First off a little background info on me… my name is Joey Abboud, I’m 23 years old and I’m a 4th year Film Student in Canada - so besides reppin PUMA all day I’m actually working on films and developping my filmmaking skills…

I grew up rocking PUMA kicks, I got my first pair when I was 8 bro!!! And since I grew up with Italians all my Italians friends rock’d PUMAS….and all their friends rock’d PUMAS and so on…. So I grew up in this underground movement of kids expressing their kicks!!! I remember seeing this 11 year old kid coming to school in his PUMA Suedes HiTops and had customized his laces, they were a different color and they were wider and fatter then regular laces
- and that really caught my attention…. After that I started collecting PUMA kicks like a fien…. It became addictive every pay check I’d get from working @ a Coffee shop I’d spend it on getting the latest PUMA kicks!!! When I was 16 I had around 30 different kicks and it just grew from there. Now I have well over 80 PUMA kicks and it’s still an addiction!!! But it’s a form of street expression!!!

Over year ago I had prolly the brightest idea ever and that was to create a interactive PUMA Lifestyle community for PUMA enthusiats. Because I knew there was a demand for it, I mean before PUMATALK, PUMA Heads would go online on any sneaker site and talk about PUMA & random kicks, there wasn’t a dedicated site just to talk about PUMA kicks!

PumaTalk has a bunch of benefiting features for members and guest, your Forum is dope filled with mad relevant information and we monitor it like crazy to ensure accuracy and relevancy from our members contributing to the Brand.
Moreover we educate our members/guests on the Brand we also give tips how to spots fake kicks online and to stay way from them!

We have a unique PUMA Lifestyle Photoblog, this basically is our way to giving LOVE to all kinds of PUMA LOVERS…. We collection images from PUMA Lovers, they snap a picture of them in their PUMAs and send it to us and feature it in our Photoblog: www.pumatalk.com/photoblog

We also will launch our Official PUMA Blog by the end of the weekend (sunday) if you want to see how it will look like here’s the address:
www.pumatalk.com/dontdelete/blog

Our PUMA Blog, will cover everything about PUMA, from the hottest - latest kicks to vintage kicks, from PUMA gear to PUMA events, our job is to provide our members & viewers the latest info on PumaTalk & PUMA.

PumaTalk has been live since March 2006, and so far I’m very pleased with how everything is going and it will only grow more and more!

Future Kicks. com is a website that displays your hottest footwear brought to you by Stack N Bundles. Here you are able to visualize the future of fashion and design.

Permission is granted to stare. Sit back, relax and be prepared for what you are about to witness is real. Future Kicks are incredibly hand painted with acrylic paint and detailed down to the T. All finished products are protected from cracks and peels. Warning all items are powerful and will bring a lot of attention. Come up with your own ideas, I can paint anything. New kicks will be posted monthly and will remain on fire. The work on this site was envisioned and created by a young talented artist named…..”Grass” #1 custom designer located in Queens N.Y.
(thx for your review Grass)

We are two friends who run the site. We started up in April 2003. We started this to sell the sneakers we like for ourselves.

We have both been playing basket ball for about 10 years and have always been into sneakers. We have a store in Denmark, but quickly learned that we had to deliver world-wide if we wanted to sell more limited stuff. Our site is a bit different from others because we take all the pictures ourselves and spent lots of time on perfecting them. We also have measurement charts for each models as the sizes in the sneaker world are a mess. If you go to the site you will find limited editions and good old classics.
(thx for the review Daniel)

Comment from us:
Nice to see that you guys have a lot of smaller brands besides Nike such as Umbro, Fred Perry, Le Coq Sportif, Paul Smith and so on.

In a few short months, Nice Kicks has become one of the most read sneaker news blogs on the Internet. Each day, Nice Kicks is giving their readers what they want - news and updates about some of their favorite sneakers including Air Jordans, Air Force Ones, Lebrons, and other up and coming brands like Greedy Genius.

The blog was started in April 2006 by a long time sneaker head. The goal of Nice Kicks was to make the site the first website any sneaker head would go to as soon as they got on a computer to find out the latest sneakers on upcoming releases or to read through the hundreds of pages full of history on Air Jordans and other sneaker brands.

One feature about Nice Kicks that has made it somewhat unique is that comments are allowed and encouraged. Alot of sites have forums in addition to their blogs, but Nice Kicks wants to hear what is on your mind immediately after you read one of their articles. “Say what you want and say what you mean - Nice Kicks doesn’t care what you say, as long as its clean.”

Hager Design, Inc. is a full service footwear design studio located in Boston. Darin Hager has designed for many manufacturer’s including Puma, Hi-Tec Sports, Sperry Top-Sider, Reebok, Sebago, Privo and the United States Special Forces.

Darin also applies his knowledge of the footwear industry and his creativity to painting his favorite kicks. His paintings and footwear designs were recently featured on ABC-TV’s “Chronicle” news magazine and are on display in The Tannery located in Cambridge, MA and are are available for private commission.

Freshsoles.com is a store/site located in Lulea, Sweden. Our site carries adidas, Addict,Keep diggin, Mixwell, Milkcrate athletics, Nike, New Balance, Puma, Reebok, and more.

The store opened on the 23 February 2006 and we started the site one month after we opened the store. The reason we started the store/site is we’re sneaker lovers/addicts and want to keep the sneaker loving to grov.
(thx for the review Lars)

BritKix is a collective of UK sneaker freaks. BritKix knows and understands the importance of the relationship between a man (or woman) and his (or her) footwear.

If you check out “view more pics” you can see just some of the choice footwear. Feel free to leave a comment. No buying or selling here pure sneaker appreciation at it’s best. honest sneaker freaks talking passionately about their top shoes!

[”Since we entered the world penniless and will leave it penniless, if we have bread on the table and shoes on our feet, that’s enough. But if it’s only money these leaders are after, they’ll self-destruct in no time.” *1 TIM 6:7-9* ]
(thx for the review DJ Thisway)

Go onto Google and type Nike Air Force One, Basketball Shoes, Nike Shoes, Jordan Shoes, Shoe Magazine, or Air Max 95 and you’ll see that Instyleshoes.com is always ranked #1 or #2. Coincidence? I think not. Instyleshoes.com has been the force behind the shoe community since its inception and that title isn’t going anywhere for a long time to come thanks to Tammy, Jackie, and Larry who now run the business.

Very few people are still around in the shoe world remember this but Mullholand.com/nike/ was where Instyleshoes.com was born. If you go to archive.org you’ll see some interesting pics and prices from back in the day! Steve Mullholand started Instyleshoes in 1999 and his goal was to create a high-end sneaker site, one with excellent pictures and professional customers service. Back then there were just a few sites and none of them were professional so it was a big deal. I can remember an article written about Steve and he said he just sold a technology company and put the money into shoes. He bought two pairs of shoes to start off with and had 1,000s within a year. And to bring it way back, do you remember when Steve had a secret webpage called “area 53″? And it had Gray XIs for $99!

Instyleshoes.com took a hard stance on fake shoes early on as well. To this day Instyleshoes.com is known for selling only authentic shoes and taking on fake shoe companies constantly. I think this is one of the claims to fame for Instyleshoes.com and you can trust that you will get your shoes 100% of the time. Many of the other sites today don’t take customer service serious and you never know if you’ll get your refund or price adjustment. Of the 28 pairs of shoes I’ve bought from instyleshos.com they have all been perfect with the exception of one FedEx problem and they fixed that for me for free!

Starting in 2002 Steve and his girlfriend Nicole traveled around the world seeking the rarest shoes they could find. They have been to 4 contents and 30 countries and have found some of the most amazing examples of old school sneakers.

In 2002 Instyleshoes.com started a forum called ISS Forums which developed into a cult following. People from all over the world came to the forums to talk about shoes and buy / and sell them. To this day I’m impressed that Steve had the insight to create a market place on his forum as it is in direct competition with his site. Shows that he is in it for the community and not just for the money. Back there was only one popular site, NikeTalk, and nobody thought ISS had a chance. But Steve came out of the gate with free picture hosting, much better forum software, release dates calendar, and a feedback system. Not to mention the best moderating team this side of HK. And when people saw how successful the Instyleshoes.com forum became they all followed and tried to do their thing. None have lived up to ISS’s standard which has 41,000+ members as of 8/06.

In 2003 I remember seeing a post about a magazine and I thought here we go! If Instyleshoes.com is behind it then it will be hot. I bought the issue and for the first time ever I could actually read a shoe magazine! (all the others were in Japanese!). And of course Sole Collector has become extremely successful and is actually better than the Japanese magazines that spawned it.

A lot of great things about Instyleshoes.com but there is one area that they did have problems with. When Steve created the magazine I could see that he traveled less for shoes and grew his consignment area more. In fact, Instyleshoes.com was the first online store to take consignment sales seriously and it blew up. But a long post was created about some people getting paid late, really late, and I was one of them. Tons of people replied to the post weren’t involved in it and the forum that hosted it just wanted to see negative things happen to Steve. Well Steve came in and corrected all of the problems and to this day it is one of the most popular areas of the site. I’ve sold 50+ pairs in just the last month and have been paid on time each and every time. I guess all businesses go through growing pains but it is how you deal with the problem that marks your place in history.

So this single directory Mullholand.com/nike/ grew into a multi-national company that sells high-end shoes, is a high-trafficked site, and created a high-end magazine. Entrepreneurship at its finest.
(thx for the review Lisa)

Pullover Blog is a footwear design, development blog providing that gives you an inside look at the industry.

You can find concept sketches, preliminary samples, production pics from in the factories in asia and more as well as international trend forecasting pics from hong kong, london, nyc, copenhagen and global fashion trade fairs.

100% original content by the footwear department manager of hummel international.

Comment from us: Attention Sneakerhead! This blog takes you one step further and is really about building shoes. Highly recommended!

For those bored with the same old hype news saturating the ever growing world of Blogdom, here is a fresh change. The news are mostly concentrated on urban content (sneakers, fashion, art, design, etc) but covers primarily in Australia, Asia and the rest of the world.

I got bored of reading the same blog entries in all the hype blogs and wanted to create something where the entries are different and original, well as much as I can anyway.

Click on the blog to find out more for yourself and let me know what you think!

Thanks for reading and for those who supports Very Masa!
(thx Masa for your review)