Paul Rodriguez

When I started skating, it was pre-social media and a skateboard video would come out and we would live off that skateboard video for like a year or two until the next big skateboard video came out.

So content wasn't dropping as fast.

So we would sit with these videos that we had for a year or so and study them, rewind them, pause, slow-mo, try to learn all the tricks that your favorite pros are doing.

Just actually my new sneaker just dropped two days ago on the 13th.

Oh, nice.

And so I guess that's the newest.

Yeah, my P-Rod 1 Nike SB Retro release.

Dude, those are sick.

Thank you, yes.

Yeah, online.

Well, actually on the 16th, they dropped like all over online, all the stores.

On the 13th, they just dropped in selected skate shops.

Nice.

And so tomorrow, they'll drop like full drop.

Well, this was good because it's a retro shoe.

This is my first shoe and this came out in 2005.

So we just re-released it now for the 20-year anniversary.

so it wasn't as much at least not for me for the designers it was a lot of work because i did not know this but nike doesn't keep their shoe molds after five years like if they stop making a shoe they get rid of it after five years because these molds are huge and they're heavy and with all the shoes that nike makes they would have nowhere to store all these molds wow so after five years they get rid of them so the designers

didn't have the mold so they couldn't just make them on demand.

So we had to take, luckily I had some pairs saved in storage and they had to take them, cut them open and like reverse engineer them and recreate the shoe.