Ishod Wair's signature Nike SB Air Max gets its loudest colorway yet on Friday, May 29, 2026. The "Tennis Ball" — style code IB6212-701 — releases at $125 through Nike.com and select skate-shop retailers in a Volt/Volt/Black/Black makeup, with a small Ishod-branded tennis ball keychain tucked in the box.
The build, top to bottom
Volt mesh covers the base, with Volt suede overlays reinforcing the toe, mudguard, and quarter panels — the high-wear areas a skate shoe actually needs to survive. Black hits sit on the Swoosh, sockliner, outsole, and WAIR heel branding to create the tennis-ball contrast. The Air Max unit in the heel stays visible, as it has on every Ishod SB Air Max colorway since the silhouette launched.
It is the kind of Volt-Black combination Nike has done before across other lines — the Foamposite Pro "Volt," the LeBron "Sprite" Air Max — but on a skate shoe it reads differently. The Air Max Ishod is built to be ridden, and a fluorescent-green skate shoe is a deliberate choice. Wair himself has said in past interviews that he wanted the silhouette's colorways to feel like apparel pieces, not just performance models. "Tennis Ball" is the cleanest example of that idea so far in the line.
Where it sits in the May calendar
May 29 is now a four-shoe Friday on Nike's calendar — the LeBron 23 "Dreams and Nightmares" landed earlier in the week, and Friday brings the Air Foamposite Pro "Gym Red" ($240), the KD19 "Bright Ceramic" ($155), and the Travis Scott x Air Jordan 1 Low OG "Pink Pack" ($155 each). The Ishod "Tennis Ball" is the most accessible drop in that pile at $125, and the only one with a meaningful skate-shop allocation. If you want a pair on foot rather than on a shelf, that is the angle.
The day after, the Bad Bunny x adidas Ballerina "Flamboyán" goes wide at the same $120-$125 price tier. Two distinct cultural drops at the same general price point in the same weekend — Saturday in Puerto Rican red, Friday in tennis-ball Volt. It's a useful reminder that the most interesting parts of the sneaker calendar this month are not the $220 retro headlines.
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