Monday 3 December 2012

Combat Speeds

Visit the owner's flickr photostream if you are interested in these great shoes. These are NOT my shoes!

Tuesday 27 November 2012

Vintage wrestling drills

This is proper awesome, an old wrestling instruction film showing wrestlers in vintage wrestling shoes and singlets:


Check out these cool old canvas wrestling shoes, probably by Converse or Bata:

Today I Am Mostly Wearing

...white feiyue plimsolls.

Saturday 24 November 2012

Converse All Star - vintage Chucks

Recently acquired, these vintage USA-made Converse Chuck Taylors in wonderful light blue. Chucks the way they should be!








Converse All Star "Special"

Newly acquired, these beefed up Chucks in superb olive feature a double-thickness toe cap and metal loops at the top of each boot. Nice.




Tuesday 20 November 2012

10.5 on the left; 11.5 on the right

Two wonderful pairs of vintage USA-made Chuck Taylors. Great photo of awesome shoes!

Wednesday 14 November 2012

A wall of wrestling shoes

This collector has an impressive selection! You can see more on his Flickr photostream.

Wednesday 7 November 2012

Back arch throw

Back arch throw by Powerheadlock62
Back arch throw, a photo by Powerheadlock62 on Flickr.

Time for some wrestling action on here!

Tuesday 6 November 2012

Nike Blazer 77 in white leather

Just purchased these awesome sneakers. More soon!

From the Back of my Sneaker Cupboard #37

Adidas "Wrestling" shoes, reissued a few years back. These came out, I think, as a shoe for "general" wear based upon a genuine wrestling shoe, but some wrestlers did use them for their original purpose.


Thursday 25 October 2012

New Monochrome White Canvas

Monochrome White Canvas by jimshooz7
Monochrome White Canvas, a photo by jimshooz7 on Flickr.

A buddy of mine has just purchased these crisp, white new Chucks. I'm loving these photos!

Thursday 18 October 2012

Vintage ASICS wrestling shoes

The latest shoe in my growing collection, superb ASICS/Onitsuak Tiger wrestling shoes:

Buddies in Chucks

Chucks by this photo
Chucks, a photo by this photo on Flickr.

Looking in good in their black chucks!

Monday 15 October 2012

Saturday 6 October 2012

Converse XXhi - Monochrome Black

Recently acquired, these Converse "XXhi" boots are total pain to lace up! (Even with those zips up the back of the boot). But I think they are worth it.

Thursday 4 October 2012

Today I Am Mostly Wearing

...hitop white toecap plimsolls (Gardiner '1952'). These would make pretty good wrestling shoes too.

Thursday 27 September 2012

Wednesday 19 September 2012