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!

Hikmet the owner of Solebox started his first sneaker shop in 2001 in Berlin Mitte. He was a bit ahead of the time because not many people in good old Germany really understood why he sold “old sneakers”. He sold OG sneaker, deadstock stuff in their original boxes.

In 2003 he moved to a new location and started Solebox with his two brothers. Right now they have two shops in Berlin, TRAINER in central Berlin and SOLEBOX in west Berlin. Solebox has all major brands, rare sneakers and frequently exclusive releases. The sneaker culture grows in Germany and top shops like Solebox support this development.

Coolestshop stays true to their name and unlike other shops they offer only selected “coolest” sneakers and not the regular models. Especially interesting for people who are not only into Nikes.

Immortalsole is a “sneaker speciality store” for lovers of classic sneakers. Great to see some people holding it up for the real classics. Some retros will never have the flavor of classic models.