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Rodney Mullen

behringerchik5 skaters recommend it · 7 mentions, 2011 to 2020
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A short Rodney Mullen clip uploaded in 2006, showing his freestyle and street technical skating. Little context is given beyond the title.

Why skaters like it

Gets linked in threads whenever someone needs a quick example of Mullen's skating, from freestyle tricks to his influence on newer skaters.

“if you've never seen him skate, I think you should check out Rodney Mullen”

u/ChristiansAttack

What skaters said on Reddit

u/thejoebear2012 · 2 points

What got you Interested in Skating? Tony Hawk games, my dad, Fantasy Factory When did you start? Beginning of last year Who are your favorite skaters, and who were when you started? Mullen, Vallely, Malto. Started? Didn't really know many, so just Hawk. What's the funnest trick to do? 1080+ Manuals What's the hardest trick to do? Inward heels, Handstands. What Trick Do you want to learn the most? Handstand flips What

u/binomine2020 · 1 points

Nah, I really don't. Clicky [VIDEO] You can go to the skatepark every single day and never see a single primo slide. On an extremely rare day, you may see a darkslide. Are these not tricks(1:18 ~ 1:36)? I mean, at (1:07 ~ 1:09), the dude literally just goes up a bank, grabs his board and flips it manually. If you truly believe what you are saying, are you willing to tell me that the Godfather of street skating is not

u/breadford2013 · -1 points

[VIDEO] [VIDEO] [VIDEO] Freestyle isn't "creative", it's just redoing old tricks that went out of fashion to be different. Rodney Mullen was creative because he invented all the weird tricks he was doing, but everyone who skates like and is compared to Rodney Mullen isn't because they're just copying what he's already done. Watch that Pedro Barros video that got posted today instead of this.

u/ChristiansAttack2015 · -33 points

That's pretty cool, but since no one has done it yet and he's an older skater, if you've never seen him skate, I think you should check out Rodney Mullen [VIDEO] [VIDEO]

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