He was born on a skateboard.

Imagine following that

Fuckin right

Begging for likes is lame dude.

2023 going strong. This was the best years of skating and I was all for it!

@@chesspunk489you’re lame dude

Facts. Although I'd argue 95%

I wish it would. I don't skate anymore but I still follow the scene. Freestyle skating is so unexplored, and there is so much potential there. We need a super-human to compare to Rodney, but I hope for that person to come along.

yep, very underrated considering he is literally the father of skateboarding

He's had major success!! Just not in the publics eye. 1 point in his life he was the co-founder of world industry and sold his shares for 10's of millions. He's doing just fine.* Also co owner of Almost company

He stopped competing because he wanted to give young skaters a chance. He never wanted money or fame he just truly loves skating. He invented so many tricks it became unfair and he wanted young people to have a chance to shine. Truly a great guy. My friend challenged him to a game of SKATE at Burnside. He was so happy to see my friend hitting kickflip underflips, darkslides, Casper flips, no complies... Rodney won (obviously) but he was so happy to see my friend hitting difficult tricks it didn't even seem like Rodney wanted to win. He was proud of the new generation. Cool guy

In the latest interview on hawk vs wolf Rodney at the end gives his story about how he's been injured for about 10yrs, just had both hips replaced and now he is skating again at full potential having fun again.

Is Tony hawk that big with real skaters? I think Rodney inspired more skaters than any other. Some people credit him with inventing the kickflip. His style of skating is an art form which transformed to skate videos and magazines.

i can see that theese are not only my words !!! Just like you said / i said so like a couple of months ago = glad im not alone ))

He missed one trick and made like 300 others

Def should be in a museum of some sort

Rodney Mullen isn't just a random guy, he's the grandfather of modern skating

I've always said the TRUE greats of nearly every individual skill with a high ceiling are some of the most humble people you'll find. You have to be willing to accept there's always room for improvement and put in that work for nobody but yourself. Mullen, Hawk, Shawn White, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Efren Reyes, Tom Brady, Novak Djokovic, and the list goes on... Those walking around telling everyone they're the best at have major self-confidence issues that will bite them sooner than later.... with few exceptions.

Kelly Slater comes pretty close. It's different but he's been ripping for 40+ years and is still winning contests against the best of the best

Skaters are just now entering into Mullen land after all these years. We're seeing more and more great skaters tap into what he invented decades earlier. Truly amazing his impact.

No one can. Just look at today's champions on freestyle skating, they are not even close to Rodney even with all modern equipment and the internet to help learn faster than ever before.

The fact he linked them all together and as far as I can see made only *one* mistake is unbelievable. I couldn't agree with you more. The mastery is on another level.

Ikr? Rodney Mullen has always been in a league of his own

I was Born with Rodney mullen and first games like pro sketars with him. A legend

those tricks are just as killer today, and who knows where skating would have evolved to without his influence.

@@davidmccallum3950 I mean, I'm 16, came here from the love of skate history. Every decade said the same thing, "skateboarding will die soon" since the 1960s. Never happened, never will.

@@davidmccallum3950 Eh, maybe. Alot of people I know In school enjoy It. As long as Flat Surfaces, a Board, and Creativity exists, It will never become less prevalent anytime soon

@@davidmccallum3950 Plus, It's an Olympic sport. BMX was said to be dead too... In 1991.

Can you explain me how did they do tricks without ollie? I know that Mullen invented flatground ollie but how its possible that fristyle existed without this basic trick ?

@@igorcywinski7477 the way that the other tricks were performed was different. They didn't pop and lift the same way mostly, you can see it in how most of the flat ground tricks he does are done

The board he’s using is a freestyle board. They’re a lot lighter than your average 80’s board. Freestyle boards are thinner and smaller than what others were using at that time

He's goated dude

no joke! I identify with him a lot, he really inspired me. So much so I made my first board an Almost. :)

He did practically invent street skating!

They were. Just enough analog technology to make things fun but not enough to distract you from pursuing fun like this.

It was. I'm a witness to that.

sure had the best taste in clothing colors

Flatland ollie, too.

@@ericduminil @gabereiser did he invent shuv its, 360 shuvs and bigspins too? I'm assuming yes but don't know for sure. tyia

@@jacksonvreal_904 Sorry, I have no idea. Rodney invented flatland ollies and many other tricks based on ollies. But shuv its, 360 shuv and bigspins are all possible without ollie, so they might have been invented by others.

@@jacksonvreal_904No. he did not.

As he said practice, practice ,practice. this guy is my insipiration.

Mullen is one of those rare talents that is so superior to all others around him that it seems entirely superhuman.

True

That’s because it goes without saying. It’s just a basic fact.

Still is.

I miss those days too, especially living in San Diego and north county Cali ! It was a good time! Peace and Aloha from Hawaii

Tony was the vert king, Rodney the street king.

The 80s were THE BEST.

80’s and 90s were incredible

I'm pretty sure it's unanimous in the skating world that Mullen is the best of all time.

Lol he is, he practically invented street skating and the kickflip single handedly came from him

watch some of his videos from the 90's when hes on a more modern board. hes insane

@@TacoTuesdey I will have to

Really because i still watch xgames and havent seen this level of talent last year.

This is clearly true. I just went through some of the best athletes of all sports, and Rodney came out on top.

@@TheClassicWorld doesn’t surprise me. his skill alone sets him apart, but his INNOVATION man…

and straight up heavy spins. You don't see anybody doing those spins like he does nowadays. mostly around me is transition skaters and don't really have many street/freestyle skaters around where I live. Even with videos I watch on youtube, nobody is really doing spins like that anymore.

Caspers, primos, impossible. The guy practically created every trick, a god

And the list goes on. He made the words and people like Gonz wrote poetry with them. The Godfather of all that is present in street skateboarding.

I mean, yeah, he paved the road for modern street skating.

Mullen is the king of street and tony is the king of vert. Both did amazing things in their own way.

Me too

mullen basically invented flat ground skateboarding, including the flat ground ollie, ollie impossible, and gazelle flip

He invented most kickflip and heelflip variations on flat ground. He would do a trick one way (360 flip) then learn the opposite (laser flip) and so on. Same with the shuvits, he would learn it backside and frontside

I wonder how that would've been all the time

Same here, born in december 1986 so I don't remember anything from the 80's. Would have loved to have lived in that decade with all the music, styles, economics, movies etc!

@@Evilminiature It was a great time to be a teen... when I skated the hippie jump and handstand was about the outer limits.. This guy had to be from another planet to invent all he did.

But if you had been born in 76 you only would have been a teen for 1 year in the 80s in 89.

@@adewilson132 Born mid sixties... Wish I could go back and start over ;) I did get to be an EARLY snowboarder though ! pure heaven. Had the first "Burton air" board model..good times.

It's the smoothest transitions of skating mastery

he invented it

Honestly, Tony was a badass Vert skater, but Rodney was INSANE with his board. I still don't understand how someone can be that comfortable on a board like that. Definitely slept on as a legend.

He is worth over 30M. He seemingly has done it all.

@@rickdonnelly3937 Nice! Much better than I imagined. Didn't realize he co-founded World Industries among other companies.

@@JesseB187 It's very satisfying to know he'll never worry about money. That's a fair compensation for paving the way for future generations in one of the most beautiful sports/artforms we have.

@@rickdonnelly3937 I believe Rodney used to either own patents or licensed designs for skateboard parts to other companies. I believe the design of modern boards are descendent from ideas that Rodney put into boards that got sold in the 1990s and early 2000s.

He was very much in his own league. He almost single-handedly created modern skateboarding. A living legend.