- It will probably be interesting to other people.
- [Dan] Those are tough.
Goodbye VaporMax that are not even out yet.
(saw blade buzzing)
(boxes crashing)
(Lincoln screams)
(laughs) What was that?
- Welcome back to What's Inside?
I'm Lincoln and this is Dan,
and today we're gonna cut open some Nike Air Max.
- No, not the Nike Air Max!
I remember how much you guys all freaked out
when we cut open Yeezy a while back
and even LED shoes.
But to be specific we got the VaporMax.
They don't come out until March 26th.
They did a limited release in Paris,
and somebody was crazy enough to sell one of their pairs
and I got it.
- It has the most air of any Nike Air Max
and it also took the engineers at Nike
five years to make this shoe.
- They had to go through so many different iterations
because every time they changed one little air pocket,
it would have an impact on it.
And so they had to test these things out with 350 runners.
The runs combined in testing this thing is equivalent
to somebody running around the earth five different times.
- What? - The last week of our lives
had been insane, I'm still recovering from jet leg.
We wanted to understand the story of the Nike shoes.
Not just to tell you but to show you a little bit
where the inspiration of these shoes
and of this bubble came from.
- We went to Paris.
The reason why we came to Paris for a little inspiration
is because this building behind us is the Pompidou Museum.
Do you see the escalator and how it has glass
that goes through it?
Look at this shoe.
See the air?
In 1987, the first Air Max 1s came out,
and it was the first shoe that ever had
this little bubble in it.
And it was inspired by Tinker Hatfield of Nike.
He came and saw this museum and he thought
I'm going to do that in a shoe.
Let's make the insides be on the outside
just like this controversial building.
Tinker almost got fired for it
but it ended up saving Nike and making Nike
the big global company that it is today.
There's birds everywhere.
What's going to make this video kinda cool,
at least I think, is we are going to cut open
the Air Max Zeros.
So we get to see the very very first pioneer shoe
of this Air Max series.
And then we also gonna see the most advanced
running shoe of the Air Max series, all in one.
- And when I was in Nike, I got to go and customize
and design kind of, my own very shoe.
It was the Nike Air Max Zeros,
I picked all of the colors, all the materials.
You guys need to go to Nike and go and vote for my shoe.
Vote for my shoe.
- We did go to Paris but then a few days later
we went to the Nike Headquarters and Lincoln sat down
with Tinker Hatfield and asked him a question
about what should Lincoln be inspired by
on the shoe that he creates?
- Maybe an easy way to sort of describe
how you might go about doing it,
would be what do you love?
- I love playing sports.
- You have a favorite team?
- I like Golden State.
- Golden States.
- Um, joining youth cruise.
- Okay so if you go down that sort of list
of things that are important to you,
you can end up at some point and go you know what
I could be inspired by the Golden Gate Bridge.
So maybe my shoe is going to be the color of
the Golden Gate Bridge.
And maybe it'll have lines on it that
kind of look like all the cables that hold up
the bridge part that people drive on.
You know what I mean?
You always look for something that is interesting
to yourself because it might, it will probably
be interesting to other people as well.
- So I thought about what he said a lot
and I decided something that's like I love
and is meaningful to me, is the Tesla.
- And the cool thing is too is Lincoln got to show
his design to Tinker Hatfield, the man himself
and got his thoughts on it.
You can see how the inspiration came from Lincoln
and I taking a trip to Paris, all the way through
to the final day when Lincoln designs this shoe.
Stay tuned on the family channel,
subscribe to that if you haven't already.
Everyday for the next five days,
we will have a new video showing our trip.
And it was just a lot of fun. - And and,
- What else? - Let's go cut these
shoes open.
- Let's cut them open!
- Let's go! - Let's go! Here we go!
(boxes crashing)
(Lincoln screams)
- Okay so we are in a fancy workshop
of our awesome next door neighbor
that we did the owl pellets video with.
- Much more fancier than ours, that's for sure.
- But last time we got one of these saws
was when we cut open the Yeezys and I left the shoelaces on
and it grabbed the blade and it broke the saw
and I just threw the thing away.
So Lincoln shoelaces.
- Waaaa! - Take 'em off!
(playful music)
Here we go.
We got the shoes.
I'm just going to leave the paper in them,
that's how new these are they still have the paper in them.
Safety first.
Thanks to my neighbor for the awesome safety glasses.
They don't sell 'em like this anymore, these are cool.
Saw time.
(motor rumbling)
Goodbye VaporMax that are not even out yet.
(saw blade buzzing)
Whoa, did you hear that pop?
- [Lincoln] Yeah!
- How's grandpa kid?
- [Both] Oh!
- You know, awesome!
- [Lincoln] That was so easy.
- Woo, I gotta get me one of these saws.
- [Lincoln] That was amazing.
- Okay, we're not going to look at it yet,
we want to cut the other ones.
And then we will keep them closed
and take them home for inspection.
(motor rumbling)
Shoe time!
(saw blade buzzing)
(playful music)
- I'm so excited. - Here they are.
Let's set them down first, hold on, hold on.
Let's get rid of this box.
- Okay here we go.
- Here you go guys.
Here is the Air Max Zero.
Doesn't it look awesome?
I don't, maybe it looks really lame. (laughs)
I don't know, we haven't seen it yet.
Here you go Lincoln, you can look at one.
- In three, two, one.
- [Both] Whoa!
- [Dan] Look at that air pocket.
It's like there's--
- [Lincoln] There's another one back there.
- [Dan] Is there another one?
- Yeah right there. - Or maybe we just cut
right through the bubble.
It looks like they have one in the middle,
one of the little shock type supports
or pillars in the middle, so it looks like there's
another pocket but it's really all just one.
Oh, tried smelling it.
Think I got particles of shoe in my nose. (laughs)
- Oh I'm not gonna smell 'em. - Don't smell cut open shoes.
The paper actually looks super cool
that it's cut open. - Yeah it does.
It looks really cool how all those different ridges
on the bottom of the shoe, I like that a lot.
- Yeah it does look cool.
When we were with Nike,
they did tell us when we cut a shoe open,
they told us that they actually cut open
a lot of their shoes.
But it's actually super helpful for them
to cut it open and just take a look
and see how all the different layers,
of how it's design looks so.
One question I had for them is what's inside
of the shoe, like what is this material there?
Is it really just air?
They said they couldn't tell me what it is,
but it is a proprietary gas type mix.
The most air ever in a Nike Air shoe,
(both laughs)
VaporMax lost the paper max.
There you go, - Paper max.
- bad dad joke.
- [Lincoln] They're just a bunch of little holes.
- [Dan] Yeah so this really is just air pockets.
- [Lincoln] Yeah.
- It says not for resale, property of Nike.
Aha, you're not property of Nike anymore.
We own this VaporMax and we killed it.
Ever since the Air Max was created in 1987,
they've been making these air pockets in the USA.
They make them in Oregon and then they ship 'em
to wherever they actually manufacture the shoe
and then put them in.
But what's really interesting, in 2015 they spent
$40.5 million to build a plant that manufactures
everyone of these souls, in the United States,
it's in Portland.
We actually have the souls.
- Yeah. - Check it out.
- Awesome.
- So the front is separate from the back.
They just put those on separately,
so you can run and it bends easier.
How many of these did they give us?
(Lincoln laughs)
What in the world?
I haven't look in this bag 'til now.
(laughs) Look at all of these.
Here is the shoe.
(laughs) Not for resale.
This is how they make the shoe.
I think it's called Flyknit.
Where they manufacture all together in one shoe component.
And then they just turn it down,
and they connect it around the sides of this,
and then they put the insole into it.
See that layer right there? - Yeah.
- That's the layer that they usually will,
they'll have that layer on the shoe
and then they glue on the sole.
Well with this one they don't glue on a sole,
which makes it so the shoe is lighter for runners,
and then it makes them even more so like walking on air.
So when we cut through the VaporMax with a saw,
as soon as it hit the front it made a loud pop.
Let's try it with a knife and see what it does.
Well I tried pretty hard and it didn't pop it.
Okay, let's try it again.
Durability test.
Those are tough, what the heck do they make that out of?
(sighs)
What the heck is this thing made of?
This is a sharp knife.
Yeah that's sharp.
(air hissing)
- [Dan] You got it.
- A lot of you guys watching this are probably
like sneaker heads, and you know all about these
Nike Air Maxes and you know all about shoes.
We didn't, we're just a normal person.
And what did we learn from it?
There's a lot that goes into manufacturing a shoe.
You can go onto our family channel,
we're gonna have five different videos of it.
It was a really adventure.
Lincoln raced against a gold medalist,
an Olympic Gold Medalist.
He played basketball in the Bo Jackson basketball court.
- That was, that was awesome.
Please vote for my Nikes. - Please vote for him.
- Vote for me!
Please! (Dan laughs)
I want to win so bad.
- If you vote for Lincoln
and say you voted for Lincoln in the comments,
Lincoln will give you a thumbs up on your comment.
How's that for inspiration?