The Adidas Samba club

[nav2022]

Had an idea from another thread. I know at least six people I spend time with at the coast in a certain club wear Adidas Samba and have done all their life.
We regularly talk about the different colours available.
I now know there are two Samba lifers on this forum, myself and another forum member.
Are there any more Samba lifers on the forum?

 

[crissdee]

Wouldn't know it if I saw it tbh. I just wear "clothes", who made them or whose label is on them is of supreme indifference to me.

 

[Bighit]

I still have my Samba super's from the 1990s in the loft . I have not worn them since the middle of the 1990s and don’t know why I kept them .
I used to wear them to work in the factory building IBM computers .
They were great for learning to drive in also as they were narrower than my other footwear. If i wore other footwear I oaten caught two pedals where as the Samba's stopped it .

 

[pjgtech]

Lol, yep I've had a few pairs over the years. My first pair of "proper" trainers as a kid were Adidas Kick, then Samba.
They got that classic look now.....

 

[Super-20]

Very much a trainer freak.

Not that I needed them but I bought the brown ones at the weekend

First test drive this evening

 

[Pete]

I love an Adidas pub shoe
Samba, Gazielle, Handball Spezial, Hamburg all that malarkey

 

[kidunknown]

Was a wearer of sambas in my youth,now I'm a Puma Suedes or Puma Clyde's
got a sweet pair of purple gazelle

 

[Neptune]

Posers!
Posers I tell ye
For playing footie it had to be the almost identical Bamba

 

[Shankarcams]

Onitsuka Tiger Mexico 66 for me....

 

[andrewc2855]

Love the look of samba's but I had a pair back in the day and they were never comfortable for me. I much prefer a handball spezial now. So comfortable. For classics I prefer gazelles

 

[Enfield2band]

We used to call them pumps at school.
They have been tarted up a bit since.

 

[StevieB100]

Got a black new pair around 3 years ago but not worn yet, they look nice but were never the most comfortable shoe

 

[Zoltan Dani]

City series for me.
Latest addition.

 

[Super-20]

Posers!
Posers I tell ye
For playing footie it had to be the almost identical Bamba
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I have to confess to owning a pair of those for nigh on two years and they ain't been out of the box , only to check over.

Chroist ive got a problem i think , and its worse than my air rifle addiction

 

[Eastmids-HD]

Problem with Samba, Mamba and their similar designs is that they've now been adopted by the fashion crown that did the same with Converse and Vans. Not a bad thing for the corporation as it makes them millions but those that grew up with these trainers and have a bond to them, like me and those I know that are onto the sneaker thing, it takes a bit of magic away from them.

If you're someone that's not bothered about it then you'll just throw them away when the next trend hits.

With all that said, I've always preferred Jeans, Munchen and Olympia S to Samba but as they say horses for courses

 

[Woodyrapid7]

Years ago I would live in my adidas sambas, I had a green pair and a blue pair, due to the massive hike in trainer prices (I mean hi-tek and fila now touching £100 is a joke) I haven’t had any in a while, but when a shop closed down near me I thought it would be rude not to buy these at £34.

 

[Woodyrapid7]

Had to share this lol

 

[Rudolph Hucker]

My favourites for the last few years have been a pair of blue suede Gazelles but, I'm really liking these brown Kswiss ones at the moment

 

[joe average]

another samba wearer here, been wearing them what seems like for ever

 

[zogg364]

Yep another one here, samba's for donkeys years but recently started wearing Speziale's

Both awesome and I am still surprised how many people say 'cool trainers mate", not many people call me cool anymore