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RYAN JAUNZEMIS - "Soap Shoes Demo" (Sport Chalet Grand Opening) 🔥👟👟🔥

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Channel: RYAN JAUNZEMIS · 2015 · People & Blogs

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This is a quick throwback snip-it from 1999 of the real job of being a "Pro Soaper." ( Soap Shoes #SOAPSHOES ) Soap was paying us $200 per hour for video/photoshoots, but it wasn't all just about video taping us grinding on curbs & handrails, us guys on the Soap team actually had real work to do out on tour as well. (Read on.) 

(An excerpt from my book "PRO SOAPER" Chapter 11: Soapstarz) 

"Soap started sending us to various trade shows all over the country. They’d had a few different custom Soap vans built with rails which detached down from the roof, and had television monitors fashioned into the sides of the walls that played Soap videos out into traffic. 
   Soap was paying us $500 dollars a week + $125 dollars a day per diem for travel expenses—which I found out later in the world of touring that the words, “Per diem” was just a fancy term for beer money.

Our ACTUAL job was to set up Soap booths at the various trade shows and perform live demos on Soap’s hot rail (A small 6’ foot long portable metal practice rail), and then allow any of the trade show attendees who were there to try on a pair of shoes from themselves, and then attempt to grind the rail—the kids loved it!

We were meeting 1000s-upon-1000s of kids in every new city that we toured through each week. Some of the bigger trade shows were in excess of 20-50,000+ attendees throughout the course of the weekend so the word was getting out QUICK! Every place that we stopped; every school, park, Y.M.C.A., or even just at random places that we thought looked cool, or had felt like sessioning at—even in fronts of the hotels that we were staying at—we would always throw out tons of free Soap T-shirts, hats, & stickers to everyone.

Soap was paying for all of our hotel rooms, and I was using my per diem to help me keep my buzz on strong! Every day I would fill up my ice chest with booze (Along with tons of other snacks & goodies), and after work I’d crank the air conditioning to the max, bump some gangsta rap, get FADED AS FUCK in my FREE hotel room, and enjoy my FREE FOOD and what seemed like a limitless amount of ALCOHOL—it was total rockstar living! And of course, I had to keep my Soap skillz sharp, so after I would get wasted I’d practice my Misty Flips by jumping from one hotel bed over to the next.

I’d ALWAYS specifically requested 2 “King-sized” beds in my hotel room (Or if that option was unavailable I would then ask for 2 “Queen-sized” beds) so that at the end of the evening I would be able to shove the night stand out of the way (Or sometimes I’d just be a douchbag hotel guest and leave it upside-down in the bathtub for the maid to find the next morning) and would then push the 2 beds together; thus creating one huge “EMPEROR-SIZED” bed! (I always trashed the FUCK out of every hotel room that I stayed in and splattered all of the walls & mirrors with phat fucking spit wads for shits-and-giggles.)

I stayed mainly on the west coast circuit traveling back-and-forth to various cities throughout California; cities such as San Diego, Los Angeles, Rancho Cucamonga, San Mateo, San Francisco, Sacramento, etc-etc-etc, with Bryndon. (Until later when Soap flew Bryndon over to Paris France to start Soap’s international tour.) Meanwhile, Danny & Paul toured throughout the north, the mid-west, and the east coast of the United States; traveling throughout cities such as Las Vegas, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Atlanta, Cincinnati, New Jersey, and many, MANY others." 

-Ryan Jaunzemis, PRO SOAPER
www.SoapShoesSecretTipsAndTricks.com

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