#293 - Omar Hassan

Omar Hassan discusses staying at the Blockhead house, winning the Marseille bowl contests 4 years in a row, how the roll-in grinds in pools started, the first to do a padless 540 in a backyard pool, beating Tony Hawk in 1990 at the San Jose Mini-Ramp contest, Muska winning a demo by grilling burgers for the kids, Chicken and Screamin' Squeegees, his backyard pool, going on Volcom trips, some of his gnarliest slam, the recent Independent documentary “30 Years and Grinding: The Omar Hassan Story” and much more!

Timestamps

00:00:00 Omar Hassan

00:02:06 Years of slams- how is Omar still going?

00:05:11 Doobie dun did it

00:07:48 The Independent documentary: The Omar Hassan Story

00:13:55 Blockhead Dave

00:19:01 Our Sponsor AG1 (Athletic Greens)

00:20:36 Skateboard graphics and marketing

00:29:26 What was rough about the early 90's

00:33:10 Beating Tony Hawk in 1990 at the San Jose Mini-Ramp contest

00:41:45 The Marseille bowl contests

00:47:47 Muska wins the demo by grilling for the kids

00:51:47 The old summer European skate contests

00:53:30 The roll-in grinds in pools

00:56:05 Chicken and Screamin' Squeegees

00:59:25 Omar's pool

01:04:28 Omar's specialty - slams

01:12:27 "The green whistle"

01:19:53 Smoke bomb in the pants

01:27:21 Is Omar an asshole?

01:28:37 Getting his tooth knocked out my some dude in Ohio

01:31:45 The first padless 540 in a pool

01:44:49 The Filmers that skate

01:49:37 Omar's recent Hubba boardslide

01:58:10 Omar freestyles

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