I love the merchandise, buy always delivered late and i need to call you when i want my order if i did't call you. You never send me the order.
I’m an Emerica fan, skated the low vulcs for at least a dozen pairs, some Dicksons, probably 5-7 pairs of the cadence…these are kind of a combination of all these shoes put together. The shoe is pretty heavy duty. Maybe order a half size smaller than you normally wear, but for me the regular size 10 I always need works…but there is some rigging on my part. The insole in the Hoban is good, but a bit too squishy for me. I replaced it with the g6 insoles from a past pair of Dicksons since they are a little harder and feel more solid…and then..this might be a bit on the “madness” side, but I trace the g6 insole against the actual shoe box and cut out thin, but hard under insoles that lay under the g6 insoles. I know it sounds crazy, but it really supplies that tiny bit of extra primo protection and helps the shoes fit a tiny more snug on my feet. If Emerica did like a “primo protector” double stacked hard “Bontex” under insole protection that’s built into the shoe and lyes under the g6 insole, that would be amazing and do an even better job.
The look of the Hoban is SICK. It looks similar to the cadence combined with the low Vulc, while the outer and bottom soles are just like the Dicksons. It would be sick for the black suede with white sole to have different color options for the E logo on the outer side of the shoe like white.
I'll def order these again. The outer soles on the first sesh might throw you off at first since they might feel a tiny bit slippery, but it gets grippier on your 2nd and 3rd sessions. I recommend you have a new deck with fresh Mob grip on your first sesh to help break em in. Buy these and figure them out for yourself!