Rodney Mullen: The Story Of The First Kickflip 

Alex P other then Jake phelps, jay adams, Jeff grosso, Duane Peters, Christian hosoi, Tony Alva, Stacy Peralta, John Gibson, Alan gelfin, Eric dressen, Mark Gonzales, Natas Kaupas just to name a few

@@williamdoyle8431 im aware everyone of those people played a part, but the person of topic is Rodney Mullen , and i by all the interviews Ive seen he never identified as a punker, a drinker or even tried to be "cool" and not that i have an issue with people who identify as anything i guess he embodied all that is great with skateboarding from his abilities to his personality, once again im sure all of us and Mullen wouldn't be where we are now without everyone who played a part 🙏🌌

I have respect for Rodney and I can’t deny what he did for skating but his personality and him as a person doesn’t remotely strike you as a skateboarder. If you want someone who is a pure skater look at Andy Roy. He’s a pure and true skater TIL the end of fucking time. Plus who ever even cared about freestyle, people would only watch the freestyle contests when Rodney was competing anyway

@@williamdoyle8431 Bro enough. You just sound grumpy and disrespectful. This video was about Rodney, respect the man.

Joel Folkesson I do respect him as a skateboarder and what he did for skating but if you read his book he is constantly talking about how he is the best skater of all time and that he pioneered modern skating and for that I have a dislike towards him

All in Favor say "I"

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We need a Mullen and a Hawk day. They both pioneered in their respective styles. It’s only fair, right? I bet there will be a Mullen day and/or a Hawk day in our lifetime. No doubt.

@@bz_random5804 👁️

He deserves a day! 🤔

Completely agree.

Same, man. The way he speaks about skateboarding is just ethereal. What a gift of a person. Truly an inspiration in skateboarding and the artistic world in general.

I do the same. No matter what.

I could quite frankly watch him talk about ANYTHING. Skating absolutely aside. He is a really genuine person and such a kind heart. A fascinating man, such a great role model for the scene.

Same here man, I'd love if rodney made a podcast or something

God damn perfect analogy👍

Love your videos Charlie

It really is haha

P.R giving good P.R

Ya God is gonna damn those sorcerers

Curt lindgren invented the kickflip in 1978 and rodney mullen modified it in 1982.

@@JudgmentallyRS nah the old school kickflip can't even be considered the same trick, the only thing it has that's the same is both are called kickflip and the board flips but the technique and look of the trick is completely different.

Think they call em gorilla flips now since you grip the board with your toes

@@lmfaodudeplz679 yeah it was technically a Toeflip

Hey man if someone flipped the board under their feet and landed and rode away in 1978 I gotta say that at least mostly counts, toe flip or popped.

ikr ?

Rodney Mullen, Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods GOAT

Then anyone ever landed.

@@NickCADA Rodney is so much more important to skating than those guys are to their respective sport. It’s like if Michael Jordan invented shooting, dunking, and the basket lol

"but im on a longborad tho?" - some random dude on his way to class being pestered by Eric koston

Yeah eric ko stone

so funny : )

first try on a friday ;)

"Come on guy!" 🤷‍♂️😂

YESS! HEY!! @The Berrics Let's make this happen!!

Fr tho

It would be the most polite, “Hey, would mind, if you could do a kick flip, I would appreciate that, thanks “.

He'll do you a double flip reverse late double flip it's like nothing. Lol

YES

Fuck yes

Ask the Nine Club.

Can you imagine the length of that interview.

Kenny Albert if it’s any shorter than Mike V’s, I’d be surprised.

He stays humble, but he definitely expedited the progression of skateboarding. ❤️

Sweetest nicest sounding dude

He reminds me of Crispin Glover

We need examples like Rodney.

Exactly, selfless dedication to the art of skateboarding

Often, those at the very top of their fields are the most humble, and it's the people who feel the need to prove themselves who are most succeptible to arrogance and ego.

because skateboarding isn't only a sport but an art, and as for every arts it connects to your deeper self, where love and humility actualy resides

He's not simple, he's a genius. But he's a humble genius.

🤣

The other 8 witnessed it go down

Phenomenal lol

@Youssef Twiiza how is that racist lol

mullen is older than that film.

It is mind-blowing how young skateboarding is, and how fast it has progressed. People are amazing!

@@berrics the skating is on fire these days including all the equipment, defo..amazing..but remember the late 80s early 90s.. The first time seeing public domain and the progression to video days.. Such a small scene that has exploded to huge proportion. I could never have imagined having skateparks in every town and city, indoor and outdoor. Fantastic for the kids etc We had to build our own with stolen wood from building sites.. Great days.. The days when Vans, Airwalk and Etnies did their thing,.. Adidas and Nike did something else... Till the baggy time came with bearing cover wheels.. Again.. Great days in skateboarding. Respect to all who see the light..

@@berrics 4000 vids welldone!

@@Fvkhh The late 80s - early 90s was just insane time in terms of progression. Like there was many never-been-even-heard-of tricks in pretty much every video. It's insane to think of it now. Back then it was just something of a norm. :D I'm eternally grateful being able to live that perioid of time in skateboarding. I still remember it so well when I saw Rubbish Heap the very first time, when Rodney picks up a regular skateboard after Jeremy Klein breaks his freestyle board. MINDS... WERE... BLOWN... :)

@@blaablaa22 100% dude.. No insta, no RU-vid.. No high fashion, no cell.. Just skateboarding, local shop, new videos, magazines, demos and skaters.... Flip it 30 and we have Louis vittong or some shit plus the Olympics on the horizon.. Unless covid was sent by God to stop it.. I have to say though the Tony hawk game style tricks I see on rails especially.. Blow my mind.. Watching evolution.. But done Switch.. Amazing.

"Maybe they'll get it then"

lol

That's what I like to call a720 flip. In fact I've always dreamed of being able to do one! 😎

@@hittingtax2670 he added another flip to it. so thats a double 360 flip. basicly he did a 360 shov double kickflip

@@nomercy4chomos893 720 shuvit*

Possibly because of his humbleness. He’s not the type to expect everyone to know who he is

He's just a guy "clickin' around" after all :p

True

Manuel (Mogely) Herrera you can tell he loves it so much, it’s awesome

Just watched your new vid. Go check out Mogely's channel people. Qual content 👌

I'm surprised you didn't laugh in the middle of this post.

Ryan Balara what

you have similar spark in you Moges

The yoda of skateboarding 😂 that’s amazing

Best description of Mullen ever.

Flick the board you must.

exactly 👍👍

Junji Ito that should be on a shirt

@Cam Rocket yes and rodney brought both into the streets and flatground and pop so... 😉 There is no question about.. Rodney invented the streetskating as it is known these days. He did not invented skateboarding but he had for sure the biggest impact so far

and when he said he gets nervous around Koston 😭

rodney "yeah i guess i invented the universe or whatever" mullen

he speaks from his heart, you can just tell how much he loves skating

He should be president. But someone so humble would never successfully manipulate the system.

prodandmullen good choice. Prod is buttery.

I had an old myspace and called myself Rodney Mullen kid lol. Email was the same then too with AOL

@@PhaseSkater this is more my era....my brain wouldn't let me think of how young someone had to be to start a youtube channel at 8 years old lol.

@@jamesordwayultralightpilot maybe he's born -96 or something. RU-vid came 2004ish, right?

Should be called spazzedflip

@Cam Rocket Rodney Mullen invented the flatground ollie, Gelfand invented the first ollie in vert.

@Cam Rocket Curt invented what we would call an "old school kickflip". Rodney invented what today is called a kickflip. Why are you lying to make one of the coolest, humblest dudes in the world, look bad?

That is so sick! ✨

Gershon Mosley? Damn that's a throw back!

Gershon was ahead of his time, doing switch tres during runs and had huge kickflips. Love his part in Globe's Opinion, that was my first skate video.

@@Widderic Yo ^^^^

my fist skate vid was ramp riot, wow.

😂 let’s do this! 🎬

@@berrics bet, short film time

We need a movie about Rodney Mullen

@@dannywilliams3764 i will literally watch any video with rodney mullen in it. period. so, yes.

Cool idea, and not to be 'that guy', but wouldn't it take the originality/innovation away from Mullen? Back to the future/Chuck Berry conundrum

Him and Thomas are the greatest in my opinion. They've given so much to the sport and world of skating it isn't even funny. Hawk is like the Stan Lee of skating.

I think Hawk as the Stan Lee and Mullen as the Jack Kirby is a pretty damn good analogy. Both incredible creators, but one comfortable in the spotlight and the other less so, and the latter being the more artistic and creative of the two. Thank god those two are friends because if they hated each other that would fucking suck.

@@TheKyleMark Exactly!

@@TheKyleMark That is a perfect analogy. Now just to explain to people who Jack Kirby is xD

Ahh, you seem to like AFI. A man of culture, I see!

@@Patrick_Andrews917 That's me!

Half cab kickflip underflip is mine

Brad Welch yup..any variations of that underflip are just mind boggling..

doesn't boast about his influence? lol have you watched the bones brigade documentary that most of the real skate world laughed at his portion of? he basically painted himself out to be some kind of mythical figure who discovered and then passed down ancient secrets. talk about self-aggrandizement (read: bs)

Finnish Oltermanni cheese commercial: dude made of cheese riding around a pile of cheese and makes kickflips.

To be fair, we're the ones that make a big deal about it. He's downplaying it pretty hard. Which is endearing as hell.

@@BrokenGodEnt that was TheSamuraiApocalypse's whole point, that it IS a big deal, hell its a massive deal, it is basically one of the core fundamentals on which all modern skateboarding is built, and yet Rodney is so humble he doesnt want to claim it as a big deal himself....

i invented the kickflip guys. Chill

SAME!! i was 10 then, 27 now, but there is no other piece of media that paved my future path as much as THPS2 did. not even half a gigabyte proved to be so formative i would literally be living another life at the moment, would you believe that?

You don’t typically see anyone landing 360 flip darkslides consistently 😂 nowadays. Truly ahead of his time.

Good luck keeping in under 1day

actually he dealt with SO MUCH STRESS for a long period of time when he was pro for swatch, A team ,world industries and plan b when his buddy mike died

He's the opposite of that. He's constantly stressed, even now. He doesn't even enjoy being around other people. He does it because he feels it's his duty and people ask. (Not my words, his.)

@@Nomad_Skateboarding True humility.

@@Nomad_Skateboarding is that from a video?

I cant even kickflip or tre flip properly after 10 years of skating but I can fakie kickflip and big flip with ease. Skateboarding is whacked sometimes.

No comparison at all. Michael Jordan is a complete asshole, Mullen is likeable and humble.

@@jdogstube not to mention Mullen invented street skating. Jordan was the shit at basketball no doubt. But everyone already knew how to dribble.

If all basketball has is Jordan than it’s a good thing the season got cut short because not shit would happen. Oh right. Basketball is boring.

@@jdogstube I'm talking in terms of legacy status, not attitude.

@@franchisepeat Jordan revolutionized his respective game much like Mullen revolutionized the sport of skateboarding.

hi i love watching ur vids

G nigga he said it once

@G Shrooms? Drugs? Shrooms aren't drugs. You have a lot to learn. Psilocybin is a medicine, and natural. Not like the synthetic drugs we chemically create. There's a reason Psilocybin is used to treat depression and to help those who are dying come to terms with their deaths. It's one of the most beautiful substances life has blessed us with.

Cee Truth drugs are another word for medicine, along with other definitions of course

@@camb6818 Right, but if we were to discuss this semantically, then it can accurately be affirmed that both words have their own meanings, regardless of any interplay between them. Psilocybin is only viably labeled as a drug because it's an illegal, controlled substance; however, it is not an addictive substance - ironically, it helps to cure addiction (as well as depression and death woes, as I mentioned). A medicine promotes healing, whether it's physiological or otherwise. A drug does as well, however, "drug" is the pharmacological term for a substance used as medicine, and these substances are mainly synthetic, and mainly serve as a catalyst to the body's chemical processes. You're not wrong, but a derogatory perception is usually associated with the word "drug", predominantly when used to describe a recreational substance - but Psilocybin is much more than that. In fact, continued use of Psilocybin doesn't inspire a recreational use of it - and I say this both from experience and an understanding of it. Even today, Semantics is a dominant field in Philosophy, because it governs language and our understanding of it, as well as the symbols we use to define the world and things around us, so it's important to garner expanded perceptions of language/words that may seem or feel limiting. It's important to recognize distinctions between these terms because the two aren't mutually synonymous, yet they can be (as you said). My only point was that Psilocybin falls under the definition of "medicine" much more strongly than "drug". In fact, the only definable way (as I mentioned above) that it is considered a drug is through the fact that it's an illegal substance that (usually, first timers) are prone to using in social settings (which I highly do not recommend).

Hahaha #2020