what's up guys i'm jordi Geller and i'm
the holder of the guinness world record
for the world's largest sneaker
collection how to look over here at
these Nike Zoom Air anguses before Nike
was Nike the company was called Blue
Ribbon sports and they used to import
own itsuka Tiger shoes and sell them out
of a van at track meets then Nike
started making their own shoes and you
can see right here a pair of Nike
Cortez's alongside the onizuka tiger
Corsairs and a lot of the really early
Nikes looked a lot like the onizuka
Tiger shoes have a look at these shoes
right here these shoes were made for
Steve Prefontaine who's the sole of Nike
these are called the Prix Montreal and
Nike made these shoes for Steve to run
in the 1976 Montreal Olympics you see
four pairs right over here alongside a
couple of bobble heads
Steve's autograph and a poster of Steve
where he's actually wearing the pre
Montreal's before we move on though I
want to show you what's in this box
right here which is a completely brand
new pair of pre Montreal's that's never
been laced up these are amazing all
right come on over here I want to show
you my shoes inspired by school supplies
so I always wanted to have an office and
have my shoes that are inspired by
school supplies and office supplies on
display and that's what we had here
shoes inspired by the ABCs crayons
Elmer's glue whiteout kick pens
scantrons
chalk check out the number two pencils
shoes these are one of one customs that
a famous sneaker customizer made for me
over here she was inspired by
composition
and scissors and then these are inspired
by a pack of highlighters and I'm
wearing them there right now
I went to college at the University of
Arizona so I included some U of A shoes
in my back-to-school section and then
behind me over here are some of my
sentimental shoes I painted all of these
right here and I was inspired by this
dunk which is known as the splatter dumb
and this one's known as the unsplit or
dunk and have a look at these right here
this shoe was painted by mr. brainwash
who you may know from Banksy but he
splatter painted these they're one of 11
they're worth about $5,000 let's have a
look at this table right here these
shoes are very very special to me these
are part of my door and Becker
collection of shoes so nightly partners
with the Doernbecher Children's Hospital
and allows children to design shoes and
that's what you're looking at here these
right here are one of 11 pairs and the
only pair of size 11s in the world and
these shoes are known as what the
Doernbecher z' and they're a mishmash of
all the other shoes that you see on the
table right here even more rare than
these are these Doernbecher dunks and
they actually light up
Nike only made two pairs of these that's
it they sold at auction one of them went
for $26,000 pop the other light on over
here
very very cool all right come on back
here and have a look at my fish shoes
all of these shoes were inspired by fish
and sea creatures you've got Nike dunks
inspired by Oracle whales dunks inspired
by sharks airmax pluses and tobey's
inspired by sharks a lot of the artwork
that you see here was done by my
two-year-old daughter come on over here
these are inspired by abalone and pearl
Foamposites and air jordan pours these
were inspired by salmon these are called
Gone Fishing Foamposites and have a look
at the lobsters down here so if we've
got red lobsters blue lobsters and the
very coveted yellow lobsters these are
worth about $20,000 there's only three
dozen pairs of these shoes in the world
next to the lobsters we've got shoes
inspired by crawfish and crabs and up
top
octopus inspired shoes thunks Kobe's
turtle dunks over here and even more
fish shoes
I want to walk you around right here to
this table this is the history of air
path when I was a kid my dad used to run
marathons I ran ten of them and he ran a
lot of them in airmax shoes this is the
very first Air Max and you can see that
it has a visible air window right here
they originally came out in 1987 and
these shoes changed the game what you're
looking at here is the evolution of Nike
Air and year after year that air bubble
got bigger and bigger and bigger this is
the air 180 they call it 180 because you
can see visible air going 180 degrees
under the sole these were my dad's
favorite shoes when he was running and
we'll skip all the way up here to the
air max 360
and you can see right here 360 degrees a
visible air so this pack celebrates the
growing of nike air come over here I
want to show you some more air maxes
these ones are really sentimental to me
this pair is one of five it comes in a
giant air bubble and it's autographed by
Tinker Hatfield who's the greatest
sneaker designer of all time I mentioned
that my dad's favorite pair of running
shoes was the air 180 these are actually
his shoes and you can see right here
pictures of my dad running in them if
you look really closely you can see he's
wearing those shoes and this is his
marathon shirt from 1992 that he wore
after he finished the race over here's
some Air Max 97 s these are my favorite
air maxes of all and I had these shoes
autographed by the designer Christian
dresser one of the cool things of living
in Portland Oregon
is this is the sneaker mecca of the
world and so a lot of the designers and
executives responsible for all of this
stuff live here and I've had an
opportunity to meet and make friends
with a lot of them let's wrap around and
have a look over here and some Air
Jordans my name is Jordan Michael Keller
so I've always felt a really strong
connection to Michael Jordan and I
always wanted his shoes when I was
growing up my parents would not buy them
for me because they were way too
expensive but then when I became an
adult and had some of my own money I
started buying I actually never intended
to collect sneakers it's just that when
I was a kid I really really wanted all
of these shoes and then finally as an
adult when I had the money to get my
hands on them I couldn't even fathom
wearing them because to me they're art
and I just wanted to keep them perfect
and collect
over here is a pair of band Air Jordan
ones these shoes are very sentimental to
me because believe it or not
Nike actually banned me from shopping at
their stores for about ten years I used
to buy shoes at the Nike outlets and
resell them on eBay and Nike got wind of
this and they banned me they sent me a
couple of letters one to my office and
one to my house and the gist of the
letters is that Nike will no longer sell
me products they won't take returns from
me and I'm not allowed to talk to anyone
at Nike about these letters this is
actually what inspired me to build the
shoes Eon when Nike banned me I thought
wow what am I gonna do I've got this big
giant warehouse and at the time when
they banned me I had 15,000 pairs of
shoes I decided that I was gonna sell
off all those 15,000 pairs and convert
the warehouse into the world's first
sneaker Museum over here is another very
special pair of Air Jordans
these are Air Jordan ones from 1985 and
they're game worn and signed by Michael
Jordan at one point I actually had 600
pairs of Air Jordans I had every single
Air Jordan Retro that Nike ever made all
brand new and boxes all in my sizes
I've sold off most of those and the
shoes that I've kept are the ones that
are really special and sentimental to me
have a look back here at these Nike
pumps these are called the Nike air
pressures this is an original pair from
1989 these are the shoes that made me
fall in love with Nikes when I was in
seventh grade
Nike came out with these shoes and I
wanted him so badly they were a hundred
and ninety dollars and there's no way
that my parents were gonna buy him for
me they came in
a really cool case and as a 7th grader
there was nothing I wanted to do more
than show up to school like this with
fresh bumps on my feet but there's no
way that was gonna happen
get this actually deteriorate and
crumble over time so when you look
closely at the midsole you can see
little cracks right there and it's
starting to fall apart right here that's
the reason why these shoes are shrink
wrapped I just wanted to keep them
together as much as possible
interestingly a couple years ago Nike
Rhett rode the air pressure for the
first time ever and they came
shrink-wrapped I can't ever think of
another pair of Nikes that came
shrink-wrapped from the factory so
that's a pretty cool detail and then
lastly here's an original track suit
that matches the 1989 air pressures very
cool let's work our way over there I
want to show you some more sentimental
Air Jordans
so my first Air Jordans were the Air
Jordan 11 here's an original pair from
1996 my parents would not find the Air
Jordans when I was a kid because they
were too expensive so I had to wait
until I was away at college and used
some of my own money to buy them I wore
my first Air Jordans for about four or
five years and then I actually sold them
on eBay
it was the first thing I ever sold on
eBay and back in those days I didn't
even have a digital camera so I had to
take real pictures and get them
developed to sell the shoes
I ended up getting married on 1111 the
Air Jordan 11 is my favorite of all the
Air Jordans so my wife and I wore
matching hair Jordan 11 we broke them
out fresh deadstock pairs and have never
worn them since and then at our wedding
I surprised my wife with these two pairs
of Air Jordan 11 s that were customized
by Tinker Hatfield
so you can see right here it says for
Nattie from Jordie right here is
Disneyland my wife loves Disneyland
we met at Zappos here's a wedding ring
my wife's allergic to nuts but I'm the
biggest nut of them all so Tinker
Hatfield drew my name a nut and a
wedding ring my wife loves turtles and
we met in Vegas and then Tinker signed
in to shoot and then he did the same
thing with a pair for me we visited 60
Nike factory stores on a cross-country
trip
there's Minnie Mouse and it says Natalie
underneath there Tinker drew my logo
wrote choose iam and a Nike swoosh so
these are needless to say very very
special to me also over here is a pair
of Air Jordan 11 lows that were worn by
Michael Jordan I was gifted this pair of
shoes by Judd Bush lers dad judge played
with Michael Jordan on three of his six
NBA championship teams these are a Holy
Grail down here we've got 50 pairs of
moon shoes we recently celebrated the
fiftieth anniversary of man walking on
the moon and I collected a whole bunch
of different shoes inspired by the moon
and that's when you see over
you come on over here and let's have a
look at some more vintage stuff so we
mentioned earlier that Nike started off
importing onizuka Tigers so here is an
Onizuka tiger marathon and then here is
a Nike marathon and you can see the
shoes are almost identical except that
these are branded Nikes and these are
branded onizuka Tigers believe it or not
I actually won this pair of shoes on
eBay and the second high bidder was nice
over here is an original waffle iron
from the 1930s the first major
innovation at Nike was the waffle sole
and Bill Bowerman who was the co-founder
of Nike invented it using his wife's
waffle iron which was a waffle iron just
like this this shoe was buried in Bill
Bowerman 's yard alongside his original
waffle iron
have a look at the outsoles right here
that soul was inspired by waffles
Bowerman was created sheets like these
to put on the bottom of shoes and that's
what you see right here is a pair of
Onizuka Tigers that were resold with
waffle soles come on over here I want to
show you the vintage couch here's a
bunch of vintage shoes from the 70s and
early 80s here's another pair that I won
on eBay and beat Nike they're in
University of Oregon Ducks colors these
are absolutely brand-new those gorgeous
waffle soles I want to show you another
really fun pair of waffles
these are called LD V's there's the
waffle soles and this right here is
called a nike disco which has the same
upper as an LD v but might be removed
the waffle soles and made these shoes
for disco dancing
check out those red and glittery soles
very very cool and while we're looking
at these funky soles here's another pair
of dancing shoes and let's look at the
soles on these swooshes hundreds and
hundreds of swooshes you know I love
these shoes so we started out I
mentioned that I'm in the book of
Guinness World Records for the world's
largest sneaker collection I'm actually
going to be in the book of guinness
world records again because last week i
broke another world record i sold the
most expensive pair of sneakers at
auction they went for four hundred and
thirty seven thousand five hundred
dollars check these shoes out right here
you're looking at four pairs of vintage
original nike moon shoes these shoes
were owned by mark over who was the
first person to ever cross a finish line
wearing Nike waffles and these were the
shoes that he wore when he crossed that
finish line in the 1972 Olympic Trials
this is the identical model shoe that I
sold last week at Sotheby's for four
hundred and thirty seven thousand five
hundred dollars it shattered the
previous world record and more than
doubled in these shoes show the
evolution of the Nike moon shoe and
Nikes first innovation which was the
waffle sole and I'm so lucky to have
them these are my favorite pair of shoes
in my collection
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