PEAK Delly 1s: Do Matthew Dellavedova’s signature shoes ‘witness gritness’?
By Tim Wray
Road Test
As I mentioned earlier, my local court is an unforgiving concrete jungle. A deathtrap for the soles of any basketball shoe, only made worse by construction on the adjacent playground kicking piles of dirt and gravel onto the surface. It’s the perfect embodiment of Matthew Dellavedova’s game, and the grittiest of courts requires the grittiest of shoes.
After a week of wear-and-tear (an hour to an hour-and-a-half daily), the grip is beginning to wear, but has largely held it’s own.
Admittedly, I’m not pushing this shoe to the athletic maximum, but playing in the Delly 1s has been fairly seamless. No troubles with blisters and nothing on the exterior has showed any signed of fraying or weakness.
Understandably, it’s only been a short space of time, but other than my half-hearted attempts to clean them, everything has been positive and the shoe’s quality continues to impress me.
(The complementary PEAK socks are awesome, by the way.)