"Soaping" is aggressive inline skating without the wheels. Almost all soap tricks are taken from inline skating, eg, makio, frontside, royale, backslide etc. The other difference is that soapers step onto the rail/bench instead of jumping. go give up your soap shoes and take up inline, its faster, harder, and way more stylish.

aaron adds: Wow, you've figured out what the rest of us already know... see SOAP Shoes were invented by a man who worked as a Rollerblade product designer, but gave up his job at RB to make the first grind shoes, shoes that people could wear while not skating or blading. The thing about stepping onto the surface is somewhat true, but its more of a stepping jump (I'm too short to step onto a handicap rail, yet I can still grind them), I think running and then taking a two foot jump would be pretty awful looking. And yes, SOAP trick names are borrowed from inline, this is to avoid confusion since the same two things can grind the same ways... kinda like how snowboard grabs are the same as skateboard grabs, and all the same tricks are for snowskating/snowdecking as in skateboarding, and how bmx tricks are the same as other bike-sports' tricks... in Tony Hawk 3 (yah, I know its just a game but still...) you can do tricks that traditionally belong to biking...

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