Skateboard Shoes: Etnies Callicut

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It all started about 6 months ago when I went into the local skateshop (at the time Zuimez) with $70.00 bucks in my wallet lookin for new skateboard shoes. I tried a couple on and none of them seemed to be feelin right. At the time I worked at the local skate shop (we never have had shoes in stock, too small) and remember about the owner talking about getting Etnies in stock. So I wanted to try some Etnies out to see how they are. I then saw some Callicuts on sale at the good old price of $59.99. So I made the worst mistake of my skate shoes life...bought them.

After wearing them for about a week, I started to notice that they where really stiff. Then after a month...still stiff. Then after two months...they finally broke in. So that sucked to skate with stiff, un-brocken in shoes for about two months. I also started to notice that the poor things had their seams right on the F-in toe part where the shoe rubs against the grip tape on your board. So by the end of about three months, they where no good anymore.

So right now they are sitting somewhere in a junk field, with a big hole in hole shoe, and the words “I hate these shoes” written in marker. After that pair of Etnies, I will never buy them again, because it seems that they where built for jocks! The reason I think that is because of the seams on the toe, and how they never really broken in (until like two months). So my shop never ordered Enties, for the fact that they when out of business (R.I.P Teton Sports). The conclusion is that Etnies are for jocks, or at least the Callicuts are.