i just got my package in the mail let's go ahead and open these things up
oh and here we have it the air jordan 11 low
ie welcome back to the channel what's up
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know what this is for some of you guys that do not this is the air jordan 11
low ie it does come with the similar air jordan
11 box from back in the day with the old school vibes one thing that i already
like about this shoe is just because of the box alone
starting with the top you have your old school air jordan 11 jordan air branding
right here with a jumpman here in red all black
lift off top then you got a gray here on the bottom
nike air on the front reading on the size tag it says air
jordan 11 retro low ie black fire red cement gray
retail 170 bucks so let's go ahead and open these things up and see what they
talking about lifting out the top right here
you have a classic old school black paper right here and then we got the
shoe oh we got the shoe so before we get started with the review
i want to show you guys the 2003 retro this one will be the one that i will be
using in the comparison today we have a retro from 2003 the original
from 1995 96 and then you have a 2013 retro as
well but with that being said let's go ahead and get into the shoe
starting with the outsole you have a smoke gray translucent outsole
with black pods looking at the rest of the outsole you have a red jumpman
right here and then you have your carbon fiber here on the inside of the foot and
then you have your white phylon midsole wrapping all the way around the foot
taking our way to the upper this is something that is really really
different between all the other retros and they decided to go with the elephant
print on here but they made it a lot more bold compared to it normally being
black like on the previous retros they made this one stand out a lot more
similar to the original white version that released in the past
that had the elephant print on the side and you could clearly see that that was
the elephant print on the shoe now with the black version i think the
contrast honestly is really really dope i like how they brought up here in the
sock liner where they went with the gray could have potentially went with the red
similar to the 2003 pair but i can't understand it and i can see
the overall gray and black tones of the sneaker
with the red popping more on the tongue so i'm not really mad at it looking at
the black leather just feeling it and touching it it obviously has a lot of
stitching all around the side and over here on the other side of the
foot and then wrapping around the toe at the front of the foot
so it's kind of hard to fully feel the leather but it doesn't feel terrible it
doesn't feel great it's just literally just like
some solid pebbled leather you can't really be mad at it type thing
so i don't think there's too much i can really critique on that aspect of the
sneaker i know it's not like the patent leather
low top version that we typically see but for some reason this shoe in general
is a really hit or miss for a lot of people i know
if you're like me grew up and going to high school around the time you know 10
years ago when they had all the ies retro in and
you had the black and yellow you had the all grays you had the royal
blues you had all these other new alternate color waves dropping
people were loving them and i know personally
i used to have each and every one of those colorways as well and i still
loved them but for some reason they always used to squeak once i wore them
for a while i don't know why but ie 11 lows in that era
was just they would squeak and it wasn't just for me it was like a lot of people
it had that problem this pair comes equipped with a black
pair of laces no alternate laces to go with it
you have on your tongue a gray leather here that goes down towards the front of
the foot a red jumpman in red here on the back of
the tongue now when you look at the sneaker from the front side
you can see the red here from the front and it almost has that jordan 3 vibe to
it and what i think what they did on these
in particular was took the black cement 3 concept
and put it into this sneaker and i know it's kind of like the bread because you
know the color blocking and everything like that
but with the black cement 3 the way they did the tongue and everything like that
i feel like it's very very similar looking at the insole you have all red
insole with the black air jordan jumpman logo right there
and overall i think this is a very solid sneaker
retail was 170 dollars i wish it could have been cheaper
but i'm definitely happy that it's not that 200 or 225 dollar price range
so i can say i'm a little bit happy about that aspect i would say if you do
plan on copying this sneaker you might be able to find it on discount
you might be able to find it somewhere i saw for the most part the sneaker was
pretty much selling out and people were kind of having a hard
time getting it thinking like oh nobody really wants those and a lot of people
were talking trash about the sneaker and the next thing you know it was loki
kind of hard to find now that maybe in my city in particular but i know
other people in other cities it all varies based on where you live so
let me know how this release went for you down below in the comment section
i'm excited to hear how it went for you for me easy cop off
of sneakers up no problems gonna probably have these for a while
just because i know i used to rock my other pair which i still do to this day
speaking of that let me show you something real quick because i have to
i got to show you guys the struggle that i have been going through
over these past couple years the toe is starting to fall off
of my left foot right here on my 2003 pair
and i've literally been rocking these for so many years and i was kind of sick
about that so the reason why i'm so excited about
this new 2020 retro in particular is simply because i know
i can finally wear a shoe that i love so much again
so i know it's not the exact same sneaker i know i like this one just a
little bit more but i'm not mad at these at all i'm
happy about these so i went to instagram and i asked the people what do
you guys think about these two sneakers which one is better the 2020 or the 2003
and i'm actually not surprised most of the people went with the 2003 with 57
to 43 i honestly thought it might have been a little bit more to this one but i
know a lot of people don't really know about this sneaker
and the only thing about the patent leather versions and the low tops and
the high tops and not really about the ies because
they're not cool or whatever people want to say
but i know me personally especially a lot of older heads that have been
collected for a long time they like and respect this shoe and they
think that it's dope and i know i love it i think that is dope but i know when
it comes to the younger or the new heads that are in the game
they're like oh that's trash it's a brick bro y'all gonna call everything a
brick if it ain't off white or whatever like
just because it ain't the most hyped travis scott collab don't mean the shoe
ain't dope i think these are dope and i'm sticking
with it drop a comment down below and let me know what you think
one thing that is very interesting to me is that this shoe is going for a little
over 200 bucks and typically when people say the shoe
is a brick or the shoe is trash means it's not worth even retail but for
some reason it's still worth more than retail the retail was 170 bucks and
people are still selling it for 50 to 60 over retail so that means it has to be
somewhat kind of cool right at the end of the day i think this
sneaker will be well over 300 dollars in value
once you give it some time maybe not immediately i guarantee you if somebody
pull a fresh pair of these out the closet in a couple years you're gonna be
like damn bruh i remember when i was dropped
in 2020 and i was saying it was trash those old key look dope i promise you
it's gonna happen i know it's gonna happen so with all that being said i
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today's comment of the day is a question let me know what your favorite air
jordan 11 low ie colorway is me personally i'm rocking with the
bread og colorway but if it wasn't that one i might have
to go with the royal one just because that was my school colors
and i literally used to rock those damn near every day bruh also don't forget to
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