I bought these shoes for my son. He's a big kid. Height over 6 feet at 16, quite tall with very flat feet and a curved spine with wedge-shaped vertebrae. With all this, he has a hard time finding comfortable shoes to skate in. He mainly rides longboards. The shoes I wore as a kid, skating, *wrenching, on a road trip* and so on, are still expensive. $80+ per pair for lower models and they still need a "break-in" period. The first day of these HD sneakers was great! You can't go back to old shoes