Omar Salazar #7.

Unsafe playground techniques.

Omar's wild slide hippie jump was in Mind Field, the Alien Workshop video from 2009. It's hard to tell in the sequence, but he's landing on the bottom of small bank or maybe even a quarterpipe. Omar rode for Foundation and Rasa Libre before Alien. Once the Workshop closed up, he expanded his Doomsayers project to include boards. Nike dug him enough to give him a pro model shoe. I like the freewheeling and reckless excitement of how Omar skates.

There has been rain over the week so I haven't been able to skateboard much. I set up a new board the other night. The old one was beat. I'm hoping the weather is better and I have a little more time to roll for the long weekend.

Vert Is Dead is taking a summer break.

I'm unsure when I'll fire this thing up again. It will probably be on Monday, September 8th. I don't have any ideas for scanning at the moment either. I was thinking maybe some Axion stuff. That's only speculation at this point. Have a good holiday weekend.

Slap - August 2008 Volume 17 Number 8