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Keep giving them hell if they try to screw us. You are our champion battling a giant.

I was already hesitant to buy anymore shoes from Nike but this might be the nail in the coffin for me.

The "premium" refers to the price they charge obviously 🤣 2:38 They say it gets you ready for wintertime, but later 8:36 the sole looks even thinner than the original and there's nothing about it that is really insulating.

You should publicly tag these companies on social media, with videos like these included.

thank you for making these!! I hope in the next 5-10 years brands like Dr Marten, Nike and other brands to a lesser extent (like Danner) decline in sales to reflect the decline in product quality. Your channel has been highly educational and has helped me find the highest quality for what i can afford.

Bro dont be a betterhelp shill for a few bucks, you can do better than that. They are scum company. ❤

Try the SB Blazers! There’s many different versions, most of them using suede. The recent Eric Koston collabs look really nice with their leather. The zoom air insole is a nice addition, and I’m assuming the outsole is about the same, and the sidewall is thicker and reinforced. It looks like sole separation would be less of an issue as well. Also the SB Blazers look a bit lower (with the exception of the premium plus models). I have regular Blazers, but I’ve been thinking about buying the SB models when mine inevitably fail, they’re even cheaper than the regular Blazers and usually on sale. What’s not to love?

I've seen those handmade Jordans and it always makes me wonder why Nike doesn't just make their shoes with good materials. People are making veg tan jordans by hand and Nike has entire factories, they can easily do it. Laughable that they even exist as a company these days. Proof that advertising and marketing matter more than the product.

SCUM OF THE EARTH! I stopped buying Nike after I purchased a pair of Jordans which “were” my favorite sneakers, and my last pair because the quality is shit. I’m not a sneaker guru, but I do work with leather of all grades and after watching this, I’m even more disgusted. DUMP THE STOCK if you own it. Great video! Keep’Em coming!

I love your in-depth reviews of footware, the best I have seen.

I teach middle school and the blazers continue to be pretty popular both in middle school and high school. So I think this is Nikes attempt at making a version for adults, so us people over the age of 18 can wear blazers too. (Hence the description. Kids pair these with tiny shorts and oversized t-shirts, not with sweaters.) Unfortunately, while they made the styling a little more mature, they didn't improve the quality of the materials, which is something an adult would look for. I don't think it's an oversight. They're just trying to get away with it.

I’ve recently been going back and watching my favourite episodes and love to see how far this has come! Id like to request a Belstaff motorcycle boot! Curious to see if it’s just a good brand bad product you’re a pro at finding haha

As an Oregonian Ive tried them so many times for so many things wanting to like their stuff, but most felt no different or better from their old products and those that did were only solid for maybe a year and then the quality dropped and getting a decent pair that wasnt poorly put together or using cheaper less comfortable materials became a gamble. Ive had specialty fencing shoes pop with every step and then one day just make this loud bang like a gunshot. Ive had a pair where the rubber around the logo on the soles of the shoes just started peeling. They had it "sent to the lab" for a week only to be brought back to me saying basically "Dunno, sucks man" and when I asked for either a replacement or a refund heres how that went: Nike: "Heres what we can do, we can credit you the amount of the shoes for the online store." Me: "Can I buy the replacement pair on the store?" Nike: "No" Keep in mind I have learned to not trust their quality on much of anything from shoes to clothing, it all seems to fall apart easily or be defective. So why would I want a $220 credit for their online store where I can only buy way overpriced stuff I no longer trust and the one thing I gave them money for I cannot get. I cut my losses and have stuck with Adidas since. Havent had anywhere near the issues with comfort and quality that I had with Nike. Im not remotely surprised this is the quality of their products, they seem to have just been coasting on brand recognition alone for at least the past couple decades it seems. Like, they brought out an ugly neon yellow green for the Olympics that looked absolutely ugly with a lot of athletes uniforms, especially fencing. If the sole purpose was to be visible then that was all it achieved. It was an obnoxious color that they poured money into developing so they could get as many Olympic athletes wearing them as possible and most had no choice. Most comments I got on the color choice was "its distracting", "they're ugly", "Why though?" and the classic "they're an eyesore". They patented the ugly color even. All that money to spend and they dont put out much quality or new ideas, just same old stuff with different configurations and colors but made with countless corners cut to save a buck resulting in junk like this. Nike is from my home town and Id pick Adidas every time over Nike after all the products they sell and pay top dollar to ensure they are the brand section closest to the entrance in every store in Oregon that carries them. They literally do this btw, they have representative go out in person to get the stores to make sure their stuff is front and center. I used to wonder why that was the case until I asked an employee once and they explained that Nike arranges this and its common in Oregon. I asked an employee of Nike and they confirmed that was a thing. Dunno if they are still doing it but I imagine so. Too many Nike products fell apart on me too much to trust them anymore. Swore off them about 5 or 6 years ago and Adidas and Danners is what I use now.

Bro, we need to see a Nike 'SB Blazer' comparison. Look for the 'ISO' versions, those allegedly have the most premium leathers and materials of all the Blazers. But any SB Blazer will be an upgrade to the originals.

Missed 2 "terry cloths" there

Thanks for the heads up, I love this channel.

Keep up the good work. Expose the evil corporate greed!

Please do a backpacking boot series. Are the lowas, solomons, scrapa, and asolo’s really worth their price tags?

Nike: it’s premium materials! Rose Anvil: no it’s not! It’s worse! Nike:… Nike:… BUT it looks premium!

Ah Nike, when will you learn?

Lol, the terry cloth counter. Great editing ❤

Since I discovered your channel, I check if you have a video on a boot I want.

I’d love to see a video of you cutting apart a sb blazer! The blazer low gt is one of my favorite skate shoes and have held up for a long time. Would love to see what you think!

You can get the Stanley by Goral in a white leather that would look like the same sneaker to most. Also you might be interested in the many other weird and wonderful leather upper leathers they offer the Stanley in, including 2.4 mm horse, and wild elk.

Try the SB Blazers, maybe even the Koston SB pair since its leather or the upcoming white/purple orange label sb blazer

You just earned a new subscriber! The Jessy Pinkman cameo was just perfectly right on the spot. After my mind was struck with 2 bullets - plastic leather over suede and relocated terry cloth - my soul started crying exactly like Jessy in this particular scene. ANd.. subsiquently a subscribe button was clicked. P.S. - you can include information about the store where the shoes are purchased. So it can be verified whether they sell fakes or authentic shoes. Because I think tha Nike's answer will be that you just showed us fake ones.I suggest to you to cut kids blazzers. Because the kids topic is more sensitive and may be they could put a little bit of premium there for real :)

Love your content, your turned me onto those John Green African rangers and I absolutely love them. When you make your way back, I'd love to see a pair of Redwing 606 boots cut in half.

I really really like my Sacai blazers the brown lowtop ones. They are deffinetly a different take on the typical blazer but I'd be curious to see how premium the materials are. I wear them a lot and are probably my favorite blazer Ive owned

every once and a while ill get a hint that you actually skate and it stokes me up to know that there are other leatherhead skaters out there. so cool.

Try the Nike Blazer Mid '77 Vintage 'White Dark Teal Green'. They definitely don’t crease like the standard black and white ones do and the colorway is 🔥

This is a sick and hyper quality video. Easiest sub of my life

I'd love to see your analysis on the blazer mid jumbo!

One thing I have never asked you, has Nike ever reached out to you about calling out the quality of their leather?

i usually go with the nike sb blazer mids ( not the prms) but those are slippin, i have a about a bakers dozen of em from the past decade and stuff like the air unit in the insole has gotten smaller, they went front a suede tongue to a canvas tongue to the distressed tongue. i gotta check my old blazers but i thought the old insole had a poron forefoot too and the newones on my feet currently do not.

I'd love to see a review of the Paraboot Michael and/or the Sebago Docksides. An idea for next Moctober maybe ?

I'm headed to the blazer vs sb blazer video next. Youre right on the money. We sneakerheads will fight for a poor quality $200 shoe and if we hit retail we complain about QC issues like we didn't know that was a thing and just kinda joke about how you can tell it's a rep if the quality is too good.

Hey. Really enjoyed your videos and it really helped me decide what shoes are best to buy. I have a request though. Can you have videos as well on ONITSUKA TIGERS cutting in half? These shoes have been popular but are more expensive than Nikes in general.

You should cut up the Onitsuka Tiger Nippon Made Limber Up the leather quality looks amazing and so does the craftsmanship.

Would love to see you guys take a look at the Rossi 301/303’s - great Redback/Blundestone alternative still (mostly) made in Australia!

Awesome stuff boss. I'd be super interested if you could take the Nike Air Ship PE apart (I think technically it's a Jordan release), specifically the red or blue Every Game releases!

Nice vid, very helpful , thank you

RoseAnvil, Nike SB just revived the Stefan Janoski! Would you ever do a video on this shoe? Thank you!

The SB’s are the actual premium version, mostly if you get one of the full leather SB’s

SB Blazers are the way to go... Better shape and materials, especially if you get one of the Orange Label pairs. The Light Cognac colorway is one of my favorite sneakers I've ever owned

I can’t recall if you have ever done a boat shoes series so I was wondering if you have any plans to do that. I for one love the leather boat shoes they’re built like moccasins, at least the good ones are . Thanks

You can try the sb blazer, because there are collorway’s that have nubuck leather on them, and they can have thicker materials for skateboarding.

the swoosh is different as is the rubbercupsole

Now we need to see a comparison with the even cheaper Court Royale 2

I have a pair of Blazers made with a textile upper and have been pretty good and comfortable for the past 2 years. They are called the Nike Blazer Patch. I had some issues with the glue in them making marks but they are pretty comfortable to me. It would be nice to see your thoughts about them being a completely different type of Blazer.

If you're ever taking suggestions, i recently bought a new pair of Lowa Tibet LL hiking boots, after wearing the predecessor for over twenty years. I'd love to see an expert opinion on something like them, especially if the full lining with glove leather is worth having...

your vids are sick! you should cut the orange label nike SB blazers in half or the nike sb pawnshop dunk high!

This is the reason why I stoped buying Nike. Thanks again!!! You are awsome

Great review per usual. Please review the MKBHD sneakers.

Man, the Terry cloth counter has me rolling

As an alternative to Blazers, there's Converse Pro Leather mids and there's one made of Horween leather.

There are the original supreme collaboration blazers but like a year ago they released new ones. They got a cool quilt stitch pattern.

This is why i always opted for full suede SB Blazers. They have a lower price tag ($80 for the GT Low and $85 for the mid), Zoom Air insole, and are at least honest about the material. It’s suede. No junky plastic lining. Made to skate.

Weston deserves to review a shoe that is actually good. I've never seen a single video where the shoe he's reviewing is good, it's time that changed.

Id love to see you cut open a pair of the Adidas Busenitz , obviously the leather ones.

How do both of the past blazers you’ve reviewed stack against the “SE” model?

You are a legend. This is really good stuff. I can now confirm my Nikes are in fact, not premium.

Can you do a video on the tools you use? I’m especially curious about the extremely sharp blade.

Nike sb iso blazers with the orange lace tips use 1.75 mm full grain leather and it’s amazing they are hard to get but skat amazing as full grain leather is very durable it is chrome tanned but very good for Nike and they retail at $90. Being an educated consumer is important for less fortunate youth to excel and be able to uplift and elevate in society

Hey rose, i was wondering if you could compare the sb blazer to the past blazers you have looked at. Btw, like your content

Sad because I love the understated style of this shoe. I've almost purchased it a few times. Guess I'll keep looking.

Try the Nike By You Blazers. I’ve done the Nike by you Dunks and the leather they use seems to be better and softer. They may do the same with the dunks. I think that would be interesting to check out.

If you are talking about Nike blazers, you should def review the sb blazers or the sb bruin. I got a as pair of wolf grey sb bruin $90 and I’m satisfied so far, love the color and the leather is soft and comfortable after breaking in.

I would love to see You cut Onitsuka tiger mexico mid runner, they seem like simple but good quality old school shoe.

I’m curious about the materials they use in the SB Blazers since they are advertised as the skate version of the regular blazers.

You should do a video on those Thursday sneakers, I've been curious about these all leather style sneakers from smaller(?) companies like them. And maybe a video on an a leather pair of converse, nike owns that brand so maybe that's the best version of a "retro" or "classic" non jordan leather high top they make.

I just bought a pair of Nike Air Ship PE's since they gave me the same vibe of a Blazer and a Jordan 1 without being either.

Great video as always, consider cutting up a pair of Adidas Samba!

theres some really good skateboard blazer lows out there

Can you do the SB blazers next. I love skating them and seem to have better materials in my opinion.

i have thé off white grim reaper blazer and it’s night and day comfort over the regular. i’d love to see what they got away with in that shoe lol. i will say it’s more comfortable so maybe there is some different materials in it.Would love to see a pair dissected

Hi there! What steel you got on that little claw knife?

Cut open the Converse Pro Leather. They feel significantly better than the Blazers, and cost less too.

Id be interested in seeing if the Thursday high tops differ from their low tops. Any chance of seeing the high tops being cut in half?

I wear running shoes, I appreciate function over aesthetic always

Have you cut apart the premium Jordan 5s from a few years ago? They were like 500 bucks retail. Would be interested to see that shoe cut up.

You should make a video on the SB blazers, in my experience they’re much better quality

Please do more of these comparisons normal vs premium

look at the nike zoom blazer ISO orange label, i got a pair and they still hold up good after 2 years

I'd like to see a comparison with some replica shoes vs. original ones.

They put that kind of togue, with the exposed inner material and put the premium badge on it, that's about it... and sometimes they double the swoosh

Wouldn't you mind to do Onitsuka Tiger either Mexico 66 or Serrano? The quality seems like very decent.

Check out the blazers by you they normally upgrade the leather on thise pairs

Cut apparat some SB Blazer Mid Edge! Those look cool and kinda different

How do they slice the leather ? ( Edge to edge ) Cut it to only use the good / top part or the bottom / bad part ?

Can you look at the jumbo premium blazer, with suede/new buck? I just got a pair and the suede/new buck looks really good! I got the blue ones on sale

The Nike on the rear is embroidery instead of screened.. but still doesn't warrant the premium name. I have a pair of all black suede Blazers...I believe they were "SE". Surprisingly I wear them more than any other shoes for the past 2 months...they are lows so maybe because I can slide them on and off and being triple black they go with anything. Not the first time I've worn a pair of shoes that I thought I wouldn't like but they will be worn until they fall apart.

As someone who never pays more than US$55 for shoes, apart from my Docs 25 years ago, I'm yet to see any product relevant to me on here.

Should test the material to see if there is difference in maybe creasing, scratchings, piercing, tearing? If it ain't full grain leather it's not great right? Show us

As someone who works somewhere that has a close relationship with Nike, a premium Nike colorway doesn’t indicate a material change, a premium model just means that specific colorway. They do it a lot with their running and athletic shoes. For the most part it’s a negligible change in materials, just a fancy color

I’m still waiting for a cut centered score of 10

Can you do a dior b27 sneaker review? I am curious how these hold up as the dior jordan 1's were very extremely durable in whistlindiesel's tests which included being run over by excavators, having a motorcycle do a burnout on them and even setting them on fire. Those are 5 figure shoes so I don't expect you to get them to cut them apart (would be a shame as well) so you can try with their 1k sneakers. Really curious if they're also durable and high quality or the price is mostly branding.

Review the Crown-Northhampton Hi Top senaker. The closest to a Blazer in styling that I have seen.

Are the Blazer SB’s any good?

I would love to see a review on the TCX Hero Boots, its a motorcycle leather boot (or any another leather motorcycle boot). I was wondering what the difference is that makes a motorcycle boot different from another high quality leather boot (besides just ankle armor)