Hvw8 Feiyue shoes on Mag SHOOK

The UK-based magazine Shook just released their third issue this week featuring Detroiters such as Danny Brown, Osborne, Samiyam, and Channel One. Shook is quickly becoming a respected magazine of urban music globally. The first three issue can be downloaded in PDF format on their site, but

Download Issue #1: GUILTY SIMPSON, INVINCIBLE, DENAUN PORTER, BLACK MILK, JAY ELECTRONICA, GOYA MUSIC, BENJI B, PAUL WHITE, HVW8 FEIYUE SHOES, DJ MURO, SPACE INVADER, and more.

Download Issue #2: SAMIYAM, FLYING LOTUS, RAS_G, POO BAH RECORDS, HUDSON MOHAWKE, MIKE SLOTT, JOE GIBBS, TAKE, SA-RA, JAMES POYSER, KARRIEM RIGGINS, ANDREW MEZA, BLU, TA'RAACH, and more.

Download issue #3: DANNY BROWN, OSBORNE, SAMIYAM, KID CREOLE, ACID HOUSE, HECTOR LAVOE, JUNOT DIAZ, and more.

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Best basketball anime ever-Slam Dunk

Still familiar with this ? It's Slam Dunk, one of the best anime ever. When in high school, many young people joined basketball due to inspiration of SD. It's incredibly cute and fun!



How do you like it ?actually remind you a bit of those days when playing basket ball and with a pair of warriors sneakers too?(it may not feel as good as NIKE but still cool!) It's a pity they stop the production on television after the national tournament, but you can take a review of the whole stories on the appended links, enjoy~

Downloads:
· Volume 01
· Volume 02
· Volume 03
· Volume 04
· Volume 05
· Volume 06
and please edit the address a bit if you want to read more,
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Warriors sneakers on Japanese famous manga?

What's are they?
It's a character from the famous Japanese manga Slam Dunk. Do you think the shoes he's wearing is kinda like Chinese sneaker-Warriors model WK-1?
hah, I know they can't be the same though ,but it still looks cool isn't it?


About Slam Dunk (manga)
Series Starts 10.16.1993

Series Ends 03.23.1996

Number of Episodes 101

Author/Artist Takhikou Inoue

Slam Dunk includes four OVAs

The Series revolves around Hanamichi Sakuragi, a high school freshman who is prone to fisticuffs and street fights. He falls head over heels in love with A girl named Haruko. Unfortunately, Haruko has an uncurable crush on the basketball club's popular small forward Kaede Rukawa. So what does our tall redhead do? He joins the basketball team of course -- even though he doesn't know a thing about the sport. And so the fun begins...

People watch Slam Dunk for the excitement of sports television with the added dimension of soap operatic drama. In watching an NBA game, you’re going to know who scored how many points and who got fouled out how many times... in watching Shohoku take on another high school team, you get that plus the chance to delve into the players’ lives and see what inspires them to dazzle us on the court. Definitely a spell-binding and heart-stopping viewing experience.

Slam Dunk has excellent characterization that makes it likeable by all. We find ourselves drawn into the workings of each character’s mind during the game.

The manga was originally licensed in North America to the now-defunct Gutsoon! Entertainment and serialized in Raijin Comics during 2003 and 2004 before Gutsoon folded. The license has since been picked up by VIZ Media, who confirmed at Comic Con International 2007 that will start publishing the series in September 2008. A preview of the series was published in the December 2007 issue of Shonen Jump^[4] It was also stated in the April 2008 issue that starting in the next issue, the series would appear in the monthly lineup. Another English version has been published in Singapore by Chuang Yi.

PS.

We do not sell Manga Comics or the DVD sets for Slam Dunk over here. However, if you have interest about this amazing manga that strongly influenced many teenagers, try google it. There are plenty of other sites that offer such.

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About us

阿杜.Steward
Admin of the blog

Hi, My name is Steward. I'm a native Chinese student in Shanghai, where I got a fantastic and formative education. I collaborate with friends to write this blog about Feiyue shoes (clike to know more background of the shoes), as I observe many people are eager to know about Feiyue and other Chinese classical brands. However much of the information are only available in Chinese on web, making it difficult for the spread. And that gives me the push to create this blog.
Posts, data collected from various sources, and all put into English, provides an informative overview of the shoes. Hope you enjoy it.
Feel free to contact us if you're interested in any topic we ever involved.

Steward
Email: steward.du(at)gmail.com

Contribute to this blog
(Suggested by some readers)I am currently launching a series of posts about stories of Feiyue fans around the world. So,if you'd be interested in sharing your experience as a guest post - DO NOT HESITATE TO SHOOT ME AN EMAIL !

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Various ways to tie your shoes!

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Beijing Brand Battle

It's an article I found from Landor (a branding company with 24 global offices and 854 talented people.) about Feiyue and let's see how they reviewed the hit. - Steward

Bubbling under the line

By Gustavo Bechtold, Intern ,Beijing

This summer IWOM spread beyond the borders and interestingly enough, Chinese old-school sports brands are making a comeback among the right crowd. Sneakers from such brands as Feiyue (meaning Flying Forward), and Shuang Xing (Double Star) were the hottest shoes in China back in the 70s and now are cool again among kids from the Middle Kingdom to the United Kingdom.

Cool Hunting is praising the comfortable shoes, and if that wasn’t enough, the shoes are hard to find, even in China, which makes the hunt for them equally exciting. A pair of these sneakers is being sold for as much as 50 EU in London.

In China the buzz started when Orlando Bloom was photographed wearing a pair of Feiyue. The photo quickly spread through BBSes and sparkled among netizens, leading to a cult following, including such tributes as the photo book by a Chinese graphic design student and the coveted “Warrior” t-shirts in Beijing, which I bought myself at the Gu Lou area.

From Mr. Bloom playing an Elf in the Lord of the Rings movies to wearing Feiyue, the “flying forward” sneakers, it makes me wonder whether this is a clever below-the-line move or one of the most curious brand hijacks we are about to witness, all thanks to P2P (online peer to peer) power.

Keywords: bbs, feiyue, internet word of mouth, iwom, shuang xing [see full text here]

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A review of Feiyue Martial Arts shoe when used for Parkour

I found this awesome review of Feiyue on Overflux.com, posted by Tony. I strongly recommend it for those want to try Feiyue out! (Steward)

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Feiyue
Feiyue started in the 1920's in Shanghai, China. The name is pronounce Fay-Wee. Like a girls name, and then the thing you say when you go down a slide. They have been popular in the martial arts community for years due to their comfort and almost imperceptible weight. Recently Feiyue has started to court the Parkour community, claiming it's lightweight, flexible shoe would be perfect for training. They come in a huge amount of colors variations (each of which has it's own name), though many retailers only carry white or black only. Considering their popularity in martial arts, and their extremely affordable price, I decided to give them a try.

Where I found them
I went searching on Amazon to try and find a competitive price and discovered that they almost exclusively sell for $14.99. With shipping, it cost me 23 bucks. Not too shabby for a pair of shoes.

First impressions
My first impressions as I pulled them out of the box, was that they were 15 dollar shoes. The came in a clear plastic sleeve, and when I opened it up, it stank of that new rubber smell. They basically look like Chuck Taylors designed for running. Thin canvas body, with a thick rubber sole, and a strip of rubber around the whole thing. I put them on, and found they felt somewhat odd on my feet. The sole of the shoes seems to stick out more towards the middle of the foot, so it's almost feels like your feet are wider than the shoe. It's not an uncomfortable feeling, it's just very different from any shoes I've worn. It gives the impression that you're balancing on something. More on that later.

So I've had mine for nearly a month now, and I wear them pretty much daily. I find them very comfortable in that bare foot sort of way. Also, with the thin heels encouraging me to stand on the balls of my feet I find myself always wanting to bounce around. These shoes literally make me want to train more than other shoes. Sounds weird I know, but it's the God's honest truth. The lightness of them, and the way you can feel the ground, it makes you hyper aware of your feet, which just makes me want to run and jump.

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