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There is nothing more that I want than to have Rodney on the channel so you can ask him questions about all these tricks he did. I would love to know how many tries some these tricks took him.
Something about the way you narrate your process and share all of your attempts and changes and successes is mesmerizing to me. I havent skated in 15 years and I somehow get hooked watching and preferring your vids. Way to go man, thanks for the entertainment!
Rodney was so ahead of his time that 25 years later only one dude can do half of his difficult tricks. Even then it takes this very talented skater hundreds of tries.
My skate buddy in the 90's bought this on VHS from the skateshop , we all watched it in awe and disbelief how skateboarding like this was even possible, Mullen vs. Song 1 and 2 is legend
yeah this and Daewon's team video (think it was called DECA: Second To None) were absolutely mind blowing to us back then and SO FAR ahead of their time
Hell yeah I was just about to mention having this on VHS also. One of the best vids of the era easily. That and the zero film with the leap of faith in it and stuff. I wish I could remember which one had jamie thomas doing that HUGE 50-50 down a ledge but he wipes out when the front wheels go over and it kicks out from under him. Absolutely legendary stuff.
@@Corpsecrank Those huge 50s are probably either in Dying to Live or Welcome to Hell - not sure which ones has wipeouts though, ( I think one was 20+ stair? crazy stuff ) been a while since I've watched those , I gotta check those out again :)
Found it! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2RNRzWPILXk.htmlsi=2jC8CKwVBnvU0JFA&t=1123 Starts right at the clip. Misled Youth was one of my favs for sure.
In 2018, I started my journey in the world of skating, I found your yt channel and I was fascinated. Your effort and dedication to skating, recording and spreading positivity amazed me. This video somehow took me back in time.
Man i enjoyed this winter sucks iv not pushed a plank for months and this lifted my mood Like that you show the true hardship of learning too skate new tricks
I don’t want to nitpick anything because I might be wrong, but it kind of looked like Rodney used his back foot toes to sort of underflip the board and the same time he did the same thing that you did with his front foot. But it’s very likely that I am wrong. Nice one! Congratulations and happy new year! 🎉🎉
yeah it looks like Rodney does a bit of an underflip with the back foot, and a kind of pulling motion with the front foot too. Jonny's was clean af tho, not critiquing him
I had you on my second monitor, but when I heard "In Case of Trouble" from Bastion come on, I paused my Hades run, and you got my undivided attention. I think Bastion has my favourite OST from Supergiant Games, though Hades makes it really hard to choose definitively.
man... i have skated from 13 to 19 now i am 37 and all those videos about skating are poping up.... stopped because i got into weight training and all of my friends stopped because of grown up stuff... tried it this summer again. took me a while but still got some tricks down after almost 20 years kick,heel, pop shov it, nolli pressure flip (my favourite!) stuff like that. no 360 flip tho... was to scared and my ollie is shit now! but fuck me everything hurt the next day and i work out 5 days a week consistently!! completely different kind of stress on the muscle! i miss it so much! but the injury potential is so high! not sure if it is worth it. however... is see all those tricks and i get tingels all over my body...there is nothing like it!! that feeling of nailing a trick!
I love the video, but I honestly think it might be an underflip. In the clip at 1:46 his front foot doesn't seem to do much, and his back foot is gripping the side of the board, and it looks like as he starts to turn. If you frame by frame it from 1:46 to 1:47 you can see his back foot kick backwards with him the same way he is spinning. Both are awesome tricks though.
@@thejxkid2 I think so. Idk which is better/harder though. Maybe Gigers version since it would be hard to get the full pressure to flip out of the grind without slipping out. Where the underflip would mean you wouldn't need as much pressure on the grind to flip the board
JONNY you need to try to get in contact with the Hawk vs Wolf podcast (it's Tony Hawk and Jason Ellis!!!) to see if you guys can figure out some way to get together and do an interview. You are an absolute beast of a skateboarder and a legend!!!
Do you also think that part of why he did the trick on that specific surface is because of the surface area of locking in the truck and exiting was such a small area and room for error which makes it exponentially more difficult in the process??
Yeah, in them vids they used to skate really hard objects as it was sort of a battle between them, so anything that made the trick even more difficult was probably intentionally done the majority of the time. They both played off their strengths and Rodney's balence from years of just being on a board doing spins and such was a huge strength of his, meaning he could do stuff like that and make it look easy on super technical obstacles.
I think you are such a talented skateboarder and i love the fact of how much love you show the lord of the board my all time hero although it make me sad that some skateboarders call serton tricks ugly etc while at the same time loving others not even realising the fact rodney mullen invented most of the tricks they even try to learn now adays or tony hawk if vert skaters, or also don't know the reason rodney mullen learned to do any trick he does in switch so long story short they know so little and yet think they know everything.
3:00 HEY JONNY! have you tried Andy Andersons newest deck? It has specially shaped kicktails to help lock into crooked grinds. It would be cool to see if it helps. Cool video too. I always enjoy seeing you revive his old stuff ;)
I won't hurt to send Rodney a invite to be on film, and go to where Rodney is and make it happen, please send him an invite Jonny. You might have to see him after 6pm though, according to Tony Hawk, that's when he is available :D
I want to learn this trick but back side crook because I can currently back crook not front crook. my friend is saying it's inward pressure heel doing it backside crook, Is this right?
Are you sure Rodney was doing a nollie pressure hardflip out of the front crook? It looks like he flips the board by hooking his back toe beneath the deck and underflipping
pretty sure, maybe he helps out the rotation a little bit but to get a proper underflip he would have to set it up like on a nerd flip. I Can‘t tell 100% though. if we take the trick no 180 out from almost round three you can tell it‘s very unlikely that there‘s an underflip in there. I think having his foot setup in this position is more like his preference for fs crooked grinds in general. so i‘d say i‘m very confident there‘s no underflip in there but i can not tell 100% if his bf is helping the board to rotate.
Hey Jonny can you front side flip? Am surprised to not see a tutorial on this trick? I've been struggling with it for years and hoping you can do a break down of it, I can do most tricks but this one baffles me. Hope you see this message and come up with something 🙏
Love how your friends make fun of you for not being able to front crook. I’m the only one of my friends that can front crook somewhat decently haha who are your friends damn?!
That looked like an actual bench with back rest. Those benches are rarely flat. That may either help the trick, or make it more difficult. I can see weight placement needing to be vastly different. And hey, don't take it from me, I never amounted to much as a skater. Ski-skating, though...
that one you nearly landed in primo would probably be an NBD, and then whatever you did out of the primo would make it another NBD........................change your name from Jonny G, to Mr. NBD".
Funny, I always just thought that was an ugly nollie backside flip out. I never realized Rodney Mullen was doing all these "non-conventional" tricks because he essentially invented the convention, i.e. flicking the board to flip it, so I always just categorized his tricks according to those basic conventions. Turns out he was doing a hell of a lot of unconventional tricks even in those old Plan B videos that I had no clue he was doing, thinking the whole time he was just doing, for example, a 540 double flip, when in reality it was a... Well, it wasn't.
Yeah, seems like Rodney has had this problem since waaaaaay back, where he's so good, people don't even realise JUST HOW GOOD bc they don't understand wtf he's doing. They think he's insanely good, but he's actually super-insanely good We're definitely not getting another Rodney on this planet for at least 200 years
