Air Jordan 2012 shoes in this post…
This is the best preview yet of next year’s yet-to-be-officially-unveiled Air Jordan 2012.
We’ve seen two iterations of the flagship model so far, with the black and neon sample here looking like a more refined and dialed in version of the original “saddle” backed silhouette we first saw rather than the alternate fully exposed Flywire model.
The side Jumpman logo on this AJ2012 is shrunk down from its initial 127 centimeter (again, estimated) height and thrown into what appears to be a raised circle. Thankfully, the team shoe illiciting and rather unsophisticated design cue of a visible heel Air window on Jordan Brand’s top shelf footwear offering seems to have been mercifully killed off altogether. The rest stays intact: A Nike Flywire skinned upper (first implementation on an Air Jordan), a Flywire-patterned sidewall, triple section targeted overlays at the forefoot, midfoot and ankle, and the same outsole tooling we’ve seen on all the Air Jordan 2012 samples to date, including this little baby sized boot.
Kick back as more Air Jordan 2012 photo leaks are starting to emerge with factory production in full force overseas. The newest Air Jordan will set your bank account back $180 next year when it launches in February 2012.
via NT
That is awful
Jordan using old Nike-tech, used to be not done.
It’s awful they’re charging premium $, for recycled tech, and generic design.
JB needs a reality check, either you charge budget prices for run of the mill shoes, using old tech, or you step up your game, and lead, instead of follow.
Now I don’t know if I really wanted to see it…
If I can recall correctly (and please don’t quote me on this…), Tinker once mentioned that the Jordan brand is headed for higher performance/functionality and cited the Kobe line as one of its reference points, I didn’t know it simply entailed the plastering of flywire on the upper.
From all of Jordan’s main lines, elements that allows the marketplace to identify it as uniquely Jordan is almost next to none.
This might be crazy talk, but Jordan Brand would probably benefit from removing all its fusion/hybrid models and focus on the signature/Jordan lines. Then again…money talks…C.R.E.A.M.
come on counterkicks stop messing with us and give us a and1 tai chi review and a and1 me8 empire review
For some reason it reminds me of the Jordan Team II.
http://i893.photobucket.com/albums/ac132/hisairness32_4/TeamJordanII9713-1.jpg
please please please have it make you jump 10″ higher and run 15sec faster… ‘coz if they don’t… these would be worst than the ’09.. and sit on the shelves forever..
I’m a bit confused here myself. I too thought I heard Tinker (during some video Q & A at a shoe store) say that Nike was going down the road of stitchless and seamless construction like the Hyperfuse stuff and that JB would have more of a handcrafted look with stitching and leathers etc. This doesn’t seem to embrace that concept….looks more like a mash-up.
The biggest thing JB is missing is MJ. If MJ were still playing and he dropped 50 in these then people would be eating them up!
In my opinion there are just too many JB products out there right now. I think I’d rather see 1 unbelievable sig Jordan that blew my mind and was worn by melo, CP3, D-wade, and any other JB athlete instead of each of them getting their own sig shoe. I think it’s watering down the Jordan legacy…anybody else agree?
…JORDAN BRAND lacks CREATIVITY,in the DESIGN department,to create a product that will not only RESUSITATE a LACK LUSTER out-put of new designs,but will also be worthy of the man for which they are named.Thats why they continue to relaunch older sneakers…hey,J.B.? Hire some new designers.
This..is incredibly comical, a buck eighty duckets?
’nuff said.
Terrible design for a flagship model.
I don’t know fellas. It’s definitely better than the previous pics but the flywire kills it for me. I don’t ball as much as I used to but the flywire thing just seems gimmicky to me. Have to wait and see the finished product. I usually try and buy the flagship model Jordans and stay away from everything else. These will probably sit on the shelf and drop in price and I will be able to get 2 pair for the price of 1 like I’ve been doing for the last couple of years.
put a reverse jump man on there that might help. To me personally when they leave the jump man always facing to the right it makes it look like a team shoe. it seems like Jordan is just following whatever Nike is doing now incorporating flywire. I remember Tinner saying that they weren’t going to go down that road of plastic wacky designs of Nike. But more of a genuine crafted look. Its like they are trying to please both.