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Rodney Mullen - First EVER Darkslide

RodneyMullenNet4 skaters recommend it · 5 mentions, 2010 to 2024
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313K views · 17 years ago · Other

Rodney Mullen's first darkslide, shown in a short clip uploaded by his own channel. The thread titles date the footage to 1993, and it is the trick he is credited with inventing.

Why skaters like it

Linked in threads about who invented the darkslide. Skaters point to it as the origin of the trick and compare it with Gonz's caveman version in Video Days.

“Gonz did the first darkslide but caveman onto a rail in Video Days: [VIDEO] But Rodney did the first one olling into it …”

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What skaters said on Reddit

u/TheTrueAlCapwn2017 · 46 points

Rodney Mullen of course, had already made it reality [VIDEO], where do you think the game got it from?

u/Comprehensive-End-162024 · 8 points

Gonz did the first darkslide but caveman onto a rail in Video Days: [VIDEO] But Rodney did the first one olling into it: [VIDEO]

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