story

"Come up, come forward, come forward. Go, go! He’s still chasing. Oh God, I did the wrong foot. I did the wrong foot. It’s alright, you got it. One more time, let’s try it again."

"What up? Hey, what’s up how are you? Arvie. I’m Paul, pleasure to meet you. Haley. Nice to meet you, nice to meet you too. Welcome to Autore Jiu-Jitsu. Thank you for having us. Have you guys ever tried Jiu-Jitsu before? Never. Nah, never."

"Any street fights? No, thank God. Before we step on the mats, we’ll take our shoes off as a sign of respect. What attracted you like specifically to Jiu-Jitsu as opposed to other martial arts?"

"There was something about being able to catch somebody with a submission without having to throw a punch and the self defense part of it. What attracted you to skateboarding? I saw…"

"...kids at school and uh they were skating and to me it was like magic tricks, like how do they flip it, land back on it, ride it. How ‘bout you? I was so attracted to the process of the whole like skating like falling and learning a trick and testing…"

"...yourself. The skateboard will always humble you, you know what I mean? You can never get too comfortable. Yeah, it’s the same thing with Jiu-Jitsu. It’s never perfect but you constantly chase it. Yeah, yeah."

"How’s it feel? I feel official, yeah it feels good. You guys look legit. I love how the shoe really like represents the Gi in Jiu-Jitsu I’d love to hear more about what went into the details. I think, you know, when we were getting into this project we’re..."

"...tryin’ to represent Jiu-Jitsu super well through this storytelling of the shoe. Kinda the first thing we were thinking about was all the materials that we use and we kinda placed the different iconic materials throughout the different panels and this is kinda one of those things where we got to hide little like Easter..."

"...eggs, little things. There’s some secret colors behind all the panels. Oh really? Yeah, that will represent Jiu-Jitsu belt rank colors. As you kind of move up the shoe you’re like alright this is like we’re earning our stripes through different tricks we’re doing and..."

"...that’s how you can reveal from like basic blue to all the way to the black and even red and coral. Same with the laces, you’re wondering why we have like seven. Each lace was a different color belt. Awesome. That’s so sick. Yeah, so just some fun storytelling that kinda relates the two, skating..."

"...and Jiu-Jitsu. Yeah this is a little intimidating. Haha! One hand goes behind me, the other one comes behind me and I stand up. "

"Yes! I pull my left leg back, my right foot will come right here. Sweep, and then you turn the wheel. Aye, nice. One, Two! Yes! Perfect, hey, let’s go!"

"Hey! Thanks. Nice, that was good! What do you guys think of your first Jiu-Jitsu class? I think I wanna do it now. Alright, let’s go! That was the point."

Behind the Design: SB Dunk Low x Albino & Preto 'Pearl White'