Sneakers, Shoes, Kicks & Footwear

Welcome to Bayareakicks.com which is one of the oldest and well known sneaker dedicated websites online. As some of you know, Bay Kicks has been a around since 2003; over 7 years strong. When we started out our goal was to bring you the latest sneakers not only with the best prices online, but we felt customer service was lacking. With those two focal points in mind, we opened up the sneaker store and had pretty good success starting out. After some time we decided to switch from an online shoe store, to a all things athletic sneaker blog. Although at times we do throw in a post or two on a pair of sneaks that are not quite that athletic, we continue to do it because everyone in general seems to enjoy them.

Anyway, we have once again noticed a trend within the footwear blog community online. There are literally 100s of sneaker blogs online these days, and many of them are good; some of them being great. The Bay Kick team feels its time to put more time and attention back into making you the consumer, visitor, sneakerhead, kick fiend, etc get excited about shoes again. How are we going to do that? We cannot say exactly, because there is nothing specifically that stands out. One thing that we are sure to make sure we do not overlook is to provide for you what all the other 100s of similar sites online are missing and not bringing to the table when it comes to fashions and shoes in general. With that said, if there are any suggestions or requests you have for the team here at Bayareakicks.com, please do not hesitate for a moment to let us know what is on your mind.

We are going to start with giving you information related to all things having to do with kicks. It will be information that many of us already know and can never forget even if we wanted to, info that others have forgotten, and details that our new soon-to-be sneakerheads need to know about kicks. Below we will give some details about different shoes that BAK has written about or had some type of dealings with over our years of being online. If there is anything that is missing or that you would like to be added, whether its good or bad about a pair of kicks, again, please let us know. We love hearing from you. With that said, as always we ask you to simply; Enjoy!

It goes without saying that most, if not all, of us love and value our feet. Sure we do not always pay as much attention to them, thus the reason every so often we find ourselves stubbing our toe on the corner of a peice of furniture at home. It is very important that we educate ourselves on the type of care we need to give and provide to our feet. Instead of us spending a ton of time going into those details, we will just link to you to this foot care article that was written and put together by authorities on this topic.

You may be wondering why a sneaker blog is taking time to talk about and link to articles that make reference to the health of our feet. The reason is that although in our younger years we are able and willing to put on a pair of shoes that might be uncomfortable, and even might not be our correct size. We do this because we might love the image we have of ourself when we are were the kicks, or the size we a need is not available so instead we settle for pair that we know are too small; but we squeeze our poor feet into them anyway. If you are mindful of this, be sure to never go shoe shopping in the morning when it is rare that we have done much walking for the day. It is best to try on and purchase footwear later in the day due to the fact that we will have likely been on our feet all day, and thus they will be a bit bigger and the feet are thus in a better position to give us an idea on the true size of sneaks we need for the right comfort.

There are others of us who have what seems to be never ending foot pain and issues. Often the cause of this is ignoring the suggestions mentioned above, neglecting the health and comfort of our feet, or simply wearing footwear products that are made to look nice, not feel nice. This is usually an issue for athletes who play sports that require running and or jumping throughout the game. For that reason we suggest that you take a look at this article that mentions what people in basic training are keeping in mind when they are wearing sneakers during rigorous training. These tips have both promoted healthy feet in general, and well as the prevention of injury.

Now there are some of us who have a job that requires we wear a certain color or style of shoes, or maybe a certain type of kicks to prevent injury or whatever type of work we are doing. For years there were not many options as to what brands, and comforts might be available in these types of sneakers needed for work. In more recent years we have found that some of the bigger brands have realized this was an untapped market, and they decided to make products that for example was only one color(like all black or all white), steel toed footwear, etc. You might not think that its important to buy the products your employer suggests, but it is very important that you take their advice for your own benefit. Take a peek at this website that gives you some things about when talking about safety shoes.

Air Jordans:

There are too many websites online that put out so much recycled information, pictures, prices, deals, releases, etc about Nike Jordans shoes; ourselves included. When we say too many sites talking about New Jordans, we are not suggesting that there should be less. We are simply saying that there are more than enough websites for the millions of Michael Air Jordan sneaker lovers to visit and get info, so why show your loyalty to one over the other. If you go to your favorite search engine in an effort to find info about your favorite Retro Jordans, you will get tons of results. For example, if you search for Air Jordan Release dates; you will likely get 100,000s of results of Jordans release dates for 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and maybe some say they have release date info for Jordans coming out in 2011.

You will find other sites online that are actually selling new Jordan releases at what they say are the best prices. At times you can find Jordan kicks advertised as being sold cheaper than $30 per pair. That itself should tell you that they also will come with a self destruct timer because they are EXTREMELY cheap in every way you can imagine. Picture ordering a pair of what, they call, New Nike AirJordans that cost you $30 or less. That dirt cheap discount price that you receive also gives you many other matching characteristics. Getting your product shipped in a thin plastic white bag that barely meets shipping stands, a box that is thin as recycled paper that is all wet and soggy that falls apart upon being touched by your own hand(this is IF you even get a box with the shipment of your cheap Jordans), an odor that you are afraid of admitting is coming from you brand new pair of Jordans that are supposed to be coming out in a few months to the general public, a product that you THOUGHT was identified as Nike Jordans shoes but when inspecting the color paint glue and Air Jordan retro Jumpman logo you realized is not anything that you would find at your local footlocker store, having clean soles on the bottom of the shoe but you notice dirt dust and scuff marks from the sneaker obviously being manhandled by someone who could care less about your, Authentic Jordan, shoe that has just been shipped to you, etc.

But wait, it does not end there. Maybe half or none of what was just described about happened to you when you order your insanely cheap cheaply made discounted Nike and Jordans kicks. Instead you find that when you go to put your foot in the size 11 sneaker that you order, you ca not even get your heel in it; even after curling your toes as much you can. You then go in to inspect your shoe that you were led to believe are the same as you saw on air-jordans.com, and you notice that there is a white sticker that resembles the normal sticker typically stitched on the inside of all Nike Air Jordan shoes, and it is covering the actual size 8.5 product that was sent to you. Although at this point you realize what was just done to you, with wishful thinking, you plan to contact the vendor that sold you the product letting them know there was a mistake and they, accidently, send you a size 8.5 when you clearly ordered a size 11 Air Jordans shoe. To your surprise you find out that your numerous attempts to contact the vendor via email, their only unreliable method of communication, you never get a response.

Let us say for example, because this is the case many times, there is a live support option on the website, so you go ahead to try and start a conversation to let them know about your issue that you are having with the sizing of your Air Jordan retro sneaker. You then wait minutes at a time for a response for your requests for assistance with this issue. When you get a slow delayed single word response from this, customer service agent, you realize that this person obviously has the slightest idea what customer service is, that is of course if they can speak(type) conversational English. At this point reality looks clearer than ever, and you have light bulbs going off in your head telling you that it likely was not the greatest decision to order from this website who advertises the best prices online for the newest Jordan kicks for 2010. You then remember questioning whether this sneaker sale was too good to be true, and then the doubts you had after seeing the pictures of Jordan shoes that they had almost looked like defective dirty nonprofessional Jordan(or Jordon) products.

What is the point? What is our moral in typing out all this info and wasting the time of our 1000s of visitors that already know better? The moral is, if you want a new pair of Jordans and Nikes from 2009 or 2010 or whatever, go to a reputable reliable and well known sneaker store such as Footlocker, Foot Action, Finish Line, Athletes Foot, Lady Footlocker, etc. Maybe you want to order a pair of new Jordan Sneakers that were recently released from a magazine or online. In that case you can order from a magazine like Eastbay, or you can order from websites like Instyleshoes.com, Pickyourshoes.com, Flightclubny.com, Zappos.com, Nike.com, Ebay.com(careful because sometimes people are able to sell fake products), Uptempoair.com, etc. Sure none of these websites will likely have all or any of their Air Jordan Kicks for $30 or anywhere near it. BUT, you can be 100% confident that you will actually receive a legitimate AUTHENTIC Nike Air Jordan shoe without question. So, finally the moral is: If the price is too good to be true, it usually is when it comes to NikeAirJordans sneakers. You may feel like you just got a Jordans Shoes overload, but its really a big deal due to the fact that millions of people are regular supporters of these products. There are so many Nike sneakers used, product, and thrown away; there is now a process to recycle nike shoes.

Sometime we get requests about the options people have when it comes to the different types of authentic Jordans kicks that are available for purchase, and that is an excellent question. Along with so many others that we regularly get. For that reason below we are going to list some of the top questions we often times get regarding Jordan sneakers:

Where can I find any Jordan Shoes?

There are some in society who are not able to take the above mentioned footwear precautions due to the fact that they cannot read, and do not have the mental capability to do that; we are talking about infants. We know that many of us sneakerheads who have kids are so excited to take our kids to the mall and buy they new pair of baby air jordans for our son or daughter, but please be mindful that the correct type of shoes can hurt or help yor child. Are you a bit doubtful about this? If so, take a look at what happened when one footwear product that had to be recalled because infants were choking on a small peice that came off of the shoe.

Nike Air Force 1 Shoes:

There are times when we have to give some details, information, pictures, history etc for a product before we introduce it to the world. When it comes to Nike Air Force Ones sneakers, that is usually not the case for the simple reason that this product has been and is one of Nikes most successful and best selling sneaker of all time. Due to the fact that many of the people reading this page are sneakerheads and do not need a, proper, introduction to this unique footwear product, we are going to do it anyway because everyone reading this page may not be as educated when it comes to sneakers; that is likely the very reason they are here visiting Bayareakicks.com. After you read everything it is that we choose to say about Air Force One shoes, ask yourself if you have the same viewpoint about these sneakers before reading all of this. We are not saying we are going to put these Air Force 1 kicks in a light that will make any reader have a positive impression of these sneaks. Although we are highly interested in bringing the general public as much info about release dates for their favorite AF1s as possible, we are not interested in showing favoritism to one company or brand over another. Instead we prefer to provide you with the Air Force 1s release dates, specs, and details that you are looking for. After we give you that information, we then will give our personal opinion about the product just to share with the world how we feel about them. Since we are all sneakerheads we do have the right to state our opinion about a product, and we encourage you to do the exact same thing; otherwise, where is the fun?

Nike airforces got their name because the creators over at Nike apparently want to make reference and give some support to the President of the USAs personal jet that is named Air Force One. The product was originally released back in the early 1980s, and is now one of the bigges and well known athletic footwear items around the world. Believe it or not, Nike sells so many of these sneaks that they are nearly doing $1 billion in sales EACH YEAR. Crazy huh? When we think of Nike and their products, we just assume that they always do the smart thing and make the best decisions, obviously because of the success they have continued to have year after year including 2008, 2009, 2010, & probably the same will happen in 2011. If you look at the history books of Nikes shoes, you will see that they released their first new Air Force 1 sneaker back in 82 and the next year took it off the market. Maybe it did not do as well as they wanted it to, or possibly they planned on having the shoe be only available as a limited release. The next pair of cheap Air Force Ones that they put back on the market was about 4 years later. That means that nikeairforceones are only about 25 years old, but that does not mean that Nike will treat this product as one that is not old enough to have their support and backing. How do we know that? No, we have never spoken to any of the executives at Nike, but all one has to do is look at the number of releases and release dates they have dedicated solely for this shoe. At one time or another, there have been almost 2,000 DIFFERENT new Nike Air force 1 releases to the sneaker world. If you know of another kick that has been released that many times in that many different styles and colorways, we definitely want to hear about it ASAP.

Sure airforce ones kicks have had the support of TONs of big celebrity names over the years with entire songs being made in their behalf, 100s of mentions in other songs, the backing of athletes who can touch millions if not billions of people worldwide, and other famous stars allow limited pairs of AF1s being made, distributed and sold with their name, and sometimes pictures, all over it.

You might be thinking we have said quite a bit about shoes that you never thought about, but there is so much more to be said that we might add at a later date. Whatever was or was not said, it is obvious that we can all agree that footwear plays an extreme part in daily life in almost all of the world. Sure there are remote places in the world where people do not regularly wear any type of product on their feet, but almost everyone does. It is interesting to see how nowadays so much time, effort, and energy is put into shoes. If you compare our society to lets say about 100-200 years ago, things are quite different. If you were to consider shoes of the 19th century, and how people viewed and treated them; for sure that would think everyone in this day in age is crazy.