Nike Heritage Vulc SB Summit White Cardinal Red

Released on 6 January 2021 and part of the Heritage Vulc SB line. This release has a suede upper in Summit White/White/Gum Light Brown/Cardinal Red. Nike arrived in skateboarding late and awkwardly. The company started building skate shoes in 1997 and could not get them onto the wall in specialist shops, where DC, Globe and Vans already owned the space. Nike SB launched properly in 2002 with the Dunk Low Pro SB, rebuilt with a padded tongue and collar and Zoom Air insoles so it finally behaved like a skate shoe instead of a basketball shoe in disguise. The Heritage Vulc is what that education looks like once the noise dies down: no hype tooling, no collab story, just the plain vulcanized silhouette skaters have trusted for decades. The Summit White and Cardinal Red pair, style code CD5010-100, keeps the palette to off white with a single red hit, which is why it works far outside the skate park.