today we're going to be taking a look at the air jordan 14
gym red toro i'm excited to open these things up i just got my pair in from
sneakers app so let's go ahead and crack these things open and see what they're
really talking about
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let's go ahead and crack this box open and see what these things really talking
about
and here we have it the air jordan 14 gym red
let's go ahead and get started with the box first so this box is basically kind
of like the old school vibe of the early 2000s
back when they had the og boxes the original air jordan 14 dropped in 1998
and they had the all over silver boxes with a little indent right here with the
jordan logo since they did an all red shoe i'm
assuming that's probably why they went with the all red box
i personally like it i think it's a dope little touch definitely a nice little
addition to the sneaker wall adding that red touch to the wall so
i'm excited to have this box in the collection now looking at the size tag
we have air jordan 14 retro black gym red white off-white but
it's not an off-white collab okay retail 190 bucks
i can open the box right here we got your classic white paper like you
typically always get and then we got the shoe oh we got
the shoe so typically i give you guys a comparison between two different shoes
this one i would have done the ferrari 14 but i no longer have them in my
collection anymore they were literally sitting there for
years and i had never got the time to wear the shoe
while i was in college so i ended up selling them got a pretty penny for them
actually that's probably what made me sell the
shoe in the first place but we'll get into that in a whole nother topic later
in another video but let's go ahead and get started with
these you have your classic air jordan 14 outsole right here all black with the
red circle with the 14 branding right here around the ball of the foot you
have a red jumpman and then you have some white here working your way to the
heel of the foot working your way to the midsole now this
is something that is super dope you kind of got like that teeth that ferrari vibe
to it on the side right here and it's kind of like a pearlescent not
a pure white something that i actually really like because that brings back
some of the old school nostalgic air jordan 14 og vibes when you got that
pearlescent white on the side right there
super dope super clean i think it just has kind of that og vibe with a new
school twist and that's what kind of makes me really
like this shoe but we'll get into that a little bit later in the video talking
about his issue fire or trash and see what you guys think about it as well so
for those that did not know the air jordan 14 is originally inspired by
a ferrari that jordan owned and if you thoroughly look at the shoe you can see
the resemblances behind that you got your tire marks here on the back of the
foot you got your ferrari logo here on the side of the foot
you got your even lights right here on the tail lights and stuff like that here
on the back of the foot right here on the heel the shape and the mold and
everything was kind of designed behind that
and i think that's a really dope concept to see how they took different things
that he liked and then brought him into the sneaker
that we love today so starting with the heel of the foot like i said before it
kind of has that tire vibe on there right there and then you have your white
air jordan jumpman logo at the top and then you got a dope 23 font here on the
back of the foot i really love the 14 the back of the foot for some reason
it's just always looked dope to me looking at the toe of the foot you have
your black cap here around the front and then you have your suede black buttery
suede right here i'm actually happy with it i thought it
was going to be a little bit worse than it was
and just by touching the materials and everything i'm like yo this is low-key
kind of cool you got another jumpman here on the front of the
foot in white and working your way up the tongue you have a suede tongue with
black laces black tongue and then a jordan brand logoing here on the tongue
and then 14 on the back of the tongue now getting into the main portion of the
shoe and that is the red nubuck that's all around the upper
bruh i think these are fire i think these are super dope have an old school
vibe with a new school twist i think if these would have came out
back in the day people would be going crazy over them today in this time
it could potentially even be like a pe colorway i think these are just
super super clean i know four teams are kind of underrated and a lot of people
like stop at 13s or 12s some people even stop at 11's but we
know since jordan took his last shot in the 14s
this is potentially sometimes the last shoe that people loved and coveted and
then after that 15 and higher some people started to not like it as
much but me personally bruh these go up there in the ranks for
some of the top air jordan 14 colorways i think just because it's so simple so
clean old school nostalgic vibe new school you know what i'm saying like i
don't know i think these just really hit hard now i can't forget to mention the
sock liner here in all black you got an all black insole with a red jumpman on
the inside of there and then on the back right here around the top of the hill
around achilles area you kind of got like a silverish it's not white
a little nylon mesh right here around that area but overall still a super
clean super simple yet bold type of sneakers i don't know if you guys
remember but back in 2006 they had this pair with the ribbed version i know
these are beat up what the hell is even that but
i've been rocking these literally for almost 15 years now bro low-key
yeah it's been a long time to say the least but these have been through the
trenches and i have yeah these went to hell and
back to said at least but anyways back on topic
as you can see they have the ribbing on the side right here so most jordan 14s
you have your high tops you got your low tops
and then on the high tops you got your pairs with the smooth leather or you
have the ribbing right here on the side and then they switch up the materials
obviously with the suedes the new box and then the leathers
but i think me personally this is a lot cleaner look than the rib look
but then when you got this old school look as well the og
of the 2006 version right here did have the smooth leather and then when they
came with the rib version i wasn't mad at it though so i can't you
know what i'm saying because the last shots had the rib
version on it and you had cherries different things like that so
i think it could go either way drop a comment down below and let me know which
one you like the most the red version or the smooth leather or
the smooth material whatever you want to consider that i think the
smooth version is just a little bit more cleaner
and then when it comes to the rear version something maybe like the cdp
pack or other different shoes like that those are darker shoes so it's easier to
blend in and you can kind of get away with it so
i went to instagram and i asked the people like i always do if you haven't
already catch me on ig is this sneaker fire or is this sneaker
trash you already know i think it's fire let me know what you think down below in
the comment section 72 percent other people said fire
28 of the people said trash i can definitely understand where the 28
are coming from you got newer sneaker heads you got older sneaker heads and
both of them could potentially say well it's not like the og or
i don't know what exactly this is going for and i can understand the concept
behind that i think retail 190 bucks ain't too bad
when it comes to thinking about the materials and everything like that but
again a lot of people like lower number retro so when it comes to
trying to sell a retro 14 15 16 17 whatever all the higher numbers
i think it does make it a little bit harder to not just
make everybody love it but at the same time sell it in general
to the public but a sneaker like this in particular
i think will do pretty well over time as you can see right now it's already going
for over retail retail was 190 bucks if you're looking
at it for a size 13 you're already looking at 250 bucks somewhere around
there and if you're looking at the ferraris
look how much those are going for right now close to 600
bucks so the question is can this sneaker actually get to that high price
point or whatever and i think over time if you give it
some time it will happen just because this is
a retro that jordan wore the colorway is super simple
super dope super clean and i think it's not it's not too over the top a lot of
the toro color ways in general something like the 204 the toro 5
the all red 6 different stuff like that they tend to do well over time so i feel
like these will do well and if you do have a chance to get these
for retail or close to retail and you plan on sitting on them or
whatever you plan on doing i think it will be worth it if you to grab them
sooner than later or potentially you know they might go down a little bit
maybe like a month or so but if you're looking at a year two
years three years i think the price will end up going up a little bit more and it
might be worth 350 400 bucks let me know what you think down below in
the comment section again that's just kind of what i think about the shoe
we don't know we shall see in time but i think of shoes like this i think they
kind of trend in those directions of slowly working their way up people
realizing like oh damn that shoe is kind of dope
and then next thing you know the price starts going up probably starts going up
you're like but i should have got those when i had the chance
so if you want to get them i would say it might be smarter to grab them sooner
than later but yeah i hope you guys enjoyed this thank
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