today we're going to be taking a look at the black military air jordan 4. there has
definitely been a lot of anticipation behind this sneaker over the past couple months
and i'm definitely excited to crack these things open and give you guys a look and if you didn't
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ahead and crack this box open and see what these shoes are really talking about starting with the
box as you can see right here you have a all over cement print on this shoe this is kind of
more similar to the top haze air jordan 4 and how they went to the presentation on that box
but this is more of the black and white vibe you got your flight right here with the all white text
and a red jump man on the top of the lid this is a hinge lid and then on the size tag it reads air
jordan 4 retro white black neutral gray size 13 just for me and retail on these is said to be 200
now flipping open the lid of the box you got your all over cement print paper like we typically get
and then you got the shoe oh you got the shoe okay first impressions of this sneaker
bruh these are about to be a problem now before i dive too deep into the styles cut to materials
of this sneaker we got to talk about the history first this shoe is considered to be the military
black air jordan 4 and the reason why it got its name is because we have the military blue
air jordan 4 which is an original colorway from 1989. we then saw a retro in 2006 which is the
model that i will be using in today's comparison just showing you the differences between the color
blocking and the schemes of the shoe because there's definitely a lot of differences when it
comes to the overall shape but we'll talk about that a little bit later in the video as well
there was also a retro in 2012 and both of those sneakers featured a jumpman on the back of the
shoes and that's what we kind of got in the modern times when it came to the retros of the air jordan
force but because that was a og sneaker a lot of the sneaker heads now are anticipating seeing
the nike air on the back of the shoe we've heard talks of the military blue releasing with the nike
air on the back end over the past couple years still yet to hear a fully confirmed date but i
know for a fact once we do get that confirmation everybody's going to be going after those and i
think that's partially why it drives a lot of hype behind this shoe again there's going to be other
factors as to why this shoe is going to have value to it which we'll talk about a little bit later
in the video as well but either way these kind of derived from that and that's how we got this shoe
right here so let's break down the stylus cuts materials talk about the shape of the shoe then
i'll show you the differences between the colors and then we'll get into numbers and opinions of
what everybody else thinks about the shoe and all the other future predictions as well starting with
the bottom of the foot you have your classic air jordan 4 outsole you got the jump man right here
on the mid foot a black panel here and a pod you got gray on the front and back in and then white
throughout the center of the foot now going up to the midsole you got kind of a white pod rubber
area around the toe and the side of the foot great around the front and back end where you have your
stars and then on the phylon midsole area you have a black and white tone right here splitting that
in half with the white air unit and then on the inside of the foot it goes all the way throughout
as well with the black and the white just below that now taking it to the upper all the upper i'm
telling you right now just based off the feel of these materials the suede and the leather on the
top end of the shoe the sockliner these things right here oh yeah they came correct you got a
gray suede wrapping around the front and in the mud guard area and then a premium white leather
just above that on the front and side end and back end of the shoe and i'm telling you again man as
i feel these materials these are like oh my gosh these are just way better than the fire red fours
that recently came out and the shape is similar to the fire air force or the lightning fours or all
the other forms that we've been seeing with this old school you know og cut style new retro version
type thing so i think they're on to a really good thing so far based off of what i'm seeing just off
of materials and shape of the shoe yeah like i said jordan brand you guys are on to something
right here now looking at the nets and mesh on the tongue and the side of the foot you have all black
mesh with a white net and that's going to be the same thing on the tongue and going up to the top
of the tongue you have a premium white leather folded over with a black kind of satin material
on the back end of the tongue and then on the front side you got kind of like a silverish tone
air jordan 4 patch on here and then a black jumpman with more of a silverish gray flight just
below that now like i was saying earlier going to the back end of the shoe we have a jumpman on here
this isn't an og colorway so i can understand why these have a jumpman but i could definitely see
these looking really dope with the nike air as well but one thing that i can say is typically
when we get retros like this it makes sense to why we got the jumpman and i know the military blue
did have the jumpman as well but that's something that we're highly anticipating seeing the nike
air so it could have gone either way but with the jumpman on the back i'm not mad at this i
definitely think it's a nice clean hit because either way this shoe right here is going to be
you could just wear these with anything that's all i'm saying this is jordan 4 jordan 4s are popping
right now especially people love rocking them i've always loved rocking jordan 4's they always
like dope and this colorway is basically like undefeated bro like tell me what you couldn't
wear this way you know what i'm saying like this literally goes with everything so that
aspect alone just makes the shoe even better and i don't think too many people are going to
be worried about the jumpman on the back with the nike air whether vice versa if they got it or not
so matching the black plastic tab on the back end you got black eyelids right here on the front on
the top and the bottom and then again like i said earlier you got kind of a black satin material
with your air jordan branding stitched behind the tongue upside down like classic and then you got
like of a silver kind of lining when it comes to the sock liner and this right here the material
this is very very nice this feels like a lot better than you typically get on your normal air
jordan 4. so with that again this is going to feel really nice on foot i already know how it feels
with those materials and the sock and everything just makes it like a really smooth fit definitely
very comfortable now going to the insole you got an all-black insole with the white jumpman and
these come standard with a pair of white laces now i would kind of appreciate it if we had like
a hang tag or something like that and i have loki these might look good with black laces but
the white is definitely clean on here so i'm not mad at it but again you know for 200 bucks i know
sometimes they do like to throw extra things in there whether maybe a hang tag or some extra laces
or something like that so it would have been nice to get it but again i can't complain i still like
the shoe and at the end of the day i mean these things are going to be hitting way more than 200
at the retail price so i don't think too many people are gonna be mad about that one either now
when it comes to comparing these two side by side with the military blues and the military blacks
everything is essentially identical when it comes to that now the leather that you have on here or
the materials with the this is kind of even more like a nubuck style compared to like a suede
when it comes to the 2006 pair but overall when it comes to the color blocking of these two shoes
they are very very close very very similar the military blue has a black font when it comes to
the flight logo compared to the gray font on here but i can understand why because they did a black
jumpman and they didn't want them to to kind of match and blend together so i kind of get
that when it comes to the coloring but besides that essentially everything is the same and i
think they did a really good job replicating the idea of the military blue colorway and giving us
another iteration in the all black now this shoe in particular when it comes to the air jordan 4
is easily a uh copy and paste type sneaker so you could take these all the black hits on this
shoe or all the blue hits on this shoe whatever you want to call it and you can literally make
a purple version a green version a yellow version you see i'm saying it's so easy to
make just the alternate version of these a red version you name it all these different
versions so to me when i think about that i'm like this is a shoe that could potentially
lead to future releases that we may see down the line where it's like oh damn they just released
another one another one another one and now you got like this whole military pack that has come
out over the years or something so i wouldn't be opposed to that let me know what you guys think
down below imagine there was like a green version a yellow version a red version of blue you know
what i'm saying i feel like that'd be pretty dope i don't know maybe i'm tripping let me know what
y'all think speaking of that before we talk about numbers and i give you guys my opinions
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basically what i asked the people a simple question is this shoe fire or is it shoe trash
this is what they said as you can see right here pretty unanimous decision i already knew everybody
was gonna like this shoe it makes complete sense and obviously there's gonna be a couple people
that don't like it or might be trolling but at the end of the day a lot of people are gonna like
this shoe and that's what kind of leads me to the next topic which is the value and the pricing and
everything like that because like i said earlier retail on this shoe is 200 bucks and these things
are already selling for over that obviously the shoe hasn't came out yet so there's always like
that high price and then it kind of simmers down a little bit but i don't think these are gonna
simmer down that much i think they're gonna hit for you know maybe just above 300 somewhere around
there and then next thing you know a couple years later this is going to be potentially like that
black cat situation like oh remember black cat floors nobody really wanted those why is that
shoe 700 this could be that situation in my eyes in my opinion once people get this shoe in hand
and touch it and feel the materials and realize how universal this sneaker is they're gonna be
like bro i need two pairs minimum gotta have them like for me same situation i need two maybe even
three pairs of this shoe because i could easily see myself rocking these now years from now and
i can already imagine what the prices are gonna be like for some reason i feel like this is gonna be
like a five or a seven hundred dollar shoe down the line and it's gonna be no debate everybody's
going to be willing to pay those prices because it's just it's a great shoe like i understand why
it's a nice shoe very universal and obviously i'm gassing this thing up because i just yeah there's
nothing to really hate about this shoe like they did a really good job so as you guys can see i
really love the sneaker i'm excited to see what you guys think down below in the comment section
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