<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\nSnkrs Day:<\/strong> Yeah it was a fun time seeing people camping again and showing up 12\u00a0hours early and driving in from out of state.\u00a0 Did it bring you back to the old days of managing and operating another shop (cough cough**)?<\/p>\n\n\n\nGreg:<\/strong> Yeah another shop haha.\u00a0\u00a0Shout out Snkrs Day, the OG Snkrs Day and Matt Halfhill. Yeah, It definitely did. man, we had some really good times at that shop. We had some crazy lineups. Around that time, man, we were doing releases. You think back, it’s like Concords, Nerf KDs, the Galaxy Foamposite which was crazy.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSnkrs Day:<\/strong> A pivotal time\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\nGreg: <\/strong>Yeah, which was crazy. I think the Galaxy release went down in sneaker history!<\/p>\n\n\n\nGreg Grovey loading up the Snkrs Day Ice Cream truck circa 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nSnkrs Day:<\/strong> Can you confirm a rumor I heard about the Galaxy Foam release?<\/p>\n\n\n\nGreg: <\/strong>What’s the rumor? **laughing**<\/p>\n\n\n\nSnkrs Day:<\/strong> Well, I heard somebody sent somebody from the warehouse to go stand in line to see who was cutting\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\nGreg: <\/strong>Yeah, absolutely. Man, that’s a funny story. It’s even funnier because, when we posted up our Rebellionaire release, somebody came and was like, “You should do it like he did the Galaxies.” So basically, what happened is we put out the entire week, like, “Hey, you can’t line up before.” I forgot the time. Let’s say eight o’clock. It was like, “You can’t line up before 8 a.m.” So everybody’s like, “Okay, okay, okay.” “You can’t line up before eight a.m.” We’re like, “If you line up before 12 p.m, you won’t be able to get the shoe.” Everybody was like, “Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever.” So we were there. We were early. We were inside the store. All it takes is one person. One person came at 11:45 and got in line. So immediately, 40, 50 people came running right behind him. So we’re like, “Okay, all these people are lined up before eight o’clock. It’s not going to happen.” So at Noon, Matt actually asked the writing staff to come down. So George [Kiel 3] was a writer, so his face wasn’t that familiar with Snkrs Day at the time. So he stood in the back of the line at Noon and, when the time came to release the shoes, we were like, “All right. Everybody in front of him, y’all lined up before Noon, so you’re not eligible.” So that was a fun release. Obviously, people were upset, but rules are rules. We had some amazing releases back then, man, but like I say, hopefully here, this will be the first of many that we will have memorable occasions and memories to look back on with our releases here at Kicking It.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n <\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\nSnkrs Day:<\/strong> What’s up with Kicking It and Jordan Brand? Maybe a shoe? If you could pick a Jordan model, which would you go with?<\/p>\n\n\n\nGreg:<\/strong> I hope so. Jordan Brand, y’all hear that? The people want a shoe with Kicking It, so we should make that happen Jordan Brand, y’all get in and we can make this collab. That’s tough, man. My favorite Jordan ever is the Aqua 8. It’s just something about that colorway. I don’t know, especially with seeing a celebrity who will remain nameless right now rocking that shoe so much, it just made me love that shoe even more. But I’m a huge Jordan 12 guy. I will obviously take any Jordan retro that I could do a collab with and would be a crazy honor to have. But if I had to pick, I would probably say a 12. I know that’s random. A lot of people don’t consider 12s to be one of the top models, but I love a Jordan 12. There is a lot you could play with on that, the materials and the different sections and everything like that. So I would love to have a Jordan 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n <\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Snkrs Day:<\/strong> Last Question, What was one of your favorite memories of you camping out for a shoe, personally, if you ever had to?<\/p>\n\n\n\nGreg:<\/strong> Yeah, man. I camped out plenty of times. That’s one thing that keeps me grounded here because I remember being on the other side of it … I remember the Concord release.\u00a0\u00a0I just remember we\u00a0had a lot of camp-outs in my day. We camped out for every Jordan 11 holiday season. So I’m originally from Dallas. One Christmas, when the Bred 11s released, we were literally on top of the roof of the mall. I don’t even know how we got up there, 500 people who thought they had a good way to get inside before everybody else. We ended up being late, but ended up getting them. Concord release here at Highland Mall in Austin, getting kicked out of the mall, not being able to get them. Man, defining moments. Package here at Highland Mall in Austin, where they broke the door down and we got kicked out and were going to get charged with trespassing if we stayed, and making the decision to try to come back and get them and still not getting them. But man, I got camp-out stories for days, but most of them are definitely around Jordan releases around holiday season. So everybody knows how that go. If you don’t, camping out is cool. I think it’s kind of like how you earn your stripes in the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSnkrs Day:<\/strong> Thank you for sharing I\u2019ve met a lot of people through events like Kicking It just had that I also keep in touch with.\u00a0 I’ve met a lot of good friends through this thing of ours, I don’t think I would’ve had the opportunity to have met you if it weren’t for shoes. Even though I was reading your write-ups years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\nGreg: <\/strong>Haha,\u00a0for sure. You’re absolutely right! <\/p>\n\n\n\nSnkrs Day:<\/strong> We all look forward to seeing what Kicking It has got going for the rest of 2022. Thank you so much for the opportunity to chat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n <\/figure>\n\n\n\n <\/figure>\n\n\n\n <\/figure>\n\n\n\n <\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kicking It recently teamed up with Jordan Brand for the Air Jordan 1 \u201cRebellionaire” release and created a one-of-a-kind event…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":328359,"featured_media":1052513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1232700,3,618],"tags":[],"cultivate_rss":[],"class_list":{"2":"type-post"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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