The adidas Skateboarding Tekkira Cup is a skate shoe that looks like a ‘90s dad’s favorite running sneaker, learned how to kickflip. 

The adidas Skateboarding Tekkira Cup sneaker goes full retro-athletic with airy mesh underlays, layered leather and suede panels, and those little teal lace eyelets that feel straight from a VHS aerobics tape. A true throwback. 

Nevertheless, while this adidas skate shoe reads like a chunky runner, it’s built like a board shoe.

The Tekkira Cup’s toe and ollie areas are visibly reinforced, and the tread’s cut for grip, while the sneaker’s shape strikes that sweet spot between sleek and hefty, depending on the angle it’s viewed from.

If you’ve clocked the Tekkira Cup on shop walls lately, you’re not alone.

Since its early August debut for $99, the Tekkira Cup shoe been popping up at core adidas skate stores and on adidas Skateboarding team feet across Instagram.

This specific colorway will soon join the rest of its low-cut familia on adidas’ site.

This helps make the launch feel like a skate-shop-first moment, the way that these sorts of sneaker rollouts should.

And this also aligns with how adidas has recently demonstrated a knack for turning sport-born design into everyday style.

We saw this, for instance, with how it streamlined football heritage into a modern adidas Samba, basketball design was refined in the skate-ready adidas Tyshawn, and now adidas is translating ’90s runner cues into the world of skateboarding with its Tekkira Cup. 

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