The most likely of all situations is Nyjah getting a shoe without a doubt. He may even get his own line like P-rod. Its likely that Nyjahs shoe will also be techy and possibly ugly as a result. I would want to see Alex Olson or Shane O'neill. From what I've heard nike is trying to stay away from...
The wovens were probably made for a menswear type of audience not some elite sock, cargo shorts wearing dude. The toebox bears resemblance of the mayfly woven. It could have been executed better than that though but at least its different and not some obnoxious print or flamboyant neon.
The simple answer to why Nike is no longer putting ropes on the janoski any more is because they are cheap and realize that the primary consumer of the janoski is no longer a skater but rather suburban teenagers who have no idea about the quality of a shoe. Because of this, Nike will try to make...
Thanks for the pics. A flyknit free run had SOOO much potential and nike blew it hard on the aesthetics. I'm sure performance wise these will be great but in no way could I see anyone casually rocking these. It will take some crazy good HTM colorway or design for me to even consider purchasing...
If you look very closely you can see that the shoe is actually a flyknit racer with a lunarlon sole. Nike has yet to produce any of those for the public to purchase.