What I love about this channel is Geiger shows me the amazing tricks I saw by Rodney as a teen. I knew they were weird and hard, but he’s managed to figure out each movement that my VCR didn’t make clear. He’s making the magic... shit... he’s explaining it and it’s still magic.
Truly incredible stuff! It's even more insane when you remember that he had no guide or anything, he had to believe in his abilities that it was possible. What an absolute legend
Believe in yourselves and each other and never give up on your dreams and aspirations and remember to be kind and uplifting to each other and open minded and genuine and respectful and humble.
Amazing work, Jonny.... I can't wait to see you actually skate, or even just interview, Rodney... also, your editing is phenomenal... music, timing, etc. Just Fantastic.
Jonny, I rather enjoy when you talk. Your content is incredibly good and you're very open about your experiences. You make the hardest tricks look easy, so talking about your struggles and successes through the process is something I think makes your channel so friendly. The lack of ego is refreshing. (confidence and ego are very different)
I was doing that in 1992,I was also doing 360 ollies with a kickflip,i dont see many people doing that today.I remember when all this stuff came out.I remember when,nollies and skating switch foot came out,that was interesting.
I think part of Mullen's success was his physicality. Even as a teenager, he had a very specific build and strength to him. Most skaters are kinda built like skinny or gangley or whatever but Mullen was built like someone who'd been walking on their hands and eating with their feet. Hard to explain but he's built like a chimpanzee like monkey strength and fine control. Tricks that other people have to do thousands of times he did after mere 10's and then would get bored and make a new one up. He was like an athlete to me compared to other skaters.
🚨I have an idea for a different type of skate, like trick-unlock skate. So imagine all tricks are in groups, ollies, shuvs, 180s, shuv-flips (hardflips, vheels) and you have to start at ollies and work your way up to the hard stuff by unlocking new levels. You could first do ollie then shuv then 180 etc… So you have to do at least one trick from a group to unlock that group, so you at least have to start with 1 ollie and 1 shuv and so on but you can also do every variation before unlocking the next level if you want to. However once you unlock a new level, no one can do any tricks from any lower levels anymore. So once your in the bigspin level let’s say, you can only do bigspin variations until the next level is unlocked and so once you move from bigspins to shuv-flips, bigspins are no longer available either. You see what I mean? So you’re basically leveling up the difficulty throughout the game. And I’d say once you get to full body 360 flips (blizzard flip, gazelle flips, etc) it’s pretty much game on from there for all the really hard stuff. (Ghetto birds, Merlin’s, late back foot heelflips, shuv late flips). So theoretically you could play a whole game and never get passed shuvs and 180s or you could cycle all the way through to the hardest tricks possible, totally up to the players.
@crazyhiphopp bro I saw Rodney skate in the 90s and saw him do kickflip underflip in all stances on 4 consecutive tries landing every one bolts. He had them locked down.
@@nicholaspossinger7993 yeah a kick flip underflip is a different trick that’s not the trick I was referring to was it? Nice to know everyone’s met Rodney at some point…..
@crazyhiphopp I didn't meet him I saw him skate a park w a bunch of enjoi guys when I was 12 years old. And kick flip underflip in all stances would include nollieflip underflip now wouldn't it?
You should find a street spot for the footplant stuff. I never saw anyone flipping + footplanting a spot like that or down a (small) gap with no grab. Could become a signature move of yours.
Sick! teaching me how to Primo stall and rusty slide manual and half casper and Switch flip session practice Skateboard sometimes in NYC Brooklyn and Manhattan.
jonny please try a BS 360 kickflip frontfoot-underflip (rodneys underflip with a BS 360) down 2, 3 or 4 stairs so you have enough airtime and it looks so much better. 4 stairs would be the cream of the crop. never saw this trick in my life but i know it looks so good :) all the best man! kind greets!
Have you seen the "Bones Brigade: An Autobiography" movie? About 4 minutes and 26 seconds in, Rodney does an ollie airwalk, impossible, flip with the hand trick. What is that trick even called? Would love to if this can be done by others.
Rodney THE GOAT Mullen could do a flat Ollie as his ender and it would be mind blowing cause it’s Mullen he can do whatever he wants. Father of the flip tricks
honestly, my Brain can't even compute the dolphin doubleflip. not even on 0.25 speed. Let alone what ever DArio was doing there. that was amazing :) Every time I just am amazed how Jonny makes a casual video with better tricks than most full Videoparts.
JONNY! PLEASE READ!! My friend jokingly suggested a trick to me, so I laughed it off then began looking for a video but couldn't find one anywhere, so, because you're incredible, could you please try... Blunt slide, impossible out... I can't find any videos if this, if you do find a clip, please send me a link, if not, I think that's a good challenge right?
My God! That seem to come so naturally for you, I mean you basically had It straight away, just perfected the landing. I really think that your execution was slightly above Mullens. Love you content Jonny!
That is hilarious! In a good way. A buddy of mine used to do a trick like that dolphin flip in the mid to late nineties. He figured it out trying to get the board to flip the long way (which he called a dick flip). He would ollie and kick the nose to flip it and it would usually end up flipping in two planes so he started landing it that way. I can’t remember if it was a heal flip or kick flip but it was a late trick like this and the tail end flipped over the nose. Don’t remember what he called it either. FWIW, he did land the dick flip a couple of times.
Dude, you are my favorite skater by far. You ability to control the board in every aspect and to not give up until you make it look perfect is amazing. You're the best. Sorry Mullen...😢
