Omar Wysong: Los Angeles, Summer 2012 Edit

Omar Wysong

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79 Responses to “Omar Wysong: Los Angeles, Summer 2012 Edit”

  1. Travis Stewart Says:

    Kinda don’t know what to say to that edit. Great to see Omar back on blades again after the years of vanishing, but very repetitive, same flip here, neg fish on wall rail here, with a few sleepers thrown in there (like the zero sit fish). Idk. The slowmo and cut jump for a fakie 540 off a curb? What?

    But respect for holding it down still man. Still got it, and all your negatives. FYI groms, if you don’t know, he was one of the originals moving the negative movement. Back when pros would hate on you for doing them.

    Rollernews.

  2. Shima Blows Says:

    RESPECT! I thought Omar quit skating, it’s awesome to see he’s still got skills

  3. Anonymous Says:

    Props for going to all the dope LA spots no one will touch, but stare at every day. I’m just not sure Omar’s skating for himself or his perceived notoriety. Either way, nice to see him again.

  4. Anonymous Says:

    Good in the sense he’s still at it. Bad in the sense I just watched him do the same stuff on about 12 different things.

  5. Anonymous Says:

    he has lost alot of weight

  6. Rob Says:

    Damn, that was cool stuff!

    Omar still got it ;)

  7. The Doyle Says:

    WTF trick is 3:46?!?!???!?!!

  8. Anonymous Says:

    Wow, what a grom.

  9. Anonymous Says:

    ^^^^^ seriously … looks like hes only been skating a few years

  10. soul2roll Says:

    3:46 is a negative top porn me thinks. Im not into the free running stuff personally bt tht was some pretty sick sk8ing!

  11. Anonymous Says:

    pretty funny…. cant take it serious but fun

  12. Ail Says:

    I think he was better in 240p

  13. Anonymous Says:

    The sad thing is you know he has so much more potential then that

  14. beplus Says:

    Hes been skating for a long time though, the body can’t keep up if you have other things going on in life and can’t dedicate your life to rollerblading. Those fakie 540′s are absolutely bonkers!

  15. donshishi Says:

    i cant choose between fucking strong and fucking ugly. for the ugly it s maybe because i hate the 2pac style. but nice edit i really enjoyed it.

  16. SwissStyle Says:

    Just amazing! Nice to see you back on USD after so many years!
    So stylish.

  17. lol Says:

    was really looking forward to this. im going to put it down to the editing making it look erm not very good.
    and then seeing the same trick 3 times from differemt angles… first times like wow second time like ok 3rd time MEH! but always nice to see a OG

  18. Dom from Bx Says:

    That was fresh! I wish you groms would start showing some respect. Omar is oldschool USD from the Brain Fear Gone era of blading. One of the first skaters to explore negative grinds and he has pro products under his belt.

    Its time you kids started learning your roots because you all sound pretty ridiculous. None of these negative comments above could possibly come from someone who knows their history or has been skating atleast a decade.

  19. Rewind Says:

    Its safe to say Omar enjoys negative fishying a wall rail and doing that bio flip thing over and over again

  20. Ian C Says:

    Cab bio down stairs is sick. He skates like how I kinda skate lol grasping onto the remaining solid tricks he still has at 30

  21. Anonymous Says:

    he wore razors his entire bfg section. not usd.

  22. Anonymous Says:

    Dom from Bx said it the best! Know your history kids. Omar was, and probably still is better than 95 percent of the people on this board. oooooo bitch slap!!!!!

  23. meh Says:

    Skates like a man, old skool showing the way to all the ledge tapping clowns.

  24. Anonymous Says:

    How- dare – you-, fuck pussies calling Omar a grom. go watch his section from mindgames words. Fucking kids who don’t even know. Omar, still one of the best, living legend so have some fucking respect you twats

  25. groningen Says:

    I love to see the edit of omar in the mindgame movie but this section was fucking lama

  26. AnthonyMedina Says:

    “How- dare – you-, fuck pussies calling Omar a grom. go watch his section from mindgames words. Fucking kids who don’t even know. Omar, still one of the best, living legend so have some fucking respect you twats”

    The kids don’t know…or you don’t know? Omar’s section from Words eh??

  27. DarthRoller Says:

    Fairly certain that Omar is the first rollerblader I ever saw do soul to 360 topsoul on a rail.

    In 2000 or 2001 or so. That was fairly ground-breaking territory back then, as were all his negative tricks, as was the concept of freestyle frames, which stems from Omar and the first M-types.

    Sure, this edit isn’t his finest hour and he’s capable of much more, but maybe he hasn’t had time, maybe his body is just shattered, or maybe he’s just a bit out of shape/out of form on skates. It might come back, it might not, but he’s an OG and put this edit out for free.

    A lot of respect for this guy. Some of is Fruitbooter section is pretty bonkers as well. His Closer section too.

  28. Capitaine Ta Race Says:

    Wasted-potential guy.

    He will never ever have one second of the style he had in BFG …. just because he was under MINDGAME reputation ‘s pression .

    After he express himself more .. and that was already uggly. ( Closer/ Fruitbooter section are a joke)

    Sometimes … you d better quit … Josh Letona understood it … but Jeff Linet is maybe boring that times ..

    I don t say Omar Wysong is a shit … I just say ;

    I m bored to see guys focused on their gangsta look … 10 years and no evolution at all in the style ? ha

  29. Capitaine Ta Race Says:

    I m just happy to see he learnt one of the hardest trick on gap : Fakie misty !( but it s also the first big trick I saw in 97 by Tim Ward so ……. come back home … you dont deserve ONE- and other sponsors wich are written…
    I have to say …. you had better give your tricks to the OG blading event … but selfishness is the key to “alone-success” …

    I wont buy ONE anymore … if they re sucking

  30. Anonymous Says:

    That was a respectable comeback edit. Especially compared to some of his earlier edits on here which were just sad. You can see some of the old Omar in this edit. He’s getting back to form. Def. want to see more from him soon. Just one freestyle fish for old time sake!

  31. David McNamara Says:

    To Darth Roller,

    Shane Saviours was doing 360 topsouls wayyyyyy back in the Medium days. Check out his section from Smell The Glove. It’s on Youtube.

  32. harry potter Says:

    i just had too

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onvQeQmaoHM

  33. Damien Wilson Says:

    Kick ass job Omar! I have always been a fan of your skating
    and potential. It is good to see you still got it and chose to evolve
    your skating. Keep Kick’n Ass!

  34. pom Says:

    a bit repetitive on some tricks but some were awesome…

    that bank to handplant inverted 360 to bank was the absolute bollocks!!! yeahboy!

  35. b Says:

    Hands down the best skating to make it to this site in months. Handplants and Baggy pants FTW

  36. Pca4 Says:

    Like someone said earlier he’s gettin back to form , edit is better than the ones he put out earlier this year skating looks more fluid like back in the day… Keep it up O.G…

  37. Eddie B. LBC/ETNO Says:

    I aint got nothing bad to say about an Icon like this… Im just juiced that he’s back on skates. gotta watch BFG now.

  38. Anonymous Says:

    Was cool for what it is… compared to the standard of pro now a days prob not up to speed but still a lot better than 90% of the random edits on here. Nice to see something a lil different.

  39. pop Says:

    to see him still skate…amazing, but srsly dude…i think you trying too hard to find something new and unfortunatly you are pushing it a bit too hard. instead of trying to be creative let creativity come to you maaan!!!

  40. MF Says:

    that was awesome. great to see a sick section from omar again. that put me in a good mood

  41. will Says:

    most of you sound like the bitches that ruin an critisize our sport/art form. Everything has been done before…..rolling is about being free to do what ever you want to do. New fads are always going to be around but that doesn’t meen you have to hate on every lil thing. just put your sk8s on an do your own thing!!

  42. Ross Says:

    Great to see this edit, Omar paved the way for the modern style of rollerblading along with Vinny minton and Louie Zamora. Yeah, he’s not in his prime now. but he’s still fucking sick. going for negatives on wall rails! get that wrong and its a broken ankle

  43. Allan Bomersback Says:

    Man, I guess anybody that puts an online edit up is subjecting it to unfiltered criticism-fair rules in this game. It would be nice to see some respect and decency once in a while though. The dude is older now, like many of us. The fact that he can still skate pretty good, took the time to go out and film for this section (because he obviously still likes to skate and has fun doing his thing), and then finally put it up online for free should be enough to at least get a nod of appreciation. Too much close minded opinion pandering here. Big up to Wysong this edit was hella fun to watch and I would love to see more edits from him in the near future!

  44. Anonymous Says:

    Really nice section and I love the skating but that fence handplant was the stupidest trick ive seen haha

  45. WING013 Says:

    fuck the haters!
    fakie bio was sickkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

  46. Scott Wilcoxson Says:

    If you had a section in BRAIN FEAR GONE(arguably the greatest rolling film in existence) then you could wag your tongue. Im pretty sure Omar broke his back skating a drop rail some years ago so this shit cant be touched by any of you. My dude is from OHIO and was true fishing nipple high drop rails 10 years ago. What the fuck were you doing?

  47. TheBlader Says:

    one day this lil’ kid will be a pro! i’ve been skating for 3 ys, so i know what im talkin about!

  48. Mr Ohio Says:

    Scott Wilcoxson Says: “My dude is from OHIO and was true fishing nipple high drop rails 10 years ago. What the fuck were you doing?”

  49. 56DUECE Says:

    Nice Section there was some really creative skating in this. Omar has been killin it since the 90′s good to see him back. one of the true pioneers.

  50. Buckner Says:

    I don’t care what anyone says…this makes want to go SKATE!!!!

    Im also 33, so Ive been around he blade block a couple times.

    Zero Neg. makio is bonkers…so is that fakie misty 5!!!!

    And whoever said Omar has gangster style….ummm do you remember the sweats He used to wear??? this looks normal, not gangster!!!!

  51. Bryan f Says:

    that’s was tight Omar is a G

  52. badazz Says:

    Respect the roots kiddies… he was lacing true top souls before you knew how to lace your shoes. You should feel honored to have his image gracing your screen. He’d probably kill a majority of the badmouthing groms on here if he tried…

    on a brighter note, good to see another familiar face back in the game.

  53. mistyflipking Says:

    liked the misty flips and fakie misty flips keepin it OG

  54. la grande famille du roller Says:

    Some really cool things and it’s a pleasure to see Omar doing full torks, soyals and fishbrains as sick as in Brain Fear Gone but please, Omar, stop your negative tricks !

  55. pete Says:

    WOW Freash with an old school steeze, i rember this kid from mindgame and fruitbooter, was hella sure he quit though. Hopefully he makes an appearance more often!

  56. 10 Says:

    “Omar was, and probably still is better than 95 percent of the people on this board. oooooo bitch slap!!!!!”

    “whoever said Omar has gangster style….ummm do you remember the sweats He used to wear??? this looks normal, not gangster!!!!”

  57. bballog Says:

    that was fuggin sick. I could watch him TTS all day every day.

  58. Anthony Rowe Says:

    Yes!! This was ill! Have skated in awhile and this just got me hyped to do so! Thanks, Omar

  59. CORY Says:

    i just wanted to say that i am watching rollerblading on cable tv right now! the title of this program: best of action sports featuring chris haffey, brian aragon, eric baily, aaron feinberg, soichiro kanashima, nick wood, stephane alfano, jeff stockwell, brian shima…fuck ya, we did guys, we fucking did it!

  60. rrr Says:

    What channel???

  61. dyed red deshis Says:

    Ha i thought i was the only one to skate the west Angeles church parking lot rail. What’s up with those weird fence things, everything else was dope.love those spots Beverly high, looked like west high as well

  62. Anonymous Says:

    its less hip but lots of hoppy hopy hop hop

  63. dyed red deshis, who are you Says:

    dyed red deshis, who are you

  64. Jesse Duval Says:

    mad respect for omar! his section in brain fear gone was part of why i started blading and everything he has done since still makes me glad he’s a blader. keep it up man

  65. RanierP Says:

    he still got it on the grinds… and im not really a fan of the free skate stuff but some of it was pretty fresh!

  66. Rando Says:

    Fakie Misty flips! So good to see, it really does take me back

  67. pro boot Says:

    2012 is the start of the new millenium!
    i wonder if people are gonna commit suicide if it dosent do the movie…

    there is only one….

  68. tillet Says:

    He’s still got his negs… and does some nice tricks.. good to see.
    I think a lot of the hand flips aren’t so good for camera, on their own they are a slow and ungraceful trick and in a line they just slow the skater right down and lose the flow..
    But omar can skate any way he wants. It’s his life and his rollerblades

    Someone brought up ground-breaking skating and Tim Ward. They go hand in hand, his section from 1996′s Festival of Madness shows it.

    3:57 – crazy rail to rail transfer

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSgLYvkNPAw

  69. darek Says:

    that shit was illllllll

  70. Urbn^nja Says:

    Miss seeing bios in edits. Great to see Neg Fishes all over the place too! Omar is still one of my heroes!

  71. Urbn^nja Says:

    The Free Running stuff can stay too :D. Haters keep hating :D

  72. dyed red deshis Says:

    @tillet: what crazy rail to rail transfer were you talking about. In the old roced skates if you don’t wax the rail you slide really slow on down rails which is why there are a few videos out there with transfers like that. It’s not hard cause it’s right below . Still good to see tim ward videos. I thought you meant he gapped like ten feet from one trail to another

  73. Anonymous Says:

    SO gay, cartwheels on blades, might as well put a wiener in your bum

  74. Anonymous Says:

    he was a great skater, always wondered what happened to him so its good to see an edit.

  75. whooooooo Says:

    cut all the slow shit out this edit and you got something awesome!
    ialways loved omars skating, but sometimes this handplant stuff just looks stupid.

  76. whooooooo Says:

    best soyales and tts in the game, no doubt.

  77. drew_amato Says:

    suck a dick, people

  78. @dyed red deshis Says:

    @dyed red deshis go away

  79. Anonymous Says:

    Really!! Hateing on one of the sickest skaters from his day, in all fareness it’s coming from kids that think they have the right to diss him.
    Please remember rollerblading is on its arse at the moment and to see that the older guys are still trying to rep is amazing.
    The kids that rep our sport by saying this shit is so funny!!!