#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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices