Our Latest Love: The Nike ACG Air Mowabb

Prof K, dont get me wrong but personally i think you stick to just reveiwing basketball shoes, i mean it takes so long now to get a new review of the basketball shoes, i mean the basketball shoes in your upcoming reveiws section are sorda old excluding the the electrify. So thats just my opinon, im sure most everybody would like to see more basketball kicks, less love at 1st sight.

It looks cool and pretty much like the original.

I have a couple of questions about the shoe:
- Is it warm enough to wear in winter?
- Will it be sold internationally?

I agree with Birdman, because I thought the mission of Kicksology was "The Study of Phat Kicks for your balling pleasure?" Notice for balling pleasure, not hiking or others irrelevant catagories. I say bring back the original concept and stick with it. If you wanna do Love at 1st sight, do it at another site, not here. You just gotta stick with your mission statement - off track now know what I mean?

Professor K -

I agree with a few of the others - I love your site, but I love it for the HOOPS SHOES, not the walking, hiking, etc.
I would much rather see more hoop reviews than this other stuff. Please stick to the BALLING KICKS!!!!!!

And my opinion on the Mowabb...ugly as sin.

sorry to say it prof, but i agree with the others. one love at first sight every now and then is cool, but it can get a little overwhelming. i know you love shoes in general, but many people here seem to be ballers first, shoe-fanatics second. usually we become shoe-fans because of hoopin, and thus our tastes are preordained and focused on hoop shoes. keep up the good work and i gotta say the gear is raw.

Now before we start hatin on Prof. K we should see what he was thinking here. He wanted a little variety I guess so he put out this love at first sight thing.
Now I think it was a preaty good idea, but I was thinking maybe one review every couple of months of what his love was (little too out there for me) and that would be alright. But alternating the love and basketball is a little too much.
I say you do the basketball kicks mostly, and stick a little love in there once in a while, sorry, but I think i'm just gettin too much love here.
I also think, sinse you will have more time to review the basketball kicks, just set up a log that would let us tell you some shoe sugjestions for you're next reviews (thats it, no did you hear about the tinfoil #@&*, just straght up what you should review). The log would be packed because not that much new stuff is coming out so we could tell you some stuff you missed over the season.
With all this money coming from the new kicks gear I think you can really roll out a bunch more new reviews.

STICK TO BASKETBALL SHOES!

Am I the only one that likes the reviews of "other" shoes?
Some running shoe reviews would be good as well.
Great review, but how come no pics of the OG Mowabb? I think I had them but in low top, but I'm not sure and no pics to compare.

why dont you just review the air flight huaraches?

ya i agree wit da others. i like the idea of reviewing other shoez but im alwayz waiting 4 new bball reviewz. so mayb u should juss stick 2 bball shoez. no offense. juss my opinion. btw can u do a review on da nike air zoom enhancez>?

Prof.K, I think that you should do about 1 love at first sight per month. Otherwise, stick to bball kicks.

Prof. K listen to what your followers are saying. Stop the love at first sight. We want basketball kicks reviewed here. IMO youre gettin more negatives out of this whole thing then positives. This is not called hating, this is called constructive criticism.

personally i'm not really impressed with your choices for love at first sight section. The only shoe i thought that looked good was the pair of oakley's. I think you should review shoes with a more direct connection to basketball like the Adidas Forum Lo .

i agree with Birdman and the others! plz stick to bball shoes!

people are wanting basketball shoe reviews, not hiking shoes. you should make a separate site for shoes not related to bball if you keep doing more of those reviews

people that come here are interested in basketball shoes. i think you should spend most of your time reviewing bball shoes

The shoe posted for Love at first sight could be a good shoe. I wouldn't know, I've never actually seen a pair in real life. But the picture of them on the sight told me all I wanted to know: that I never really do want to see them in real life. Those are the ugliest shoes since some of the Jordan Retros came out. The only thing uglier than those shoes are the Nike Air Kikinis. I think Nike should focus on making the shoes it has better looking instead of buying other shoe companies to make themselves feel financially secure. I think if a shoe can be put on Love at first sight, it should either be a basketball shoe or not butt-ugly.

Stick to da basketball shoes and no one cares about damn hiking and casual shoes. And the MOWABB is hideous.

Damn, with all the bitching and moaning in here I thought I stumbled into the powder room of a sorority house on a Friday night.

First, to those who think the Mowabb is ugly, thanks for making it easy for me. Anyone who feels that way clearly has zero taste so I can ignore your comments out of hand.

To the others, frankly, if you don't like it, don't read it. And if you think the LAFS features are slowing the rate of hoops shoe releases you're imagining things. The non-hoops shoes are reviewed during the 22-odd hours a day that I'm not on the court so they in no way effect how often I can test hoops shoes. I feel like William Shatner in his spoof of Trekie culture on SNL -- get a life people.

To Borsheglot, the Mowabb is not really well suited to winter wear. If conditions are dry you can wear the shoe with warm socks, but since they're not water proof you won't want to wear them in the snow.

As for whether it will be sold internationally, unfortunately I don't know the answer to that one. If you really want them, though, http://www.altrec.com carries the Mowabbs and they do ship internationally. The only thing is that the shipping fee is crazy high.

To Ed, I really wanted to include a pic of the OGs, but I don't have any and they are impossible to find nowadays. If you do a search for "mowabb" on Google you can find a few pics.

Personally, I think these shoes look so much better in profile than both the salomon xa series and the Oakley Twitch. Even though these shoes aren't your everyday "normal"shoes, they still are straight up nice.

Oh yeah and the Air Rift.

screw u professor k. so no one else's opinions count? that shoe is ugly in my opinion. but i guess i am wrong and you are right.

No, other people's opinions count, just not yours.

I really wish you would review the greatest lightweight show of all time. The Nike Air Swift.

Im not really feelin these shoes that much. So far, my favorite non basketball shoe that u reviewed was the Oakley Twitch

These have got to be the ugliest shoes I've ever seen! PLEASE stick to BASKETBALL shoes.

i must admit this is not my kind of shoe. its alright i just cant see it

im still anticipating the and1 drive mid.

professor k, i respectfully state that the mowabbs do not appeal to me aesthetically.

Love @ first site is aite, but what really keeps me to this site, is the grading factor...i mean, I can go to other sites to see pictures of shoes and ppl's opinions of it, but none gives grades like the Prof. Here's an idea, how bout you start grading the LAFS's too? Just curious though, why do all(so far) the love at first site shoes have such odd colorways?

Eeeek!

Ummm Prof K.... great site?

I'm glad to seeing you expanding your horizons, I personally like just to see the court kicks BUT a few suggestions for the LAFS that more people will like.

I got a feeling ppl who visit this site rock Timbs and stuff, so maybe you could include kicks like those into LAFS? Maybe people would like LAFS more? Also, maybe more kicks for more common sports (other than basketball) like those Baseball AJIX's?

Ah well, I like the idea and I think we all got to remember this is Prof K's site and he helps alot of us a great deal on which kicks to buy!

I gotta disagree with the majority here- I think these are some nice kicks. A little "out-there" but cool (though I don't know if I'd actually wear them). Good choice, Prof. K!

if you like these kicks, that's great
if you don`t that's fine to but let's not trash talk
Prof. k because you all have no right to.
He is the one running this sight and paying for the shoe and
it is free. so unless you are willing to pinch in few pennies
why not just appreciate what p.K is doing?

Yo Prof K:
You got to accept some of the ideas suggested by my on court brothers such as birdman, shotcaller, LD etc because you did mention "THE STUDY OF FAT KICKS FOR YOUR BALLING PLEASURE". I am not the type of guy who is so negative, but I too would strongly suggest you to review "YOUR SIGHT AT FIRST LOVE" once a month for the maximum.

come on guys... is all you do ball, dont you have to wear other shoes sometimes... im a baller too, so is prof k. i wear other shoes besides ballin shoes, and aparently so does prof k. you can guys can go a week without a review, you probably dont even read them anyways, you just look at the rating.

yo prof, how bout some love on love @ first site for those nast-ay converse weapon lows...or some puma stuff...

I wonder if this site is done for ballers or for the vanity of Pro.K? Is it for the good of all or a self-glorifying-think-u-know-all-that-cuz-u-started-it crap. What are we really here for? "The study of phat kicks for your balling pleasure," or like those crazy weird artists they say what the h*ll they wanna say cuz they think they know it all and they just have the desire to express it even though people disagree sometimes...

I think the love at first sight section is a very good idea. I found some of the shoes in this section not appealing (the oakleys and the salomons) and others very interesting (the rifts and the Mowabbs), but what it is more important is that this is a site about hoops and a little shoe culture fits very well. Open your minds and keep up the good work, Prof.

By the way, the new Rifts are plain ugly, and I would like to see another colours of the Mowabb (which by the way have more than a passing resemblance to a couple of balling shoes, to all the haters who say they´re ugly)

I had the original Mowabbs back in '91 (or was it '92) and I loved them. These look cool too, and I like the height. Next time I go to Finishline I'll try them on. I wonder if there will be another colorway? Great review, thank you for the review, Professor K.

i dont want to hate or anything, but i personally would prefer the shoes in the LAFS section to maybe be old-skool bball kicks, or stuff like that... and i know prof k says that the LAFS section doesnt reduce the number of bball kicks he reviews but it seems that at the moment there are a lot of shoes that i and many others would like to see being reviewed ( a3 dunkfest, adidas the comback, some of the newer and1 kicks... etc...)
but i think its safe to say that we are greatful for every single review, keep it up prof k!

More LAFS!

Wow, Professor K.

I'm glad that I now know how you feel about your readers opinions. (at least those that aren't in tune with your own) I don't think anyone was hating - just sharing our opinions on the shoe and the LAFS section, isn't that what the forum is about???

I've been visiting this site since the beginning, and I've read darn near every review you've ever done. I've provided feedback, and told friends to check out the site. And this is how you think of me? - like a "Trekie" with "zero taste"? That's cool.

I still would rather see 1 MORE hoops shoe a month than 1 street shoe ever. I'm just not interested in the street shoe review - so I will take your advice and not read them. And I'm sticking to my opinion on the Mowabb - ugly as sin.

Look Prof. K were not trying to hate. Were trying to HELP. If you take everyones opinions seriously you will see that the people who come to this site, come for B-ball shoes. All were asking is that you listen to us Prof. K!!!!

as for the love at first sight thing. prof k. said that it wouldn't slow down the testing of the b-ball kicks. so i don't really see a problem. if you don't like the section, just skip it. and after all, it's still his site and it's free. so we're not in the ideal position to demand things. however, i think, no one here's hating on prof k. (at least most of them) they're just saying what they think which is a good thing.

now, i really don't mean to insult or hate on you, prof k., i'm just wondering. are you really serious about the taste thing? honestly, i'm totally unsure if it's real or not, so the following questions only apply if you were serious. quote > unquote.
do you agree that taste is subjective? do you believe that it's advisable to neglect comments from people out of hand because their taste or opinion is different?

No, research has shown that taste is purely objective and it makes perfect sense to ignore the comments of people with bad taste.

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First, to those who think the Mowabb is ugly, thanks for making it easy for me. Anyone who feels that way clearly has zero taste so I can ignore your comments out of hand. unquote

if it doesn't work again, i'm referring to the passage where prof k. talks about the people who don't like the Mowabb.

Lucas you dumb crap, u have no clue about wut ur talking about. We ballers don't just simply look at the ratings, we too have passion about our on court kicks. Now shut up b4 I whip ur candy ass

first of all, thanks prof. for all the time you spend reviewing the shoes for us so we don't waste our hard-earned money on such "great" kicks such as the air solo flight, for instance.and second,lafs rocks!this is a site about shoe design, not only about basketball shoes (although centered on bb mainly).if you really care enough about bb-kicks that you spend your time checking this site you have to realize that it is possible to learn a lot about kicks by comparing them to other sport shoes.i mean, it's not like the prof is reviewing soccer boots or anything like that!.all the shoes in lafs can be used by anybody any given day.and beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Here i got a better idea for Prof. K, just don't let people post comments about your love at first site shoes, lol.

Prof. K.,
I understand that this is your site and you can put whatever you want on it but it isn't cool how you respond to those with some constructive criticism. As far as I'm concerned, the LAFS is a great addition to the site but the majority of your readers seem to be purely interested in basketball kicks. I just think its ironic how you solicit people's opinions and then "flame" on them just because they differ from your own... By the way, I think the Moabs are HAAAARD. I copped em as soon as I saw em, but I had to switch up the laces though (all black) and put some zoom air cushioning in them to make them just right. There is just something about these shoes... For once, the pictures do not do them justice!

Has anyone noticed how much the MOWABB's resemble the the Jordan VI's ? Open up two browsers, one with a mowabb profile shot, and the other with a VI profile shot. Click back and forth and you'll see what I'm talking about.

As far as keeping LAFS or not, I think that they should stay, but let's not make it all hiking-type shoes, it can still have athletic shoes that aren't basketball ( - Black ), but the trail/hiking shoes don't need to make up the entire LAFS section.

keep up the good work prof k~!
u wouldn't realize how many korean guys are looking
at this site even they cannot understang what you r saying haha~
(most of them see your scoring ^_^ )
u are world famous now = )

just in case it counts, i vote for keeping LAFS. the prof reviews well. its a shame there arent sites covering everyday shoes the way the prof does the bball shoes.

hey prof - branch out and do other styles. your reviews rock.

i had the og mowabbs and they were excellent. i'll be getting these for sure. they werent waterproof but generally rain proof. dont go jumping in puddles with them. super comfy at all times.

This is Kicksology isn't it? Or is in BBall Kicksology.net? I think reviews of other types of shoes are good. There are so many types of kicks out there, I don't think the site should be limited to one type. Kicks technology jumps across different sports, so why hate on other sports? For example, has anyone seen the new running kicks from Nike. The Zoom Spiridon and Shox Ride? I can almost guarantee that there will be a pair of bball kicks that will use the same vis-air/shox combo. How about the Mercurial line from Nike soccer? I now see a football shoe with the same tech. My point, I think you don't really appreciate kicks unless you can open your eyes to kicks from all sports. If you can't, for lack of a better term, you're ignorant.

Prof. K, stick with b-ball shoes! Thats what we're here for!

I think these new "loves" are alrite...but i never read the whole review...for the bball shoes i always read the entire review and read it again and again and again over time. But some reason...I guess these "new loves" dont interest me enough to read it.

how about review on Nike E2W?

To Prof K: thanks for the answers!

I _personally_ think that people who don't like LAFS shound NOT view it - it's THAT EASY!

But still I would like to see a bigger variety of kicks in the LAFS section. So far it's been all about hiking shoes.

How about some runners? cross-trainers? sandals :)?
If Prof K. doesn't have the time for reviewing a lot of different kicks how about some other people helping him - Retrokid :)?

2 much booty

Prof.K u should not be hating on the ppl that tell their opinion here, u should listen to the majority and they say that basketball shoes is why they come to this site! I have read evry one of ur reviews, and i am suprised buy the hate u show. U should go whit good example but u don't. i personaly think that the only reson this site is so great is for the basketball shoes and the rating system. The majority of ppl that visit this site must be ballers, right ? and the mix whit basketball shoe and hiking shoes isn't a good mix, i don't think i will ever see a baller wearing hiking shoes?? am i right? u will probably say no. ur opinion doesn't ´count... that's a very very bad answer. Do you have problems whit taking critic? mabey u just had a bad day, but listen to what the ppl say, they are hear because of the basketball shoe reviews

im out!

thiz site has 2 much booty.........all we care about iz ballin...how many ballaz go hikin?...at leas in tha LAFS put ballin related shoez!

Man, like evrybody says, how does a hiking shoe relate to ballers?? I thougt this was a site by a baller to ballers... ur making a big mistake

they suck

They do not

yall suck, this site is off the meat rack and yall are still tied to the gate. you should stop watching andy grifiths and start readin these reveiws for the kicks that this site checks out. check the website address, biatches, KICKSology.net, shoes to tha max-imum not damn ballers shiat, bball shoes, not bball in general

roughin up tha neighbourhood
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yo... prof k can u please please do a review of the nike e2w's aka east to wests .Theese shoes r sikkk .But i think there kinda rare i got mine from hawaii.
anyways please do a report on the east to wests .Let me knoe if ur gonna u can e mail me at nosehair42@hotmail.com.
PS.I LOVE THE SIT (BUT TRY AND STIC TO BALL SHOES)

Hey man...love the site.
Where Oh where can i cop a pair of the original Mowabb's. I had them back when I was in eighth/ninth grade. Man I love those kickers. Is there a way I can order them...go overseas if I have to?