Sunday, April 27, 2025

Jeff Mikut on Designing Reynolds' NB Shoe and Tom Schaar. April 27, 2025. Mostly Skateboarding Podcast.

This week, Templeton Elliott, Jason From Frozen in Carbonite, and Patrick Kigongo are joined by New Balance Numeric's Lead Designer, Jeff Mikut to talk about designing Andrew Reynolds' new pro shoe, the 993. Then the crew moves on to talk about Tom Schaar's Vert's Not Dead part. Listen here and subscribe on iTunes or Spotify.

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Jeff Mikut
Jeff Mikut's Wilshire 15 hardflip
Danny Way in Questionable
Chris Miller in Now N' Later
Elliot Sloan's backyard mini mega
Tom Schaar's Documentary 
Jimmy Wilkins in Rolling Stone talking about driving for vert.

Jason is stoked on Venture Trucks, Barefoot: The Lee Ralph Story, NBA Playoffs, and Venue posting old shop videos
Patrick is stoked on Spitfire Wheels, my colleagues-in-exile at 18F.org, Brooklyn Projects Westchester, and Crushed Skateshop in DC
Templeton is stoked on the new skatepark in town.

1 comment:

Justin said...

That was a cool show. It's neat to learn the behind the scenes processes that go into shoe design. That's awesome the shoe tech skated and knew Andrew. I like how New Balance sponsors some skaters who might fly a bit under the radar, too.

We're still running Quark Xpress on some old computers at work.

Tom's skating is great. The song choice killed the mood. I imagine it helps draw in non-skaters because of Ozzy's brand appeal. Much like the Metallica for Elijah Berle's part, it sounded tired. There are a ton of heavy bands out in the world, find something different. Seeing the mega ramp tricks was almost nostalgic back to the early 2000s when Danny and Bob were breaking new ground. I think ESPN making a big deal out of the mega for contests, which makes sense because everyone understands big air, made a novelty of the effort involved in skating a ramp like that.