today we're going to be breaking down the cherry 11 high and I'll be showing you different
comparisons between the low tops the Concords the football cleats talking about a couple sneakers
from the past and we'll be matching them up against a win like 96's to see which one people
like the most but before we get started with all that we gotta talk about the history first we
originally saw the Air Jordan 11 debut in 1996 and two of the most iconic colorways were the Bred 11s
in the Concord 11s ever since then the Air Jordan 11 has been one of the most sought after sneakers
and over the past 10 years every single Christmas Jordan brand loves to drop by Air Jordan 11 for
a Christmas sneaker there have been a bunch of different colorways and stories behind each one
and this one in particular is special to a lot of sneaker heads because we've never seen the
Cherry 11 in a high top version we originally saw the low top in 2001 and I'm telling you right now
that was a great time in Era I'm sure all you guys remember seeing the Cool Gray 11's debut
around that time as well and that became some sneakerhead's favorite Air Jordan 11 colorway
15 years later we then saw a retro version in 2016 of the Cherry 11 low but everybody wanted the high
still and after we saw the low top a lot of people started to talk about what would it look like if
there was a high top version immediately in my head I thought about the prime time Dion sander
Air Jordan 11 PES with the turf bottoms I know they're not exactly the same with the bottoms
and everything but either way the color blocking is very similar and that was a shoe that popped
up in my head when I thought what would the high top look like following that release two
years later we did get a high top version but it ended up being a cleat so let me know I did play
football all the way through college so with me being a sneaker head you know I had to get all
the different cleats that Jordan brand dropped during this time we saw a lot of people taking
the cleat bottoms off of these shoes right here and putting the uppers onto a basketball shoe
and creating their own Cherry 11 highs because that was all we could get now fast forward a few
more years and we are currently in 2022 where we have the Cherry 11 highs right here starting with
the bottom of the foot you can see you have your translucent icy blue outsole with the red pods on
the front and backhand you got your red and black carbon fiber and a white Jumpman in the center of
that wrapping up to the side of the foot you have your classic all-white midsole and then on the
upper it's pretty simple with the basic a two-tone color blocking red patent leather with the white
mesh and leather on the backhand red sock liner white 23 on the heel and then a red Jumpman stitch
on the side these come equipped with a standard pair of all white rope laces typically Jordan
11s don't come with a pair of secondary laces and I haven't really heard too many people complain
about that aspect now on your white mesh tongue you have a white patch stitched right here with
Jumpman Jordan and black text with the red Jumpman in the center of that something that we always get
on the Jordan 11s and everybody loves that hit as well now looking at the back side of the tongue
you have a red mesh and then it says quality basketball products inspired by the greatest
player ever with a Jumpman logo in the center of that again another iconic touch when it comes to
Jordan 11s in particular now because this shoe isn't a retro of a OG colorway they decided to
put the Jumpman on the inside if you look at the Concords those have the Nike Air on the inside
because that's more resemblance of the OG colorway from back in the day so speaking of the Concords
let's talk about this real quick when it comes to the comparisons and why I brought them into this
video because I feel like this is a very classic nostalgic sneaker that you can never go wrong
with but it is very very similar to the Cherry and it kind of draws me to have another question for
you guys which I'll ask in a second but basically this shoe right here color blocking materials
everything the cuts of the shoe how high it's cut on the back end everything like that this has
that OG style and OG cut and all of our Retro 11s that we're starting to get over the past few years
are coming in this cut and there's a huge debate between if people like it or not yes me personally
I think it's great because it does resemble the OG style and OG cut but I know a lot of people do
like that lower Slimmer cut when it comes to the patent leather and how big it is on the side of
the foot or how low it hits on the back end around the heel so let me know what you guys think about
that when it comes to the different cuts of the two shoes now another thing that me and my dad
was talking about when it comes to the Cherry 11 right here the outsoles they actually did it
a little bit different than the classic Concord right here they both have that blue icy outsole
but the Concord is a lot more translucent doesn't look as foggy and it's not really as blue looking
if you put these two side by side you can see the difference just want to talk about that right
there so hopefully that gives you guys a better perspective on how they did it with the OG and how
this one's kind of a little bit more milky or ice blue compared to the more translucent ice blue on
the Concord version which is another thing that's very interesting because on previous Retros from
the past we have definitely seen ice blue outsoles on Jordan 11s but every time it's always a little
bit different like they always have a different Hue or a different gradient to it when it comes to
the transparency and everything like that so I'm always interested to see what they decide to do in
the future as well when it comes to new Retros and how they do the outsoles well they stay consistent
with this style where they go back to this style where they try other styles I guess it's something
that a sneaker heads pay attention to a little bit too much so there's a couple questions that I
have for this shoe in particular which one do you like more do you like the Concords or do you like
the cherries and honestly I know this is a crazy question that some sneaker has because they're
like how could you not pick the Concords but there's actually people that do like the cherries
more than a concourse and I understand that you may have just got into the shoe game and this is
your grill and that makes complete sense in some of the older heads know the history of nostalgia
behind this and they have more you know uh relationship with this sneaker than they do with
this one so I get that as well or you could just simply think that this color is better than these
and I can understand that too even though I think the Concord has a richer history and goes with
more outfits at the end of the day you buy what you like and like what you like so I'll pose that
question I wanted to see what people thought and this is what they said 83 percent of the people
chose the Concords and 17 of the people chose the cherries which again like I said people are going
to like this one more than that one I completely understand let me know what you guys think Down
Below in the comment section about that I got some other comparisons with the cleats and the
cherries and everything for you guys to show you the results because some of them actually pretty
interesting when it comes to the percentages now the other question I posed you have this version
black and white red and white okay cool well what if they did yellow and white blue and white green
and white purple and white you see what I'm saying there's so many different ways that you could go
with this simple color blocking and just change this color because when I think of purple and
white automatically in my head I think Randy Moss PE I know it's not exactly because it's got the
gold and everything but either way that shoe is fire like imagine they released that to the public
I would go crazy I would have to have those like there's no way I couldn't have multiples I would
be rocking that shoe like insane I that would just be crazy in my head but either way what do you
think about that there's certain color blocking styles that come on each model that could easily
be translated into any color you could literally take this style and put it into any type of color
on the color palette and create the entire rainbow with this style just like we seen with the toe
pack or the metallic fours with the different colors like that you name it there's so many
different variations you could go with this I know I don't like orange but I feel like the orange
might look a little bit cool on these as well but you see what I'm saying there's a lot of different
options I don't know I just wanted to pose the question and see what you guys thought about that
as well now let's take it to the low tops and get to that comparison this is the greatest comparison
simply because you have the low top which was the OG and this is our iteration of that as the Retro
this is a 2016 retro either way very similar to the OG the shape of the shoe is a little bit
different to the OG but when it comes to color blocking this is what it looked like from what
we originally saw and what we had for the past 20 years so when I saw this right here and they did
the red sockliner on the upper part of me was kind of like ah I wish they would have did all white
on the upper and kept it super clean like they did on the low tops but I get it maybe you can say hey
they cut it off at that part and that's where the red part was missing so if it were to be a high
top this is what it were to look like and like I said the color blocking is very similar to the
Concord which also makes sense but I want to see what you guys think about that let me know what
you think about the sockliners Down Below in the comment section because I will be comparing this
sockliner to the cleat version because I ain't gonna lie the cleat version does look kind of
clean too the way they did that sock liner as well we'll get into that in a second but basically I'm
interested to see what you guys think about the sockliner colors with the white and the red let
me know what you think Down Below in the comment section now besides all that when it comes to
color blocking and the different things like that on the tongue you have a black text with the red
Jumpman and then on these you have more of a gray text with a red Jump Man so that's going
to be the slight difference right there and then obviously these are older and have been worn so
I can understand those things now we all know the Air Jordan 11 comes with the baby red Jumpman on
the back it's always hilarious talking about this little Jumpman right here but besides that yes you
have the red Jumpman with the Red Stitch and on the heel right here you have a black 23 compared
to on the back of these there's slight changes when it comes to these two shoes but overall
to the untrained sneaker head eye they're gonna look at these two shoes and say hey that's what
low top version this is the high top version who cares another thing that I noticed when it comes
to these two shoes and the differences as well if you look at the outsoles right here you can
see obviously like I said this one's been worn but this has a black carbon fiber and this is a
red and black carbon fiber and then yes you still have the same color pods the translucent outsole
and the white Jumpman but they did two completely different carbon fibers on these two shoes so do
you think it would have looked better if it had the black carbon fiber white Stitch different
coloring and everything like that or what does it look good like this but I don't know it's kind
of interesting because they call it the Cherry 11 high and this is the Cherry 11 Low yet they
didn't do it exactly the same something to take note of I just wanted to make those comparisons
so you guys can see the differences if you didn't know that there were differences between these two
shoes now my question for a lot of people because you got a lot of OG heads out there that are like
the Cherry High don't beat the low like you can't go wrong with the lows like this is what started
it if it wasn't for these you wouldn't have these I get that so I posted a poll and this
is what the people said 27 of the people chose the low lows and 73 percent of the people chose
to hide I completely understand these results the high is a lot better in a lot of models and
some people don't even like low top Jordans at all so there's that conversation as well so I
can understand that and then other people is going to go off a Nostalgia and memories of the low top
versions with the UNC colorway or the snake skin colorway all those OG colorways from back in the
day definitely will always hit home for sneaker heads that's been in the game for a long time so
I could understand that standpoint as well so now this one is very interesting for me because the
football cleat oh man this is the first iteration that we saw that released to the public before
these so this was kind of like burned in my mind over the past four or five years now and I'm like
oh when they released the basketball version it's gonna look just like the cleat version
you're gonna have the black sock liner the black patch on the tongue and everything else is going
to be pretty much similar so obviously yes if you look at the outsoles they are going to be
different you're gonna have a cleated bottom and a basketball bottom materials on the upper
now this is one thing that's super super dope about the cleats they're football cleats so that
means they're going to make really really durable materials on the mesh and everything like that so
you can actually wear the cleat and you don't have to worry about somebody stepping on it and
different things like that so they make it a lot thicker and more firm when it comes to the fit
and rocking it I get yes you're still going to play sports in this and it's going to be
basketball but if somebody steps on your foot with a basketball bottom there's definitely a way less
likely chance that somebody's gonna rip through your shoe simply because there's no cleat on the
bottom of the foot now besides that you can see the difference between the toe cap on the front
end where you have the rubber that wraps up or the overall cut of the red patent leather throughout
the side and the back end of the foot it's gonna be a little bit different when it comes to the
height and shape of these two shoes which like I said they had to alter a little bit for football
purposes and performance and then you got the black sock liner compared to the red sock liner
on here on the back end of these two you do have the 23 with the white but on the front end like
I said earlier on the tongue you got the white patch with the black and red and then you got
the black patch with the white and red right here so a little bit of a difference between these two
but again a lot of people did like this black colorway on this sockliner and everything and
I wonder if this were actually to be a basketball version how much people would really like these so
I posted that same poll and obviously yes it's a cleat so there might be skewed in the differences
in the results this is what the people said 18 of the people chose the cleats and 82 percent of the
people chose the basketball shoes I saw a lot of comments though that were saying bro how did
people not get the cleats the cleats look better when it comes to the colorway yes the results may
have looked that way but I had the most feedback from that one in particular was people commenting
on the poll results letting me know like yo these are crazy these are crazy it's very interesting
to see how you know everybody perceives the shoes and how they feel about them and everything like
that so I want to see what you guys think as well make sure you guys drop some comments down below
for this one let me know what you think about these two now when it comes to the win like 96s
I wanted to see what you guys think and I want you to put the poll results which you think the poll
results would be down below in the comment section so do you think it's like 60 40 or like 30 370 or
whatever I don't know let me know what you think when it comes to these two comparisons you have
two very similar shoes but they look so different at the same time yes they're both red but with
the all red version and the red and white version you can pull off two completely different outfits
it's so funny how a simple change in the color blocking can alter the entire look of a shoe and
make them look completely different at the same time if I get a goal between these two I think
I probably would go with the Cherry just because I feel like it's got more of a classic nostalgic
color blocking to it that fits a little bit better for me so after seeing all these comparisons and
the Styles Cuts materials the differences and everything like that let me know what you guys
think about the shoe did you cop the shoe is this a gift do you think they're gonna go up crazy in
price all the different stuff everybody has their projections we all know the classic holiday Air
Jordan 11 is always a hit and we know it's gonna go for you know the retail is 225 whatever it may
be and it's selling for 300 350 right after the drop and everybody wants it for Chris means the
price goes down a little bit Midway through the year next year and then next thing you know a year
or two years later from now the shoe is going to be 450 500 shoe depending on where you're shopping
at all the different stuff so it's the same cycle when it comes to pricing on this sneaker if you
like the shoe go get it I know there's been a lot of competition this year so some people have been
saying they might not land on their top 10 list but for a vast majority of the people once they
get the shoe in hand once they start rocking it they're gonna love it and I know for a fact you're
gonna see this on the majority of people's top 10 lists so I appreciate you guys as always I'll see
you in another one I'm out yo before you go I just launched my sneaker head Academy where we
got everything on the inside I teach you all the stuff that I learned over the past 15 years when
it comes to sneakers scaling real estate you name it we talk about all of it in there and there's
an eight week program plus a bunch of monthly giveaways I give away shoes literally way too much
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