Skateboarding: "Rodney Mullen" Limited (DVD) Edition

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Skateboarding: "Rodney Mullen" Limited (DVD) Edition
Choi Style Productions
5 min 32 sec - Dec 27, 2006

Music: Moby - Extreme Ways (Played throughout video.)

See more videos of Rodney Mullen such as "Rodney Mullen" (USA) vs. "Dae-Won Song" (KOREA) Round 1 & 2.

Johnny Rodney Mullen (born August 17, 1966 in Gainesville, Florida) is a professional skateboarder, and widely considered to be one of the most influential skaters in the history of the sport (Weyland, 2002, p.276). He is credited with inventing the majority of ollie and flip tricks introduced throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, including the flat-ground ollie (Mullen, 2004, p.115), the Kickflip, the Heelflip, the 360 flip, and the Impossible, which are regularly performed in modern street and vertical skateboarding.

Rodney Mullen started skateboarding at the age of 10, when his father (who had opposed his son's wishes) finally agreed to give Rodney a skateboard on the condition that he always wears pads, and with the understanding that if he were to ever get hurt he would have to quit. On January 1, 1977 he bought his first skateboard. His first sponsor was Bill Murray at Inland Surf Shop where Rodney used to skate in their carpark. He rode a Walker Skateboard in his first contest at Kona in Jacksonville, FL in 1977, placing third in Boys Freestyle. The 11-year old attracted the attention of skateboard manufacturer Bruce Walker, which resulted in Mullen earning sponsorship with Walker Skateboards (Mullen, 2004, p.52).

For the next 10 years, Rodney took first place in every contest he entered. His nearly 35 contest victories, mostly in Florida, culminated with a win at the Oceanside Nationals in June, 1979 in the 11-13 year old sponsored boys division (ibid, p.66). At the time, Rodney's coaching influence came primarily from Barry Zaritsky, a skateboard and fitness enthusiast who encouraged a radical training regimen for him. In 1980, the week of his 14th birthday, Rodney entered, and won, his first professional contest at the Oasis Pro in San Diego, beating the world champion, Steve Rocco (ibid, p.91).

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