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Channel: RYAN JAUNZEMIS · 2016 · People & Blogs

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One of the Biggest Soap Shoe Pros on Earth Now Picks Up Women for a Living
By Lucas Wisenthal
31 Aug, 2015

If you grew up in the '90s, you remember a time when Soap Shoes were an actual thing. For the uninitiated, they were shoes with concave plates for grinding in the middle of their soles—basically Rollerblades without wheels. As ridiculous as that concept sounds, it caught on, and Soap sponsored a team. 
One of the "riders," a term I use loosely, was some guy named Ryan Jaunzemis. He signed to Soap at 17, and chose to forego a college education in favor of a career as a pro Soaper. As he told Vice, when that dried up, he joined the Navy. Then he moved to England, a country he can no longer enter. And now he's a pickup artist in Las Vegas.
 But life as a Soap pro was apparently awesome. For one thing, there were groupies:
"Then there was times on tour—Soap was paying for our hotel rooms, and we'd meet other people at the convention show and they'd say like, 'Oh, you guys are those Soapers!" And we're like, 'Hey, we need booze.' We'd slip 'em a couple bucks or whatever, and we'd have a whole ice chest full of beer, and then we're like, 'OK, the party's in room whatever,' and there'd be all these little Soap groupies there like, 'Oh my God, that's so cool, your shoes are so awesome.'"
And money:
"My video was playing in stores in Pacific Sunwear and Journeys all over the country. It was super cool. And then being able to make $1,000 a day—at the same time I was working at an ice cream store called Scoops, and I was making $6 and some change in an hour, and to make $1,000, that would take me like two months of scooping ice cream."
And, of course, drugs:
"Soap came out with these filler plates, and you lock 'em in and they look just like regular shoes, so you can walk normally. Raving was really big back in the day, in Los Angeles, so we were using the shoes to sneak drugs into raves. We'd be selling ecstasy, and girls would be like, 'Oh, how do you sneak this in?' And we're like, 'These are Soap shoes,' and they're like, 'Ah, this is so cool!'"
Why not just skate, though?
"The guys that are really into Soaps, they kind of discover that in Soaping, you can grind stuff that isn't accessible with your skateboard or blades... I can't, obviously, Rollerblade in a casino because they'd have a shit fit. But I can wear Soaps, and I can grind on the sinks inside the men's restroom."
Read the complete interview with Jaunzemis at Vice. 

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For more information, please visit:
www.SoapShoesSecretTipsAndTricks.com
www.SoapShoesBook.com
www.Facebook.com/RyanJaunzemisSoapShoesPage
Instagram: @jaunzemis
Twitter: @ryanjaunzemis

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