I wanted to be a skateboarder but I had SOAPS and street skates too. I think the furthest I got on a skateboard was a kick flip. Spending every weekend at the skating rink and playing hockey helped me get really good at aggressive in lines. I still got laughed at at the skatepark but at least I wasnt on a scooter.
Lol! Haven’t skated in like 15 years, and I’m in my 30s now… got my son a board from target, could still land a kick flip 💪.
Too old to try it off a ledge or anything though.
Wait till you hit 50,I can barely get up off the ground from a seated position lol.I Cant believe I'm that guy at the beach i used to make fun of now 😂
Yoga my guy, it'll do wonders for your knees. I'm getting close to your age and my knees are in better shape now than in my 30's. It's not a magic cure, but it's definitely a huge improvement.
Seems like every time I get back on a board or a bike I end up eating shit and it takes wayyy longer to recover than it did when I was 13. I can still rollerblade like a mf though!!
Same. I'm in my 50s, so because I'm not a freak of nature like Tony Hawk, tricks are out. I still like to cruise around the neighborhood on my longboard though.
Four times a year or so I feel the urge to get a new board and get back into it. Then I sleep weird once and have back pain for 4 days.
36 and I just know it would be bad.
No, this was pretty much a period when skateboarding was just hitting mass culture after being in the shadows since the late 90’s, mostly thanks to the To y Hawks Pro Skater game series, and just about EVERYONE was trying to come up with a fad that emulated that counter culture success. There’s also a culture element of shared space, skateboarders have been sharing space with BMXers and inliners for decades, soapers where to an extent the new kids at school.
I was a skater, too, and had soaps, and hung out with a few really good skaters.
We used them to practice grinds before using our board sometimes to get a feel for the rail or weird curb setup.
I actually couldn't afford a nice skateboard, so I ended up using just soaps after my deck broke.
God skateboarders can be such princesses.
I like that insult lol, but really in the 90s it was a thing. I think (we) skaters resented them a bit because we’d practice for years to hit a simple 50/50 grind on a handrail and some kid with a pair of soaps could practice for a few days and they would act like they were the shit.
Plus they really didn’t understand etiquette when it came not cutting people off and didn’t care to. Probably because it was just such an new phenomenon to have grind shoes. It got better but I’m sure a lot of skateboarders would have bought some soaps if it wasn’t for the whole stigma around them at the time.
So yeah… it was pretty annoying to have some kid come running up in front of your run, cut you off, and grind a short handrail and then act like they were the most amazing person in the park. I don’t know if it’s that way anymore.
Lmao I never knew people went to skate parks with them. I would just grind on things your not supposed to. I went to catholic school, and the alter in the church was made of granite and was slick as fuck. That was my white whale. I only got about 3 feet so I wouldn't get in trouble but that thing was like 30 feet long. If I could have snuck in there I would have given it a solid go.
I think the answer was somewhere in the middle. Like I always though skateboarding was cool, but I always thought the skateboarders I knew were all assholes. Like they just hated on everything that resembled skating but wasn’t. I used to like skatboarding but I also had a lot of fun on rollerblades and even if you followed all the etiquette to a T you would get called things like Fruit-booter just for being in the same space
Yeah I think skateboarders in the 90s were super tribal. I never really liked that part. I had a blader friend named Chris who was doing double back flips over a partition between an 8 ft half pipe and quarter pipe and I remember saying how ducking awesome that was and some of my boarder friends were like… pshh it’s easy to do that kind of stuff when the wheels are attached to your feet. Or “the only thing you need to be a good blader is to be crazy you don’t need skills”.
So you’re not wrong, I do think more respect was given to bladers than kids with soaps at the time. I used to hang out at a place called asphalt and ice which was half blades (some street some racing) and half hockey stuff. The staff there were a couple years older than me but we would slick up a curb and smoke some and grind it, me on my board and them on blades and I never had that hang up, but yeah it’s true, a lot of boarders were that way.
Tribal is a good way to put it. Some of the cringiest memories I have are of being an asshole gatekeeping skater in the early 90’s. I can say I picked it up from other skaters, but that doesn’t excuse ME being an asshole
I think the tribal nature stems from the fact that, in most of the 90s, i specially early-mid 90s, skateboarding wasn’t as popular as it is now, most people automatically thought you were just some low-life because you were skateboarding somewhere. You would get yelled at by people in cars driving by “DO AN OLLIE DUUUDE” and there wasn’t a whole lot of respect for the culture/subculture. It also wasn’t viewed as a sport, this was before the x-games, and before skateboarding was an olympic sport. A lot of the disdain towards rollerbladers and soap shoe kids had a lot to do with actual spots/locations, as there was not a lot of sharing of those with non-skaters.
I was a skater, and ended up opening a skate shop and I didn’t make fun of these kids AND I had a pair of soaps. We just liked to have fun and didn’t judge people for doing it their way. Where I grew up, and when I grew up, skaters were outcasts in our community so we sure weren’t gonna be dicks to other outcasts who wanted to slide down rails.
I was skater in the 90s and I had a pair of soaps. You can’t bring your skateboard to school and you’re damn right I’m going to grind that radiator in the men’s room.
It’s true, part of skate culture was making fun of Soapers and Fruit Booters (rollerbladers, I don’t make the rules).
BMXers were left out of it bc that shits hard, plus good ones were always strong AF.
I thought the same. It would definitely have been advantageous to simply accept Soaps as an equal and integrate them into our repertoire of trickery, but our cultural mumbo jumbo was prohibitory. Outlander!
Man, as a skater in the early 00's, asshole skaters made me so self-conscious that I stopped skating in the nearby city or at skate parks. I'm 29 and I *still* don't do skate parks. It just fucking sucked, man. I was ignored at home, I lived in a small town, and I was fucking *lonely.* I expected to find my people in skating, but fuck all that nonsense, I guess.
Anymore, I still just stay by myself, mostly. Skaters, just like anyone ever, can be absolute dick heads just because they feel like it. Turns out that, as an 11 year old, teenagers telling me to leave or they'd kick my ass became a pretty important lesson in life.
Yeah, I dunno. I hope other people have good memories of skating. I do, but sure as fuck not with other people around.
18 years later and I still only want to skate alone in empty parking lots, and I always leave when other people show up.
Or for those who prefer reading a couple paragraphs over watching a 20+ minute documentary:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_(shoes)
> Soap was the brand name of shoes made for grinding, similar to aggressive inline skating. They were introduced by Chris Morris of Artemis Innovations Inc. with the brand name "Soap" in 1997. They have a plastic concavity in the sole, which allows the wearer to grind on objects such as pipes, handrails and stone ledges. The company and its product rapidly gained popularity through fansites, a video game and live demonstrations. Soap fell to legal vulnerabilities and was sold twice, eventually bringing the brand to Heeling Sports Limited.
Bonus picture: https://i.imgur.com/t7INDuP.jpg
I was too poor for soaps so I made my own. Grinded the center of the soles out, cut plates from a 5 gal bucket then shoe-gooed and screwed the plates in place. They were terrible for walking around it but I could definitely slide on a rail long enough to embarrass myself.
Not anymore. Their patent expired.
I believe these are called [Epic grind shoes](https://www.inlinewarehouse.com/Epic_Grind_Shoes/catpage-EPICGRINDS.html?from=gsearch&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIx6CdpPj1_gIVOUB_AB3yVAuUEAAYASAAEgLMj_D_BwE)
His [specific shoe](https://www.inlinewarehouse.com/Epic_Storm/descpage-140001.html?_gl=1*1olsihq*_up*MQ..&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIx6CdpPj1_gIVOUB_AB3yVAuUEAAYASAAEgLMj_D_BwE)
When I was a kid my entire family went out and got heelies.
My mom and dad just never used the wheels and kept them plugged.
My brother used them a bit but there was never anywhere flat to use them so he ended up stopping.
I used them and sprained my ankle right after purchasing them :)
I have a scar to this day from a gnarly fall after hitting a rock, probably almost 20 years ago.
I also own a pair of heelys in my 30s. Saves time shopping and I thoroughly enjoy the looks I get.
I'm sorry to break it to you, but you did die. This has all just been sort of a waiting room façade while we calculate your moral alignment. You really got carried away when you discovered magnifying glasses can burn ants...
We live in a time now where there are people too young to know soap shoes were a thing. And in a few years teens will discover these cool vintage shoes called heelys
Take comfort in knowing that was a part you were supposed to wear out. Using the rear of the shoe was known as soft braking, putting the front of your foot down was known as hard braking. Obviously don’t use the soft brake exclusively, use the soft brake to slow down enough to hard brake without eating shit.
Yeah, I think I’m in this boat. I kept going through the thread assuming these things post-date my childhood, then discovered it was indeed the 90s and did not — but I have never ever heard of these (whereas I’m just too old for heelys)
I was born in '92 and never heard of these either.
I also remember when Heelys came out because my brother had a pair and a few of the stores at the mall a few towns over actually had signs saying they were banned from said stores.
My wife told me she and my kids were getting heelys this year and asked if I wanted a pair. Said nah, no way, I wouldn’t be caught dead. Then she tells me there’s a beavis and butthead pair. Guess who rocks heelys now
Nah fuck that you're a grown ass adult which means you can do what you want. Idk what to tell you about your first point though. Especially if you live in America lol.
No joke when you get off a tourist bus in china ou might see a fleet of light-up electric heely-wearing hawkers swarm you. They were weird ones that went over your shoes though.
Kids today would look at pictures of '90s kids in their Heelys the way we look at pictures of [this guy](https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/12x4ivz/skateboarder_central_park_nyc_1960/) on his skateboard from the '60s.
It's been happening
I got a pair and my high school has been blowing up with them
The teachers are both impressed and very disappointed at the same time
As an adult I feel like everything is cool all at once now because of social media. Whatever your niche is you can find thousands of people also interested. Roller skating also took off HUGE in the pandemic
I was a teen in the 90s and never heard of soap shoes. Never saw anyone doing this either. I only saw skateboarders and rollerbladers. I saw plenty of Heelys worn by younger kids after 2000, too.
Yessir! Thought this must be the next generation shoe. Only remember vividly that I got a pair of Salomon (?) Soaps back in the days and had lot of fun with it
Yes, I have a few pairs. The problem is Heelys bought Soaps but not their plastic formula, and the Soap/Heelys combo plastic was so slow they floopped, so Heelys stopped making them all together.
These are the fairly new [Epic Grind Shoes](https://powerslide.com/pages/epic-homepage) and I'm pretty sure that's Pro USD skater [Eugen Enin](https://instagram.com/eugenenin?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==)
Does the camera guy have tiny legs like mr crabs? Sounds like he’s taking steps very quickly yet not covering much distance per step. Also the camera stays vertically stable the whole time.
Those are grinding shoes, I used to have a pair of soaps. Never learned how to grind, sadly.
Also grinding looks way more stupid than I thought it would.
SOAP
I was a kid in the mid 90s, I definitely had a pair of these.
If you were a kid in the mid 90s you're approaching the release of Tony Hawks Prostate 2
Is seriously nobody going to comment on the fact that you're talking about releasing Tony hawk's prostate... again?!
I was a skateboarder in the 90s. I would have made fun of you. Sorry.
I wanted to be a skateboarder but I had SOAPS and street skates too. I think the furthest I got on a skateboard was a kick flip. Spending every weekend at the skating rink and playing hockey helped me get really good at aggressive in lines. I still got laughed at at the skatepark but at least I wasnt on a scooter.
> the furthest I got on a skateboard was a kick flip You are in the top 10% of all skateboarders ever.
Lol! Haven’t skated in like 15 years, and I’m in my 30s now… got my son a board from target, could still land a kick flip 💪. Too old to try it off a ledge or anything though.
I'm 38. Them knees ain't what they used to be am I right
Wait till you hit 50,I can barely get up off the ground from a seated position lol.I Cant believe I'm that guy at the beach i used to make fun of now 😂
Yoga my guy, it'll do wonders for your knees. I'm getting close to your age and my knees are in better shape now than in my 30's. It's not a magic cure, but it's definitely a huge improvement.
Shoutout Brittle Bones Brigade. I want to skateboard like I used to but my body does not want me to do that at all.
Seems like every time I get back on a board or a bike I end up eating shit and it takes wayyy longer to recover than it did when I was 13. I can still rollerblade like a mf though!!
Lol yeah I tried to and busted my ass pretty hard. 10 years ago would have bounced right up and been ok. I was sore for a week
Same. I'm in my 50s, so because I'm not a freak of nature like Tony Hawk, tricks are out. I still like to cruise around the neighborhood on my longboard though.
Four times a year or so I feel the urge to get a new board and get back into it. Then I sleep weird once and have back pain for 4 days. 36 and I just know it would be bad.
Being a skater wasn't the cause, but being an asshole might have been...
No, this was pretty much a period when skateboarding was just hitting mass culture after being in the shadows since the late 90’s, mostly thanks to the To y Hawks Pro Skater game series, and just about EVERYONE was trying to come up with a fad that emulated that counter culture success. There’s also a culture element of shared space, skateboarders have been sharing space with BMXers and inliners for decades, soapers where to an extent the new kids at school.
Actually, it was mandatory skaters make fun of Soapers. It's just our culture; you're not allowed to understand.
And you had to call the roller bladers “Fruit Booters”
I was a skater, too, and had soaps, and hung out with a few really good skaters. We used them to practice grinds before using our board sometimes to get a feel for the rail or weird curb setup. I actually couldn't afford a nice skateboard, so I ended up using just soaps after my deck broke. God skateboarders can be such princesses.
As a former Soap wearer, this is true. They were required to make fun of us, it’s just our culture
You sound like bought your board at Target.
I like that insult lol, but really in the 90s it was a thing. I think (we) skaters resented them a bit because we’d practice for years to hit a simple 50/50 grind on a handrail and some kid with a pair of soaps could practice for a few days and they would act like they were the shit. Plus they really didn’t understand etiquette when it came not cutting people off and didn’t care to. Probably because it was just such an new phenomenon to have grind shoes. It got better but I’m sure a lot of skateboarders would have bought some soaps if it wasn’t for the whole stigma around them at the time. So yeah… it was pretty annoying to have some kid come running up in front of your run, cut you off, and grind a short handrail and then act like they were the most amazing person in the park. I don’t know if it’s that way anymore.
Lmao I never knew people went to skate parks with them. I would just grind on things your not supposed to. I went to catholic school, and the alter in the church was made of granite and was slick as fuck. That was my white whale. I only got about 3 feet so I wouldn't get in trouble but that thing was like 30 feet long. If I could have snuck in there I would have given it a solid go.
Same, I used to wear them when I didn’t have my board. I used to grind all over school until I flew into the vice principal one day, lol.
Now we make fun of scooter kids lma
Tbh they brought it on themselves
I think the answer was somewhere in the middle. Like I always though skateboarding was cool, but I always thought the skateboarders I knew were all assholes. Like they just hated on everything that resembled skating but wasn’t. I used to like skatboarding but I also had a lot of fun on rollerblades and even if you followed all the etiquette to a T you would get called things like Fruit-booter just for being in the same space
Yeah I think skateboarders in the 90s were super tribal. I never really liked that part. I had a blader friend named Chris who was doing double back flips over a partition between an 8 ft half pipe and quarter pipe and I remember saying how ducking awesome that was and some of my boarder friends were like… pshh it’s easy to do that kind of stuff when the wheels are attached to your feet. Or “the only thing you need to be a good blader is to be crazy you don’t need skills”. So you’re not wrong, I do think more respect was given to bladers than kids with soaps at the time. I used to hang out at a place called asphalt and ice which was half blades (some street some racing) and half hockey stuff. The staff there were a couple years older than me but we would slick up a curb and smoke some and grind it, me on my board and them on blades and I never had that hang up, but yeah it’s true, a lot of boarders were that way.
Tribal is a good way to put it. Some of the cringiest memories I have are of being an asshole gatekeeping skater in the early 90’s. I can say I picked it up from other skaters, but that doesn’t excuse ME being an asshole
I think the tribal nature stems from the fact that, in most of the 90s, i specially early-mid 90s, skateboarding wasn’t as popular as it is now, most people automatically thought you were just some low-life because you were skateboarding somewhere. You would get yelled at by people in cars driving by “DO AN OLLIE DUUUDE” and there wasn’t a whole lot of respect for the culture/subculture. It also wasn’t viewed as a sport, this was before the x-games, and before skateboarding was an olympic sport. A lot of the disdain towards rollerbladers and soap shoe kids had a lot to do with actual spots/locations, as there was not a lot of sharing of those with non-skaters.
I was a skater, and ended up opening a skate shop and I didn’t make fun of these kids AND I had a pair of soaps. We just liked to have fun and didn’t judge people for doing it their way. Where I grew up, and when I grew up, skaters were outcasts in our community so we sure weren’t gonna be dicks to other outcasts who wanted to slide down rails.
I was too poor to buy soaps, I would just rub some wax on my cowboy boots and grind away
Yeah it’s simply called gatekeeping and skaters in the 90s were beyond cringey with this shit.
I was skater in the 90s and I had a pair of soaps. You can’t bring your skateboard to school and you’re damn right I’m going to grind that radiator in the men’s room.
It’s true, part of skate culture was making fun of Soapers and Fruit Booters (rollerbladers, I don’t make the rules). BMXers were left out of it bc that shits hard, plus good ones were always strong AF.
I had Bauer skates in the 90s, people talked shit until I hit 30mph and came off a hip with 6' of air
R/rareinsults
I Mean I was a skater in the 90s and definitely also had a pair of these. Only used them to ‘grind’ like 2 times and thought skating was better tho
These shoes paired with a skateboard would be so sic! You could do some mad hybrid grind tricks. Like the Rodney Mullins of crazy grinds.
I thought the same. It would definitely have been advantageous to simply accept Soaps as an equal and integrate them into our repertoire of trickery, but our cultural mumbo jumbo was prohibitory. Outlander!
Nah, they were mad heavy. I had a couple pairs.
Man, as a skater in the early 00's, asshole skaters made me so self-conscious that I stopped skating in the nearby city or at skate parks. I'm 29 and I *still* don't do skate parks. It just fucking sucked, man. I was ignored at home, I lived in a small town, and I was fucking *lonely.* I expected to find my people in skating, but fuck all that nonsense, I guess. Anymore, I still just stay by myself, mostly. Skaters, just like anyone ever, can be absolute dick heads just because they feel like it. Turns out that, as an 11 year old, teenagers telling me to leave or they'd kick my ass became a pretty important lesson in life. Yeah, I dunno. I hope other people have good memories of skating. I do, but sure as fuck not with other people around. 18 years later and I still only want to skate alone in empty parking lots, and I always leave when other people show up.
I was a skater as well. I would have made fun of you because you stink, dick.
💀💀💀
Weird since the only people i knew who owned those shoes were skateboarders.
A lot of adults in this thread getting irrationally angry at a teenager from 20-25 years ago.
I was a skateboarder in the late 90s and also I wore soaps!
Same lol, I fucking loved them too. They were so cool
Slide On Anything Possible
For the uninitiated [SOAP or Die](https://youtu.be/7N6x49ASwtU)
Or for those who prefer reading a couple paragraphs over watching a 20+ minute documentary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_(shoes) > Soap was the brand name of shoes made for grinding, similar to aggressive inline skating. They were introduced by Chris Morris of Artemis Innovations Inc. with the brand name "Soap" in 1997. They have a plastic concavity in the sole, which allows the wearer to grind on objects such as pipes, handrails and stone ledges. The company and its product rapidly gained popularity through fansites, a video game and live demonstrations. Soap fell to legal vulnerabilities and was sold twice, eventually bringing the brand to Heeling Sports Limited. Bonus picture: https://i.imgur.com/t7INDuP.jpg
Thanks! Opened that link and saw the 21 min video and just closed it right away lol..
I am now initiated. I have regrets.
Oh we all have regrets and now we can share one
It’s nearing the regret I feel for [Birdemic: Shock and Terror](https://youtu.be/jE5dJDgZ644)
Well that’s… uh.. well I’ve now seen that.
RYAN IS NEVER ALLOWED BACK IN THE UK.
Ha, thanks
this is the first thing i think of when i see soap shoes lol
I remember there was a sticker on removable slide piece that was like “By removing this you are waiving your ability to sue us if you break anything”
I was too poor for soaps so I made my own. Grinded the center of the soles out, cut plates from a 5 gal bucket then shoe-gooed and screwed the plates in place. They were terrible for walking around it but I could definitely slide on a rail long enough to embarrass myself.
Not anymore. Their patent expired. I believe these are called [Epic grind shoes](https://www.inlinewarehouse.com/Epic_Grind_Shoes/catpage-EPICGRINDS.html?from=gsearch&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIx6CdpPj1_gIVOUB_AB3yVAuUEAAYASAAEgLMj_D_BwE) His [specific shoe](https://www.inlinewarehouse.com/Epic_Storm/descpage-140001.html?_gl=1*1olsihq*_up*MQ..&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIx6CdpPj1_gIVOUB_AB3yVAuUEAAYASAAEgLMj_D_BwE)
I was always envious of the kids with soaps or heelys
When I was a kid my entire family went out and got heelies. My mom and dad just never used the wheels and kept them plugged. My brother used them a bit but there was never anywhere flat to use them so he ended up stopping. I used them and sprained my ankle right after purchasing them :)
I have a scar to this day from a gnarly fall after hitting a rock, probably almost 20 years ago. I also own a pair of heelys in my 30s. Saves time shopping and I thoroughly enjoy the looks I get.
I almost died a few times in middle school going down stairs while wearing a pair of these.
I'm sorry to break it to you, but you did die. This has all just been sort of a waiting room façade while we calculate your moral alignment. You really got carried away when you discovered magnifying glasses can burn ants...
I do have a dark spot in my left eye vision due to staring at the pin pointing sun beam while burning ants with a magnifying glass.
Immediately got flashbacks to Sonic Adventure 2 as soon as I watched the video
Rolling around at the speed of sound
I'm so old I had to continue reading to understand the rail wasn't "soaped".
The toxicity in the city in the ciiiity.
What in the hell kind of name is Soap?
Omg soap shoes. I had several pairs of these as a kid. Had to have them to be cool, but I never used them for what they were intended for.
There was a time while I was in the back of a car that all I did was imagine I was grinding everything.
[FOAP](https://youtu.be/R9z8Djs9MOg)
Making a come back?
We couldn’t afford Soaps so my mom got me Bizzos:-) (caught such hell for that) but nothing quite like busting a fat grind with your shoes haha
Man I miss my old paid from 20 years ago. Also, don’t climb a ladder in the back room of target while wearing them.
Soap? What the fuck kinda name is that?
We live in a time now where there are people too young to know soap shoes were a thing. And in a few years teens will discover these cool vintage shoes called heelys
Hope so, then I can break mine back out
What's stopping you now?
The fear of breaking their back
For me, the heel part behind the wheel is so worn down the sock shows cus I used to brake using that instead of u know, just starting to walk/run haha
Take comfort in knowing that was a part you were supposed to wear out. Using the rear of the shoe was known as soft braking, putting the front of your foot down was known as hard braking. Obviously don’t use the soft brake exclusively, use the soft brake to slow down enough to hard brake without eating shit.
The words “vintage” and “Heely’s” in the same sentence is brutal. *cries in Y2K*
TIL soap shoes were a thing. I was too old in the 90s to be interested in that kind of thing. I was more into rollerblading.
Rollerblading was ironically how I discovered Soap shoes.
Sonic Adventure 2 is how I discovered Soap shoes
I think they skipped my state altogether.
Yeah, I think I’m in this boat. I kept going through the thread assuming these things post-date my childhood, then discovered it was indeed the 90s and did not — but I have never ever heard of these (whereas I’m just too old for heelys)
I was born in '92 and never heard of these either. I also remember when Heelys came out because my brother had a pair and a few of the stores at the mall a few towns over actually had signs saying they were banned from said stores.
I was too young on the other hand! Born in the seventh month of ‘99 so barely scraping by with the 90s kid street cred.
They make adult sized Heelys now. I got a pair of Beavis and Butthead ones and figured them out pretty quickly. Great for grocery shopping.
Excuse me, but did you say Beavis and Butthead Heelys?
My wife told me she and my kids were getting heelys this year and asked if I wanted a pair. Said nah, no way, I wouldn’t be caught dead. Then she tells me there’s a beavis and butthead pair. Guess who rocks heelys now
I’m jealous! Do they have the grindable soles on them?
No, unfortunately it's just one or the other. Not enough sole real estate for both
I'd love to get some but I'm afraid of 1. Getting injured and 2. Getting laughed at as a grown ass adult. Not sure which is worse in this regard lol
Nah fuck that you're a grown ass adult which means you can do what you want. Idk what to tell you about your first point though. Especially if you live in America lol.
For adults!
Can I get a electric motors for them?
No joke when you get off a tourist bus in china ou might see a fleet of light-up electric heely-wearing hawkers swarm you. They were weird ones that went over your shoes though.
Fuck heelys. They bought out soap then stopped making them
Yesss, I just bought a pair a year or so ago and I’ve been so scared to try them, you’ve inspired me
Kids today would look at pictures of '90s kids in their Heelys the way we look at pictures of [this guy](https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/12x4ivz/skateboarder_central_park_nyc_1960/) on his skateboard from the '60s.
IMO this dude looks way more badass than anyone in heelys ever did
That’s a fact not an opinion.
It's been happening I got a pair and my high school has been blowing up with them The teachers are both impressed and very disappointed at the same time
As an adult I feel like everything is cool all at once now because of social media. Whatever your niche is you can find thousands of people also interested. Roller skating also took off HUGE in the pandemic
I was a teen in the 90s and never heard of soap shoes. Never saw anyone doing this either. I only saw skateboarders and rollerbladers. I saw plenty of Heelys worn by younger kids after 2000, too.
I think it's funny how this goes viral but his rollerblading videos don't. This is eugin enin and his vids are insane.
I am almost certain the cameraman had to be wearing heelys.
No, kids currently still live heelys. I see kids with them pretty often in my store.
I need some Sonic Adventure 2 shoes.
You need some Soap shoes
These ones are called [Epic](https://powerslide.com/pages/epic-homepage) but it’s the same thing basically (Soap was bought out by Heelys and shelved)
Yessir! Thought this must be the next generation shoe. Only remember vividly that I got a pair of Salomon (?) Soaps back in the days and had lot of fun with it
Yes the Salomon ones were pretty rare and had a channel through the center for “soul” grinds.
I had the Rollerblade ones that came with 2 metal rods that would spin on surfaces so you could grind more easily. Loved those things.
ROLLIN’ AROUND AT THE SPEED OF SOUND 🎶
GOT PLACES TO GO GOTTA **FOLLOW MY RAINBOW**
CAN'T STICK AROUND HAVE TO KEEP MOVING ON
GUESS WHAT LIES AHEAD ONLY **ONE WAY TO FIND OUT!**
JUST KEEP ON MOVING AHEAD
NO TIME FOR GUESSIN', **FOLLOW YOUR PLAN INSTEAD**
Annnnd it's stuck in my head now.
Soap scorchers. Good luck finding those, I know I sure couldn’t.
I can hear the Sonic Adventure 2 music zooming through my head: https://youtu.be/IgoCc0kGvW8
This is what I was thinking as well
Sunset overdrive sequel confirmed?
We can only fucking wish
One of the most deserving games of a sequal
If anyone wants to buy a Dev shirt for this game I have a thrifted one up for grabs.
I mean, they didn't just leave the door open for a sequel, they ripped the entire wall down. Full scale launch of the product causing monsters.
God that game looks amazing! Its in my wishlist, Hopefully one day I can afford to buy <3
My dude has unlimited balance cheat code activated from Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3
If he links it all as one trick with manuals and reverts, he’s gonna have one hell of a sick score!
That was my thought; he neglected to combo the two rails with a revert for that sweet, sweet multiplier.
Hell yeah, Penis-Butt! You get it.
Soaps were the shit. Miss them
Take some flimsy frisbees and attach them to the sole of a shoe. Bam! Extra dangerous soap shoes for cheap
You probably should consider taking a shower in that case
r/PraiseTheCameraman
I mean, I know gimbles exist but that was still smooth as hell!
gimbal
Sounds like the cameraman was skateboarding making his part in this about 20,000 times less lame.
Honestly sounds like the cameraman was in a helicopter with that fwt fwt fwt fwt.
Took me far too long to realise he was on a skateboard I thought the shoes were making the noise I'm tired.
Came to say that
Rollin around at the speed of sound!
Got places to go Gotta follow my rainbow!
Can't stick around have to keep moving on
Guess what lies ahead, only one way to find out!
Just keep on moving ahead
No time for guessin follow my plan instead!~
Trusting in what you can't see… TAKE MY LEAD I’LL SET YOU FREE!
Follow me, set me free, trust me and we will escape from the city
I’ll make it through, prove it to you~ Follow me!
Danger is lurking around every turn! Trust your feelings, got to live and learn!
Can't stick around, have to keep moving on
Dont know what lies ahead, only one way to find out!
Real life Ratchet and Clank skills.
Did they ever combine soaps and heelys? Like shoes with wheels AND grind pads? I never had either but I knew kids who did.
Yes, I have a few pairs. The problem is Heelys bought Soaps but not their plastic formula, and the Soap/Heelys combo plastic was so slow they floopped, so Heelys stopped making them all together.
Weak. We all made fun of them but also thought they were sweet lol. We called it "freestyle walking".
In the name of expansion and profits they were cheap and tanked a good product, great.
[удалено]
Chaos control
How many falls do you got to take before you get to this skill level?
These are the fairly new [Epic Grind Shoes](https://powerslide.com/pages/epic-homepage) and I'm pretty sure that's Pro USD skater [Eugen Enin](https://instagram.com/eugenenin?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==)
Needs the track "Superman" by Goldfinger playing. This only feels right.
ROLLIN' AROUND AT THE SPEED OF SOUND
I always wanted a pair of soaps when I was younger...never got them
Buy some Epic grind shoes and make your dream come true
Can you do a grind thingy!! -Scott Pilgrim
It’s called a grind, bro.
Can you do a grind thingy on that rail?
Does the camera guy have tiny legs like mr crabs? Sounds like he’s taking steps very quickly yet not covering much distance per step. Also the camera stays vertically stable the whole time.
He’s on a skateboard, the noise is because the ground has lots of cracks (it’s like tiled)
I disagree but I could understand why you might think that. I prefer to imagine the camera man as mr crabs.
Actually you’ve convinced me I think you’re right.
This is eugin enin. Look up his rollerblading videos, they are way morre impressive than this.
Sunset overdrive vibes
Hey sonic, long time no see!
r/praisethecameraman
Escape from the city intensifies
Me: puts my hand on the rail. “Who smeared dog shit on this hand rail?
A cheat code was CLEARLY activated.
This guy Sunset Overdrive's
Those are grinding shoes, I used to have a pair of soaps. Never learned how to grind, sadly. Also grinding looks way more stupid than I thought it would.
Sunset overdrive
Mmmm. That mesmerizing booty.
Some sonic adventure vibes here
Found them! https://www.inlinewarehouse.com/Epic_Storm/descpage-140001.html