**Life Hacks: Upcycling Old Shoes into High-End Jordan Sneakers**

When it comes to sneaker enthusiasts, staying on top of the latest trends and price points can be a challenge. Recently, all OG colorways of Air Jordans have skyrocketed in price, making many iconic designs unaffordable for casual fans. However, with a little creativity and some basic supplies, anyone can turn their old shoes into high-end replicas.

In this article, we'll explore how to transform your old gym red Jordan 1 lows into Chicago-inspired sneakers that will make any sneakerhead jealous. With just a few easy steps and some essential materials, you can breathe new life into an old shoe and give it the classic look of a limited-edition release.

**Choosing the Right Materials**

The first step in transforming your old gym red Jordan 1 lows is to gather the necessary materials. You'll need:

* Your old gym red Jordan 1 low shoes

* A pair of high-quality markers (such as Sharpies or Posca)

* Black laces

* Optional: any additional design elements you want to add, such as metallic paint or custom labels

All of these items can be found on Amazon or at your local art supply store. Make sure to choose a reliable brand that will ensure your designs stay vibrant and long-lasting.

**Removing the Old Laces**

To start, remove the old laces from your shoe. If you're not comfortable with this step, don't worry – it's an easy process that requires minimal effort. Simply pull out the existing laces, and set them aside for now.

**Adding Chicago-Inspired Details**

Now it's time to add some Chicago-inspired details to your shoes. This is where the magic happens, folks! If you're not familiar with the Air Jordan 1 low, you might be wondering why this particular design is so iconic. The simple yet elegant white and black color scheme makes it a classic that never goes out of style.

Using your markers, carefully recreate the Chicago-inspired design on your shoe. This may involve adding intricate details such as "Chicago" written in bold letters or subtle patterns like the Air Jordan 1 low's signature swoosh logo. The level of detail is entirely up to you and depends on how much time and effort you're willing to put into this project.

**Adding Black Laces**

The final step in transforming your old gym red Jordan 1 lows into Chicago-inspired sneakers is to add some black laces. This will give your shoe a sleek, polished finish that completes the look. If you don't already have black laces, now's the time to acquire them – or make your own custom design using fabric paint or other materials.

**The Finished Product**

And there you have it – your very own Chicago-inspired Air Jordan 1 low sneakers! The transformation process was surprisingly easy and took minimal effort. You should be proud of yourself for taking an old shoe and turning it into a high-end replica that's sure to turn heads.

As we wrap up this article, I want to share some personal updates with my audience. Recently, I decided to scale back on the frequency of uploads on this channel to focus more on producing quality content rather than churning out low-quality videos just for the sake of publishing them every other day. However, I'm excited to announce that I'll be uploading content to this channel every other day starting next week.

I also have some good news for my fans who tune in to my Twitch stream: I've got a few new games lined up to play, and I'm looking forward to sharing those experiences with all of you. Additionally, I want to remind everyone that I still have a crew kicks channel on YouTube where I'll be uploading regular content starting next week.

Finally, don't forget about the sneaker giveaway I mentioned earlier – it's coming soon, and I'll share more details in the coming days. Thank you for watching this video, and I'll see you all in the next one!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enlife hacks we've done them throughout the years and you guys have loved them well now we're back with some tips tricks and products every sneaker head needs it is the underdog season so sit back relax grab some popcorn and enjoy the video what is going on dream crew family welcome back to another video here on the underdog season we are back with a life hack video every time we do these you love them so i wanted to bring another one for you guys so please before we even get started if you enjoy these types of videos or if you just want to show some love please smash the thumbs up button i would greatly appreciate it another side note 53 of you guys over the last 30 days who are watching these videos are not subscribed to the channel so if you want to change that join the crew please subscribe i'm also going to give you guys information on my next sneaker giveaway so you want to stay tuned to this video because somewhere in the middle i'll have all the details for you i'm not going to sit here and chew your ear off it's time to get into these life hacks so ladies and gentlemen here we go let me ask you guys a question how many times have you put on a fresh pair of kicks with a fresh outfit got in your car started driving somewhere and then as soon as you got there you look down at your shoe and you see this basically this happens because the floor mat in your car your right foot is what you drive with so basically this happens for when you go back and forth pushing the gas on your car it rubs against the floor mat causing the heel to have this black stain and no matter how much you clean it it still ends up being there and it's just the most annoying thing as a sneaker head it got to the point where i started driving without my right shoe on just because i didn't want my shoe to get dirty well ladies and gentlemen i have finally finally found the solution this thing right here no this is not a face mask to protect you from viruses this is basically a little like heel cup to go on the back of your shoe for when you're driving the inside is padded and nice and soft so it's not going to damage your shoe the band is elastic so it can go to any size sneaker it also has a lock so you don't have to worry about it falling off let me show you how it works basically just put it on the heel of your shoe put the band over tighten it so it doesn't fall off and no more heel drag from driving after years of freaking staining up all the heels of my shoes i finally don't have to worry about it happening again this thing is going to be so clutch i have not used it yet because i literally just got this in the mail but you can get these off of amazon super super cheap i have this khaki colored one and then i also have the black one before you get out of the car just make sure you take it off because you don't want to get this thing dirty from walking on the street and whatnot but yeah man these things are a sneaker head must so that was the first life hack let's get into the next one all right next up we got this fuji film mini camera this thing right here takes mini polaroid photos like this this is the same company that supreme did a collab with so if you have the supreme mini film you could use that if you don't then you could just use the regular film now this is actually something that's been done for years like the ogs used to do it back in the day but i think it's actually way better with like a polaroid photo because you can end up just saving these later on and putting them in an album and then you have like an album filled with all the sneakers you had so if one day you decide to sell it you still have that photo and you can be like damn i had this in my collection so it's kind of like a collector's archive if you may so you need your polaroid camera and you need a pair of sneakers i just happen to have a brand new pair of unreleased jordan 5 purple grapes shout out to the homies over at soul steals when they sent me these i was not expecting to fall in love with them and honestly these things are so beautiful soul steals is like a life hack on their own okay it's like the best place to get sneakers it's like my go-to place to get sneakers because it's a monthly membership website but since you're paying monthly you get access to crazy steals and deals like the market value on all their shoes is way lower than all these other websites because you're a loyal member to them that's why you get access to these great prices i'm gonna link soul steals down below guys this is like the number one place i recommend that you get your sneakers from because i promise you it is going to be worth it whoa whoa whoa let me pause the video for a bit i told you at the beginning of the video i have some details on a sneaker that i'm giving away well we're actually giving these away go follow me on instagram and pay attention to my instagram story sometime either today or tomorrow i am going to post on my story an exclusive link for the raffle to win these so the only place that you can enter the raffle is on my instagram stories it's not one of those things where you have to be the first person to do it you don't need to be the first person to do it but the only way you can enter is from the link directly on my instagram story you just swipe up and it's gonna take you directly there we're gonna be giving these away with the soul steals team so shout out to soul steals for setting this up all right back to the life hack video okay okay no more talking let me show you what we're gonna do with the fuji camera and our sneakers oh and we need the box the box is very important okay let's go another great life hack that will make your life easier i promise you guys all right our next life hack is going to benefit our resellers a lot now i don't even know if this one works i saw it on tick tock so hopefully it works but we're going to try it out basically if you have a box for shipping but you want to reuse it and you want to get rid of these labels apparently you can take them off easily with a hair dryer and make it look like you're using new boxes every time you ship to a customer this is going to be perfect for you i personally hate when i get packages and it looks like the box has been shipped 50 different times and it's like and it will literally make it come off so smooth it worked bro literally nothing left behind no more labels from old packages we're gonna make our boxes look new again when we ship all right guys last but not least for our life hacks this one's actually going to be a custom the reason why i'm even considering this a life hack is because you're taking a shoe that's worth a lot of money and making your own low budget version of it which basically looks the same i don't know if you guys have been paying attention to the market but recently all of the air jordans have like gone up in price any og colorway has gone up in price especially the jordan ones i am here to show you how to get this jordan 1 chicago low for under 130 bucks let me show you how i made this happen so these right here are the gym red jordan 1 lows if you can find them for retail right now they're going for 90 here they are now regardless this is a clean colorway but if you want to turn this into a classic which is what i told you we're going to do it's going to take a few very easy steps now you do want to be careful though because you don't want to mess up all you need is the shoe and these markers right here all of these items you could get on amazon except for the shoe itself and also you're gonna have to put black laces on it because that's how the chicago was all right let's get things started let's turn these jim red jordan ones into chicago jordan one lowe's let's go all right so i asked ahmed if he wants to keep this little lace loop in here but i think he wants to take it off because the chicago's don't have so yeah we took it off now there's nothing there finishing touches add some black laces chicago jordan ones all right guys that is gonna wrap it up for today's video i hope you guys enjoyed and if you did i would appreciate it if you hit that thumbs up you guys don't know how much hitting the thumbs up actually helps out the channel so please if you could i mean it doesn't cost anything to hit the thumbs up so please guys hit the thumbs up i would really appreciate it before i go i want to give you guys a quick update i know not everybody's going to watch the next maybe 30 seconds to a minute of the video but if you're a real one please please pay attention to what i'm about to announce so a few months ago when i started this underdog season thing i decided to upload every other day over the last few weeks school kind of over the last month i kind of went away from that because i wanted to focus more on the content but i realized that if i gave myself a few extra days to make the content i kind of got too comfortable and i got a little lazy and i need to get things right again so i've decided i'm going to go back to uploading every other day for you guys but on top of uploading every other day on this channel i want to put more content out there so this is what i'm going to do for the whole summer time i'm just trying to bang out as much content as possible not just on youtube but also on my twitch i have been streaming so i'm gonna link my twitch down below i just twitch whenever i don't have a set schedule i just you know whenever i want a game and hang out with you guys i just turn on my twitch and we just chill but as far as youtube goes like i upload on this channel but i also have a few other channels that i don't really upload consistently on and i want to change that if you guys remember my crew kicks channel i've kind of tried to revive it a few times with like the podcast and whatnot but it's still a channel i love and i hate to just leave it there so starting next week i'm actually going to be uploading content on there so stay tuned for that we got crew kicks coming back we got the twitch live streams we got a new video here on crew tv every other day i know that's a lot of information that's just going in one ear and probably coming out the other but again my og crew fam the real ones that come every video i hope this is you know music to your ears i hope this makes you happy because i just want to put as much content out there for you because maybe you won't watch every video but maybe there will be one that does cheer up your day and that's my goal so hopefully i can make that happen and that's pretty much it don't forget about the sneaker giveaway it's gonna end up somewhere on my story within the next day or so so yeah i'm not gonna say what time it is but all right i'm out of here i'll see you guys on the next one hit the outro peacelife hacks we've done them throughout the years and you guys have loved them well now we're back with some tips tricks and products every sneaker head needs it is the underdog season so sit back relax grab some popcorn and enjoy the video what is going on dream crew family welcome back to another video here on the underdog season we are back with a life hack video every time we do these you love them so i wanted to bring another one for you guys so please before we even get started if you enjoy these types of videos or if you just want to show some love please smash the thumbs up button i would greatly appreciate it another side note 53 of you guys over the last 30 days who are watching these videos are not subscribed to the channel so if you want to change that join the crew please subscribe i'm also going to give you guys information on my next sneaker giveaway so you want to stay tuned to this video because somewhere in the middle i'll have all the details for you i'm not going to sit here and chew your ear off it's time to get into these life hacks so ladies and gentlemen here we go let me ask you guys a question how many times have you put on a fresh pair of kicks with a fresh outfit got in your car started driving somewhere and then as soon as you got there you look down at your shoe and you see this basically this happens because the floor mat in your car your right foot is what you drive with so basically this happens for when you go back and forth pushing the gas on your car it rubs against the floor mat causing the heel to have this black stain and no matter how much you clean it it still ends up being there and it's just the most annoying thing as a sneaker head it got to the point where i started driving without my right shoe on just because i didn't want my shoe to get dirty well ladies and gentlemen i have finally finally found the solution this thing right here no this is not a face mask to protect you from viruses this is basically a little like heel cup to go on the back of your shoe for when you're driving the inside is padded and nice and soft so it's not going to damage your shoe the band is elastic so it can go to any size sneaker it also has a lock so you don't have to worry about it falling off let me show you how it works basically just put it on the heel of your shoe put the band over tighten it so it doesn't fall off and no more heel drag from driving after years of freaking staining up all the heels of my shoes i finally don't have to worry about it happening again this thing is going to be so clutch i have not used it yet because i literally just got this in the mail but you can get these off of amazon super super cheap i have this khaki colored one and then i also have the black one before you get out of the car just make sure you take it off because you don't want to get this thing dirty from walking on the street and whatnot but yeah man these things are a sneaker head must so that was the first life hack let's get into the next one all right next up we got this fuji film mini camera this thing right here takes mini polaroid photos like this this is the same company that supreme did a collab with so if you have the supreme mini film you could use that if you don't then you could just use the regular film now this is actually something that's been done for years like the ogs used to do it back in the day but i think it's actually way better with like a polaroid photo because you can end up just saving these later on and putting them in an album and then you have like an album filled with all the sneakers you had so if one day you decide to sell it you still have that photo and you can be like damn i had this in my collection so it's kind of like a collector's archive if you may so you need your polaroid camera and you need a pair of sneakers i just happen to have a brand new pair of unreleased jordan 5 purple grapes shout out to the homies over at soul steals when they sent me these i was not expecting to fall in love with them and honestly these things are so beautiful soul steals is like a life hack on their own okay it's like the best place to get sneakers it's like my go-to place to get sneakers because it's a monthly membership website but since you're paying monthly you get access to crazy steals and deals like the market value on all their shoes is way lower than all these other websites because you're a loyal member to them that's why you get access to these great prices i'm gonna link soul steals down below guys this is like the number one place i recommend that you get your sneakers from because i promise you it is going to be worth it whoa whoa whoa let me pause the video for a bit i told you at the beginning of the video i have some details on a sneaker that i'm giving away well we're actually giving these away go follow me on instagram and pay attention to my instagram story sometime either today or tomorrow i am going to post on my story an exclusive link for the raffle to win these so the only place that you can enter the raffle is on my instagram stories it's not one of those things where you have to be the first person to do it you don't need to be the first person to do it but the only way you can enter is from the link directly on my instagram story you just swipe up and it's gonna take you directly there we're gonna be giving these away with the soul steals team so shout out to soul steals for setting this up all right back to the life hack video okay okay no more talking let me show you what we're gonna do with the fuji camera and our sneakers oh and we need the box the box is very important okay let's go another great life hack that will make your life easier i promise you guys all right our next life hack is going to benefit our resellers a lot now i don't even know if this one works i saw it on tick tock so hopefully it works but we're going to try it out basically if you have a box for shipping but you want to reuse it and you want to get rid of these labels apparently you can take them off easily with a hair dryer and make it look like you're using new boxes every time you ship to a customer this is going to be perfect for you i personally hate when i get packages and it looks like the box has been shipped 50 different times and it's like and it will literally make it come off so smooth it worked bro literally nothing left behind no more labels from old packages we're gonna make our boxes look new again when we ship all right guys last but not least for our life hacks this one's actually going to be a custom the reason why i'm even considering this a life hack is because you're taking a shoe that's worth a lot of money and making your own low budget version of it which basically looks the same i don't know if you guys have been paying attention to the market but recently all of the air jordans have like gone up in price any og colorway has gone up in price especially the jordan ones i am here to show you how to get this jordan 1 chicago low for under 130 bucks let me show you how i made this happen so these right here are the gym red jordan 1 lows if you can find them for retail right now they're going for 90 here they are now regardless this is a clean colorway but if you want to turn this into a classic which is what i told you we're going to do it's going to take a few very easy steps now you do want to be careful though because you don't want to mess up all you need is the shoe and these markers right here all of these items you could get on amazon except for the shoe itself and also you're gonna have to put black laces on it because that's how the chicago was all right let's get things started let's turn these jim red jordan ones into chicago jordan one lowe's let's go all right so i asked ahmed if he wants to keep this little lace loop in here but i think he wants to take it off because the chicago's don't have so yeah we took it off now there's nothing there finishing touches add some black laces chicago jordan ones all right guys that is gonna wrap it up for today's video i hope you guys enjoyed and if you did i would appreciate it if you hit that thumbs up you guys don't know how much hitting the thumbs up actually helps out the channel so please if you could i mean it doesn't cost anything to hit the thumbs up so please guys hit the thumbs up i would really appreciate it before i go i want to give you guys a quick update i know not everybody's going to watch the next maybe 30 seconds to a minute of the video but if you're a real one please please pay attention to what i'm about to announce so a few months ago when i started this underdog season thing i decided to upload every other day over the last few weeks school kind of over the last month i kind of went away from that because i wanted to focus more on the content but i realized that if i gave myself a few extra days to make the content i kind of got too comfortable and i got a little lazy and i need to get things right again so i've decided i'm going to go back to uploading every other day for you guys but on top of uploading every other day on this channel i want to put more content out there so this is what i'm going to do for the whole summer time i'm just trying to bang out as much content as possible not just on youtube but also on my twitch i have been streaming so i'm gonna link my twitch down below i just twitch whenever i don't have a set schedule i just you know whenever i want a game and hang out with you guys i just turn on my twitch and we just chill but as far as youtube goes like i upload on this channel but i also have a few other channels that i don't really upload consistently on and i want to change that if you guys remember my crew kicks channel i've kind of tried to revive it a few times with like the podcast and whatnot but it's still a channel i love and i hate to just leave it there so starting next week i'm actually going to be uploading content on there so stay tuned for that we got crew kicks coming back we got the twitch live streams we got a new video here on crew tv every other day i know that's a lot of information that's just going in one ear and probably coming out the other but again my og crew fam the real ones that come every video i hope this is you know music to your ears i hope this makes you happy because i just want to put as much content out there for you because maybe you won't watch every video but maybe there will be one that does cheer up your day and that's my goal so hopefully i can make that happen and that's pretty much it don't forget about the sneaker giveaway it's gonna end up somewhere on my story within the next day or so so yeah i'm not gonna say what time it is but all right i'm out of here i'll see you guys on the next one hit the outro peace\n"