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in between they're like in there they
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are subtle let's go on to the next thing
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so the next thing i want to show you is
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the netting the netting
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like i i debated whether to put this on
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or not but if you look
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okay a lot of times with the netting the
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problem is this like the holes on the
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authentic are smaller and thinner
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and then the plastic you use on the
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netting is usually soft it's really soft
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so once you get your shoe
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make sure you put your fingers on it
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like this is a soft plastic i can i'm
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putting my hand on it right now
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it's very soft plastic okay very soft on
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the fake one
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it's hard like if you press on it it
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might even break
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they usually a harder plastic and you
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can see the color there is like really
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different
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okay but i just wanted you to i just
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wanted to mention that
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make sure once you get your shoes put
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your fingers on your plastic
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it's very it's going to be very soft
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when you touch it
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okay do that when you get when you get
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your shoes if it's a hard plastic
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return that shoe to the back the guy who
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sent it to you now the next thing we're
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going to look at is the bottom here
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now they always make this mistake on the
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fives
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and i don't know why they can't get it
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right the spacing between the edge
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of the midsole and the screen the
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plastic screen here
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on the authentic it's a wider space on
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the fake one it's really
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it almost feels like the screen is like
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adjacent to the edge
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so this is one thing you want to focus
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on i'm going to pick up the shoe i'm
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going to show you
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like here once you get your shoe like
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that spacing here there has to be a
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space
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between the screen and the edge on the
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authentic it's really short
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very small space which shows you how
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they can't get that right for some
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reason the more the technology the
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better the details the harder is that
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it is for them to like copy because
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that's what you you want to do you want
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to focus on that
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and i'll give you a bigger picture you
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can see look at that like this spacing
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here and look at the spacing here on the
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fake one
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okay now the next thing we're going to
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talk about is
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uh i have another one again on the
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benefit
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i just showed you this one so we're not
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going to waste too much time on that so
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let's go up to the i'm going to show you
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something else here we're not going
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we're going to go to the back
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okay this is the back again the back of
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the shoe right
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now if you look at the jump ring on this
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picture
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the front leg or the jump ring is
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shorter
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you see how shorter this front leg is
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like if i drew like some diagonal line
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to show you
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look on the authentic they are almost
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like the same length
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on the fake one shorter shorter here you
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can see that and then you can see that
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you can barely see the foot itself is
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like small very small
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and the jumpman itself has like some
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nuances you can actually see the
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stitching
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on the jump ring here on the stitching
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here is really hard to see
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i'm going to give you a better a closer
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closer look at it you can see like
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shorter front leg the front leg here
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those two legs are like the same on here
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the front leg is like smaller and let's
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go on to the next thing
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i don't want to miss anything i'm making
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sure that i'm i'm covering all the bases
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here okay let's go to the tongue
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tongue is always a big problem all right
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now if you look on the authentic pair
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there's like double lines that are like
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the contour
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the the jumpman on the on the authentic
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those double lines are like subtle on
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the fake one they are very very apparent
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you can kind of see it you can
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see the definition there and then the
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fingers on the jumpman are barely
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seen here okay and the tongue as well
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like the tongue
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on the on the fake one is usually
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shorter that happens to a lot of fix
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they get a
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short tongue and i'm gonna give you a
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better closer picture you can see that
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okay
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pay attention the contour here see
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subtle line
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more apparent here fingers can be seen
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fingers here like
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seen so focus on that i'm going to show
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you another picture of the tongue
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on the green one now here again you can
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see the same thing stitching here is
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that you can kind of see the stitching
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you can see everything is very clear
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you don't have to look too deep all
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right and then
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this again this area is really subtle
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here you can kind of see the definition
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and everything and then there's a bump
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here at the bottom of the jump man
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fingers can't be seen fingers are like
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blurry here you can see the fingers even
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though it is still not that very good
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you can still see the fingers and then
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if you look at the outside of the tongue
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i mean the the tongue liner here you can
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kind of see that edge the liner shows on
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here you don't see the liner
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and again it's a shorter tongue the next
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thing we want to look at
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is uh i'm going to look at the box label
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now this is important to look at a box
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label okay
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let's look at a box label i'm gonna
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start with a fake one
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and the fake label now look the fake
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the bad fake has the worst the
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completely worse label okay don't even
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waste your time
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this you see this label stay away from
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it i don't want to spend too much time
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on it
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all right you can see this is like the
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fake label
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i don't want to spend too much time on
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you know how to tell this is the
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authentic
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now let's go on to the better effect
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that they came up with now they better
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fix
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the label is the same but you can't read
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the prints like the
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the fonts and the other letters
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completely eligible you can't read it
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i mean i'll give you a closer look you
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can't read what it's written over there
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white called purple you can't you can
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barely read it over here is very clear
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on the authentic
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and then they got the wrong color codes
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they have like
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blonde cool violin and they hot
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they they got it all messed up over here
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even the print here is like totally
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wrong
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and then there's some that's on the on
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the label that i wanted to show you
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which i'm going to show you now
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on here actually i've already seen this
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picture let's go to this one here
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like on the authentic pair right the box
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label
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has the msrp this is a manufacturer
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suggested uh retail price is
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190. and this this you can actually tear
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that up on your on your shoe
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on the fake one is 200 and it says us
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dollars
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it doesn't even say msrp so they got
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that if you see that just stay away from
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it
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i'm going to show it to you on my box in
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a minute i just wanted to complete this
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and then we're going to jump into
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a quick quick summary now the next thing
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i want to show you is this
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the insoles the bad fake as it was the
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wrong insoles which i talked about
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earlier
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see they have like a white insole with
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like red jump ring and green here so
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totally see this thing stay away from it
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don't even waste your time
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okay and then the
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the better version of the fake one they
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have the right insoles but
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you can see if you look close enough see
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this in so have lines here horizontal
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lines you can see this line you don't
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see those lines on the fake one
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okay it's the right insoles but those
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lines
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are nowhere to be seen on the fake pair
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okay so basically this summarizes
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everything that you need to know so with
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all this information you'll be able to
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do your own authentication from home
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i'm not even going to talk about the box
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and everything so let me
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let me give you a let me give you a
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quick recap here
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so recap let's let's do that
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oh actually i didn't mention this the
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authentic pair
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comes with a green set of laces okay the
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faker that i've seen
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the laces are like white so be careful
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you see that i just stay away
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so recap first thing you want to look at
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is the shark teeth
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okay you want to look at the shark teeth
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over here those speckles are very
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eligible on the authentic pair
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on the fake pair you can't see it again
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and then this portion here
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this portion this bottom portion here
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the indentation is 3d on the authentic
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pair
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an effect is like three 2d it's not
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really you can't really see it
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and the bottom is like uh there's the
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foggy bottom here
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there's a clear distinction between this
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bottom and the top portion
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on the fake on the authentic is more
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subtle and then the 23 the position of
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the 23
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which i don't think i showed you oh i
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need to do that talking about it 23 let
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me do that i'm i'm
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sorry guys there's another thing i
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wanted to mention so let me go back to
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to this and i'll do that see that's what
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happened when
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i'm trying to do too many things at the
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same time this is this
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just focus on this picture here see the
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23 on the authentic pair
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the 23 is a lot closer to the to the
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midsole
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on the authentication it is on the
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effect but you see the spacing between
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the 23
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and the midsole this is on the effect
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where it's wider and then the 203
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there's like a
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gap here on the tank but you don't see
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that any three is crooked
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now that two so it's supposed to be
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further to the right from this um
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overlay
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right here how it is on our tank pair on
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the on the fake player it's almost like
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on top of it
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so that's one thing i wanted to mention
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that i didn't mention so i apologize for
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that
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but let's go back to uh this screen
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again i'll give you a quick repack
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recap like i showed you now i didn't
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even pay i didn't even go to the bottom
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because
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there's no i didn't notice any
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differences there so i'm not going to
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waste time on that
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all right so the the thing is the
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jumpman you want to look at
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on the on the fake where the jump man
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has a shorter leg on the front
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okay and then you're going to look at
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the tongue the tongue i'm gonna jump man
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you see the stitching yeah i'm just
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giving you a quick recap but you can go
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back to the
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to the video and just see from the
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beginning and then this is the box
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the authentic box and again i talked
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about the msrp which i'm gonna go
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bring closer to the to the camera here
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on the authentic pair
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it says msrp it's 190 on the effect but
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it's like 200
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you can peel that label and behind it
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you will see a chip there i'm not going
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to peel this level because i don't want
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to destroy it
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but you can see you want to share the
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metal chip there
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in it is starting information off the
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shoe but again the fake first th they've
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come up with new technology so they know
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how to do that real quick so that's not
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a big deal
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but just go back and watch it again and
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guys i just said just be careful okay
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but this is it for today and i have a
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lot more stuff on my website i will
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invite you to go check
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i wrote on several articles this week
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and
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and i want you to take this survey it's
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gonna
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basically help you to identify um what
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kind of shoes is good for you
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and if you want to shop just go on my
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website and i hit the shop button i'll
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give you a link to that
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that's that's i'm providing you with
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authentic sneakers and where to get
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authentic sneakers so
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you can do that for me and i appreciate
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it alright again this is ty from master
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kicks and stay tuned for more stuff