How I started with Soap Shoes

I guess I should start with the first time I started Soaping. I was at my buddy, Hugh Hermes' New Years Eve party my Jr year of High School. He had some Soaps and a practice rail so I decided to give it a shot. I fell really hard but loved the feeling of grinding.

Anyway, about 2 years later in October of 1999 I wanted more soap stuff, mainly new grindplates. I didn't have a credit card at the time so I sent an email to Soap asking for a catalog. This way I could order some products by writing a check. They didn't get back to me for a few weeks so I sent them another email, and then another, and another. Then I gave up.

In February, I got a call on my cell phone from the CEO of the company, Chris Morris. I was super geeked when he called. "the CEO of Soap!?" So he apologized and said that my name had fallen to the bottom of this list, blah blah. Then he asked me what all I wanted to order. A week later I got my grindplates, a hat, a bunch of wax, and other swag in the mail for free. When I called him back to thank him we talked for a while. I showed him my Soap website and offered to do some web design for them. He denied me but offered me a job doing demos. A couple weeks later I recieved 15 pairs of shoes and a practice rail.

From then on I did a lot more demos, started testing shoes before they hit the market, and became captain of the Soap team. I even got 5 other people on the team and redesigned a shoe.