There has to be a really good reason for a shoe more or less 16 years old and to keep topping lists of the greatest skate shoes ever since its release. Regardless of what kind of skater you are, Half Cabs are amazing. Worn and loved by different generations to attack bowls, stairs, vert ramps; even the highest ollie in the world was nailed wearing these beasts. Half Cabs skate brilliantly straight out of the box.
Like most Vans, there isn’t a breaking in period, although after having a leather pair a while back they did take a bit longer to get to grips with, but nothing that a few nights in the pub didn’t loosen up. It’s the sacrifice you make balancing durability with comfort I guess. I’m rocking a canvas pair at the moment and despite looking good they aren’t lasting as long as the suede version but that’s to be expected. After wearing through the outer canvas there’s still a couple of layers before you start shredding skin but if push comes to shove, its nothing a bit of ShooGoo won’t sort out.
If I had to pick just one fault with them then it would be the thickness of the sole which is a unfortunate hallmark of the waffle; so if you are prone to jumping down things or hooning at rails then it might be worth slinging a pair of insoles in just to pad them out a bit. However, considering I can only do layback grinds on mini ramps, it’s academic to me and as such – I reckon they’re amazing. They’re cheap, they last and they look good – what more could you ask for?
Dickfingers
The shot you see here of Jensen tweaking out a switch k on untouched marble is just the appetiser.
How’s this for more hype for the upcoming 
I love The Stupids. There, I’ve said it. I’ve got it off my chest. My love affair started long ago in the mid-80s and of all the punk bands I first stumbled across, the Stupids were the ones that I connected with the most. For a start, they were fun and fun was not high on the punk rock agenda in those days. These were angry times, Conflict were leading an assault against the system and the system was fighting back but the Stupids blew Kool Aid flavored raspberries in the face of police oppression and got right down to creating hyper-speed yet addictively melodic American influenced hardcore punk, the like that had not surfaced from the UK before. They were bratty, obsessed with trashy American culture and carved their skateboards through the 80s music scene, leaving a slew of classic records (all recently reissued by 
As each song charges by the band get more comfortable and hit their stride (despite Tommy suffering from a tragic case of drum slippage) as the classic pop-thrash of the likes of ‘Skid Row‘, ‘Fridge‘, ‘Memory Burns‘ and a ludicrously fast ‘This Is The Norm‘ charges by.
The 14th 
Fresh off the back of the magnificent “Never Forever“, the 
Ida Maria has recently revealed the dates of her first headline tour in the UK