The Changes I'd Make On The Union x Air Jordan 1

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The Changes I'd Make On The Union x Air Jordan 1 | History & Review

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I recently received the Union x Air Jordan 1 collaboration in the Storm Blue colorway. Here are my thoughts on the supposed "sneaker of the year."
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@christian-xq5fd 5 жыл бұрын

If you don’t smell your Js our the box do you even like Js?

@ujnvfbhvdfjhbdgvujob 5 жыл бұрын

The exposed tongue is not an off white thing, Nike's been doing that years before

@mjo23dan 5 жыл бұрын

I’m speaking in terms of an Air Jordan. Nike has done fraying on SB pairs but Virgil was the first to bring it to this scale everyone loves now.

@paradigmshift7541 5 жыл бұрын

MJO23DAN yea I always remembers Deconstructed tongue from Nike Blazer Sb. I still got em.

@rubenperez5895 5 жыл бұрын

These are on my grail list now

@yeyuan3479 5 жыл бұрын

I am very happy to see a real sneakerhead on youtube.

@janossario3527 5 жыл бұрын

I love the swoosh on these! I wish Jordan Brand had used these on all the previous I's the past few years. And I have to disagree, the shoe is PERFECT for Union because of everything you mentioned. Believe they are shoe of the year as well!

@shanghaisole2305 5 жыл бұрын

Really appreciate your honesty bro. I hate videos that just LOVE everything about them. Thanks for adding your own personal opinion that’s real

@mjo23dan 5 жыл бұрын

Gotta stay real. Typically though, since I am spending my own money here, I buy stuff I like otherwise I wouldn’t waste my time. Some stuff when I receive it in hand gives me different perspective either hate it, so so or good to go. Thanks for checking out the vid and my channel.

@shanghaisole2305 5 жыл бұрын

We should do a versus on ig. Your storms and my blk toes.

@EKfigjam 5 жыл бұрын

Love your videos man! You know your stuff and deserve way more views :)

@MSotelo503 5 жыл бұрын

Honestly you are prob one of few real sneakerhead on KZfaq.

@scottloring6188 5 жыл бұрын

MSotelo503 that doesn’t wear any of his sneakers practically

@MSotelo503 5 жыл бұрын

@@scottloring6188 The guy doesn't push anything on us, just passion for shoes. Real chill vibe.

@mjo23dan 5 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome to follow me on Instagram. I don’t mind flexing for you there.

@TysonHook-22- 5 жыл бұрын

@@MSotelo503 Yeah I hate watching shoe reviews from people that hype ever single shoe like its a must cop, it gets stale real quick. MJO23DAN, Nightwing2303 aka weartesters, and Jumpmanbostic are my favorite shoetubers, Mike Rich is great to watch too and theres a few others i keep track of but those are my go to reviewers... i follow and watch unbreakable kicks too but dude cops and hypes like ever single Jordan release, so I find myself watching his channel less and less these days..

@TysonHook-22- 5 жыл бұрын

@@mjo23dan One of these days you and nightwing2303 gotta link up with jumpmanbostic for one of your sneaker trash talk videos that would be the best ever!

@RasenganShuRi 5 жыл бұрын

wish i had a pair of the black toe/ neutral grey union 1s

@variandavid377 5 жыл бұрын

The shoes are cool. I really liked the sketch details on the tissue and the insoles...that got me excited about it. Side note: The Art of the Dunk poster was my fav growing up...I had that, Hare jordan, the free throw line Dunk...and the first ever retro box cover that they made into a poster.

@MastahMarc6 5 жыл бұрын

Great vid as always! I always look forward to watching your videos.

@Eojx 5 жыл бұрын

These and the Black Toe are some of the best looking 1's to ever come out, but if I were to change anything it would be swapping the stitched on section so that the Black Toe has the bred upper and the Storm Blue has the silver/white upper. If the Black Toe had the bred upper they would be my 3rd favorite AJ1, right behind the Bred and Chicago.

@sherronthejedi 5 жыл бұрын

There is a table side.book it's called "driven from within" and has all drawings from design process I bought it back in 2005 it has art worl from tinker mr.cartoon and the other 5 people that worked on Jordan's

@mjo23dan 5 жыл бұрын

I own the book. I’d want a dedicated book of just Tinker.

@noelquiroz2428 5 жыл бұрын

I was able to hit on first release on both pairs. Blue storms arrive Monday and black toes on Wednesday. Cant wait. They did an amazing job on these. We always have our opinions on what they could have done what they should have done, but at the end of the day it was his design this what he wanted to go for and I think both pairs look amazing IMO.

@mjo23dan 5 жыл бұрын

You lucked out on the Black Toes. Same order on same day or separate? SNKRS?

@noelquiroz2428 5 жыл бұрын

@@mjo23dan first union release and separate order. I received blue storm ship confirmation week later, thought they would cancel the black toes but I emailed them about the black toe order and literally shipped them an hour later two days ago. I was crazy lucky cause supposedly people were only allowed to purchase one colorway.

@timothyree8653 5 жыл бұрын

Love my black toe ones first jordan 1s i got too

@BIG_CMS 5 жыл бұрын

I would’ve put the grey/white uppers on these. I’m not a fan of the black/red with the blue/white.

@desert_hunter83 5 жыл бұрын

Dope video, like the content as always 👍🏻 I wish Union would have incorporated the Royal or Shadow for a 3rd sneaker 😎

@mjo23dan 5 жыл бұрын

I’d be broke. I’m still scrapping for the Black Toes. I feel incomplete not owning the set.

@afrochu 5 жыл бұрын

if you guys lived in LA and you took the time to go enter the raffle you had a 50% chance of winning a pair, they raffled off about 3000 pairs and had about 6700 people enter, i was able to grab 2 pairs because me and my wife entered and both hit, it was cool to see union really take care of the locals

@mjo23dan 5 жыл бұрын

Hit me up next time. I wear a sz 10. Need the Black Toes.

@Quickscxping 5 жыл бұрын

I'm heated I didn't get these cause of that messy release and restock. They're probably my favorite shoe/collab of the year.

@IISourAyyII 5 жыл бұрын

I would unstich the blue and black pair and put the red top on it and grey top on it. Way better looking

@rccharger21 5 жыл бұрын

I like the black toe one better and was even trying to get a pair to sell back to you to put on the channel and try to pay for the concords lol I think a lot of people buy into recency bias when it comes to “of the year” debates.

@TysonHook-22- 5 жыл бұрын

I agree with the recency bias we seen it with the green gatorade 6s at the end of last year, everyone went crazy over them but personally I always thought the white/orange pair looked better, and all the gatorade 1s looked like shit other then maybe the blue pair... bred 13s, hyper royal 13s, unc 6 and so many more sneakers were better then the green gatorade 6s imo. but if you ask sneakerheads, I think most people would agree that the Jordan of the year last year was either the off white 1s or the gatorade 6s... which personally i wasn't a fan of either, I mean i liked the off white concept but i dont buy retro 1s these days, there just to rough on my feet without any comfort cushioning. We even seen recency bias hypebeasts at the start of this year, when everyone was saying the blue denim levi 4s would/could be the sneaker of the year... which had me scratching my head, since it was the first big release of the year and we didnt even know half of the shoes that would be releasing down the line, so to me it made no sense hyping them as a sneaker of the year only a month or 2 into the year... but thats the way of the game i suppose.

@mlmx23 5 жыл бұрын

He did a nice job overall. I would have used the larger Nike swooshes like they used on the low top Jordan 1’s recently.

@horrorking8305 5 жыл бұрын

I think the loose wing flaps was done on the AJ 1 Wing first before the off white 1s...great video, love the content 👍

@noelquiroz2428 5 жыл бұрын

Dope video, I wish they would have used a different box though, jeter low 11s have that box style as well, at least top half,

@TysonHook-22- 5 жыл бұрын

The top of the boxes are the same, but the union 1s box bottom is styled like an og retro 1 box, which fits perfectly with the shoes cut and stitched design elements, having two boxes mashed together... Honestly the box is the icing on top of the cake it completes the whole collab imo.

@TheSmartSneakerhead 5 жыл бұрын

Sucks. I tried for over an hr to checkout, everytime i clicked pay i got different errors. Super frustrating. The restock was no better

@mjo23dan 5 жыл бұрын

Frustrating man. I really want the Black Toes now but I'll have to see what I have to do. Don't want to pay resale.

@DLGemma 5 жыл бұрын

@@mjo23dan Black toes along with Wotherspoon's are probably the best releases of the year.

@froggy3263 5 жыл бұрын

Love your videos. I appreciate the history in ur videos

@mjo23dan 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙏

@michaelwulliman7909 5 жыл бұрын

Great video! Waiting for the Concords!!

@mjo23dan 5 жыл бұрын

If you haven’t already, check out my recent vids on the Concords.

@krstabond 5 жыл бұрын

Yes you are a bonafide sneakerhead I was hoping to get them to sell but looking at them on this video if I would have gotten them in my hands they would be mines all mines.

@12w0 5 жыл бұрын

I honestly wanted them just to resell if I could. I'm feeling the ROTYs much more.

@mjo23dan 5 жыл бұрын

At least you’re honest

@UptownNYC 5 жыл бұрын

Im glad you got them over a fuckin reseller and you can share the knowledge with us... stay blessed🙌

@VictorGarcia-uz9yz 5 жыл бұрын

You forgot to touch on the Quality Leather on the shoes tho , toe box, sides, etc where would you rate this shoes in compere with Jordan 1 not for resale ?

@mjo23dan 5 жыл бұрын

I can’t compare to the not for resale since I don’t physically have that shoe. The leather on the Union is superb. It’s worth the $190 they charged.

@jasongotshadowbanned 5 жыл бұрын

I tried to get the black toe through the snkr app. Which was a total waste of time. For as long as I've had that app on my phones, I've never hit a draw. Not even trying anymore. The real sneakerheads can't get the good stuff and resellers making a ton of money.

@mjo23dan 5 жыл бұрын

Has anyone ever hit a draw lol

@SocraticMind89 5 жыл бұрын

im pretty good at teh draw, its just the dice doesnt roll your way man, youll get something down the line, itll pay off

@mjo23dan 5 жыл бұрын

Send me all your super powers lol

@jasongotshadowbanned 5 жыл бұрын

No no, send them to me!

@TheExecutiveDirector 5 жыл бұрын

Same here, that means is time to invest in bot , if you cant beat me, join em. Nike doesnt care if you take Ls or not, so fuck it, buy a bot. who care if its unethical!

@SILVAID 3 жыл бұрын

are that nubuck swoosh color will changing/faded by the time ? anyone please help me to answer, because my pair looks a little bit faded on the nubuck area

@1way448 5 жыл бұрын

The best review of this shoe that Ive seen. Subscribed. I had to pay resell for these smh...

@juannunez2101 5 жыл бұрын

They are fresh brother great vid looking like I'm going to have to pay to play myself lol saw the Blk toes in hand definitely both pairs are banging tho respect

@batmangotham778 5 жыл бұрын

Sick kicks. I copppeddd the Black Toes 🏃

@gs9307 5 жыл бұрын

that collection lookin fire chief

@kleve_1143 5 жыл бұрын

2001 Jordan 1s had the nubuck swoosh as well

@mjo23dan 5 жыл бұрын

Those were actually Durabuck. They’d peel and you can’t restore them without just painting them.

@GRIPKICKZ0717 5 жыл бұрын

Great video cant wait till mine come in unio shipping is horrible

@mjo23dan 5 жыл бұрын

Lemme know what you think

@eddylion1 5 жыл бұрын

nice info I trie to get the shoe I felt

@feverfan0 5 жыл бұрын

I tried but no win for me. I like the blue ones the best

@234lifecollection 5 жыл бұрын

Not my colorway of interest but I love the box!

@tommysantiago1989 5 жыл бұрын

01 Jordan 1 Retros had suede swooshes to

@mjo23dan 5 жыл бұрын

Yes but I think the first time on an Air Jordan was 94

@Jefferrrson 5 жыл бұрын

FIRST. 1XTV. KOBE BRYANT.

@evangarbison1576 5 жыл бұрын

Great review. Jealous of the pickup!

@fredericktaylor6645 5 жыл бұрын

Let’s be honest with this release, this is a hypebeast shoe. Had this release been a GR, this shoe would’ve been on no ones radar this serious.

@mjo23dan 5 жыл бұрын

Well it’s an “NRG” release so if you understand what that means and the collaboration between Union and Jordan, then you’d understand. Some of the NRG stuff isn’t for everyone and that’s okay.

@fredericktaylor6645 5 жыл бұрын

“Nrg” just means “Energy” and the collab between Chris Gibbs and Jordan Brand is just Chris’s take on vintage things like clothes and shoes, which what high brand brands are doing now at the time like Gucci and Balenciaga just to name a few. But what I’m getting at is for example, the Air Jordan 1 KO’s with the fake aging midsoles and how you had more people not appreciating & even had videos showing how to remove the vintage look from the shoe’s mid & outsole. But you’re right, everything’s not meant for everybody.

@mjo23dan 5 жыл бұрын

It’s just a different time now.

@unforgiven101inc 5 жыл бұрын

what did you get your Jordan poster framed. the wings poster who did the frame for ya...thanks

@mjo23dan 5 жыл бұрын

I fused together two ikea frames together and had an acrylic cover made.

@jasontalagtag1032 5 жыл бұрын

sick wid it!

@damienjeremyweir4543 5 жыл бұрын

Orange juice mixed with milk anyone?

@akcoop 2 жыл бұрын

Not sure why the hype, Unions are ugly. Nonetheless, I love your channel! Keep up the good work 👊🏽👊🏽💯

@jaymogul25 5 жыл бұрын

He never said kids would sew their shoes together. He said he imagined someone who didn't want to lose their favorite pair of shoes and sewed two together to save them.

@mjo23dan 5 жыл бұрын

That doesn’t make sense either because nobody ever does that but I understand the shoe is his vision. I just thought it was a reach.

@jaymogul25 5 жыл бұрын

@@mjo23dan I guess because he likes to try to restore his old Jordans and the whole vintage clothing thing he does but yea it is a bit of a reach lol

@dabestperiod_ 5 жыл бұрын

Did u cop the 33 stealths today??? 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@mjo23dan 5 жыл бұрын

Passed on those. Maybe if they hit the outlet.

@dabestperiod_ 5 жыл бұрын

So u like the white ones better than the stealths?

@mjo23dan 5 жыл бұрын

Just don’t wanna spend on another AJ 33 at this time but if price is good at the outlet or Nike I’ll scoop.

@dabestperiod_ 5 жыл бұрын

U think price gonna drop, I don’t think so . Just like any other J’s, once there gone , there gone. Other than eBay of course and there definitely not gone be cheaper on there. Matter of fact, in your major shoe stores, there already gone. I’m a Jordan collector as ur self, me myself, im burnt out on the retros, there all the same shoes, just different colorways. These 33s were so refreshing.

@mjo23dan 5 жыл бұрын

Well if people aren’t buying the product then the price is going to go down. Right now on Stockx you can get the Stealth 33 for just about retail but who knows. I’d monitor it a few more weeks.

@SneakPick2345 5 жыл бұрын

Tried to cop the other pair which looked better to me. But a L. Again. LOL. Fine collab. But shoe of the Year is the Concords. Period.

@kaszasaman 5 жыл бұрын

I can’t remember ever wanting a shoe so bad. I took no less that 8 Ls over 2 weeks. Still salty

@mjo23dan 5 жыл бұрын

It happens to the best of us.

@prod1192 5 жыл бұрын

Holy shit those are garbage! Good thing I got out of the shoe game when I did. To each his own I guess.

@TysonHook-22- 5 жыл бұрын

Love the concept, but not the execution... personally im getting sick of this sail/cream/off white thats Jordans been doing this year, I passed on a few shoes this year solely because of the forced vintage look being so poorly executed... I don't mind the vintage look on shoes when done right like the orange gatorade 6s from last year were perfect with there dirty almost vintage icy bottom look that they used, but if your gonna do a vintage concept then you've got to go all the way, I dont want none of this half ass stuff Jordans been cranking out lately. If your gonna pull inspiration from vintage style elements, you've got to make it the entire shoe, not just bits and pieces... having cream/off white mixed with a pure white looks like garbage! they did it on the tinker 6s this year too, which would've been a cop for me had they went all out with the cream or just stuck to pure white but mixing the two will never look right/good to me and in my opinion its nothing less then lazy designing... to have half the shoe featuring vintage style elements and half the shoe have bright vibrant colors is poor design. This marks another great 2018 shoe concept that ill passing on because of a poorly executed vintage look. Great in depth review of the sneaker though, your one of my favorite shoetubers to watch.