Wash your hands..

with SOAP SHOES!!!!!! okay, I guess you technically can’t. We’re not talking about shoe-shaped soaps here..

So I don’t know what sparked this in my mind, but awhile ago when we still had the store in Waikele, I saw tons of people shoe shopping because there’s an abundance of shoe stores. Anyway, a kid came in and it triggered a memory, I started laughing a little bit because they looked like SOAP SHOES! Which has brought us to this week’s installment of THROWBACK THURSDAYS!!

Soap shoes were first introduced in 1997 and were basically made for grinding. Essentially derived from rollerblades and aggressive in-line skating, they had a plastic concavity in the sole which allowed the wearer to grind on objects such as pipes, handrails, and stone ledges.

A local kid from Hawaii Kai back in day

I remember being about 12, my older brother Ikaika and a bunch of his friends had them. They would be in the yard and driveway after school making pipe rails and things they could grind. I was always that younger kid who would always get in the way. lol. My parents didn’t want me to have soap shoes because they said I’d get hurt (but riding dirtbikes since like 5 and skating at about 3 isn’t dangerous I guess…) so still to this day I feel incomplete. Soap shoes creator Chris Morris lost his license to the brand in 2001 due to legal problems and soap shoes has since been lost…

BUT, after hours of no sleep and intense research! We’ve found a solution..
This guy. We don’t know his name, but we assume he seemingly has distinctive traits of a renasaince man, SHOWS you how to… MAKE YOUR OWN

THROWBACK!? not anymore…