OSD Talk Show: Ep. 140 H-Town Sneaker Summit Recap

Fresh off the heels of the 7^th-Annual H-Town Sneaker Summit, the largest sneaker event in the Southwest, which took place on August 1^st, was an event for the ages with sneaker lovers from throughout Texas, Louisiana, California, Oregon and Georgia converging on Houston.

Special guests included: D’Wayne Edwards from Jordan Brand, Dante Ross of FMS and Nick Diamond of Diamond Supply Company.

For more information visit www.HtownSneakerSummit.com

Sneaker News:

• Shiekh Shoes x Adidas Battle Swagger 2010
• Kevin Garnett Anta Footwear press conference
• Stephon Marbury future set in China
• K-Swiss recruits Kenny Powers & Others for Tube Runners
• Vans to Release "Yo Gaba Gaba" Sneakers
• Adidas x Sennheiser want to know your 5 favorite workout songs

Sneakers Discussed:

• Maison Martin Margiela
• Peak Footwear Signature Line Up
• Nike Air Jordan XI Cool Grey
• Nike Air Jordan Team 2010 "United We Rise"
• Size? x Converse Poorman Weapon 
• New Under Armour Basketball Model

*WTF*:

*Nike Waffle Iron on eBay 

*Complex x Jersey Shore favorite sneakers

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OSD Talk Show: Ep. 140 H-Town Sneaker Summit Recap

H-Town Sneaker Summit Remembers Reggie Holloway With a Special Auction This Sunday

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FRIDAY, JULY 30, 2010
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Autographed Yao Ming Player Exclusive Sneakers For Reggie Holloway






Houston, Texas - When the H-Town Sneaker Summit started over six years ago there were no ‘sneaker boutiques’ in Houston, TX, only mall stores and a couple of ‘mom and pops’. Little did they know over the next several years along with the growth of their bi-annual event, the H-Town Sneaker Summit community would witness the development of a burgeoning sneaker scene that would become recognized the world over. This included the edition of several highly regarded boutiques in the Southwest including; Premium Goods, and the addition of not one, but two House Of Hoops in Houston, as well as the new Nice Kicks Shop in nearby Austin. Throughout Reggie’s life he and his friends watched their dreams come true. Finally the shoes that they long hunted for by surfing the web or making cold calls were now close at hand. They also saw the release of several Houston and Texas themed shoes with two recent NBA All Star Games in Houston and Dallas respectively. Being a huge Air Force 1 Aficionado, Reggie also got the chance to meet two of his heroes through the recent H-Town Sneaker Summits who shared his same passion; DJ Clark Kent and Bobbito Garcia. To keep Reggie a part of the event that he helped promote and participated in for years, H-Town Sneaker Summit will be holding their very first silent auction in Reggie’s name to raise money for charity and help other kids watch their dreams come true. This very first auction will be for a special pair of shoes created specifically for one of Reggie’s favorite basketball players. This Sunday the H-Town Sneaker Summit will be holding a special silent auction for a pair of Yao Ming Player Exclusive ATR Elite Reebok Basketball Sneakers donated by the Houston Rockets. The Holloway family asks that all proceeds from this auction be donated to the Make A Wish Foundation Of The Texas Gulf Coast in Reggie’s name .

DON'T FORGET THE H-TOWN SNEAKER SUMMIT IS SUNDAY, AUGUST 1ST, 2010 3PM - 8PM @ MERIDIAN



About The H-Town Sneaker Summit

Established in 2004, the H-Town Sneaker Summit is the largest and longest running event of its kind in the entire Southwest. It is a bi-annual event held in Houston, TX each summer and winter, where sneaker enthusiasts from all walks of life gather to buy, sell, trade, display, and discuss rare, exclusive, and fashionable sneakers and clothing in a huge party atmosphere.

H-Town Sneaker Summit Remembers Reggie Holloway With a Special Auction This Sunday

H-Town Sneaker Summit: Sunday, August 1

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FRIDAY, JULY 23, 2010
WWW.HTOWNSNEAKERSUMMIT.COM


H-Town Sneaker Summit Summer 2010 Full Event Details

Houston, Texas - Sunday, August 1st, 2010 3pm-8pm The H-Town Sneaker Summit will be hosting a plethora of displays from boutiques, brands, and collectors alike on Sunday, August 1st from 3pm-8pm. The event will once again be held at The Meridian, Houston's largest independently owned concert venue. The Meridian has four distinct rooms that span over 25,000 square feet.

Special Guests Include...

D'Wayne Edwards
-Footwear Design Director At Jordan Brand
-The Primary Driving Force Behind Nike's Future Sole Contest
-One Of Six Designers To Ever Design A Signature Air Jordan
-Has Designed Footwear For Today's Premier Athletes Such As Jordan, Melo, Jeter, & More

Dante Ross
-Director Of Marketing Famous Stars And Straps / FMS Shoes
-Marketing Consultant For Pro Keds And Flud Watches
-Writer And Creator Of The Terry Kennedy Show Premiering On BET This Fall
-Grammy Award Winning Producer And Notable HipHop A&R
-As Seen On The Berrics 'Hip Hop History 101'
-High Snobiety Blogger

Nick Diamond
-Founder & Designer Of Diamond Supply Co.
-The Designer Behind The Legendary Nike SB 'Tiffany' Dunk Low
-Designed The Nike SB x Diamond Supply Co. Part 2 & 3 Coming In 2011
-Launching Diamond Footwear Spring 2011

Also Featuring An Exclusive Town Hall Discussion Hosted By Dee Wells Of Obsessive Sneaker Disorder Radio Show

Event Features Include...

-The Official Presentation Of The Nike Bespoke Air Force One For Reggie Holloway To The Holloway Family. Excess Donations From The ReggieAF1.com Project Will Be Presented To The Make A Wish Foundation Of The Texas Gulf Coast.

-A Silent Auction For A Pair Of Autographed Player Exclusive Yao Ming Reebok Basket Ball Sneakers Courtesy Of The Houston Rockets. All Auction Proceeds To Benefit The Make A Wish Foundation Of The Texas Gulf Coast.

-Be The First To See And Enter To Win A Pair Of The Latest Nice Kicks Sneaker Collaboration Before They Are Released

-The Debut Release Of The New H-Town Sneaker Summit Logo Tees And Limited Edition Good Wood NYC Pieces

-Learn To DJ With Mixwell Audio Lab! Who Is Also Giving Away Two Free Turntable Technics 101 Courses

-Live Art Demonstration By Legendary Local Artist, Article

About The H-Town Sneaker Summit

Established in 2004, the H-Town Sneaker Summit is the largest and longest running event of its kind in the entire Southwest. It is a bi-annual event held in Houston, TX each summer and winter, where sneaker enthusiasts from all walks of life gather to buy, sell, trade, display, and discuss rare, exclusive, and fashionable sneakers and clothing in a huge party atmosphere.

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H-Town Sneaker Summit: Sunday, August 1

Be Prepared: H-Town Sneaker Summit (HTSS)

You heard about the August 2009 event on OSD, and you heard about the December 2009 event there too, now it's time to get ready for the H-Town Sneaker Summit taking place on 08/01/2010!

H-Town Sneaker Summit Summer 2010


Houston, Texas - Sunday, August 1, 2010 3pm-8pm

Established in 2004, the largest and longest running event of its kind in the entire Southwest returns for its highly anticipated annual summer event. The H-Town Sneaker Summit will be hosting a plethora of displays from boutiques, brands, and collectors alike on Sunday, August 1st from 3pm-8pm. The event will once again be held at The Meridian, Houston's largest independently owned concert venue.  The Meridian has four distinct rooms that span over 25,000 square feet, which will also include a mini skate park demo by the world renown Southside Skate Park & A-Front Skate Shop. Past H-Town Sneaker Summits have played host to a wide variety of special guests including DJ Clark Kent, Bobbito Garcia, DJ Greg Street, Rafer Alston, Maurice Taylor, Levi Maestro, and of course the legendary ambassador of the South, Bun B of UGK. What will the H-Town Sneaker Summit have in store for us this season? Stay tuned to www.HTownSneakerSummit.com to find out. 

Established in 2004, the H-Town Sneaker Summit is the largest and longest running event of its kind in the entire Southwest. It is a bi-annual event held in Houston, TX each summer and winter, where sneaker enthusiasts from all walks of life gather to buy, sell, trade, display, and discuss rare, exclusive, and fashionable sneakers and clothing in a huge party atmosphere.

Here is what you missed from last year's Summit!

You've been forewarned! Book your flight to H-Town!

Be Prepared: H-Town Sneaker Summit (HTSS)

H-Town Sneaker Summit Winter Event **VIDEO RECAP**

THANK YOU TO ALL THE SPONSORS THAT SUPPORTED THIS EVENT! TO ALL THE SNEAKER LOVERS THAT CAME TO THE EVENT, AND TO EVERYONE WHO CONTINUES TO RIDE WITH THE H-TOWN SNEAKER SUMMIT. Summer will be here before you know it. Enjoy the video and WALK GOOD!

Special shout to Bun-B, Maestro, Greg Street, and last but especially not least Bobbito Garcia aka KOOL BOB LOVE

H-Town Sneaker Summit Winter Event **VIDEO RECAP**

H-Town Sneaker Summit Winter '10 RECAP

When Houston says, "We HAVE a problem", they don't mean the near catastrophic kind that puts life and limbs at risk, but rather they're letting it be KNOWN that they know how to hold a sneaker event that draws sneaker aficionados and all-around sneaker lovers from all over the United States.

Check out some of the dopeness that went down in H-Town!

Now, go put your "H's" in the air! Walk GOOD!

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Official H-Town Sneaker Summit Winter '10 Event Photo ReCap

The H-Town Sneaker Summit recently wrapped up the sixth 'winter edition' of their bi-annual event in Houston, Texas. The event is the largest and longest
running of it's kind in the entire south west, and brings out sneaker
enthusiast from all walks of life. The event hosts local boutiques,
brands, sneaker enthusiasts, and collectors in a large and diverse party environment.
This season attendees were greeted with the likes of Special Guests;
Bobbito Garcia and Levi Maestro. Other notables in attendance were well known south west sneaker ambassedors; Bun B of UGK, and Greg Street from Atlanta, GA.

Levi Maestro has taken the world by storm with his viral internet video
show 'Maestro Knows'. In just a short time this young videographer/director has
worked with and documented a wide and diverse group of many industry pillars such as; Mr Cartoon, Warren G, 9th Wonder, Terry Kennedy, Geoff Rowley, and the Nike Campus, among others. Fans worldwide have been requesting that Maestro produce a tee shirt to express their love for his hit show. At this very event Levi Maestro kicked off a world wide tour with the premier release of his very first 'Maestro Knows' tee. The MK13 tee was made available to fans at the H-Town Sneaker Summit before anywhere else.

And what more can be said about the legendary Bobbito Garcia, a true renaissance man! Bobbito has been wildly successful at almost anything he touches all over the map; DJ Extraordinaire, Professional Basketball Player, and an Original Sneaker Connoisseur are just a few of the things he is well known worldwide for. Bobbito meeted and greeted fans at the H-Town Sneaker Summit before stepping up to the wheels of steel to successfully shut the party down with one of his legendary DJ mixes.

Bun B of UGK loyally represents for his hometown crowd at what seems to be every H-Town Sneaker Summit. At this seasons summit Bun displayed his usual but new collection of rare and yet to be released shoes. However Bun had a secret in store for the crowd at the end of the event, as he gave away almost every pair of shoes on his display table! Not only that but on the way to the venue Bun and Maestro stopped by the Chris Paul in store event at the nearby House Of Hoops Northline in Houston. There they picked up all three colorways of Chris' newest signature shoes (the Air Jordan CP3.III) all blessed with Chris' autograph, and then gave them away at the Sneaker Summit! You might want to stay tuned to Maestro Knows for more on this adventure soon!

Once again fans came from far a wide came to participate and witness a community based event like no other. The event somehow tops itself each and every time, and we have come to the conclusion that it is because of the new and old like minded and passionate people that loyally attend each season. We can not wait for our next event in the summer of 2010! For more information stay tuned to www.htownsneakersummit.com

Notable Event Sponsors:

Akomplice Clothing

Clout Magazine

Crooks N Castles

Desired Hearts

Elm Co.

Female Sneaker Fiend
Frank151
Freebirds Burritos
Hella Tight
In4mation
Nice Kicks

Obsessive Sneaker Disorder

Pita Pal

Sneaker Freaker

SneakerListing.com
Sneaky Clean
Stones Throw
TheShoeGame.com
The Sneaktip
Us Vs Them

Shout out to Kadoma of H-Town Sneaker Summit on another successful event!

All the pictures from the event can be seen online HERE!

H-Town Sneaker Summit Winter '10 RECAP

Typhoon Ondoy Relief

We talk about community, and realize that while sneakerheads are a niche group, we're able to do some BIG things as was seen when we heard the news about The Holy Grail in Los Angeles, CA being broken into and many items stolen during the looting.

Well, here is a great opportunity to help our brothers and sisters in the Philippines!
Folks are in need of food, clothing and shoes. If you're in the state of Texas you can ship donations to one of the boutique stores that H-Town Sneaker Summit has lined up to serve as a drop-off location.

If you'd like to mail items directly to the Philippines, donations can be shipped to:

ABS-CBN Compound
Mother Ignacio Street
Quezon City, Philippines 1100

Typhoon Ondoy Relief

Typhoon Ondoy Relief

H-Town Sneaker Summit

If you've tuned into the OSD Talk Show, then you heard that the H-Town Sneaker Summit was taking place in August 2009, and when I say "taking place" those words don't even do it justice because Kadoma and the entire H-Town Sneaker Summit crew got it IN!




Take a look at a the video to catch a glimpse of what took place in Houston!

H-Town Sneaker Summit

H-Town Sneaker Summit: It's ON in H-Town!

When it goes down and you're no where to be found or have "missed out" because you were a herb and didn't think the cats from the midwest knew how to get the party hopping, then YOU'RE sleeping!

August 2, 2009, it's going down! Hit the website HtownSneakerSummit.com for all the details!

H-Town Sneaker Summit: It's ON in H-Town!

H-Town Sneaker Summit

Going down on August 2, 2009 in H-Town, the H-Town Sneaker Summit is going to be bigger and bolder!




About H-Town Sneaker Summit:
The H-Town Sneaker Summit was founded in December of 2003. It is a Bi-Annual Event held in Houston, TX each Summer and Winter, where sneaker enthusiast from all walks of life gather to buy, sell, trade, display, browse, and discuss rare and exclusive sneakers and clothing in a large party atmosphere. Our past few events have each held over one thousand people including local celebrities such as NBA Players; Rafer Alston, Maurice Taylor, and Clarence Weatherspoon, Music Artists; Bun B of UGK, Slim Thug, and Wine-O, MTV’s ABDC Finalist; SoReal Cru, and former Running Back of the Houston Texans, Johnathan Wells.

We also have a large following of people who travel from all over Texas; Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, and even Louisiana and beyond to loyally attend each event. As the sneaker, apparel, and accessories market keeps growing, we continue expect a bigger crowd with every event. We constantly strive to make each event better than the last.

Our main goal is to build up all aspects of the Sneaker Community while giving back to it.



For more information please send an email to htownsneakersummit@gmail.com.

H-Town Sneaker Summit