Hello, my name is Brian known on message boards as Brain916. A friend of mine named David also known as Isamu decided to start Kick-Fiend. We signed up for a free hosting message board and blog. It started slow, but had a loyal fan base (as we still do now). A lot of great members on the board. But we thought about taking Kick-Fiend to the next step, which would be to buy a domain. So we did and started setting up the blog. We were very excited to get the blog up and running, and you can tell the members were too. Then it was time to make an official Kick-Fiend message board.

We had around 200 members on the board, but sadly we could not transfer that over, and we started over. About 6 months later we have over 2,000 members on the forum and thousands of visits a day on the blog.
Our basic motivation to get Kick-Fiend up was more of giving people a information site on straight shoes. Not 100+ posts on Kaws x bearbick toys, or a new bathing suit, but to give sneaker heads the information he/she needs to make a purchase, or see a new release.

For goals as of right now, we hope to make Kick-Fiend more well known and we have some other things coming up but I can not talk about this right now, but to stay tuned!
At Kick-Fiend.com we usually only write about sneakers, but we will talk and post up sneaker related clothing, or to help a future clothing line become better known. Also people that do custom kicks, let us know we would be more than happy to write about your new artwork.

What makes Kick-Fiend stand out from other sites is that we are about the people. We appreciate everyone that stops by, or makes a post in the message board, and we try and show that as much as possible. People have contacted us through email asking to post their newest customs, and we do this to show them thank you for visiting, we also have a “pickup feature”, we know that people get very excited on their new shoe purchase, so if you join the forum and ask for your new pickup to be on the blog, we will do this. We also update information constantly on the site, more than a lot of sites out there. We know people want the freshest news, so we try to be the first ones with the information.

Also I would like to thank every reader of kick-Fiend and every member of the Kick-Fiend forum. Also a big thanks to business partner David, and also a big thanks to our mods: ATLforces33, Chasmin, tomio, Vanson149, hazii82, SHY5TY, mah_vette2001, MANDINGO and DaBuddhaWitJays. Also a big thanks to our blogger: Chris916, DunksNOnes and xnay.
Stay tuned to Kick-Fiend.com