Omni Boards Australia as it is now was founded in 1986.

Though "Omni's" roots in skateboarding go way back to about 1973 when the founder Cary Pogson, started skateboarding and surfing. Making his first surfboard in 1975, registering Omni Surfboards Australia as a business name in 1978, all the while skateboarding and making his own skateboard decks.

The word Omni means all or everything, so this name represents Cary's love for board sports.

"Omni" ventured into snowboarding, making prototypes in 1984 and 1985, then becoming the first in Australia to manufacture snowboards in 1986. Early 1986 Cary was a part of the first "Australian Snowboard Team" to first travel to Kashmir, along with Geoff Sawyer and Adrian Gibbs being the first to snowboard the Himalaya's, then going on to the USA competing in the "US Open" in Vermont and then the "World Titles" in Colorado. Coming back to help promote snowboarding during the 1986 season, and at the end of the season being the major sponsor and part organiser of the first snowboard contest ever held in Australia the "Omni OZ Classic" held at Guthega ski resort in Sept 1986.

The venture into snowboarding didn't go well business wise, being too early for the later boom. Cary then started full on skateboard manufacturing late 1986, registering "Omni Boards Australia" as a business name in the same year, and started the full on manufacture of skateboards.

Over the years Omni Boards has sponsored heaps of Australia's best skaters, names you may or may not be familiar with. You should really check out our team list back on our main web site Omni Boards Australia the names are a veritable Who's Who of Australian skateboarding in the late 80's and 90's.

By 2004 Omni was doing more OEM board production than own brand boards. High manufacturing and labour costs, along with ever constantly lower prices for skateboards meant "Omni" could no longer sustain manufacturing here in Australia. In 2005 Cary toured a number of factories in China, checking out manufacturing quality and standards. Finding a factory that could produce decks to the high-quality standard worthy of branding his hard fought name Omni. After a year of product trials and shape sampling we ceased manufacturing here and imported our first batch of boards from China.

Omni mostly continued to do mostly OEM branding for other small skate brands in Australia up until around 2018. Finding it mostly "soul less" running Chinese made decks through a heat transfer machine for other brands, Cary decided it was time start producing his own brand again.

This meant actually pressing boards from scratch again. 2018, Cary started rebushing all his old equipment and fabricated many other new machines. This was a 7 days a week, 12-14 hour day mission for about 3 years solid. Importing veneer and glue from the USA Cary started test pressing again around 2020. 

Omni now has a huge range of shapes from midi sized decks, a ton of std "pop" shapes and a large range of "shaped" shapes. All pressed in Ulladulla NSW Australia using 100% imported US hard "Rock" Maple and the best skate glue from Franklin USA.