i never heard of these. Maybe regular skate shoes is a market that soap should have pursued. Iff they get enough recognition as regualr shoe makers then their grindshoes might have stood more of a chance

According to Steven Deel, there is another plateless Soap Shoe.....called the "Trounce" *creepy music starts playing*

why call them soap shoes when you can't soap!

"Grind" is the proper term SL but yeah since soap is the first company to do the whole grind thing with out board or with out pegs or even normal grind wax so "Soaping" would be a good way to say it since Soap where the orignals on the major market

I dun care what anyone says, these things are
1. sexy
2. So what if they dunt have a plate?

Besides, im getting my pair 2morrow

They truely are some beautiful shoes.

Comfortable, and the ollie spot is perfect for grabbing the board for ollies......crazy shoes, i love them

man, I want some of these so bad.

I'd like a pair of these. I doubt HSL would release them though.

I thought I said this before, but seeing as I didn't, I will now... I love the grey colorway, along with the blue one. Good stuff, I'd wear those on any day where I didn't want my other Soaps.

I've seen these at an outlet Journeys in San Marcos. At first I didn't think they were Soaps. They were. I never saw them again.

boring

Does anybody know where I can get these in size 10?

I want these.

I have a pair of Airwalks that look almost like these

I skate in $20 "power" brand shoes. They look nice but it doesn't matter cause they end up trashed in a couple weeks anyways.

size 9

Wow, I have bigger feet than AnthoFlex, yay.

And you know what the say about big feet...




Big socks. (oh btw before anyone asks how big my pe..Shoe size is I'm a U.K. 8.5/9 (U.S. 9.5/10)

ZOMG ur size 10 U.S.? wat shoes do you have?

I agree. If soap would have persued these it would stil be on the market none the less

what the hell are you talking about AJ? the skateboarding business is a HUGE market there would have been a good amount of profits to come from these shoes if the effort was put in AND soaps were known by the big skaters and the shoes were worn by them

my bad didnt read it clearly. but wat i meant was that these shoes would be perfect for skaters who dont want soaps but still want them know what i mean? chuck taylors XD

ah ah ah, you don't see what the point of those shoes were in the first place Mr. Altman :P


What if someone buys a pair of these shoes for skateboarding? and after they skate in them and stuff, they will probably think "woa, these are some pretty comfortable shoes! I wonder why they call them soap shoes though?".


Boom, they go on soapshoes.com, and they see all the pics and such of people grinding. Do I need to go further?

Yeah, sure these are a great pair of shoes to sk8 in, and yes, the soap shoes are meant to grind and not to exactly go into the skateboarding market.


HOWEVER, what I have just said induces more interest in a product, and possibly more profit from a consumer.

*one in

Before HSL, soaps had some really unique styling and stood out. It makes sense that some people would enjoy the styling without the plates. I'm not even saying this shoe was exactly the posterboy for that, but a whole lineup of these sort of shoes would have something for almost everyone.

Yes but then again I could just get a pair of Maxwells and wouldn't have to spend money on an extra pair of shoes.

But then again the majority of skaters are posers so it wouldn't work out as well.

I dunno, i found that sk8ing in my spins is a bad way of promoting soaps. Because people are always asking me "where are the soaps dude?"

And i say "hey, im wearing em now *points to spins*"

And then they always tell me how "not Soap" that is, even if it says Soap on it. and besides, cleans look like normal sk8 shoes anywayz. So i always have my cleans on me to sk8 with some curb busters in em

I think that instead of no grind plate, they should've just come standard with Maxwells.

They do :/ let me know if you find a pair

Questions: 1.What is the Trounce shoe and anybody got pix? 2.Why are these on the forum? 3.Did the box of these feature the dude on the box grinding?

Hmm I dont got a blue yellow box but I have MB Tanks from 1998.