My Sneaker Story—Alicia Brown

There are days where yeah I feel like I am floating like I feel so light I feel fast I feel like my feet have wings and then there are days where I'm like you know these shoes like five pounds heavier than they were yesterday and they're not they're obviously not but but yeah I do have an emotional relationship with my shoes it might it might kind of sound or like feel kind of cliche but like my shoes tell a story and I think that's very true I was like a training shoe because you know you can take him I can take my shoes and I can flip them over and I can like read the soles you know and it's like these shoes represent the mileage that I've done and that mileage represents the preparation that I've put in to be able to perform or you put my shoe around like on my spikes on the inner on the inner left leg like I got the top corner from Nick you around your big toe my shoe is like chewed up because sometimes when I come out of the blocks my foot drags and that's not what I want to be doing so that's like oh holy Sh oh you gotta fix that you're gonna pull your toe up you know my sneaker story is a joint production between heart houses hip hop education program and talking walls series for more information on both please visit our house CA