>>4009 Eugen is actually an aggressive inline skater the fact he was sponsored for this is pure marketing and this is basically heelies but for grinds get some skates idiot
>>7116 >HURURRRR DURRR FRUIT BOTOTTTINGN BUT OMGGGGGG FRUIT SHOES GOOD Fuck of boarder, you've copied real skating since the beginning and are upset we're all back at skateparks doing cooler tricks than "ME FLIP BOARD" you cringe ass roody poo lookin ass, i'm also 6 feet tall talk to me like this at a skate park i'll push your scrawny wannabe ass down a hill and watch you bail since you have no real sense of balance or control then woops your own board over your head and use my fruit boots to give your asshole a fruit loop with my wheels of fury
>>7118 I understand your frustration anon. You have never been given the respect you believe you deserve, because you picked a hobby that sally down the street also enjoys rollerskating up and down the sidewalk with her mother. But thats just how the world works. You picked the Disney Channel Movie of extreme sports, ignore the fact that everyone else looks down upon you and your fruit boots.
>>7127 No actually we get the respect we deserve, the sport is going through huge rebirth right now, skate parks full of bladers, boarders are a dying breed, being replaced by scooter kids, meanwhile aggressive skates are sold out world wide and youtubers regarding blading kicking off.
You can bail when you fail a trick, we have to commit, you're a pussy boy.
I saw a fruit boarder like you outside on the streets once, a hill I go down fast as shit and is tiny this little pussy shirtless looking hoodlum poser had to BAIL off his board not even half way down! I tried my best to not laugh at him... I hope your puny ego isn't hurt over all the posers in your sport...
Did you know, inline skates were made BEFORE boards? The first shit boards made actually used a future pussified rendition of inline skates trucks on planks, they took rollerskate trucks and planks to make shitty boards~
>>7143 The funniest part about skateboarder cope is sally and her gaggle of white kids down the street sidewalk haven't touched blades in a decade, the only ones left are true EXTREME sporters, meanwhile boarders are still rife with swag having wiggers who go shirtless around the block holding their boards while they walk or going 2MPH never doing so much as a single jump, just going from point A to point B, the amount of sad pathetic cope from your "sport" full of posers who can't do a single trick is hilarious.
The only bladers left are extreme sports. The only plankers left are poser wannabe's who have to resort to ad hominem Sad~ https://youtu.be/DwLCDPMTcmY Check it, this is modern day skating.
The only boarders left I respect are long boarders hitting up giant ass hills doing something truly extreme or ones who respect their grandfather sport, skating. That's right, skateboarding isn't skating, Skating is. Putting SKATES on your feet is skating.
Soaping is to inline what scooters are to skateboards. Sorry bros, your 'sport' takes less talent and looks more stupid than the one it tried to imitate.
>>7151 I get the appeal though sonic adventure games are cool as fuck and you want to grind as a kid but never realise grind skates exist, I used to want soap shoes now I own USD Aeon 60's
>>7151 >>7154 Sorry for the double post, but i respect scooters more than skate boarders, skateboarders ive seen are always posers who sit around doing jack shit 99% of the time and are there for the aesthetics whilst scooter kids take their fucking scooters do 360 rotations with the bottom part and jump stairs, whilst all the boarders i see lately just bail on hills it's pathetic
Surprisingly, I bought a pair a few years ago. There was an online shop in the UK that had them for sale and I jumped on it because it was limited supply. I think shipping was more expensive than the shoes themselves but I still have them today.
>>7175 if you've ever used one of those scooter's you'd instantly realise why they're so ballsy. They're insanely easy to use, I used to do huge stair sets (12+) on them when I wouldn't even touch a 6 stair on my bmx nowadays because I'm a huge pussy and I've been riding bmx way longer than I ever rode a scooter
>>7118 >>7135 lmfao how many butthurt posts have you typed out already? you're clearly the only person who feels this way and it's easy to tell by your posting
Wow, I actually own four pair of soaps. They're just such solid shoes. I had even more but second gen are subject to warehouse heat or things like that. I'm pretty lucky size 14 suits me because that and kids' size were mainly the only overstock
>>7193 Still my favorite design, the blue and white Cleans. Looks better to me than almost any shoe bar none before or since. Don't they look amazing in almost any color but especially that one. Such an aesthetic, and the nubuck leather was actually quality.
>>7118 lmao this is why I used to always see fruitbooters getting their asses kicked in skate parks back in the day. They were always unathletic spergs with a chip on their shoulder.
>>21568 Sounds like you live in some boring town where people only do boring mainstream shit and still watch MTV. It's ironic because your world is a bubble but you type shit like "What world are you living in"? LOL
I live in Washington State and I've been seeing more rollerbladers every time I go to the skate park this last year. I've also been running into more people who just started. There are more of us than you think. It's not popular but it's not dead. Look up some aggressive skate brands and watch videos.
There's a documentary about the guys who started soaps, but I cant find it anywhere except on DVD. > The true story of the origins of a sport known as 'freestyle walking,' and the four Chicago-area teenagers who spawned it in 1996, along with a multi-million-dollar line of shoes called 'Soaps.' https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4158868/
>fruit-booters >plank-draggers >Shite-Bikers >Soap-droppers >Scoot-niggies Cringe, now THIS is the real deal, Extreme Pogoing. Watch and learn, wheel peasants and on-foot pedestrians, the SPRING is here to fuck you UP
>>1409 >1999-2000: all the fad chasing faggots in my school had razer scooters and soaps >2000-2001: all the fad chasing faggots in my school were now heelyfags mfw
>>7118 KEK. Thanks for reminding me how insecure and short fused fruitbooters are. >mfw a fruitbooter tried to fight me once because I called him a fruitbooter and every time he tried to shove me he'd move backwards 10ft
>>7151 as a skater I respect soapers more than in line at least soapers dont pretend to be cool, they know their shits campy and wack but they love it anyway inlinefags are really insecure, just look at what they named their general inferiority complex
>>31801 It's named "actual skating general" because an anon bitched on another inline thread that there wasn't a general already. And the only insecure guy here is that weird dude who was called a sally, the same one who was bitching about the general.
>>31808 the same guy who started that general was bitching before he made it IN /esg/ he was whining about eternal skate general being called that instead of skateboarding general and literally said he was going to make an "actual skating general" if yuuki la was still alive id find the posts it was really pathetic
>>31828 Damn, and I thought it was bad enough with the sally dude. Honestly, I just wish those inliners would just stop caring about that stuff, not all of us are still seething at you boarders, I guarantee
>>7150 This shit is kinda cool, but also gay. nah dude. There is something magical about wood and wheels man. Boarding belongs to everyone with enough guts to stay on the board.
>>31801 >inferiority complex you realise inline skating predates skateboarding, it is literally a form of skating that came before skateboarding and requires skates, your inferiority complex is showing, boarder. you have a plank of wood with rollerskat trucks.
>>31801 >>31808 >>31827 >>31828 >>31878 a lot of samefagging coming from you, placeholder. don't you have more people on /vg/ to harass for money because you're "dying"?
>>1409 Wtf this is actually a thing? We used to slide on curbs and rails when it was icy outside in middle school, never knew there was actually shoes made for it.
Wasn't ever expecting to see a soap shoes thread. My original pair from like 97-98. I haven't used them in probably 20 years, but I didn't want to throw them away.
>>1409 >saw some guy in an advertisement or video somewhere sliding a rail on his shoes >didn't think anything of it >this was like 1998 >2003 rolls around and I have a dream about it >ask my dad if he can make me shoes like that >he mis-interperits what I said and attaches metal rails to my shoes >I can now grind down rails >tell him that isn't what I wanted >he attaches some weird epoxy to my shoes >now I can slide and walk normally >like 6 years later I tell somebody about these crazy shoes I got my dad to make me >they tell me that Soaping was a real thing >Mind blown >go back to my parent's house recently and find the shoes >they were regular Airwalk shoes with this pink epoxy all over the bottom of them and looked terrible
Thanks dad, I'm sure you had to bite your lip while making these for me
>>21659 im in washington too and i've seen alot of girls on skates and more rollerblades then ever, hell my gf started skating shes getting pretty good too.
I use Heelys with soaps at the skate park, the old mega wheel models. I'm ok with them but not super good, I've just been using Heelys for daily activities I guess near 20 years. I just bought inlines to improve my skills, hoping it'll help me get better at grinds.
never seen anyone soap before until I saw some h3h3 video about it. yeah I'm a zoomer, but is soaping really more fun than rollerblading, skateboarding or bmx?
>>30982 not as insecure as faggot plankers that think they're hardcore because they miss a trick nine times out of ten and can run away from their board at the first sight of trouble lmao. the guy is stupid for pushing you with skates on but you're probably one of those riot idiots that can only fight with your piece of wood and have woman fists
>>76195 Looks like one of those things that I bet feels sick from your pov but you look like a retard in 3rd person (t. retarded looking skater who feels sick skating)
>>7135 My God the absolute cope. Skateboarding is infintely more difficult and complex than roller blading in every conceivable way. Give a 6 year old 2 hours and he'll grind down a rail on blades. It'd take a week or two to learn how to Ollie. Even longer to start hitting rails or doing flip tricks. There are probably like 100 tricks you can learn on a skateboard whereas on blades you... like... grab your heel? Grind cross legged? The only time blading is impressive is it a half pipe, but of course the skateboarder is going to steal the show. There was a reason blading was dropped from X Games for so long. It's fucking boring and you all look like faggots. Keep coping though your posts are funny.
>>136293 No dude you don't understand there's like a MILLION different tricks you can do but no one cares. I clap everytime I see someone pop a shov it out of a manual from a bank at 2MPH, sickest shit ever bro you will never get it.
>>132491 I wanted these so badly as a kid, but my parents (rightfully) thought they were gimmicky shit and wouldn't buy them. I'm sure if I asked for some soap shoes instead they would have bought them immediately.
>>132491 I had a pair of these in college (found them in a thrift store), they ended up being pretty dumb, so i took the rubberbands off of them and would put them on the doorknobs of opposing doors in the dorms (they open in towards the room like a prison) then knock on both doors, these industrial rubberbands would make it near impossible to get the doors open so the people inside would be stuck playing tug of war.
Damn this is an old thread. I remember it was one of the first ones I saw when I came to this board for the first time. I never soaped but I had friends who did
Is this one of the oldest active threads up on 4chins? Seems like it. I remember soaping when I was in middle school and high school. Never did it myself.
>>33332 damn imagine that you combined this with a really big umbrella so you could slowly float down, maybe got a drone that always pulled you upwards slightly so it was like low-gravity pogoing.
I kind of want to buy a pair of these I tried to get into rollerblading but I bought a pair that was somehow way too small and I don't wanna risk it on another pair
>>202315 >plus the impact on landing would be brutal. why? genuinely asking because any information in the original broadsides or the mr wilsons is like impossible to find aside from one webpage I don't think I've ever actually seen a video of them in use for a sole plate grind
>>206892 ugliest fucking skates on earth. plus the fact that you have to use the specific, equally ugly 'shoes' that come with them defeats the purpose, most people just use them as regular skates.
Also, freestyle frames are the ugliest shit on earth. They're like training wheels.
>>7118 >>7135 lol roller blades never have and never will be cool. and trying to explain why they're "actually" the most extreme!! only makes them less so. sorry bud
>>110173 pretty sure the "appeal" was that you could always wear them with no extra equipment necessary, so you could BUST A MOVE on the fly if you ever came across a good spot. of course that type of logic mostly applies in movies and advertisements. in the real world they were just poorer skaters with uncomfortable shoes.
>>207082 watch ryan juanzemis philosophy on soap. basically the point was to bring skaters bmx everyone together.. its a SIDE thing not your main thing that unites all extreme sporters together during school or whatever etc.