Trying Splay Skate Shoes (Bare Foot Shoes)

A few months ago, I had been trying out these barefoot shoes that my friend recommended me, and I didn't really like them because it didn't feel like they were grippy, and I was having trouble with them, especially after shoe gluing them. And after seeing that somebody had left a video about the Splay Rev Skate shoe, well, I decided to do some researching for myself, and I looked into it. After the rabbit hole of going into the barefoot shoes and whatnot, this seemed like the most promising. I had reached out to them on Instagram, and they sent me shoes. All right, here we have Splay footwear, or skate shoes, however you want to call them. But the thing about these are, it's not like your average pointy skate shoe. It's a pretty open space right here for your feet. I'll be testing these shoes for the next few days, and I'm going to see if I like them. And today's going to be a skate park session. Finding out my initial thoughts, and yeah, let's see how they skate. The one thing I will say already is the insole is nothing. It literally is nothing. I feel the ground. It's already off to not such a good start. They don't have half sizes, so right now I'm wearing size 9 because size 8 was too small. Oh, it says freedom down there. But yeah, we're about to skate. But I brought the baby out. His first skate sesh. He's tired. But yeah, I'm about to skate for a bit, and then yeah, I'll let y'all know what I think. All right, that front 360 wasn't that bad, but I want to do it again, just to make sure that it's good. That one was good. Last front three, and that nollie three was good. Let's get a different angle. So far, this is the damage on the shoes. Kickflip felt a little weird, but then when I did the frontside flip, that felt so natural. So, so far, they're feeling good. I haven't jumped down nothing yet. So, that's the first 11 minutes on the hip. I'm going to do a few more tricks frontside. So, I mean backside. I'm going to do a few more tricks backside, and then we'll see where we're at. I'm close. Oh my gosh, you were right behind me. I apologize. No, you're good. I believe in myself. I believe in you too. You got it. All right, the shoes are feeling pretty good. I ain't gonna lie. All right, well, these are the shoes. This is session one. There's nothing wrong with the bottom. The bottom still looks good. The grip is there for my kickflip side, for doing the frontside flip and the kickflips. That's the damage. Nothing too crazy. It's still looking good. This is day one. The bottom, still good. So, please let me know what you want me to look out for within the next few days, because I'm going to be filming me skating them every day, just to try to get a thorough review and to see what I miss out. Other than that, I think the tricks that I was doing today, nothing was wrong. It was just a normal shoe. The front piece is bigger, and that's about it. But other than that, they skate like a normal shoe. Like I did state earlier, I did primo on a front shove. Attempt off the stair set, and I didn't have no cushion for the insole. That's about it. I felt it immediately as soon as I put my foot in the shoes, when I just wore them, so I could go skate. But aside from that, they feel like a normal shoe. If you're interested in any sort of like open foot type footwear, this is Splay. You can check them out. But as far as that, please let me know what you want me to look out for or try, or just in general, anything that you think I should look out for. I'll see y'all in the next video. Signing out until the next one.