Scott Whittaker of Unabomber showcases his park steez over at the Unabomber blog, short but worth a watch: http://unabomberskateboards.blogspot.com/2009/11/as-promised-whittaker-steez.html.

Check out the second part of the two part DVS series chronicling the skateboarding carreer of Chico Brenes, picking up around 1999 with the Chocolate US tour and showcasing the next ten years of his career, including his 411 part, the making of DVS Skate More and commentary from Torry Pudwill, Jack Curtin, Brandon Biebel and Anthony Claravall. Check it: http://www.dvsshoes.com/skate/video/chico_now.html

The latest Puzzle Release features footage of the Bastien Salabanzi Invitational as well as sections from Daniel Spiegel, footage filmed by Vincent Jugnet featuring Arthur Derrien, Guillaume Mocquin, Martin Lacroix, Matthieu Hilaire, Max Geronzi. Watch it on the Puzzle website: http://www.puzzlevideo.com/index.php?id=7

The DVS Daewon CT is designed to be simple as requested by the man himself, I found this to be fairly true when I brought a pair – the design is simple and there isn’t any overly complicated features which can be a good thing.

In terms of comfort, they’re pretty comfortable once you’ve worn them in but until that happens I found them to be fairly stiff which affected how they skated originally – it took a good couple of days of skating to properly wear them in but after I did I was fairly impressed with what they had to offer. Because of the simplicity you do have a good feel of the board and flip tricks are easy to perform, they lacked a little bit in terms of grip but this didn’t affect my tricks in a major way.

For all the good this shoe brings in terms of actually skater, their lack of durability let them down in a big way. They pretty much started to give way to holes after only a week or so and after 3-4 weeks they were pretty much toast and new shoes were needed. Overall if you can afford a new pair of shoes after a month then by all means buy these cause they do skate well but if not give them a miss.

The DVS Getz are very sturdy and stable so you don’t feel like you will bust your ankles if you land primo or mess up a trick. Another plus point is that you can really feel the board under your feet and you feel like you have control over the board instead of being weighed down by shoes that would be better suited as bricks than shoes. As regards durability they seem very good after countless numbers of ollies but only time will tell how much these shoes can withstand.

The only problem I had with them was that, even though they were the right size, the curvature of my foot wasn’t steep enough which caused a lot of pressure on the side of my foot because the insole of the shoe is slightly curved upwards on one side and it felt a little uncomfortable at first but they are starting to feel better as I have used them more often.

By TucTuc