Lance Mountain Blazer: Behind the Design

In honor of Mountain's continued fanaticism, the Nike SB Zoom Blazer Mid 'Lance Mountain' features graphic embellishments that nod to his affinity for pools, as well as his connection to the silhouette. The left shoe features “78,” which is a reference to the year Mountain first remembers seeing the Blazer regularly in the pages of skate magazines. The right shoe reads "17" to represent both the present day and a nod to the future. As a finishing touch, the years "78" and "17" are also featured in a font similar to what you would see painted on a poolside for water depth."

The color scheme developed by Baltrotsky reflects a common conceit in Mountain’s skate graphics — ‘70s-era prism-fades on concert posters—and the tiles from Mountain’s favored skate environment, pools. “Pool skating is the street skating of vert. Instantly in the ‘70s, pools were mimicked in skate parks. And so the level of skateboarding grew from a backyard pool to a skate park pool, and then over the years they have refined and gotten bigger and bigger,” explains Mountain. “I skate pools. That’s where I skate. In the last 10 years, I’ve rarely skated other things.”