The WORST Adidas Sneaker EVER?
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- Опубліковано 20 кві 2022
- In today's video we're checking out the Adidas Springblade from 2013! The Adidas Springblade features 16 polymer blades that are designed to spring you into the next step! But did this technology work? Let's find out!
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This shoe was my first “expensive” shoe back when I was 11-12. And I truly loved this shoe, as an adolescent, it was the coolest shoe to have. I loved them so much and was pretty sad when I outgrew them.
Same, I had the blue colorway!
I had them too around 14!
I had the green coloured blades they looked sick
Props to Adidas for taking a risk. You can’t succeed with a product unless you invite the opportunity for failure! I kinda like the look of the shoe tho
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yeah, the upper looks amazing imo
I took the risk and bought 4 pairs of these in different colors.
I would to love see more retrospectives like this its cool to see the attempts at old shoe technology by brands like adidas and nike. Loved the vid man
You should do a retrospective on the Reebok zig zag shoes from like the early 2010s
Adidas made springblades, boost, 4d always trying something new. While nike keep on rerelease retros. Welp. Whatever works for their company i guess
And who's more successful?
@@Roxus1 depends on the perspective. I mean financially I'm pretty sure that nike is leading but I must ask if financial success is the factor one should take into consideration when talking about a "good" brand. I mean smaller brands that are "better" in terms of quality or sustainability but lack in terms of financial success, are these smaller brands automatically "worse" then say Nike or even adidas?
@@Roxus1 adidas in general
No one likes when nikes makes new stuff anyways remember when they launched joy ride? Adidas can't ride there previous success as much so good on adidas for pushing boundaries.
actually If I know right nike Released shox at that time
I was an adidas outlet employee for many years. They were quickly sent to the outlet but they always sold out. Despite the issues people still bought several pairs at a time. I never wore them because of the weight. I preferred adistar, boost or sambas.
"no one has ever put blades on the bottom of the shoe"
inventor of ice skating shoes: am i a joke to you?
Adidas always stepping up their game by trying something new and there's Nike releasing millions of dunks with horrible quality smh
One of the first shoes that got me into sneakers and design. These, Air mags, and reebok zig-techs were the "coolest" shoes to me in middle school.
I love my Springblades. I actually still rock my two pairs. One did break but I still have one that’s still in perfect condition. It’s a comfortable lifestyle and unique sneaker. No regrets buying them.
Hey Seth, awesome video! These shoes definitely take me back. Used to wear these every day in middle school but now a freshman in college rocking foam runners and even crazier shoes. Used to love these things
It's a cool concept. I had the adidas microbounce back in like 2007 and they were some of my favorites. Wish these would have been better!
I still wear a pair of triple-white springblades pretty regularly! Obviously, yeah, they're broken in the same place as everyone elses, but I never felt like it's affected how it feels to walk in. Because it's an old triple-white shoe, the plastic parts of it have yellowed beautifully, and i modified mine with a big raw foam tongue to make it look even more weird and deconstructed. Honestly, love em to death.
You're right on all counts on these. I had a pair that I wore about three times. My biggest issue with them was they felt like old school footy boots (I believe you call them cleats), they didn't bend at the toe! Was like walking around with a hardcover book strapped to your feet.
Have this before and i love it. Bouncy, it was like it pushes your foot when running
Sweet video. But you never mentioned that they're loud! I absolutely loved mine (which broke just like mentioned in the video) but they're definitely not quiet. I swear, any time that they got any looks is because people heard strange strange footfalls that lead them back to a "sneaker" with BLADES. They were great for walking long distances though. The trick was to abuse them, return them, then treat the next pair like glass, and not kneel while wearing.
used to own this back in the day, were pretty cool but make squeaky sounds when they got wore down and dirty. even got the updated version, but same problems. great concept, not so great execution.
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I bought these and I still have the insoles from them. I remember running through the rubber within a month with about (3 miles per run). It was unstable because of the height. This shoe was the shoe before boost came out.
Great video seth! Do another on the nike shox!!
WoW!!! they look so cool! Really glad you told us what you think. Now I know not to get this pair just yet. But i Love the iDea!
You should do a weird or classics series. Cause it's facinating
I agree! I’d love to listen to Seth break down some of the big whiffs in sneaker history.
Bro this is crazy that you’re doing a review on these, I grabbed a pair of these a bit ago because I remember some kid having them in high school😂
Use to have it and i had no problems at all, but im just around 55kg. Loved the design😊
i wanted a pair for a while, eventually I got one but after a year of wear it began to hurt my feet a lot so I got rid of em and never looked back, still looks awesome imo
I bought a Adidas Springblade (Crimson Red Drive 2) back in 2016, incredibly comfortable shoes, very very awesome for running,... believe me..... BUT i used them only for 2 months and something happened, the same thing as discussed in video, ,,,sole as it was made in 2 parts started losing its glue, ,,, it did make weird noise on marble/indoors, ,,, i have no problem with traction,. i still have broken pair, because i just cant seem to get rid of them... i love them to death.
I remember seeing these on Amazon back in 2015 when I was looking for a shoe for summer camp, was very excited but didn't get it
Wish you had tried the Rick Owens spring blades. They released much later than 2013 and I always thought it was cool, a high fashion take on a failed technology. Making use of it's crazy aesthetic for the only thing it was really good for.
Energy return is a physical impossibility with shoes. What these springblades did, however, was provide excellent shock absorption.
It took me even longer to finally get a hold of the original Bounces, lol. Not the bounce foam but the plastic circles
I live in Brazil and this shoe made a HUGE succsess as a lifestyle shoe, but never as a performance sneaker. Alongside with Nike Shox, the brazilian street culture adopted this shoe and you still can see some people wearing then till nowadays
I liked this video a lot, I'd like to see more retro reviews of weird shoes like this.
That upper on the first gen shoe looks super sick and would have definitely help take off if it was on a different midsole. And wow I thought a 180 dollar price tag now was expensive that price tag back then must have been awful to deal with.
Damn, I used to see them in Ross all the time a few years back like around 2018-2019 when I was first starting to expand my shoe collection last nikes. Didn’t realize they were rare cus the multiple Ross’s had so many of em.
The black and white version looks outstanding good!
I had couple of these. First pair were unbreakable. Wore them at college and got many compliments. Second pair was a nightmare. They broke from (as expected) mid sole and retired after a few months. Though these were worth the gamble. They were surely cool looking shoes!
I still own a pair. Nice of you to review these.
I have a pair of adidas springblade shoes that I bought a year ago once I saw them at platos of all places. I absolutely LOVE how crazy they look, and I feel like they are a lot like vapormax in both use and look. They both were never very good for running
I remember these. On sale everywhere back in the day. The second pair the boot look like Nike shox
This and my LeBron 12s where my fav shoes when I was younger, I wore both out until I out grew them or they fell apart.
I own a pair of these, early models with all black uppers, grey blades and yellow tread. They lasted me a good long while before they snapped at the join, but I got them fixed at a cobblers and to this day they've stayed true. No need to throw things away all the time, get them fixed, it's just glue.
Decent video though. Kudos to Adidas for even trying it, it gets boring with the same old stuff getting slightly reworked with a 2.0 version.
Do the Reebok Zig next. Another pretty leftfield sneaker that bombed. I have a pair of those too, never worn. They smell of cat piss though and it's apparently one of their quirks. Mine are the Reebok Zig X Ian Paley. Pretty easy to find and they're cheap. They're not as crazy as the earlier Zig models though.
Yes they break, but you can do quite an effective repair by riveting the midsoles back together. I still run on my repaired pair today.
they could have easily made this shoe with the blades, but a complete full rubber bottom and not had these issues..I do remember seeing this shoe years ago and actually thought thats how it was, but hey innovation though is how we progress and BOOST is one of those that has lasted and changed the sneaker game forever.
I like how Adidas has been experimenting with designer brands. Whether they look good or not, I love what they are doing overall!
What a decent video informative and entertaining well done Seth
Adidas have the spring back on lock with soccer boots the X Ghosted and X speedflow with the carbon fibre insert in the soleplate.
love my rick owens springblade boots. would 100% buy another pair if they were reissued.
I ran track in high school and I had the Springblades as my track shoes, they were the blaze orange ones. I saw them on Instagram around August of 2013 and immediately thought these were the coolest shoes ever. I asked my mom for them and she got them for me for a Christmas gift. I could definitely tell from my 100m times that the springs didn't do their job, but I didn't care because I liked them. I just want to bring up one thing that Seth didn't mention which is one of the Springblade's flaws: Objects can get stuck in between the blades. I was at a track meet wearing the springblades and walking around in the grass. I stepped forward with my left foot and as soon as my foot stepped on the ground, I heard a loud noise from my foot. I looked down, and a large Powerade cap was lodged in between the blades. I remember really having to yank that cap out from the blades. My springblades were eventually broken like Seth's were in the same place, but I still loved them. They were loud when you walked in them too, I remember during exam time in high school walking in my socks to my locker to get something so I didn't disturb anybody taking a test. Despite its flaws, I loved these springblades and I do miss them so much.
I remember in like grade 5 and 6 These shoes got really popular and everyone had them on
I have 2 pairs and they both broke or were broken when they arrived. I worked out a way to fix them. They don’t work as Adidas claims but they do feel very cool on foot and is very cool looking.
I live wearing them, though I don’t wear any of my shoes often as I have a large rotation
very nice video :) Love the analyse.
The sneaker looks funny... but more like a gadget for the kitchen.
Check out the Adidas Bounce shoes if you wanna do more videos about shoes with failed tech. Raf Simons did a collab shoe on it. Far from comfortable and might turn heads since the sole is made of hard plastic circles?
I had these in middle school and I loved them. Unfortunately the sole came apart exactly like your pair and had to toss em after like a month.
Hey Seth, maybe u can also feature other old cushion tech nike shox and adidas a³ cube. Thanks.
The technology on these shoes are thru the roof🔥
Ppl in brazil were crazy for this shoe. The brazzilian "funk" and "favela" culture, always pushed that sport style, and till this day, ppl are crazy for these running shoes. the springblade was a dream for most kids that listened to songs and artists talking about this shoe.
Love the idea I just wish adidas color ways were simpler and easier to match
Prove that adidas was the crazy brand before Kanye, he just help pushed them to new heights.
Also......it sometimes gets hung up on the gas pedal. Yes...there were a couple times it hooked the gas pedal and got stuck!
Not fun at all!
Here in Brazil the springblade is pretty famous!
I got these shoes and after breaking my back and going into therapy, I found I went further on the treadmill with the springblade rather a normal running shoe. And mine actually lasted almost 3 years and miss them so much. And will pay a fortune for a pair that lasts and doesn't break
seth saying "much shoener than i think they liked" at 1:12
Always wanted to by this!!
I had that exact same colourway, I remember after 2 months, the soul snapped in half
2:47, could we get a driving shoe video. Most videos show specific driving shoes but I wanna whether Nike, Adidas or even new balance have offerings that are good for driving.
I actually like the look & feel. I have a collection of most all of the second generation sneakers, all brand new. To each his own, I guess...
They definitely have that ultraboost upper silhouette.
#SALUTE THESE REMIND ME OF CAR RENTAL PARKING LOTS HOW THOSE BLADES ARE. IF YOU EXIT THE PARKING LOT THE BLADES GO DOWN. IF YOU EXIT PARKING LOT THE WRONG WAY THE BLADES WONT GO DOWN AND POP TIRES
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I have 3 pair of the Razor model, which were considerably more durable. Only one of the pair broke and that was after several years of wear and leaving them in hot and cold cars for months on end, only then did the glue finally give out. I presume that his pair failed so fast because they were an old pair which were purchased used off of Ebay and possibly stored in hot cars storage units, garages etc.. and they weren't the more expensive and better constructed Razor models that were more durable. I bought mine in 2013 at Foot Locker for $250.00 per pair and now in 2023, the glue still hasn't given out and i have even skateboarded in them quite a lot, though i don't recomend them for skating, i found that they were good for slowing down when doing some rather agressive downhill boarding, they make a cool screeching sound when you use them to hang the front toes off the board and drag them across the pavement in order to slow down but this does wear the rubber off of the blades, an issue which i will adress later in this comment. I didn't care to mess up one pair as i have 2 other pair that i kept new, one for collecting and the other for wearing sometimes. definitely not good for long runs but if you get into full stride during a sprint, they definitely seem to propel you forward with greater momentum than other shoes although not with the cushioned energy return you get from running shoes meant for cross country or marathon running. These seemed to be better as sprint shoes, primarily designed to provide better forward momentum. I assumed this because they say "sprint web" across the toebox and well, they work good for sprinting, albiet they're heavier than a proffesional regulation sprint shoe by a noticebale margin. They're stiff and not comfortable for long runs, hours on your feet working, long walks, or hikes. But the stiffness seems to provide extra ankle support for fast bursts of running. For casual wear and short sprints, they seem to do the trick, provided it is not wet out as they are basically suicidal on slippery surfaces. Stairs are also an exercise akin to Russian roullete in these things. One thing he did not mention was gravel or deep mud. Gravel pieces get stuck under the blades very easily and sometimes slingshot out with tremendous force if you run over any loose gravel in the pavement. A few times the rocks hit my ankles, legs and unmentionable parts, which was quite unpleasant, to say the least. On a couple of occasions gravel bits even flung out at passing vehicles, other pedestrians and peoples dogs as they walked them. This almost caused a few altercations for me in which awkward and tense exchanges ensued whrein i attempted to explain that it wasn't me, it was my shoes. One guy in New Jersey said, "Hey buddy, your shoes suck!" A guy in The Bronx simply yelled at me to, "Get a normal pair of shoes a**ho*e!" And some hick in Florida brandished a firearm and proclaimed his right to, "stand his ground". Yep, I'm a traveling man, and the blades be a' travelin' where i be. Sometimes the gravel bits suddenly made my anlkes lock up and i fell right on the spot, if the rocks got wedged between the blades just so.. As for mud, well.. they just would get stuck and I'd run right out of them as they stayed planted firmly in the muck. Transitioning from ideal pavement to slicker surfaces can also catch one off guard and send you flying flat onto your rear-end if you aren't prepared for it. On more than one occasion, for example, i stepped from a concrete or carpeted surface and onto aluminum stage decking (as i was a roadie at the time, which should explain all the traveling me and the ole blades did together) and i went right into the full splits as one foot just skated away from me as if it were on ice while the other one stayed put. This happened because as the rubber wore off on some of the edges of the outsole, the hard and very slick plastic became exposed and despite my cautious efforts, i would inevitably, inadvertently step just-right on the sweet spot of the edge on the exposed plastic blade, which was not hard to do and basically impossible to avoid as you become comfortable and don't consciously think about each step you take when you're moving and have already been decived into feeling confident in finding your footing in a shoe that feels natural and comfortable on one surface but then abruptly behave as if you stepped on a banana peel in a cartoon as one foot tends to start sliding away with or without your permission. As a side note, they were also not ideal for walking around a bunch of microphone and intrument cables strolled about on the ground, as stagehands tend to do. As one can imagine, the cords tend to get hung in the blades, no matter how hard you try to step around them they were really good at picking up any foreign particles you may non-chalantly step on. A pair of Asics Sendai 2 quickly became my gig shoes, and they were much better, also quite good running shoes but i digress. As the rubber pieces that are glued on become worn and fall off, it leaves a nice razor-sharp edge on the outside of blades that i presume could be useful for some handy-dandy shin kicking, if the occasion were to so arise. They may even be considered a lethal weapon if worn on the feet of a certified karate master. I would not want to be kicked with a pair of Springblade's, is all i can say, not a joke folks! Note to self, keep Springblades away from Chuck Norris for the sake of his opponents... Another thing he left out of this review is a surprising and probably unintended feature of these shoes. Landing from high jumps. I could jump off stage decks, down stairs et-cetera in these things and just stick the landing every time, the blades absorb almost all of the shock and seem to disperse the force outward and away from your legs instead of up and into your leg bones. You can literally land with full force from jumps and barely feel any shock whatsoever. More shock absorbing than any shoes I've ever worn in that regard but it isn't a soft cushy feeling it just sticks to the ground and feels like it should send a jolt up your shin bones like any other shoes would but it doesn't, pretty trippy.. provided the surface you're landing on isn't slick and the rubber isn't worn off the blades, in which case i would imagine you could perform an astonishing feat as you busted your hind-end and hopefully not snapped your neck as the shoes catapulted your legs out from under you. Don't try this at home. I'm actually really surprised Adidas were only sued once for these travesties of a contraption come to think of it. It was probably a wise desicion for them to discontinue this line of daredevil, suicide-machine/murder weapon shoes. And yes, i still rock them. Hey, ya' never know when you might need to pull a full-stride robot-cop from Terminator2 sprint-blitz into hardcore parkour jump down 3 flights of stairs, sticking the landing after Bruce Lee kicking a bad guy, right in the neck... what? It could happen...
I remember wanting a pair of these really badly when I was kid
You should try Mizuno shoes, especially the prophecy model and compare it to this Adidas one 🙏🏼
They look dope! I'd probably cop one if I find one
first released in 2006.
I had a pair I ganked from my brother. It was weird but somewhat comfortable shoe. It had bad traction in the rain and if you ever stepped in mud, they would hold chunks and gravel would get stuck in between the legs.
Just texted….what did I win?
Lmao at you saying that the shoe felt more comfortable when it broke!
I used to always want a pair of these!
Looks okay for me just like the Shox however it is not advisable for driving…
What do you think about the NB 550's?
The split in the middle has just happened to mine which I purchased in 2014. Still in perfect condition other than that 😢 did you try to glue them or enquire about getting them glued by a cobbler? I refuse to bin mine at this point
I just got into sneakers. Can you still get every shoe for retail price if you try or no? Like can I still get the kaws aj4 for retail?
Review the NMD Ryat
Should make a video on the most outrageous designs shoe companies have made.
Would be interesting to look at the goofy things brands have released.
I have a pair that has broken, but will keep them as a historic record - who knows, it may well appreciate in the future.
I had these and loved them to death
on foot they look good
And I really like how they feel
SF, can you wear test the Nike isp warriors?
still have my 2 pairs ended up putting screws through the bottoms so the don't separate
Y’all can’t really diss these but love the vapor max can you lol
It looks like a
Accident waiting to happen!
It looks okay…. But I live in NYC!
I walk over sidewalk grates and manhole covers 🤷🏿nuff said🤣
i loved them since tommy cash weared them in colors track
I have been trying to get the rick owens spring blades for years.
I have a par in red. I only used 2 or 3 times.. They are very comfortable but I live in Denmark and it rains all the time.. It is not easy to walk on wet surfaces with these sneakers.It's the reason I never really use them.
I remember all my friends were talking about this in middle school
This lowkey one of my favorite shoes ever
Its a shoe that you question why it was released but also give adidas props for trying something new
it only looks cool for the rick owens collab one, but also have the same issue of the sole
That shoe looks wild
They sure do he trying 😂
Do you guys know where could I possibly find a pair which has never been used? Size EU46(29,5cm)
Suprised you havent covered addidas x porsche design, there bounce system and the ultraboosts are a different class
You got up a little bit with that jump ngl
The first jump*