Rodney Mullen - The Impossible (2018) 

The most important skater of all time

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Love how he has. JPL beenie on, yes his tricks are out of this world

He's got my vote and I was a world champion at one time in Jr mens freestyle sponsored pro

Legend enough SAID🤘

Best skater everrrrr

He is the yoda of skateboarding!

Thank you youtube recommendations for bringing me back to this one. Rodney is King, no argument there. In real-time, you'll be hard pressed to find anyone that does it as smoothly and clean as he does. Almost looks like magic, like he floats in mid-air while the board spins in ways it shouldn't be able to, and then latches back onto his feet. In slow-mo, it looks like he has real-life cheat codes enabled.

You don't even have to be a skater to appreciate the combination of sheer dedication and raw talent boiling down to what could be best described as one of the most complex forms of art. A form of art he almost created single-handedly, which is now a lifestyle for millions upon millions, all centered around his inventions. I mean seriously, very few people like this comes along at all.

Someone please make an anime on skateboarding. At least an anime character can stand a chance to compete with this humble God right here. 0:49

That might be the best impossible I’ve ever seen...and it was nollie...and he’s over 50. Rodney, you are forever one of my heroes.

What's crazy about it is this guy was doing these tricks in the early 1980's...

It’s so amazing to see that the dude who invented the flat ground Ollie and the kick flip, among countless others, is still skating on such a vastly higher tier than so many of some of today’s greats.

2 dislikers broke their ankle just by watching this

Praise the King he invented skateboarding basically

Came here for Rodney Mullen and stayed for Rodney Mullen.

Absolutely amazing. But the mathematics graphics was stupid.

I really wish we could get a proper part from Rodney Mullen again. The last couple times he's filmed something, it's just gone into a RU-vid video edited by someone who wants to turn it into an art piece instead of a skate video. This one is better than the 360 video thing, but still. I'd give anything for a Round 4.

I have practiced for year and I can finally do alllll his moves On ps2

the master Rodney mullen.

The best there was. The best there is. The best there ever will be.

This ended up on my recommendations, which means it probably ended up in yours. If anyone is seeing this video in 2024, please give Dianna from @thephysicsgirl some love. Her team filmed this footage of Rodney and she's been sick for a few years now and was forced to stop doing what she loved.

1:24 thanks for the explanation

It's not much but I learned ollies today

I just found this 2018 Rodney Mullen, and being a Rodney Mullen fan (my #1 sportsperson) I was worried I'd see signs of aging from Rodney. He blew my mind yet again. Greatest of all time. I'm saying this literally with watery eyes.

He will be forever be the Best Freestyle skateboarder in the world👏🏾👏🏾

I passed my physics class based on all those random math equations.

The most creative skater that ever lived, paved the way for every single skater out there

I do not have words to describe Rodney Mullen

He is 52 on this video, if 2018 in title is for real

What is this witchcraft?

The Way Sabbath made Metal, Robert made Skating

I feel like on top of landing complex tricks is how damn clean he lands it

I longpressed the "👍" button thinking I could react a "❤" or "😱".

I was blessed to be able to ride in the '70s...what a beautiful time it was

this flirts with breaking physics as we know it , people don't understand just how much talent and skill you need to do that

The presentation is like he's skating against the dark lord of skating to save the world.

Rodney Mullen is so far beyond any other skater to this day. He has the same kind of tortured genius as Bach or Beethoven. If you watch the bones brigade documentary, his father was going to make him quit skating. So he spent his last summer doing everything he could and he literally found a way to ride every surface of the board and invented or innovated the modern vocabulary of skate tricks. He mastered skateboarding in a way no one else ever will. All modern street skating is just people doing what Rodney Mullen did, but shittier. Goat 🐐 💯

The boss man himself

It blows my mind everytime I think about all the tricks he invented.

can we get rid of this audio and the stupid "e=mc.." visual effect written on screen

The guy that invented modern skateboarding.

El mejor skater de todos los tiempos sin duda alguna.

I love how the edits are more or less telling a story, so chronologically, it goes from: "Skateboarding tricks consist of so many different mathematical proportions, equations and physics, that are not for the faint of heart. It requires knowledge, trial and error to master and refine such skills" to: "sTeP fOoT dOwN, oThEr EnD oF bOaRd Go Up!1!!1!"

if feet on the ground was allowed in games of SKATE no one would ever beat him

FYI: your equations of dynamic motion are wrong.

🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐

Forever be my favorite skateboarder. Makes it look so easy. Always would choose to be him in THPS.

Rodney Mullen could probably skate before he could walk.

Can’t believe he can still do this stuff it’s like watching public domain I keep waiting for mike v to run out and ask if we wanna go skate

Kids today have no idea.. something as complex as a front foot impossible is like 2nd grade to him… he invented virtually all basic flatland tricks. I know he’s proud of what variations came along… but we owe it all to him

🙏age is just number !!! he is master of illusions

I dont even Skate but I know Rodney Mullen is the Tesla of skate boarding.

Rodney es el Ronaldinho del Skate 🔥🔥🔥 Para mi el mejor que llevo esto a otro nivel!

Grande crack! Un saludo desde Punta Arenas, Chile!!!

I would have appreciated to have slow motion 20 years ago !!! i would have saved time !!! 😊😊😊 and skulls 😇😇😇 thanks RODNEY

Rodneyldo Mulleninho "Jogo Bonito"

А сердечко на спине зачем?)

Great music!

中坊の頃仲間内ではスターだったな 25年以上前だけど プランBじゃなかったっけ？VHS見てたなw

I love how when he spins he sticks his arms out like he's channeling some sort of ancient skater force.

Doesn’t the impossible go the other way? I thought the board was basically supposed to do a full backflip, not a front flip? Edit: yeah just looked it up everyone else has it go backwards? Looks cooler that way IMO😃 search shoomsky, he has a sick slow mo vid

Thats all great, but can he look as amateur as I look when I skate? Nope.....Rodney could probably underflip a butter knife and still look good....

I will say one thing this trick has always been *IMPOSSIBLE* for me. But then again I’m not the best skater in the world like Rodney Mullen.

The skate of all Gods 💪🔥 True legend true G.O.A.T. There's just no other Thank you Mr Mullen Thank you very much 😊

I heard something about skateboarding making the Olympic games. If this is true, then Rodney already won. This guy is a beast.

No current skater not even the riders of nike sb can match the overlord

For me he's the greatest and most important skater of all time, it's not to diminish what Tony Hawks was, but for me Rod is the forerunner of everything, he just created things from nothing. Tony had a role unique in history that was to spread the sport, without him skateboarding would not have the popularity it has today. I imagine that if, at the time Rod started, there were already social networks and the internet easily accessible, today he would be a freak on digital media, Facebook, Instagram, tiktok and etc.

Wow I enjoyed that

For the first time playing tony hawk pro skater, i thought Tony was the legend. Apparently not. The legend is still Rodney Mullen until now.

The best

Nobody will ever be as good as Rodney.

Nothing quite like a good ol' fashioned heli-pop!!

Putting those physics formulas in while he’s doing the tricks is so fucking pretentious, like “woahhh mannn he’s like a genius mannnn”

He's the greatest ever!!!

i feel like if Rodney didn't make a career as a pro skater (and likely the best to ever live), he'd have made an olympic class figure skater. the grace is off the scales

Still my favorite skater till this day. 😎

Rodney Mullen is to skateboarding what Doom was to first person shooters.

Dae Won disliked this video.

That's how an impossible should look, not that 3 shuv bullshit everybody does

still got it

No man alive has the incredible balance , hang time or creativity l Of Rodney Mullen .

1:42 after everything you see this just goes to show how difficult rodneys tricks were 🤯🤝🏼

What's the name of the first trick he does? Ridiculous.

Mullen is just ridiculous in the most positive way I can think of

I hate when they do the "look at the arithmetics in his mind", like the actual skating and landing isn't enough

The man that single-handedly invented modern skateboarding

Feels like I'm watching a maestro, that has the eternal flow of energy. Pure magical.

1:16 this looks so simple yet its almost impossible. i've tried. like idk how he can just push down and make it spin so many times, 0:48 let alone find a way to catch it in casper during the spin

The Leonardo Da Vinci of skateboarding.

The Tony Hawk game series should have been Rodney Mullens pro skater instead...

Undisputed God of skateboarding.

Jaw-dropping skills. Rodney is a the GOAT.

This guy is the reason aliens have not yet destroyed our planet.

the Eddie van Halen of Skateboarding

best board control and balance of any skater that has ever lived

I used to watch this Frikstobal channel back in the day when I was younger, RU-vid recommended just hit me with this. 😂 The algorithm has spoken

The math/physics part is easier than the tricks

But danny still freed the slaves brooo

Often Imitated..... ........Never duplicated