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Rodney Mullen sits down with Tony Hawk - Dissent Part 1 of 2

RIDE Channel5 skaters recommend it · 5 mentions, 2013 to 2018
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Tony Hawk interviews Rodney Mullen for Dissent TV on RIDE Channel, 2012. Part 1 of 2 covers Mullen's career and the leg injuries tied to his freestyle years.

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Linked whenever someone asks about Mullen's leg injuries and scar tissue, since he tells that story to Tony Hawk here.

“If you mean the latter there's an interview Tony Hawk did with him where he describes it”

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What skaters said on Reddit

u/errantphotons2014 · 7 points

if anybody is wondering here's the interview [VIDEO] with Tony Hawk from 2 years ago where he talks a little about that & his injuries that lead to the decision. he also spoke about it in his TED talk [VIDEO]

u/Okatis2017 · 2 points

If you mean the latter there's an interview [VIDEO] Tony Hawk did with him where he describes it but this article [LINK] explains it in more detail. He manually removed his own scar tissue in some pretty horrifying-sounding ways for three years after doctors had told him it was looking like his leg would fuse to his pelvis due to the damage built-up from skating.

u/Combatmage2018 · 2 points

He talks about it in an interview with Tony Hawk. [VIDEO]

u/mharray2018 · 1 points

when you're riding nollie - you are facing fowards (towards the direction of travel) like you would when in regular stance. when you're riding fakie - you are facing backwards (away from the direction of travel), which is the opposite of when riding switch. Example: Blunt to Fakie has a blind landing because you're landing backwards. Switch Blunt to Nollie you spot the landing because you are facing forward. This isn

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