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My SportsSkateboarding | NewsSundance interview Bones Brigade: An Unexpected Journey Monday, January 30, 2012 12:33pm Official Trailer for the Bones Brigade Thursday, January 19, 2012 1:06am Wednesday, December 22, 2010 11:58am GRIPSKI has landed on Earth !!!!! Skater tries to master it in Hermosa Beach!!!! Saturday, August 29, 2009 3:15pm Sunday, March 15, 2009 7:13pm AboutHow many tricks have you invented in your life? Oh, you did invent one? That's cool. Not as cool as about 30. Rodney Mullen did that. He is also an engineer. He studied biomedical engineering at the University of Florida for four years. He had a quite confusing history with companies, riding for and owning. So here's the story... His tenure at World Industries marked the beginning of a shift in his skating career from freestyle to street skating. He left the World Industries team to join Plan B, a super team made up of some of the high profile pros of that time. Throughout this period Mullen was learning from his idol Mike Ternasky, the Plan B founder, to adapt his freestyle skating form. This approach was first seen in the 1992 Plan B video Questionable, and ushered in a new era of street skating that took freestyle tricks which were traditionally done without rolling, or at slow speeds in a confined flat area, to a more varied terrain, often at speed and incorporating obstacles. In 1995, Mullen started the A-Team. It was his take on forming a super team with the defection of Plan B from the World Industries empire. A-Team folded in 2000 and Mullen went from company founder to company rider under former A-Team rider Marc Johnson, who started Enjoi Skateboards. Mullen left Enjoi and headed Almost Skateboards along with Daewon Song, which he continues to maintain professional status. Mullen expanded his product development and created Tensor truck in 2000 and has also developed experimental and composite deck constructions for Dwindle brands. In 2002 the World Industries companies, under the holding name Kubic Marketing, were bought out by Globe International for $46 million. Kubic's management remained intact and Mullen began working for Globe International under the Dwindle Distribution brand. In 2003 Rodney wrote and released his autobiography, entitled "The Mutt: How to skateboard and not kill yourself". In late 2003 Rodney Mullen was voted as the all-time greatest action sports athlete on the Extreme Sports Channel's Legends of the Extreme countdown. 2004 saw the announcement by Dwindle that it has been producing skateboard decks in China under the direction of Mullen. A Dwindle spokesperson explained that the move was "to better control our current product quality and develop new advanced products while simultaneously lowering the price on existing skate-deck products. A bit underrated, considering the general public doesn't know about him even though he pretty much invented all of the street tricks we commonly see today... My Videos |
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Posted by rocket supernova July 19, 2012 09:18am PDTReply | Report Abuse
rodney mullen you are the best skatboarder on earth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE TEACH ME YOUR WAYS O GREAT MASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by roastedtucknee December 30, 2011 09:28am PSTReply | Report Abuse
you are the most tech skater ever!!!!
my last name is mullen!
Posted by hable elby October 11, 2011 06:24am PDTReply | Report Abuse
i seen your first darkslide video on plan b virtual reality,i laughed at the crazy mexican guy in the background dancing
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Posted by deiby graciano May 18, 2011 03:13pm PDTReply | Report Abuse
rodney is the best.
Posted by chute22 May 13, 2011 12:40pm PDTReply | Report Abuse
you are the best!!!
Posted by jeremy dills January 28, 2011 06:35am PSTReply | Report Abuse
the funny thing is i always played as you in the tony hawks pro skaters but i didnt know who you were then come to find out your the best skater ever
Posted by jeremy dills January 28, 2011 06:29am PSTReply | Report Abuse
i seen your first darkslide video on plan b virtual reality,i laughed at the crazy mexican guy in the background dancing
Posted by bikefreak October 21, 2010 12:37pm PDTReply | Report Abuse
Saw you 2 years ago! Absolutely amazing! Video please... :)
Posted by sulmaanaslam August 8, 2010 05:18am PDTReply | Report Abuse
BOWS DOWN TO THEE!
Posted by ricquan 14 July 26, 2010 11:34am PDTReply | Report Abuse
your to good to be on camera ur style is so amazing an different thats why i like u man so help meh be likenu
Posted by andi petra suherdi July 3, 2010 04:43am PDTReply | Report Abuse
can you give us some vidio of your trick???
Posted by kinahara akira May 1, 2010 04:38pm PDTReply | Report Abuse
rodney the best 4-ever..!!
Posted by krownboards97 April 17, 2010 04:32pm PDTReply | Report Abuse
Rodneys the best
Posted by rodney300 April 1, 2010 10:11pm PDTReply | Report Abuse
CAN YOU PLEASE WRITE BACK............. IT WOULD MEAN SO MUCH TO MEEE!!!! PLEASE RODNEY..................................PPPPPPPPPPPLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEAAAAAASSSSSEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by rodney300 April 1, 2010 10:08pm PDTReply | Report Abuse
U;R SOOOOOOOO SSSSSSSSICKKKKKKKKKK MMMMMMMMMMMMMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!
Posted by skater eric December 27, 2009 07:56pm PSTReply | Report Abuse
you are the best skater ever, no matter what everybody else says. if only i could have the commitment like you... nice book by the way
Posted by korn505 December 21, 2009 01:31pm PSTReply | Report Abuse
yur the manrodney i respect you so deeply who cares if some people dont like just keep wat yur doing later
Posted by catsrule December 16, 2009 05:46pm PSTReply | Report Abuse
dude you the king of skating i swear you my favorite skaters and dark slide board slide are sweet
Posted by nahowe December 15, 2009 10:50am PSTReply | Report Abuse
You are the inspiration and that guy behind the curtain running the skate show. If it weren't for you, we wouldn't know skateboarding as it is today. You should really be on the skate. EA series. Keep it up Rod.
-nahowe
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