Thrasher Magazine

Omar Hassan has most likely been skating longer than you’ve been alive. To tell his story, Independent trucks teamed up with Buddy Nichols over at SixStair to produce a masterful documentary showcasing the hits and highlights of Omar’s career. The audience at Volcom HQ got to see it first, along with live sets, skating, food and beverages all under the same Stone roof. —Daniel Cabral

We’re in, but if you couldn’t make it, Volcom live-streamed the entire event on their Twitch channel. They even got a VX hooked up to the live stream!

Right off the bat, we got our guest of honor—seen here with his homie from OTTTO and Metallica's Robert Trujillo

Omar flicked up with giants of the music world, our boy from The Bay Big Hongry and the aforementioned Metallica bassist Robert

Twitch streamer Sushi Dragon was also on the scene with all his gear. The future of follow filming has arrived

Inside the skatepark, the VX was getting put to good use

First set, Big Hongry’s on the mic



“Lemme show y’all how we get down where I come from, ya heard?”

Uncontainable stoke kept the session lit

It was going off stage left, too!

Creature crew taking over the upper deck! Willis Kimbel, Jess Mudgett, Mathias Torres and Stoner SOTY Milton Martinez

Back outside, we got lifers Omar and Professor Schmitt

Then we saw him with Thrasher staffer Ewan Bowman, Dominick Walker and Ryan Immegart

Black Label’s deep-end destroyer Jake Reuter rolled in with his wife Janae

Next up on the music bill, we got local favorites Los Mysteriosos

Employee of the Stone and member of multiple bands Donald Horne was shredding all night

Crowd got a nice warmup for Cinco de Mayo

Former #MailClerksThatRip Harry Hutchenson with Mesa Distribution’s Matt Ward

Ray Zimmerman, John Lucero and Lance Mountain all got talking heads in the doc

Metal AF! Robert Trujillo with Rowley

Skippy and Mathias Torres, banger neva gown!

Surf legend Alex Knost and company probably thought Omar was Kelly Slater

Mikey from The Good Bar in Long Beach was serving all night

Back inside Omar introduces…

… OTTTO!

The apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree, Robert Trujillo’s son Tye on bass

Everyone dropped in for this one

On brand for an event where the theme was "shredding for a long time"

Even with the band going full force, did I see a lane still open for skating?

Yup! Cocona Hiraki swerving the crowd to get a crooked grind across the box during OTTTO’s set. Unbeatable skate rat energy there

Is that Robert revving up the pit?

Sure is!

Learn from the best

Hope they had baby earplugs

Get in the pit and try to kick some flip

The kids are alright



More kicks



Now we're in it

Use a skate, go to prison—or the pit!

I forgot their names, but this dude’s friends and family came all the way up from Tijuana for this. Respect!



Promar Approved!

Remy Stratton steps up to intro our guest of honor 

A man of many words kept it brief on this rare occasion. Something like, “My life is crazy. I love all of you and thanks for coming.” Heavy stuff

Mic drop! Told you it was heavy

Everyone packing in as the doc starts

What a film!

All smiles out by the bar, where the last few grab a brew before bailing

The smart ones went for the tacos. Yep, The Good Bar homies were serving these up all night, too

Lawrence Limtao of Spank Grip came through with company

Time for a family photo

And another one!

Omar kept extending the family

Whole bunch of heavy hitters now!

Major shoutout to Gavin Denike from NHS for making it all happen! Shown here with his plus one Emily

PJ Steiner of Surfside and Brian Mack had a great time

“What’s the next move?”

Focus Boardshop crew was down to close it out

Couple key people behind the scenes at Volcom, Derek Boede and Kurt Midness

Thanks again to Tim and Mikey from The Good Bar. Thank you, Buddy and Volcom for this beautiful event. Now watch Omar Hassan’s 30 years and Still Grinding when it hits the site