Featuring in adidas’ latest ‘Blue Dog’ release alongside his Verso edit co-collaborator Justin Albert and featuring hot spots such as San Francisco’s Pier 7 and favoured city spots around NYC, the adidas Suciu Gazelle ADV’s characterised charm and allure are an accurate and unarguable reflection of the California born skater’s contained creativity and love for skate. There’s no question winning SOTY is something Suciu has deeply wanted and worked for, but when it comes to contextualizing the win, he is at something of a loss for words—which anyone who has read or listened to Suciu’s interviews knows isn’t common. From 1978 to 1980 they produced the first ever skateboard specific shoe called the Skate and their shoes designed for tennis, basketball and volleyball have all proven to be popular with skateboarders. adidas Skateboarding have produced a range of high quality skateboard videos over the years, with an early focus on international riders as opposed to the often Californian-centric spotlight adopted by a lot of brands, with videos such as Korean Dance and Diagonal. Suciu thinks a good video part conveys “a strong sense of skill, talent, versatility, and identity.” There’s no question each of his parts from 2021 met his own rubric; SOTY voters clearly thought so, too. adidas Skateboarding has one of the most diverse and powerful teams out there, with team riders including Dennis Busenitz, Silas Baxter-Neal, Lucas Puig, Mark Suciu, Tyshawn Jones, Na-Kel Smith, Mike Arnold, Rodrigo Tx, Miles Silvas, Daewon Song, Nora Vasconcellos, Jason Dill, Maité Steenhoudt, DeAndre Thebpanya aka Lil Dre, Jenn Soto, Shin Sanbongi and Kader Sylla to name but a few.

Once your return is processed, please allow up to 5 (five) working days for the money to appear in your bank account ( this is the bank's policy, not ours) Adidas skateboarder Mark Suciu was named Thrasher's 2021 Skater of the Year (SOTY) thanks largely to ... [+] the five video parts he put out in 2021, including a mini documentary “Spread Light, Leave No Trace” with Paradigm founder Theo Constantinou Zander Takemoto Focusing on the iconic Gazelle for his latest signature release in partnership with adidas, team rider Mark Suciu follows up on his 2015 adidas Skateboarding Suciu ADV with a collegiate coloured adidas Suciu Gazelle ADV for FW21. Vintage detailing pays creative tribute to the profile’s lengthy lineage, with traditional gold foil commemorative detailing styled in line with other adidas shoes including the similarly styled adidas Matchbreak Super and Samba ADV. The 29-year-old also put out his “Blue Dog” adidas part (also with Albert), “Curve” Habitat part; “Spitfire” part and his “Ground Glass” part with Jenkem.

Recent models such as the adidas Tyshawn, and the even newer Tyshawn Low provide a simple design with high functionality which creates a high performing and durable skate shoe. Heitor Da Silva's signature adidas Forum 84 Low reignited the flame for an 80's adidas classic with some dope hip-hop inspired colourways coming to the fore. SS23 has also seen the release of a adidas Kader Pro Model, the second shoe partnering with prolific pro Kader Sylla. Retailers are shifting to recycled materials for products, exploring vegan products and using less water, energy and chemicals in the process. In 2019, adidas produced more than 11 million pairs of shoes using recycled plastic waste from beaches and coastal regions, compared to 5 million in 2018 and 1 million in 2017. In 2021, Suciu also worked with sponsor adidas and longtime friend Theo Constantinou, founder of the New York City-based book publisher Paradigm, on a digital short called Spread Light, Leave No Trace. The mini documentary explores the concept of sustainability through the lens of skateboarding, art, culture and community, as well as Constantinou and Suciu’s shared affinity for literature. I’m super proud of it,” Suciu said about the adidas x Paradigm capsule. “It’s so beyond necessary and so frightening what we’re doing right now to the environment.” This productive team of professional and amateur skaters has produced some of the best skateboarding videos in the industry including Away Days, Calima, Law of the Seas, Reverb and many more. These videos have been hosted by a multitude of media outlets from Thrasher to Grey Skate Mag and Free Skate Mag to Jenkem.

When the opportunity arose to collaborate with adidas, Constantinou realized, “If we’re gonna do this with adidas, such a huge manufacturer of soft goods, we have to make it sustainable for us to be able to stand behind this,” Suciu recalled. His first episode was so dialed, so crisp, clean and professional, that I always knew I wanted to contribute a little bit whenever I could,” Suciu said. “It just made me feel like, ‘Wow, this is something I would want to be a part of even if I didn’t know this guy.’” The result was one of the most buzzed-about video parts of the year, but it was just part of Suciu’s impressive output in 2021. When they saw me putting out all this footage that was my best stuff, people could tell that I was on my A game,” Suciu said. “They just got excited, the debate from 2019 got reignited, and I already had momentum so people just had fun with it again.”

As a pro skater it’s pretty alarming how much we go through, how many commodities we go through and how much waste we produce to keep skating at this steady high level,” he said. But brands are also looking to their athletes to be a voice of change, and that’s a role Suciu takes seriously. The Adidas Suciu ADV II keeps all the best parts of the original and updates the rest for better skating use. Built in a suede layered over a mesh lining, the shoes have a slimmer shape for a much better fit, a seamless toe construction for heightened durability and a quilted tongue and Adiprene+ insole to swaddle your foot in comfort. Suciu has long been interested in issues of sustainability and the environment—a good fit with his eco-friendly board sponsor, Habitat—as well as literature; he studied the subject, along with creative writing, at Temple University, then moved to New York to attend The New School. Adidas skateboarder Mark Suciu was named Thrasher's 2021 Skater of the Year (SOTY) thanks largely to ... [+] the five video parts he put out in 2021, as well as a mini documentary “Spread Light, Leave No Trace” with Paradigm founder Theo Constantinou in an adidas collaboration Zander Takemoto