OMAR HASSAN

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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!

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