Some Rodney flat ground magic plus hitting the ramps as part of the A-Team demo. I tried to keep the editing minimal on this to show how consistently he had these. Uploading more of my footage on Instagram @shreddinontape
@@kyleheaser1089 True, true. I don't think a lot of those kids in 1998 even realized he was doing that all that stuff in 1984, though. His freestyle seemed to get a lot more exposure around 2002. Kids today look at things a little differently, appreciate more styles of skating in general. Things used to be a lot more regimented in terms of what was considered cool.
@@pauldavies8020 I watched all his old Plan B parts yesterday after seeing this clip. There's so much he did back then that is still way beyond next level.
Mullin is legend, but come 89, 91...raw street skating was emerging, h street, blind, launch ramps....and so on boring cites then turned into sk8 places, by waxing curbs and wall riding and such, mullen..early freestyle days twas almost like watching s corny karate tournament. All the other freestyle sk8ers...had nothing compared to Rodney,....the streets were the real open mics...back then ...
@@kmagius he's a really talented skateboarder and he has a youtube channel where he makes videos called The Impossible Tricks of Rodney Mullen where he picks one of Rodneys tricks n tries to land it.
@@likenl4508 Only if you're compensating for something. Christians are way too fond of double standards and selective adherence to Christian values, especially if Republicans. 🤷🏻♂️ Buddhism and Taoism are way less judgemental and much more philosophical. ☮️☯️
I used to work at a skate warehouse in the nineties. One year during Christmas season I bought myself a Plan B Rodney Mullen (Jazz Player) deck just to hang on my wall. And to this day I still have it on my wall. I treasure it.
@Raynard Hymen We probably knew each other, I hung around this park a lot back in 98, Anton used to open up the park for us to do early morning sessions. I drank in the Beat bar. Happy days. :)
@@raynardhymen2139 Anton lives in Oxford now, I see him once in a blue moon, friends on Facebook. I don't see anyone else nowadays though - even though I live up the road - everyone seemed to go their separate ways.
@@ianturnbow7011 Ooooh. Good question. I forgot. Man. I guess Gonz is the one who provided the creative, artistic spirit of it. As in, Gonz took Rodney’s imaginings and applied them to all the streets of the world. Gonz’s approach is always changing and never stagnant and I love that.
This is why Rodney is called the Godfather of Skateboarding. Go to any skatepark or skate spot in the world, and within 5 minutes you'll see at least 3 tricks being done that he invented. No one else can even come close to any kind of claim like that.
You really think no one else would have started trying tricks? I dont mind giving Godney Mullen credit but to claim no one else would have eventually done it is a bit absurd.
He created a style of street dancing on a board(when vert was becoming god) and no one could do it for about a decade, now street skating is the most popular form. Its safe to say Mullen was ahead of his time. Its funny to see the evolution of sk8n - 1st - a silly joke toy 2nd - downhill and pre '79 trix like handstands. 3rd - counter culture and street sk8 tricks evolved bc of urethane wheels, punks mainly - (example)Zephyr team 4th - vert emerges and Mullens board dancing 5th - Bones Brigade formed and created first successful superteam and changes from counter culture to main stream 6th - Vert dominates for a decade 7th - new street sk8rs take it to Mullens lvl and make their own style 8th - commercialized and extremely profitable mainsteam sport Yes im sure ive missed a few trends but this is a run down of how we got to today.
I was there that day, and the A Team also skated at Royal Oak skate park my local spot. I arrived one morning to see the A Team at my local spot it was amazing the level of skating they had.
Still god tier to this day. I'm not super into skating but there are so many of his tricks I still have never really seen duplicated or if they can do something similar that's their big trick and rodney just does it so effortless. Like that 1 foot trick
@@qwerty4134 rodney skated trucks as tight as you could get them. the slightest movement of your ankle would probably lift and spin the board 180 degrees lol
It’s so crazy that by that time all this stuff was looked upon as novelty. I remember having been a street rat then and most everyone in skating thought this would never be cool again.
That man amazed me from day one. First time I saw him was in a Union Skate video back.in the early 90s I believe it was. He was skating to "Dream On". I need to find that video. It was unforgettable.
When my son was about 11 years old he entered a Jaycee Relay Race. He’d never ran track before and didn’t know everybody wore shorts. He came in jeans, to everyone’s amusement. He ran the last leg for his team - and came away the fastest runner of the day, and made up considerable distance to win. This video made me think of that day. How I wish I had been able to see it, instead of only hear and read about it. I was a single mom and had to work. My son was an amazing athlete. ❤️
It’s amazing what you’re capable of when you don’t have outside distractions telling you this is how you run, or this is how you skate. Your son showing up to the track meet in jeans is like Rodney doing flat ground at the skatepark. Do what you love.
Bro so much of this footage is cut I can’t believe the original uploaded to RU-vid in like 2012 and was taken down it was at least 3 minutes but this one is cut but is in better quality? I’m so confused anyways ima have to make some connections I need the full footage asap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Everything about this man is beautiful, he skates like a wizard and speaks like an angel. I would love to sit down and just talk to him for hours. Truly an amazing inspiring person. I wish all good things for Rodney Mullen, he deserves it
*When I bought my first Rodney Mullen deck, all of my friends who skated asked who he was. There was no RU-vid, or anything of the sort. I actually saw him on a VHS skateboard video. I literally had to show people my buddy’s VHS (that I had to borrow), just to show them he was awesome!*
I had a chance to meet Rodney in 1995 @ Dj's Sk8 Shop in Ambridge Pa. We all congregated outside in this empty parking lot around the corner of DJ's. with a few home made pieces of furniture to sk8 around on. He was phenomenal and was a swell dude to talk with. Outstanding.
PlayStation skatepark. I got to skate that place in the summer of 1997. I was a teen and on a family vacation. It was a cool park, under an expressway or something like that. Chicago has a skatepark under an expressway too. The PlayStation park was set up really cool. They had a lot of open space. A lot of what I’m seeing in this video wasn’t there when I skated it.
Rodney is a legend, The Godfather of street skating. He’s probably the only skateboarder where 30 years later very few people can do some of his signature tricks.
Hell yeah! Back in the day you watched stuff with your eyes instead of through your phone. And you could say hi to someone without them being offended or looking at you like an alien
