well, so far I've managed to get about 7 people to buy soaps, my team is growing! :D

if you do all the tricks in school it really helps, i mean check out my school pic. EVERYONE there was intrested.

i found a really nice rail to practice on. It's a longer rail, slanted, only problem is it's a little too tall, very hard to jump up on. BUT, it's about a foot away from a fense, so you can climb up and push off the fense. Kind of weak but its good for a long grind and with some wax a nice smooth ride.

Someone saw me practicing with the bush rail thingy, he looked excited about it, too bad i couldn't show much lol.

i ahve 3 reported ppl from my site buying soaps after i showed the soap section, my friend kayla also got one, one of my dorm friends.

BBKs are awesome. I'm getting some plates whenever i get another pair of size 13 shoes. Sucks that southernbelt hasn't put up the next batch yet >.<

What pair do you have right now?

How would you do that? Ufo is feat angled in, Royale is feet angled one direction, the only other combination would be feet angled back and that's already a trick. I'm confused lol.

Soap is dead in my State... Arizona sucks

that sounds painful chip, lol, i wish you luck with it though.

If it weren't for all this darn homework i would be out there hitting that rail and getting some video *gonk* reading, projects, papers, studying, >.< college is suppose to be fun.

sorry for the double post, just thought i'd put a little disclaimer here (of sorts).

- PRACTICE RAILS HURT TOO -

i busted myself up a bit today when i fell off the low-rail at the skate park.
Lost my footing and landed right on the frikkin rail.
It was kinda funny though.
After my lower back connected with the rail winding me in the process. My body flopped off the rail and as it was on the funbox. I just slid down the slope untill i hit the ground. Must have looked really funny.
Hurt quite a bit, i had to just lay there a mo to kinda get my shit together.

So now i have some rather nice cuts/bruises/scrapes on my lower back and a deep cut on my shin from the rail.
fun fun fun.

Sorry snares, same thing happened to me, well not totally same, but similar. Just remember to keep ur feet outside ur shoulders.

WHat i went through today was no practice rail.....it was the famous Columbus Circle rail......I couldnt bring myself to do it.....Sweatstance.....thats all i had on my mind.....there were soo many people.....And then when i finally got the chance....i didnt take it....

do this, get somoene really ballsy to mess with u till u do. peer pressure can help lol.

yea, i thought it became my best trick......Its messy? really?.....

Ight Dario, lets go do it!.....hopefully i dunt pussy out again....

drawing isn't bad due. dunno if that's right, hopefully this post will bump it back up so someone who does know will put it. looks good to me though.

Wootz! I finally got the handrail down pat. I can jump up and go down it easily and with style. A lot of people were impressed, i also got some wax and there are a ton of rails around downtown tampa i'm gong to try to hit. ^.^ I r excitedish

So Trev, it looks like my pestering David at Southern Belt paid off. He's listed three size 13s. As for durablity and comfort, imho, the order of preference s/b Ordnance (which he has, but didn't list for some unknown reason?) Fader, Flow, and then Boltar. They are all comfortable styles of Soaps, so I tried to list them in most to least durable order. PS: the Faders should have BBK plates... Good luck bidding.

Don't go for the Flows, the plates are shite despite the fact that they look hot

Hey Trev, sorry my comments weren’t clear.
Let me try again: All four styles are very durable and all four fit well. The Soaps made in that time frame were all built on the same shoe lasts (foot forms) which Soap had refined and gotten down to a great fitting shoe. Functionally all four are very durable. The Boltar specifically has exfoliation bars on the lateral and medial sides of the shoe upper to minimize the sanding effect on the upper when you do Royales and UFOs. It does have two small design weaknesses, however. If something is going to rip-off of the shoe during the abuse of a grind it will be the single-stitched lace guard on the top of the toe-cap or the rivet attached but not stitched-down trim flap of leather at the bottom of the eyelet stays. And I’ll stress that those are cosmetic … if either of those pieces gets ripped-up the shoe still functions great, you just cut them-off and continue on. Your pair just doesn’t match anymore unless you modify both shoes. Take a look at White version under the shoes section, to see what I'm talking about and feel fre to e-mail me if it still is not clear.

As for the Flow, Mart does not like the Impact plate, which was the common plate to the Flow, the Dash, and the Praba. But Mart, you are an advanced Soaper and I understand it most likely feels sloppy in a grind because of that. For a first run at fixed plates it is ok (hey the UHF was the first run at removable plates and Mart those advanced too at each next plate reiteration). I’ll agree, however, that it is not even halfway comparable to the Speedster plate, but also don’t discount the fact it is almost impossible to find a pair of Scorchers now-days.

Anyhow, I hope this help.

crud someone bid on the boltars...i better have a backup plan. Those faders, how durable are they? If it gets down to it i'll be ready to bid on either, if i don't get the boltars i'll try to get the faders.

okay, hopefully no one will bid on them. Some morons alreayd started a small bid war and there is still 3 days till they close. I just want some more soaps darn it!

AnthoFlex, what shoes do you have man.
sweatstance looks bastard hard in regular soaps, do you have a pair of prototypes or something with a full-sole plate ?
and is a shoe of this type necessary in order to pull off this grind or can you do it in a normal pair of soaps.
looks like the front foot would grip and make you face-plant.
i dont get it - lol.
looks like a nice grind though.

Snares: He's got a pair of Broadsides (Check the shoes section) the only publicly released Soap shoe that featured a full sole plate. (Known as the "Slipknot" plates).

They don't make them anymore and they are extremely rare, but recently a few have been coming up on ebay. I think theres one there right now (Size 12).

Yup, Me and Dario are rocking Broadside power!!!! and they arent Prototypes, they are the real thing

i'm still working on the basics, but i can do small stair rails, and i'm working on regular rails, and as soon as i get the bbk plated shoes i'll work on tricks.

nice

okay, but alex, the dots make you sound really tired and unethusiastic, u alright man?

no, i just have a bad habit of typing "..." instead of other punctuation. and i am pretty tired in all honesty...marching band wears me out, I'm senior drumline captain...i do band stuff like 4-5 nights a week...(again i type"..."alot maybe i should try !!! instead :) ) anyway, no, i'm glad i'm getting back into soaping...i did it alot in 6th grade with my friend damien, now he's gone and it's just me...so i'm training some other kids and trying to get them to buy soaps, but i need a catchy name for my revolution...anyideas?

---Alex

nonono! lol. It would be death to try do that in your switch without at least a week of practice on lower rails. Get your backside jump up, its actually easier to jump higher with that (belive it or not). And what you need to learn about the safe side is that you should grab onto the rail when falling onto the otherside. Its not that dangerous to fall into a crapload of bushes and palm trees (ive smacked into a pole before lol).
Check the picture of me grinding the school kink, I had a practice on falling off on the unsafe side (over my head hieght of a drop) before attempting the full thing.

so Snares, your getting the spectrum sylons from southern belt right? My friend is getting the dragonflys as soon as he has the money. So no1 be a dickhead and bid on them lol

I just bought a pair of Ordnance for like 30 bucks (including s/h)...can't wait to try them out

(sorry for the triple post, i go crazy if i forget my signature)

---Alex

yeah, size 10 :) (actually 9.5) i don't really like the color...i wanted either the blue and yellow, or the red/black/white ones...but i had to settle for grey/white/orange, but beggars can't be choosers, ordnance are ordnance. If i got some broadsides id loose bowel control, but i'll have to wait and try to get those...

---Alex

I just don't like the orange...but, it's alot better than what it could be, so i'm not complaining, i thought my express wouldn't look as good as they did, but i think i'll like these...especially with removable plates, so now i won't have to avoid wearing my soaps at work. I feel like a girl with so many shoes...cuz i bought soaps, and had to buy a pair of Vans so i could go up the ladder at work with out killing myself, and i couldnt use my old converse at work cuz i'm on my feet for like 14 hours and i got used to how good soaps feel, then converse have no arch support...and i have white converse for marching band...so lets see...2 pairs of soaps, 1 pair of vans, 2 pairs of converse, + dress shoes and the black marching shoes...14 pairs of shoes...i usually just wear soaps or vans...my girlfrined likes my converse so i wear them now and again for old-times sake...

---Alex

Don't feel so bad matrix, i have my old school heelys, my warm fuzzy shoes (i get cold feet), sandles, soaps, getting another pair of soaps, and dress shoes. lol.

hope it turns out alex.

As for me, i just woke up, i had this weird dream, i was going around town and ended up in a pet cemetary. Why did i mention it here? Cuz in the dream i looked over and saw this sweet rail and i went down on my soaps. You know you got soaps on the brain when u start dreaming about hitting rails, lol.

Dude!!! I found the perfect rail!!! 45 feet, secluded, slight slope, with level and soft ground around it, a straight rail behind it, and even a stair rail, all with no one around and no security to bust me! And best of all, I DID IT! I went all 45 feet!! ^.^ I'll take the video and put it on my site and post the link here. I'm So freaken happy right now :D

I wanna see that video, sweet

I FRICKING WANT A SOAP

Amazing, my hat's off. I found some cool rails the other night...maybe i'll make a clip (not a full video...just a snippet) and give a link to it once i grind my dream rail (it's 100+ feet and it goes slope and straight...) but i can't jump high at all...so i'll have to work on jumping...

dude, you may want to get that whole signature checked out, it's verging on OCD and you may have it.

Anyways, that sounds like an awesome rail. I'm going to practice up on the rail i found and hopefully after i'm done i will be able to hit any rail with confidence. I can't wait to make this video of my stuff, sort of my warm up for the all soapers vid.

um, that didn't work...must have screwed up the html coding.

http://www.sonicandpals.com/soaps/small98.wmv

there, copy and paste, hehe. 45 ft rail.

i emailed broox to ask him to put in the h to fix it. anyways, the "i hope this fixed it" is the link to the thing too, tell me what you think, sorry for the ton of posts.

I just got my 13 boltars! ^.^ I love how comfy soaps are! These boltars look like monsters, can't wait to start practicing my tricks with the BBK plates!

Jesus i'm not reading all that, Anyways I havent posted for a while but i'm soaping still but not much longer because its getting to winter time.

why wait? Rails don't change during winter. They get slicker, which is like auto-wax, and if you fall, your in snow, softer. Bundle up and get out there!

I'm not much for witner SOAPing probably because im lazy and i dont like being cold

chip ur selling grinding heelys on longisland? I need some.

I'll tell you wahtt hough, i would rather soap in winter than in the florida summer, i get so hot and sweaty i don't WANT to jump anymore lol

Oh yea haha, that was when i was wondering what a sweatstance looked like

I actually was thikning that but i thought it'd be kinda hard to show tweak.....i already have the feet and rail under layers in photoshop format so im ready to go....anyone got any ideas on how to show tweak?

maybe u could show it from two viewpoints, bottom and side

If I had a pair of broad sides...my life would be complete...

---Alex

alot, my crew is forming....read the soap revolution thread...

---Alex

Kru it's okay. You have the option of either buying them on ebay and paying the shipping, it is a lot and takes some time, but it may be worth it.