Who knew that what started out as just another brand of sneaker to collect, would grow into something as big and impactful, as what my friends and I have built over the past decade. Under The Palms was created as a Vans community gathering place, which slowly turned into a worldwide community, which turned into a culture. All over the world, there are now pockets of Vans collecting communities, with their own branding and names, and it’s growing each day. The more I learned about Vans’ heritage, I found that their same values of being original, authentic, and different, are ideals that so many others around the globe also believe in. So when my friends at Vans reached out to me to learn about collecting Vans, I was more than happy to introduce them to my long list of friends, but they wanted to hear it from me instead, and so here I am as one of the selected Vans Brand Ambassadors for 2019, representing the worldwide Vans sneaker collecting community, who are being dubbed #waffleheads. I hope I’ve represented us properly, and in a way that can speak for us all. We chose to go left, when everybody was going right!
Please feel free to share this video on as many platforms as you possibly can. Not for me, but for all of us. I’ve always wanted Vans to recognize us all, and to find a way to connect with their Vans sneaker collecting community, similar in how Sole Collector did with Nike. I want this campaign to reach all over the world, to show our strength in numbers. I promise to do my work and try to bring more of you on this journey, to tell some of your stories as well. It’s more than just buying sneakers. Oh and by the way, I’m actually from Glendora, not Ventura. I guess that sounded more glamorous, lol? Check out the rest of the waffleheads over at https://www.vans.com/waffleheads.
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