Actually for me it was a topic of class discussion (in music actually). Then when i went home that day i asked my brother for his old pair and after i saw how fun they were i looked for and bought my ordances. But now its winter so ill probably pack up the SOAPs for the winter. Unless of course we happen to get a heat streak (which seems doubtful)

I don't remember where I originaly heard about them but I read about Soap Shoes in a Maxim magazine and then I found out that a friend of mine had a pair. I tried them out and was hooked ever since.

Mine is simple.

I used to be an aggressive blader about 5 years ago.. Back then, me and my bro got soaps because its the same fun as blading but without the wheels.. Then present time i was looking for a new pair of shoes and remembered my old soaps which i used to have endless fun with.. found some on ebay.. now ive got 3 pairs for all occasions.
(walking + soaping) (parkour + soaping) (fighting + soaping) <--- if or when i run into the wrong ppl ^_^

Hey blake i remember that night at saint joes with that rail that made us remember soaps.

back in 2000. Then I forgot about them.. I grew out of those shoes fast. Now its 2006 and I want another pair.. and thats where my fun ends. Because I'll never find a pair in my size ever. Except on ebay, which I don't want to deal with.
Unless I get heelys with a plate which seems to be the only option

what r ur sizes???

SA2B Hooked me, and i found SOAPs after googling for grind plate shoes after failed attempt to make my own soaps. Ever since I've been practicing and getting better. Soaps 4 ever!

when it comes to Heely's, I don't think we really should have hostility towards them. At least some have grind plates now, even though they up till recently didn't make SOAPs. But yeah, people who are obnoxious with them are pretty annoying, even i owned a pair of Heely's, and i remember they were fun, but i like my soaps better.

I remember first seing them around 1998-1999. I was at a skate park and I saw a couple guys grinding on curbs with their shoes. I was all WTF? I had been skateboarding for about 2 years at that point and soaps looked very fun.

I couldn't afford to buy them and when I finaly was able to buy them I couldn't find anywhere that sold them anymore.

A few years later 2004 my girlfriend found a local skateboard shop that sold them and she bought me a pair of Groove shoes. They where sic and I had a lot of fun until they litaraly fell appart.

That skate shop by then had stopped selling them and I was back to no soaps.

After seing a soap video on youtube last month I decided that I wanted to go on a search for a new pair even though I had heard that soap went out of buisness. I then found sonicandpals and quickly ordered myself a pair of Express shoes.

It began with sonic. I would think it would be cool if it was real, but I never really looked into it. And then AJ told me about it, and I was surprised to find it real. So I jumped right on a rail lol

My story goes like this....but before i start, i'm gonna put it out in the open that i was in no way influenced by Sonic:

1. My first thought of grinding with my shoes was when i was like 9...we were playing Hide-and-seek tag. i remember standing on the rail of my building and my friend spotted me, then caught me. I thought to myself "If i was able to slide on this thing, he would'nt have caught me...."

My second encounter with my mind for grinding was like 2 years later:

I was in my dad's job, and i was bored as f***, I remember sitting on the bumper of the van that was in the warehouse staring down at my feet. "Why do they curve the shoe like that on the bottom" i thought looking at my Nike's..... I always noticed the plastic plate there but until then, i never wondered about it... "I wonder if i can grind with my shoes like how friends do with their sk8boards"

So i went to the warehouse's staircase that had no rail, just a little wood thing on the stairs...i was barely a foot high and was only about 8 inches long....

i set my foot on the plates....and down i went...8 inches....nothing, but it was the coolest fucking thing in the world.... i even told my dad that i was "grinding" on the "grindplates" of the shoe...it wasnt until about 5,6, or 7 years later that i found out about Soapshoes....I was sk8ing with my friends and we were all talking about stupid things we did when we were little. I mentioned me "Grinding" (yes i said GRINDING) with my shoes in my dad's job.

Jon: Oh, you had SOAPSHOES too? So did I...
Me: Soapshoes? whats that?
Jon: dude, they are grind shoes. what kind you had?
Me: Ma bad dude, but i'm gonna be out, peace

later that night...i stumbled onto Soapshoes.com and i couldn't believe my eyes! There were actually shoes for GRINDING! I always knew that they HAD to exist....but i never knew what they were called.....

and now look at me, ive become a very important person in the Soaping world.

What did I say Renny? XD

...Then why did you post it?

I saw all those SOAP billboards in SA2 but I did know about SOAP until about 2005. I wanted to try it and I had a hard time finding SOAP's. Eventually I found the SaP site and ordered pair. There was one kid at my school last year who had SOAP's he didn't know they were used for grinding when he bought them. I saw him again this year he doesn't wear them anymore. My brother told me today that there is a kid in his PE class who has SOAP shoes. The kid is a freshman and I'm guessing new to SOAP's. But I gotta find kid, all I know is his name. And I tried to get my friends to buy SOAP's but they say stuff like "nah, I skateboard" or they just not really intersted. Then I had a couple of them come to my house and I let them use my SOAP's to grind a PVC pipe that I found at my uncle's house and one of them, "woah this is pretty cool". Now they are considering buying SOAP's.

SA2B all the way. Saw Sonic grinding, tried to make my own, so i thought "Someone must have made grind plate shoes." So i googled it and found SOAPs, and then realized that Sonic was wearing actual SOAP shoes and had banners all over.

I wish I was into soaping earlier. I never knew they exist damn it. :(

my PreCalc teacher mentioned Soaps one day. I remembered that "Soap" signs were in Sonic A. @ Battle. I got home and played the game, sure enough, saw the signs, then started googling about Soapshoes.

My story? It's also influenced on the Cobalt hero. Ever since SA2,I loved Soaps. And ever since then,and now? I'm a huge Soap fan That'll never stop soapin'. Long live sonic,and long live Soap. Peace

Well...sounds like Sonic's done some good!!!

are u talking about that war game Full Spectrum Warrior?

One night i was bored so i go on my computer and go on wikipedia.com and i wanted to learn more about freestyle walking,so when i finish reading the info. on it i find a link to soap.com and ever since i've been hooked on learning about soap and am currently trying to get my hands on a pair of Expresses.