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John Rodney Mullen (born August 17, 1966) is an American professional skateboarder who practices freestyle skateboarding and street skateboarding.He is considered one of the most influential skateboarders of all time. Mullen is credited for inventing numerous tricks, including the flatground ollie, kickflip, heelflip, impossible, and 360-flip.
Mar 12, 2006 · Rodney Mullen doing his amazing stuff.Sweet Home Alabama - Performed by ZoeAngel(a lot of people asked for a link to the song, but i couldn't find it myself)...
Early Days. John Rodney Mullen was born on August 17, 1966, in Gainesville, Florida. His mother, Ann P. Mullen, was an accomplished concert pianist, and his father, John Mullen, was a dentist. Rodney started skateboarding on January 1, 1977, after being introduced to it by a neighborhood friend. However, his father didn't want his son to be ...
Rodney Mullen | Adobe Creative Cloud. One of these gifted yet humble folks I met at Strata is a good friend of Roger Magoulas, named Dan Cowles— he works at Adobe. Within a few weeks, he came down to do a quick 5min bit on creativity, from sort of an artist’s perspective.
Feb 2, 2015 · The last thing Rodney Mullen, the godfather of street skating, wanted were competitive victories. In this exuberant talk he shares his love of the open skate...
Oct 3, 2023 · Who is Rodney Mullen? Born and raised in Gainesville, Florida, Rodney Mullen first entered the world of skateboarding at the tender age of 10. Crafted from the spirit of defiance, persistence, and dedication, Rodney’s journey into skateboarding started with a sigh of conflict as his father had no love for the skating culture.
Rodney Mullen won his first world skateboard championship at the age of 14; over the following decade, he won 34 out of 35 freestyle contests, thus establishing the most successful competitive run in the history of the sport. Over the following years, he turned from freestyle, translating his accumulated skills to a newer, different form of skateboarding. He is widely considered the most ...
Known as the godfather of street skating, Rodney Mullen is one of the most prolific and influential skateboarders in history. Despite initial objections, his father eventually gave in and purchased Rodney's first skateboard in 1977, when he was ten years old, on the condition that he would always wear his safety pads and stop skating the moment ...
Rodney Mullen is the godfather of street skating, and in this exuberant talk he shares his love of the open skateboarding community. He shows how the unique environments skaters play in drive the creation of new tricks -- fostering prolific ingenuity purely for passion's sake.
Rodney Mullen. / SHoF 2013 / By Todd. Fittingly inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame the same year as his former Powell-Peralta teammate and fellow Floridian, Alan Gelfand, Rodney would be more than worthy of this honor for his adaptation of Gelfand’s vertical ollie to flatground alone. When Rodney innovated the freestyle ollie pop on ...
