today we're going to be taking a look at the doernbecher freestyle air jordan 5 low every
year we typically get a collaboration between nike and the doernbecher children's hospital
and they select kids each year to give them the opportunity to create their own shoe especially
with the hospital being here in my hometown i have always had love for this collection
literally each and every single model but you guys know i'm a jordan head especially so when it comes
to releases like this in particular i gotta have them oh yeah and that's right if you didn't know
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one to get us there so with all that being said i'm gonna crack this box open and then we'll talk
about the history of this shoe and how this became what it is today starting with the box you have
your classic doernbecher nike freestyle box all baby blue with the lift off lid and then you got
the same hits right here on some ends of the box on the front end it reads doernbecher on the top
of the lid and then on the size tag it says air jordan 5 retro low db hyper royal orange size 13
just for me and retail on these things were 200 bucks i got really lucky and i hit for these on
sneakers app when it comes to the doernbecher collection in particular i'm not a huge fan of
paying resale on that shoe which is again a whole nother topic we get into someday but for now
let's just keep it on the positive side and start talking about this sneaker lifting open the lid of
the box typically we get right into the shoe but as you can see right here on the top of the lid
it says free to be happy michael wilson age 11 diagnosed crab a disease air jordan 5 retro low
and then it has a brief paragraph about him and another paragraph over here giving you information
about the hospital dormbeckerfreestyle.org i'll make sure i have links for you guys down below as
well to the children's hospital and then again i'll speak about it in a second but there's a
video that kind of breaks down the story even more about michael so i will show you guys some
of those clips here in this video but again i'll make sure i have everything linked for you guys
down below now looking at the paper you got the doernbecher freestyle all over print and silver
a little sticker right here to hold the paper together and then you got the shoe
oh you got the shoe now when it comes to sneakers specifically from the door and baker collection
literally every single inch of this shoe is going to be inspired by something and this is where i
want to roll the clips for you guys from the video that i found online and i'll make sure that i have
the link for you guys down below for the entire video but i feel like this video just explains
it the best and i want to make sure that all the facts and everything are correct let's just roll
the footage and i'll see you in a second michael is a very happy boy since the very day he was born
i like to play video games we do math play with my dogs i like to eat mac and cheese
my name is michael and i am 11 years old i have been going to do rebecca for 11 years
crab a's disease is degenerative it's a rare disease it affects the entire nervous system
the progression of the disease causes nerve pain you lose your ability to eat your ability to move
your ability to function when i was selected to become a freestyle designer i was like hold up
but i'm doing it it was really fun working with my design team they're like really cool people
i designed the air jordan 5 ritual though i picked all those colors because they're just
my favorite colors they were just really fun this i drew myself i designed a long sleeve sweatshirt
my team designed a patch that says mac attack squadron on it
i'm just really excited for it to come out i go to doernbecher every six months for a checkup
i have to take my medication every morning i want to be a pilot just seeing the world from way above
so like i said that was a brief condensed version if you want to see the entire video make sure i
have it linked down below in the description for you guys but that gives you guys a gist of this
sneaker his inspirations behind mac and cheese and how he loves to fly and how he wants to be a pilot
flying over the cities and his own drawings and how he created these colorways mixing it up with
different things like that with drawing on the shoe i really love the inspiration behind that
and the storytelling and how they're always able to allow the kid to be as creative as possible
and then at the end of the day really create that sneaker so now that you know a little bit more
about doernbecher and michael let's start really breaking down the details and the materials and
everything that come along with this shoe starting with the bottom of the foot you have your classic
air jordan branding right here in the center with the all white then you got your translucent iced
out sections in the front and back end of the shoe now going up to the midsole you got all
white paint right here with the red shark teeth on the front and then inside the foot you have an
orange air unit now going to the upper this shoe is covered in a bunch of different colors of suede
but essentially all the panels are mainly suede on the shoe you got mac and cheese noodles kind
of embossed right here on the toe of the foot where the blue area is and then the back end
around the collar of the foot as well you got the red on the toe cap the orange in the middle
of the foot and then the greens and the back end and again i'm sure you guys saw the design process
earlier when it showed him drawing on the sneakers and kind of creating his own color pattern for
this shoe now looking at the hang tag right here you have a pull to eject tab in black and orange
and that again pays more homage to his love for flying and everything like that so when you see
the hang tag or the pull tab on the back end right here that is the same exact thing that you'll see
on both ends of the shoe now going to the heel of the foot you have take flight which again makes
so much sense when it comes to flying it's kind of cool because you got that kind of jordan 4 flight
on the air jordan 5 when it comes to the branding of the jordan 4 so i really like that element and
then on the back end of the foot right here on the hill you have a red jumpman and then you have
mdw which those are michael's initials and that definitely makes another good touch on the shoe
so when it comes to the front end of the shoe you got a metal mac and cheese right here on both feet
and then you got your classic air jordan 5b of lace lock at the top end of the shoe this is kind
of like a reddish orange kind of matching with that orange on the side of the foot and then on
the tongue this is another cool element as well it looks like just a normal all-black tongue but
actually this entire section is like a velcro area so you can take the different patches that come
along with the sneaker and put them on the tongue and really ice it out and kind of customize it in
your own way based off of whichever style you like the most these come standard with a pair
of blue laces and on the end of the lace tips it's kind of got a rainbow print right here
and then on the green laces it has that same rainbow print as well so you got that lime green
vibe that kind of matches with the back end or you got the royal blue eye that matches more with
the front end now behind the tongue right here it says air michael on both tongues you can see the
print kind of got that all over funky print to it and if you look really close at the details
on the sock liner you can see that it says take flight as well within that kind of mixed errors
either way i love the uniqueness between the sock liners because initially they kind of look the
same and then when you start to really look at the details behind the shoes you're like oh they are
different they got different little symbols and representations between these two sneakers now
looking at the insoles you got an all-yellow insole and then like we saw earlier with the
tongue you got the skull on fire right here on the left foot and then you got the jumpman branding on
the right foot now typically when it comes to an air jordan doernbecher collaboration we have
seen almost every single number below 13 or 14 at 15 at sheesh below 15. so 1 through 15 we've
seen almost every single number i know there's a lot of anticipation behind the air jordan 11
and we have seen the air jordan 5 before this is a model that has come out the high top version
but this is a low top version so i think that's what kind of gave jordan brown was like you know
what we can still do the low top we haven't done the low top yet but i don't know what it
is they're just holding back on that jordan 11. i don't know if it's going to be some type of
anniversary thing or what's going on or if they're never going to do the jordan 11 but anyways my bad
i was getting a little bit off topic when it comes to that one now typically i do the whole
fire trash thing or we talk about resale values and everything like that but when it comes to a
shoe like this honestly yes i just want to hear your opinions how you feel about the release
uh were you able to get the shoe all those different things but when it comes to fire
trash and people hating on it i don't care about all that this shoe right here has a bigger meaning
than just a sneaker there is amazing story behind this shoe and i love that fact when it comes to
the doernbecher collection so people can hate on it or whatever they want to do but at the
end of the day i please and i hope and i pray that you respect this sneaker no matter what
because it's more than just a sneaker i feel like i hear sometimes people talking bad about
the doernbecher shoes because oh it's not the new hype is latest great it's not always about
that all the time sometimes sneakers represent other things so i just want to kind of get that
message out there because yeah it's just you know we see those comments every now and then am i bad
for taking another tangent on you guys but i love the doernbecher collection i love all the models
and i feel like it's okay to say which one's your favorite or not so drop a comment down below and
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