This article is about the American skateboarder. For the CEO of Kroger, see Rodney McMullen.
American professional skateboarder
Rodney Mullen
Mullen in 2013
Personal information
Birth name
John Rodney Mullen
Born
(1966-08-17) August 17, 1966 (age 57)[1][2] Gainesville, Florida, U.S.
Occupation
Skateboarder
Years active
1978–present
Website
rodneymullen.com
Sport
Country
United States
Sport
Skateboarding
Turned pro
1980
John Rodney Mullen[3][4] (born August 17, 1966)[5] is an American professional skateboarder who practices freestyle skateboarding and street skateboarding. He is considered one of the most influential skaters in the history of the sport.[6] Mullen is credited for inventing numerous tricks, including the flatground ollie, kickflip, heelflip, impossible, and 360-flip.[7] As a result, he has been called the "Godfather of modern freestyle skating."[8]
Rodney Mullen won his first world freestyle skateboard championship at the age of 14; over the following decade, he won 34 out of 35 freestyle contests, thus establishing the most successful competitive run in the history of the sport.[8] Over the following years, he transitioned from freestyle to street skateboarding, adapting his accumulated freestyle skills to street and inventing or expanding upon additional tricks in the process, such as primo slides, dark slides, and Casper slides.
Mullen has appeared in over 20 skateboarding videos and has co-authored an autobiography, entitled The Mutt: How to Skateboard and Not Kill Yourself, with writer Sean Mortimer.[9]
^"Rodney Mullen — Happy 50th Birthday". The Berrics. 17 August 2016. Archived from the original on 28 October 2018. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
^"Rodney Mullen: Another Dimension". 15 April 2010.
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^Mullen, Rodney (1994). "Second-hand Smoke". Plan B. Archived from the original on 2020-09-20. Retrieved 2019-11-03. John[ny] Rodney Mullen
^Hawk, Tony (17 August 2018). "Happy Birthday to Rodney Mullen, the founder of modern skateboarding". Facebook. Archived from the original on 2022-02-26.
^"The 30 Most Influential Skaters of All Time". 20 December 2011.
^MIT Media Lab. "Rod Mullen". media.mit.edu. MIT Media Lab. Retrieved 2021-02-25. Widely considered one of the world's most influential skateboarders, Rodney Mullen invented many tricks still used today. He studied chemical engineering at the University of Florida, leaving school to co-found the most dominant skate company in the 1990s...
^ ab"Bio". RodneyMullen.com. Rodney Mullen. Archived from the original on 13 November 2017. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
^SkatevideoSite.com (2005–2012). "Rodney Mullen skate videos". SkatevideoSite.com. Archived from the original on 4 September 2012. Retrieved 14 August 2012.
John RodneyMullen (born August 17, 1966) is an American professional skateboarder who practices freestyle skateboarding and street skateboarding. He...
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Darren Criss, Seth Green, Jeff Garlin, Steven Weber, Kevin Pollak, RodneyMullen, Jakob Dylan, Dhani Harrison, and Nick Valensi of The Strokes. To date...
known as a "magic flip", was invented by professional skateboarder RodneyMullen. The following is a list of general skateboarding terms that will assist...
Johnson with the support of RodneyMullen. Both had previously been teammates in the A-Team, a company founded by Mullen and Steve Rocco (Rocco is the...
skateboarding truck company founded and designed by professional skateboarder, RodneyMullen, in 2000. Tensor's parent company is Dwindle Distribution. The company...
beaten RodneyMullen in a professional skate contest. Welinder was born in Täby, just outside Stockholm. In the 1980s, Welinder and RodneyMullen were competitors...
something to do. Song has relayed that he sighted RodneyMullen skateboarding at his school and that Mullen, in turn, had observed Song skateboarding there...
Alan Gelfand, AKA "Ollie" and the flat ground ollie was created by RodneyMullen See: Air, Pop 180: An ollie with a 180 degree board and body turn either...
overseen by Steve Rocco and RodneyMullen, and Mike's intention was to create a "super team", with riders such as Way, McKay, Mullen, Mike Carroll, Matt Hensley...
including Steve Caballero, Tony Hawk, Mike McGill, Lance Mountain, RodneyMullen, Stacy Peralta, and Per Welinder. It was expected to sell just 300 copies...
in the film as stunt skaters are Mike McGill, Mark "Gator" Rogowski, RodneyMullen, Rich Dunlop, Eric Dressen, Lance Mountain, Mike Vallely, Chris Black...
Brigade Intelligence Report, and made me do it 27 times in the same spot. RodneyMullen then named it the McTwist. The trick is derived from a combination of...
Powell-Peralta skateboarding team of the same name. It includes interviews with RodneyMullen, Craig Stecyk, Tony Hawk, Lance Mountain, Steve Caballero, and Peralta...
to spread worldwide. The ollie was adapted to flat ground by RodneyMullen in 1982. Mullen also invented the "Magic Flip", which was later renamed the...
The trick was invented by RodneyMullen and can be seen in the Almost: Round Three video during the section when Mullen is skateboarding on the Hollywood...
was born in June 2017. Harper is a skateboarder who has trained with RodneyMullen and he also owns a warehouse for his personal skateboarding. Harper...
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