The Nine Club #293 · Show notes.
Omar Hassan
About this episode
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!
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The guest
Omar Hassan
Omar Hassan’s career connects decades of skateboarding with projects for Independent and other sponsors. He revisits his story and life on a board.
Chapters
- Omar Hassan
- Years of slams- how is Omar still going?
- Doobie dun did it
- The Independent documentary: The Omar Hassan Story
- Blockhead Dave
- Our Sponsor AG1 (Athletic Greens)
- Skateboard graphics and marketing
- What was rough about the early 90's
- Beating Tony Hawk in 1990 at the San Jose Mini-Ramp contest
- The Marseille bowl contests
- Muska wins the demo by grilling for the kids
- The old summer European skate contests
- The roll-in grinds in pools
- Chicken and Screamin' Squeegees
- Omar's pool
- Omar's specialty - slams
- "The green whistle"
- Smoke bomb in the pants
- Is Omar an asshole?
- Getting his tooth knocked out my some dude in Ohio
- The first padless 540 in a pool
- The Filmers that skate
- Omar's recent Hubba boardslide
- Omar freestyles
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Chris Rock
John Cardiel
Stacy Peralta
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