People need to understand that you get more balance by skating slow at times. Andy Anderson understands it even if tricks only get respect while doing them high speed. Combining high speed with learning balance in slow speed. Both Rodney and Andy has been there teaching us that :) I started skating in a bombshelter from 2 world war while watching Powell videos with Rodney, Valelly, Gurrero and Ray Barbie. Sponsored by the age of 15. Isolated like Rodney in a garage away from the big cities. So I relate to Rodney the most as a street skater. Infact I skated around midnight often before knowing that Rodney skated late during night time. That time was the most fun even if I was skating alone. And you become more creative skating alone. Rodney will always be our champion.
@JonInsco-zp1kt Жыл бұрын
🤙
@Fo-Flats Жыл бұрын
Rodney is a bonafide blessing. The mold was broken after he was made. His importance can never be over stated.
@austinpierson3026 Жыл бұрын
Rodney Mullen is skateboarding
@TheLordGoat Жыл бұрын
Godney.
@Monkeyboy2457 Жыл бұрын
Greatest skateboarder of all time. So lucky to be alive in his time.
@wardosbox Жыл бұрын
Rodney sometimes appears like a "dork" or something. But in fact, he seem the complete opposite, who just doesnt gives a single f about how to speak, perform or act on stage. He's just a human with a deep, deep passion for what he's doing. And a genius all along. He get what he deserved - even tho, he deserved it MUCH earlier. Prolly before anyone else
@shmh60022 жыл бұрын
He's such a great speaker. I could listen to him talk all day
@pablolloyd14502 жыл бұрын
Rodney Mullen is a legend. And legends never die. Love you Rodney!
@crazycatman59282 жыл бұрын
I lived in a small town all my life. I’m about to be 48. I started skating in 85 and quit in 92. Back then we had VCRs. My friend Jonathon and I would skate for miles to rent videos like: public domain/animal chin/streets and wheels of fire and Hokus Pokus. We’d watch mostly the street parts unless we seen Rodney as well. Skating was progressing fast back then. I remember the last deck I had: it was a 1991 Santa Cruz everslick that cracked in half a week after buying it. Growing up poor that was the end of my skateboarding. The last trick I learned was a 360flip thanks to my dad having a slow-mo button on his vcr that I used while watching Hokus Pokus. A 360flip 31 years ago wasn’t easy. Took me a year to learn. Landed it only twice. By far the best deck I ever owned was the Matt Hensley Stain glass window deck. I’ve been thinking a lot about my younger years. Though it’s been 31 years since I heard the sounds of wheels passing over brick and feeling the wind it my face...I’m thinking hard about getting back into it just to push around and feel young and alive again. Just wanna say thanks Rodney. You are by far the most influential skateboarder in my eyes.
@christinemurray14442 жыл бұрын
Rodney is the joy of skateboarding personified
@shawnclarke19932 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite people
@delanoarts37032 жыл бұрын
It's funny how so many people are mad about this hall of fame and his place 😂 but honestly Rodney doesn't give a shit were they place him he only cares about sharing the sport
@fademusic19802 жыл бұрын
Rodney got a grammy for his sick lines
@johnshannon53532 жыл бұрын
Changed and evolved
@digitallion38613 жыл бұрын
Rodney Mullen invented the hall of fame lol He's not only the greatest sk8ter of all time, but the spirit within him is so beautiful and awesome that only Rodney could invent the description that defines it.
@kendannon44353 жыл бұрын
We love it, but we are afraid of being that pristine.
@edbeagle79293 жыл бұрын
mullen 2020
@jeremybr20204 жыл бұрын
I was fortunate to start skating back when skating was having it's big resurgence in the late 80's and early 90's. My first skate video I ever watched was Powell Peralta's Public Domain. Great video, I watched every day for over 3 years probably. It's crazy to think about now but in that video there was the part where Rodney Mullen was doing a big freestyle set and even then I would usually fast forward his part, thinking that his style was "lame" and not part of the street skating I was doing. I preferred watching street skaters like Ray Barbie, Sanderson, and Chet Thomas and Danny Way. I was absolutely ignorant to the fact that most of these tricks that these skaters were doing were influenced by Rodney Mullen. This man deserves so much more respect than he was given back then. He is truly a legend and the sport of skateboarding owes Rodney Mullen so much.
@mattisontaylor4384 жыл бұрын
4'th annual? Do the suits know something we don't?
@Lifeswicked4 жыл бұрын
Rodney is the supreme leader, godfather an designer of all street skating
@tommitwelvetreez4 жыл бұрын
do a kickflip!!
@michaeltakehara44144 жыл бұрын
Legend.Never dies.Live 4 ever.
@dutton420z4 жыл бұрын
Back in the day memory....whooooweeeeee . YU DA MAN.
@kicknantas75784 жыл бұрын
This guy came to this planet to spread spirituality.This has nothing to do with skate..skate was the tool.
@kylewattssurfing32664 жыл бұрын
Awesomeness yeees
@iamhear_officially4 жыл бұрын
4th annual? I'm literally wondering who came in the first 3 years. No disrepect whatsoever.... but it just doesn't make sense how Rodney wouldn't be second after inventer of the skateboard itself.
@DarkStarGSK223 жыл бұрын
They decided to go by eras. Starting from the 1960's all the way to early 2000's. Choosing people or groups who played a mayor role or contributed to skateboarding in a big way. LOVE Rodney Mullen he's my fave skater and the undeniable GOAT but I understand there's pioneers and legends who came before him. Hope that helps ✌🛹
@jesseramirez58803 жыл бұрын
Stacey Perelta, Rocco, Alva, the early pioneers before the 80s
@andreaschlapek7804 жыл бұрын
Rodney INVENTED the shape of the modern skateboard. He invented most of the tricks... Why in the hell was he inducted in the Fourth year?!?!?! Damn, this hall should be called Rodney Hall Of Fame.
@Woodroffski4 жыл бұрын
What a shockingly beautiful human being. He makes me proud to be human.
@ALL_that_ENDS5 жыл бұрын
Why is he not the very 1st person to be inducted? In fact, why isn't this whole thing named after him..
@Siddhartha040107 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, there should be like a "Rodney Mullen Award" for people with great contributions for the sport just like Rodney did
@ROGUESPIRIT_5 жыл бұрын
Why do people feel the need to clap everything just fucking listen.
@ipo75965 жыл бұрын
Rodney Mullen Cesar Millan Kevin Richardson Gordon Ramsay
@phxnigtmare5 жыл бұрын
cesar taught me patience and calmness, rodney taught me how to use it
@ipo75965 жыл бұрын
@@phxnigtmare that's great. These people are just a few of the other great beings. They all share similar characteristics even in different fields. Compassion, determination and more.
@ScrappEfolkz5 жыл бұрын
His passion is contagious.
@rondingman33865 жыл бұрын
inducting him the 4th year? flat out disrespect... skatelab put devo in with him, THIS HALL IS A JOKE
@hanamichisakuragi89505 жыл бұрын
Legendary
@staffh38155 жыл бұрын
Rodney Mullen doesn't skate board skateboards Rodney Mullen well done
@CT-nb5lm6 жыл бұрын
I started skating in 1987 @12 years fulltime until mid 90's and all the way till yesterday..And My Rodney hatred still exist.. I won't buy anything ALmost..And ot make it up to Daewon ive skated his DVS shoe maybe 4 or 5 times... Rodney is a straight up weirdo and didn't help skating imo..He only hurt it...I know this isn't a popular opinion..i just remember how awesome it was b4 Mullen. Like in HokusPokus days.
@the-engneer5 жыл бұрын
Rodney Mullen has visited kid's in the hospital as their dying wish. What the fuck have you done?
@1439of20005 жыл бұрын
Hokus Pokus days are before Rodney? LOL everybody in H Street was doing tricks he invented.
@ScrappEfolkz5 жыл бұрын
Its not so much that it's an unpopular opinion as much as it is a stupid ass opinion. Without rodney Mullen skateboarding would be dead
@andybutterbaugh29984 жыл бұрын
Gotta be honest, that " Weirdo", is a genius, who was pushing the forefront, and possibilities of skateboarding roughly 8 years before you ever set foot on a board. All of skateboardings greatest, think that HES the greatest. ( Including the guys you call your heroes) Try to show a little respect.
@Mike-ge7pe3 жыл бұрын
Can’t argue with someone for like the older “street surfing” style of skating, but without Rodney, that’s all it would be. A novelty with no cultural significance, like scooters and in-lines. Not that Rodney is the be-all, end-all. Other skaters have had massive influence, but street skating gave skateboarding its true identity, and Rodney underpins all of it.
@chadwindham29796 жыл бұрын
how can you not love rodney mullen?
@sgtyerface6 жыл бұрын
2013 for rodney really.. he should have been number 1 maybe 2 at the worst
@cristianvelasquezrivera54546 жыл бұрын
Fuckkk i listened the best spesh ever my friends 👏👏👏👏
@Aardquark7776 жыл бұрын
this man is amazing
@bassage136 жыл бұрын
I have to wonder if skateboarding would even still exist without this man. Or, what would it be like without his influence?
@mr.neqtan4 жыл бұрын
Definitely would look a lot different. Like our world without Nikola Tesla.
@marco77ar6 жыл бұрын
Rodney is the all time freestyle king.......BUT, if u watch rubbish heap 89; awesome last freestyle vid....till opinion....AND THEN WATCH QUESTIONABLE 92.....CRAZY STREET SKATING.....MULLEN......
@victorricardo97946 жыл бұрын
🙌
@MrSulfor6 жыл бұрын
Every word he says is deliberate and impacting. That man has influenced many of us to progress and grow. No one's done more for the sport or rather the discipline of skateboarding since the act of nailing roller skate trucks to a 2x4.
@davidzavaglia7346 жыл бұрын
GOAT, after so many yeats of skateboarding, his words just made me cry ^^
@TSCStag6 жыл бұрын
🙏 Beauty
@StatueCollecting7 жыл бұрын
GOAT = Greatest Of All Time. Rodney Mullen
@JBH1233 ай бұрын
I couldn't agree more. Unfortunately, seven years later, it's a travesty how this term gets thrown around and applied to utterly trivial people and things. The ONLY people it should apply to are people like Rodney, people whose brilliance, innovation and mastery were so complete that no one could have done those things better, or perhaps even at all. I wish people would reserve the term for people like Paganini, Da Vinci, Mozart, Bach, Einstein - or Mark Gonzales, Simone Biles, Wayne Gretzky - rather than debase and devalue it by applying it to the latest flavor-of-the-month singer, rapper, athlete or actor. That'll likely never happen, but a man can dream ... TL;DR: Rodney truly was and is the GOAT in freestyle/street skateboarding, and second-GOAT isn't even close.
@TheXitone7 жыл бұрын
So true!! Imagine if his dad had allowed him to skate vert???
@halow12133 жыл бұрын
I think one of the things that pushed him so far was the fact that he was barely allowed to skate at all. So maybe that wouldve been a worst scenario. But who knows? We for sure never will.
@TCF36910 жыл бұрын
My god. Literally welled up when he said "this will never collect dust" the man is freaking living legend. If only they mentioned what he has achieved as a business man. Creating not only the skateboarding landscape as we know it, but some of the biggest and most successful companies. Love you Rod
@bestimusmucho67025 жыл бұрын
Timothy Figgis Same here man. I was good until the end. Just another incredible inspirational speech from the mutt but when he started to get fired up about what the induction meant to him, I couldn’t keep it together.
@javiercontreras90483 жыл бұрын
Don't forget that he also gave shape to the actual skateboard itself