Emerica and Figgy teamed up to create an unique rendition of the classic Emerica "Laced" shoe. Its obvious that Figgy deserves a color way since his gnarly part in "Bake and Destroy". Many subtle changes have been made to this shoe, but overall make a HUGE impact when it comes to making this shoe look appealing.
This shoe looks like a chiller shoe but doubles as a great skate shoe for all you minimal padding advocates. It has a tongue and collar that have no padding. This just makes the shoe feel like a sock and allows it to mold to your feet easily. It has a clean one piece toecap with no stitching to rip or seams to blow out. The coolest thing about the shoe is that it has elastic centering straps that make the shoe fit tightly even when worn without laces. This comes in handy when you are ripping laces and you might not have any short term fixes when you are out skating with the homies. This is a cup sole shoe. It has a grippy zig-zag tread pattern. It features a STI insole that keeps your feet from hurting after bails or landing off of big drops.
The Figgy color way breathes some fresh life into this classic shoe. First of all it features a black suede toecap with grey side paneling. "Figueroa" seems to be embroidered onto the side panel where "Emerica" is usually stitched onto. The font is a spin off of a guitar amplifier company called "Orange". Figgy plays guitar for LSDemons, and it is safe to assume that he is a fan of "Orange" Amplifiers. This font was used on two of Figgy's most recent pro model decks. On the tongue there is the Emerica logo but it has a pyramid design on it with an eye at the top. This is a symbol often correlated with the devil and the Illuminati but I'm not trying to let the History/Religion professor inside of me ramble on. On the green insole there is a picture of a guitar that has a goat head on it. Yet another example of some "Flair" that was put into the shoe. The sole sports a nice yellow color to correlate with the Gold america emblem on the side panel and the yellow Emerica Pyramid logo on the tongue.
To put it into simple words.......This shoe looks pretty gnarly. Figgy and Emerica did a great job throwing cool looking stuff into an already cool looking shoe. It sits at a fair price of 70 dollars. Only 5 dollars more than the normal laced. Not bad for a limited edition shoe. Look out for the Emerica Herman G6 review that is coming in a week or two. Stay tuned!!!!
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