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One week with…the Lakai Guy XLK

Clemens Dyckmans — Tue, 31 May 2011 05:18:40 +0000

Once more long overdue, I finally had some extra time between writing reviews for Place Magazine, university duties and actual skating to finish the Lakai Guy XLK review. Thanks a lot Kelly Bird at Lakai footwear for providing the test samples. Readers who follow my site on a regular basis might notice that I changed the name of the short term reviews from “one day with…” to “one week with…”. The reason for that is that I realised that almost nobody – including me- skates 5 hours a day, so it made sense to change the name.

-The idea of the “One week with…” reviews-

As most of you know, it takes around 3 sessions to decide wether or not you like a skate shoe. Based on that observation, I came up with the idea of a shorter review format that focuses on just the first 5 hours of skating in a new shoe. These shorter reviews – about the first few hours, where almost all quantities and malfunctions of a shoe appear or at least can be foreseen – will be more compressed and on point, but still as objective as possible.

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What’s next: Lakai Guy XLK

Clemens Dyckmans — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:18:08 +0000

I just received my pair of the new Lakai Guy XLK. It will be the subject of a “One Day with…” review that will be published around the beginning of May. Thanks to Kelly Bird at Lakai for the test samples.

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The Lakai Mike Mo review

Clemens Dyckmans — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:59:07 +0000

Delayed many times, but finally it’s finished, the Lakai Mike Mo review. I got quite a few emails because of them, some angry and frustrated because it took me so long, so I hope it was worth the wait and everybody is happy with it. Thanks again to Kelly Bird at Lakai for the samples and all the support in general.

High Quality PDF: The Lakai Mike Mo review

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