Rodney's mind is only limited by his body. Anything this man had decided to do he would have been extremely successful. Skateboarding is extremely lucky to have been chosen by Rodney.
Love the raw footage. 30 years later I am still amazed by Rodney. I am back skating after a 30 year break. Best decision I have made for myself in a long time.
Nice, Im comming back after about a 25 year break, just turned 45. Biggest difference for me (besides obviously not being as athletic and still trying to get my balance and pop back) is now I'm afraid of getting hurt cause I can't afford to miss work, that and my recovery is much slower, already rolled an ankle just a couple weeks after buying my first deck in over 20 years.
I recently started after only like an 8 years break. Take it slow. In your mind you can/want to do all the things you could do back in the day but your body says otherwise lol. I fell trying to ollie manual a box and road rashed the side of my face :(.
Brandon Vaughn trying to take it to slow but these young kids keep pushing me. Grinded the coping in the bowl for the first time last night check it out.
Skateboarding Progression @40+ , thanks for the heads up on your videos. I'm 35 and my son is getting into skating now and it's making me want to get another short board. I've been slow cruising around the neighborhood with 4 wheels on the ground for the past 20 years, but haven't tried a single trick in forever.
watching him do those rail stands and flipping back and forth, his balance is incredible. I mean obviously skateboarders have great balance but he's on a totally different level
DAMN. (that was the trick i was gonna comment on too) just, wow. fck you rodney, but seriously... DAMN. 90% of these tricks no other "pro" is pulling off today in street comp(or able to).
@@UnkleBen I'm old but when I was a kid Rodney was so far ahead of every other human with a board. Daewan had great style but even he wasnt near Rodney's truck vocabulary and fluidity. What's really heartbreaking, is pros now are great but theres been none to approach Mullen. Maybe one day Andy Anderson will be close but for now... its Mullen for life.
This just beautiful. There's no other way to describe it. Pure, unadulterated beauty. Rodney is easily one of the most extraordinary human beings to ever live. And I say that as someone who doesn't even know how to skateboard. I just love watching it. Always have.
Pretty sure ive seen every one of those clips. And im happy to watch them again. Mullen is the goat imo. Unparalleled skill and innovation, with the most kind and modest personality.
Jason I Thought Id Catch You In These Here Comments But A Nobel Prize Is Not Suitable For EveryOne Even Me My Brother You Dont Have To Flex On EveryBody AnyWays You Realize That,Its One Thing To Have Super Powers But Using These Powers For Evil Is No Good Either Now Is It I May Be Dumb But I Never Used A Gun Unless I Was On The Run I Done Socked Too Many Peoples Blocks Off But At What Cost Thats All Im Hearing Through My Ears I Feel Like The White Version Of 2Pac Not Because I Shed All Of These Tears They Used To Hate Now EveryBodys Now Leaving Camp Crystal Cakes How I Make Them Buns Clap Together Like My @ssCheeks Got Painted CamoFlauge In Stormy Weather I Just Wanted My Cut Like The Shredder Im Done Being The Hero Of A lost Cause I Done Been Robbed,Been Shot,Stayed In Them Cell Blocks Like You Put Me In The Box But Im Thinking Not So Try To Hide My Eyes Behind All The PotSmoke Il Force Choke You From All Angles Im No Stranger To Leaving Haters Screaming Danger Danger I Aphyxiated Her Like Popsicle Sticks Till She Snaps Back Like My Hats I Cant Leave My Crib With All Of This Pain That Iv Went Through I Tread On Thin Water But Before Jason And Freddy Krueger Were Born I Was Mix N Matching Witch One Im Gonna Have To Hunt Down Next Like When I Forgot How To Queef OOps Accidental Leak From UnderNeath Her Teeth Call Me A Leech-(DustinLeeAkaTheUltimateSpiderMan)
Love, Love, Love Rodney Mullen. Literally singly responsible for me getting hooked on skateboarding when I was younger. Thank you for putting this footie up.
I hope I'm wrong but this guy doesn't get the recognition he deserves outside of the world of skating. I mean you ask someone who's never picked up a board if they know Rodney Mullen, they will probably say no. I'd put this guy on par with or above historical artists and yet everyone knows those names.
I said it in another video: there was a time when saying that Rodney Mullen was your favorite skater was the equivalent of a mall grab. People looked at you like you were a poser. It wasn´t "cool"; what it was cool is to name some other skaters, pretty good of course, but not Rodney. I never understood that. Now he is getting the recognition, but he deserves way more. He is an awesome guy, inspiring, and living history.
@@jamesmata2945 he's known to skaters, but in my opinion he should be as known if not more known than Tony Hawk. Street skating as we know it today would not exist without this man.
@@ScrappEfolkz that's right, he's still not well known outside of skating, maybe in America he might be im not sure but here in Australia I don't know anyone who has heard of him if I mention his name. But mention Tony hawk and even my dad knows who he is...
The thing I love most about Rodney is that he is so humble and kind even while doing these outta the world tricks. He is a pioneer of love and skateboarding.
When I first saw that I just assumed it was a hospital flip, but after watching it like three times in slow motion I actually have no idea what’s even happening.
I think what's even more impressive about Rodney is the fact that he's pigeon toed and able to do all this insane stuff. He makes skating look like an artform love it, I wanna see him skate again we only get little snippets here and there but nothing really big!
Such a pioneer. I think I get more stoked off some old school Rodney clips than I do off a 2018 Nyjah session. Bad comparison but still follow both sides of skating.
A true legend in his own time. How his mind and body work together in such harmony to provide such blistering speed and accuracy to deliver some of these tricks is simply astonishing. I doubt the world of skateboarding will ever see anything quite like Rodney Mullen ever again.
Rodney was so underappreciated when I was a kid in the 1990s, he was just known as the freestyle guy with a skinny ass board. So glad to see him getting his recognition finally!
I wouldn’t really call most of this rare. A lot of this footage was used in his videos from the late 90’s, early 2000’s. I specifically remember seeing quite a bit of it in Rodney Mullen vs. Daewon Song rounds 1 and 2.... Incredible footage though, as always when dealing with Rodney Mullen.
That standing casper drop to primo was crazy, and he made it look like it was nothing :) True legend, there will not be anyone to compare against him, ever. And here was the only swear word i have ever heard from him, and it only made him look more humble and human. Good example that words also have much more power if you just use them wisely. Thanks!
Yeah not many clips of him grinding rails he mainly stuck to curbs, ledges, benches and picnic tables. I'm guessing the rail clips are from one of the plan b videos were Mullen was basically forced to start street skating like everyone else at the time. and if i recall the director was the one that encouraged him to take his crazy freestyle tricks to the streets... Mike Ternasky
i love when i see people complaining about certain skeaters not skating certain obstacles, people skate whatever they wanna skate, whenever they wanna do it, isn't that the beauty of skateboarding?
Only after all these years we actually comprehend what the fuck was he doing. I wish Rodney was gifted with ageless body, he had so much more ideas he would have realized but his body couldn't carry that much of abuse.
We weren’t retards c’mon. Every skateboarder in the early to mid 90’s knew very well what he was doing and he was the idol of a whole generation of young street skaters. We would spend hours upon hours in a parking lot trying to emulate him and realizing just how insanely hard everything he did with ease. Hell even skateparks were deserted for a while, we all wanted to be like Mullen and transform a simple flat ground spot and a curb into an outlet for creativity.
When it comes to the truest essence of what is skateboarding... There is nor will ever be any greater than Rodney. What his feet were able to do with a board... beautiful magic
Maybe about 30% of these tricks I could almost swear they were in Globe’s Opinion film. Are some of these tricks just throw-outs, different angles, re-takes, etc.? There are some iconic looking darkslides and combos on the picnic tables. Thanks for the footy either way.
I think it was more referring to being non tony hawk pro skater video clips... like the videos you unlock for each pro skater which is were many young skaters were first introduced to the legend of Rodney Mullen, and are the video parts that people are most fimilar with... I havent seen them in years so could be wrong but I think most of these clips are from his actual video parts, not from the video games vid clips... and unless you were buying skateboard videos back in the day, then theres a lot of his early stuff that you'd have missed... keeping in mind youtube didnt launch till 2005... which by that time we already had pro skaters 1-4, the 2 underground games, and american wasteland game... I think most big Mullen fans have seen the majority of his work over the years but for the average/casual skater fan that just knows him as the freestyle skater from the video games they may have never seen a lot of this stuff... and I feel like some of these clips have been fixed to be slightly higher quality then what is available to watch on youtube (many early mullen clips/parts that are on youtube are shitty quality having been filmed on vhs cameras combined with having been uploaded in the early days of youtube... the coolest/rarest part to me was the ending where he seems to be explaining either to a skating peer or some young fans the art of rail slides/flips.
This is the Tesla of the skateboarding world, he is the man who came up with the shape of skateboards today ( it's a freestyle boards bigger brother) , thank you for sharing this great footage , and thank you Rodney Mullen for everything you did for skateboarding .....
Yeah if i remember correctly in like the early-mid 90s when i started skating wheel sizes were only like 40-50mm max! I feel like there may have even been 30-35mm wheels then but there definitely wasn't any 50+mm wheels or if there was they were rarely seen besides of course on long board. I do recall hearing or seeing something about how Rodney preferred ultra small wheels compared to the industry standards and would wear his wheels down so much he might as well been skating on straight bearings haha... maybe 30-35mm was his preferred wheel size but no one made them so he would wear them down himself to the size he wanted or some shit like that... Im positive ive heard a story along those lines cause even compared to other classic skate parts from the same era, Rodneys wheels still look small in comparison but I know for the tech skating Rodney does/did, having a lower center of gravity is preferred, which is part of why he skated small wheels and later invented tensor low trucks...
Tyson was spot on, except there were a (very) few big wheels out there..probably maxing out around 80mm, but almost no one used them. By the mid/late 90s larger wheels started making a comeback.
Well back in my days, sometime after the ceramic wheels turned in to urethane and using nose of the board for switchstance was invented..:D This was the era when boarding went from slalom, street surfing, free riding and pipe, to street spots, ledges, rails, kickers and ramps. This also means that the speeds in those spots were much slower and you could choose better flat grounds to do the new advanced technical tricks. And for what i know Rodney has always been trying to invent new ways to make better / lighter and more balanced boards, trucks, shapes and materials. So at mid 90's the board and trucks got much thinner, had their first real nose and it was common to take the new wheel to some machine worker who had lathe, to take some extra weight of the wheels (so they were made to be thinner and smaller). The wheels got larger again when the drops and ledges started to grow and there was more need for speed in rough spots. Skateboarding will always be mainly measured by real raw skills but there really is a aspect on the importance of your gear vs your style and preferences. It has often been common to make line to your grip tape to see nose or tail and where to put your legs to get the board flip better, some people use lead weights to balance their board, Daewon doesn't use bushings, some like thin, wide or slick boards, some like thin shoes and others like them to be stiff, some people think its gay to use protective pads, and it effects on your style if you think that your swag looks cool, etc. Seems like the difference in these things is more in our heads than in physical reality. Things that bother us often amplify if we are required to show something to others. The magic in your true feeling sounds like hippie, but its real when it comes to extreme performance. That's also what separates competitive skateboarding from natural skateboarding. It's also very different to film skateboarding alone in peace and safe place, or when there is kids, beautiful women, and commentators screaming and looking at you.
Love Rodney. He’s such a unique soul and the most badass skater I ever did see. Watching him skate could bring tears to my eyes; it’s as beautiful as figure skating.
Rodney's mind is only limited by his body. Anything this man had decided to do he would have been extremely successful. Skateboarding is extremely lucky to have been chosen by Rodney.
jack attack yep, he's one of those people.
That's actually true haha.
absolutely
jack attack Nicely put.
Well said my man
I don't really care about skateboarding, but what Rodney does isn't just skating - it's goddamn *art*
skateboarding in general is art. there are also people nowadays which are as creative as rodney on their boards. check out Andy Anderson!
He invented modern skateboarding
@@Adventrenewsson
And boards too 😀
It took years for skateboarding to catch up to Rodney Mullen.
more like decades
It still hasn't
exactly still hasn't
Nailed it!
Milao Loading and we're still not quite on his level. I can't do half of this in ea skate
Rodney Mullen is the face of skateboarding for me.
I only would trade of your phrase "face" for" god"..
"God".
Rodney Mullen doesn't skateboard...
Skateboarding Rodney Mullens.
:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD made my day, thank you!
The greatest Street technician to have ever lived period!.
@@MarcVintage co ty tu 😂😂😂
:DDD aaa pohledme kdo se kouka na mastera :D
This comment makes no flipping sense 😂
The last couple of minutes in the car park are just jaw dropping.
I was amazed
A legend!
I never saw that footy....awesome. The rest was just from thps2 and the deca vid
Lol
Even RODNEY was amazed like whaat?
Love the raw footage. 30 years later I am still amazed by Rodney. I am back skating after a 30 year break. Best decision I have made for myself in a long time.
Nice, Im comming back after about a 25 year break, just turned 45. Biggest difference for me (besides obviously not being as athletic and still trying to get my balance and pop back) is now I'm afraid of getting hurt cause I can't afford to miss work, that and my recovery is much slower, already rolled an ankle just a couple weeks after buying my first deck in over 20 years.
I recently started after only like an 8 years break. Take it slow. In your mind you can/want to do all the things you could do back in the day but your body says otherwise lol. I fell trying to ollie manual a box and road rashed the side of my face :(.
Gettin Radd & Fuggin Bustn, pads help a lot took a good slam yesterday, check out my newest video. It was gnarly.
Brandon Vaughn trying to take it to slow but these young kids keep pushing me. Grinded the coping in the bowl for the first time last night check it out.
Skateboarding Progression @40+ , thanks for the heads up on your videos. I'm 35 and my son is getting into skating now and it's making me want to get another short board. I've been slow cruising around the neighborhood with 4 wheels on the ground for the past 20 years, but haven't tried a single trick in forever.
Even more mind blowing when you think about how old most of these clips are
watching him do those rail stands and flipping back and forth, his balance is incredible. I mean obviously skateboarders have great balance but he's on a totally different level
RIPJimmyA7X most definitely
who you think invented manual? :P
Pure dedication and mastery. No one really matches Mullen in this era, maybe our lifetime.
Blred19 Blred19 killian Martin is close
LOL check out Ritchie Jackson. Ritchie and Rodney my two favourites.
No one will get close. Rodney does tricks that only he can do. Not just a few, but hundreds.
Daewon.....dude bends the laws of physics....
Alexander Rademaker (pooponunicycle) does crazy stuff too :D
Rodney Mullen's Pro Skater
Rekkn_ that's a game I would buy in a heartbeat!
Tony Hawk? who?
yeah yeah compare top vert playa to street technical master, go on, I'm listening
If things had gone differently in his life, I reckon we would have all been playing Christian Hosoi pro skater.
Yes plzz
Rodney Mullen is LEGENDARY!!!
Such a sick skater epic what a legend thanks for the upload
If this came out as a part today it would still blow minds
Gettin Radd & Fuggin Bustn it just did and still is... your point is? Lol
Its all old clips that almost everyone that knows anything about skateboarding has seen, not a new part.
Unfortunately these days if it ain’t big gaps and long kinked rails, people don’t wanna know about it.
Yeah it's questionable, virtual reality,....I think opinion is in there....
Please let me just get one underflip, before I die.....
@@marco77ar did you get the underflip yet??? 🤔
thank you so much , i almost seen every clip in there but having him with the original clips is soooo satisfying
Nicht nur als Skateboarder , auch als Persönlichkeit eine absolute Legende.Danke für deine Kunst,Rodney🙏😎👍🏻
"oh you know what would be cool too?" Casper to primo first try
I know right fml
DAMN. (that was the trick i was gonna comment on too) just, wow. fck you rodney, but seriously... DAMN. 90% of these tricks no other "pro" is pulling off today in street comp(or able to).
@@UnkleBen I'm old but when I was a kid Rodney was so far ahead of every other human with a board. Daewan had great style but even he wasnt near Rodney's truck vocabulary and fluidity. What's really heartbreaking, is pros now are great but theres been none to approach Mullen. Maybe one day Andy Anderson will be close but for now... its Mullen for life.
minute?
@@tryfergoodra552 9:15
This just beautiful. There's no other way to describe it. Pure, unadulterated beauty. Rodney is easily one of the most extraordinary human beings to ever live. And I say that as someone who doesn't even know how to skateboard. I just love watching it. Always have.
I love this guy such a dork, totally original and seems like a nice human
Pretty sure ive seen every one of those clips. And im happy to watch them again. Mullen is the goat imo. Unparalleled skill and innovation, with the most kind and modest personality.
Always has and will always be my favorite. Game changing guy right here!
Jason I Thought Id Catch You In These Here Comments But A Nobel Prize Is Not Suitable For EveryOne Even Me My Brother You Dont Have To Flex On EveryBody AnyWays You Realize That,Its One Thing To Have Super Powers But Using These Powers For Evil Is No Good Either Now Is It I May Be Dumb But I Never Used A Gun Unless I Was On The Run I Done Socked Too Many Peoples Blocks Off But At What Cost Thats All Im Hearing Through My Ears I Feel Like The White Version Of 2Pac Not Because I Shed All Of These Tears They Used To Hate Now EveryBodys Now Leaving Camp Crystal Cakes How I Make Them Buns Clap Together Like My @ssCheeks Got Painted CamoFlauge In Stormy Weather I Just Wanted My Cut Like The Shredder Im Done Being The Hero Of A lost Cause I Done Been Robbed,Been Shot,Stayed In Them Cell Blocks Like You Put Me In The Box But Im Thinking Not So Try To Hide My Eyes Behind All The PotSmoke Il Force Choke You From All Angles Im No Stranger To Leaving Haters Screaming Danger Danger I Aphyxiated Her Like Popsicle Sticks Till She Snaps Back Like My Hats I Cant Leave My Crib With All Of This Pain That Iv Went Through I Tread On Thin Water But Before Jason And Freddy Krueger Were Born I Was Mix N Matching Witch One Im Gonna Have To Hunt Down Next Like When I Forgot How To Queef OOps Accidental Leak From UnderNeath Her Teeth Call Me A Leech-(DustinLeeAkaTheUltimateSpiderMan)
The mastermind of street skatings evolution, you never get bored of watching rodney skate.The most intuitive skater to ever walk the planet.
Award this man a Nobel prize. Well overdue.
Pfffft. Nobel doesn't deserve to be awarded a Rodney Mullen.
Rodney did believe Nobel Prizes are like a tombstone for creators.
Love, Love, Love Rodney Mullen. Literally singly responsible for me getting hooked on skateboarding when I was younger. Thank you for putting this footie up.
GENIUS...
Rodney Mullen is the Godfather of Skateboarding
He Skates in a class of his own, freaking awesome. Thanx for the upload :)
Such board control!!! Rodney's a legend and for good reason... I could watch his skating for daysss! Thanks for sharing.
I hope I'm wrong but this guy doesn't get the recognition he deserves outside of the world of skating. I mean you ask someone who's never picked up a board if they know Rodney Mullen, they will probably say no. I'd put this guy on par with or above historical artists and yet everyone knows those names.
Benjamin Critchlow no he's pretty well know tbh
He has a pretty awesome Ted Talk video.
I said it in another video: there was a time when saying that Rodney Mullen was your favorite skater was the equivalent of a mall grab. People looked at you like you were a poser. It wasn´t "cool"; what it was cool is to name some other skaters, pretty good of course, but not Rodney. I never understood that. Now he is getting the recognition, but he deserves way more. He is an awesome guy, inspiring, and living history.
@@jamesmata2945 he's known to skaters, but in my opinion he should be as known if not more known than Tony Hawk. Street skating as we know it today would not exist without this man.
@@ScrappEfolkz that's right, he's still not well known outside of skating, maybe in America he might be im not sure but here in Australia I don't know anyone who has heard of him if I mention his name. But mention Tony hawk and even my dad knows who he is...
I could watch his videos all day. What an amzing talent that man is.
The greatest of all time.
4:37 - He is literally a wizard. He can ollie/nollie without actually slapping the end of the board down. Seriously, go watch....
1:02 greatest thing I’ve ever seen!!
incredible, I have seen all this footage lots before but will sit and watch again and again.
The thing I love most about Rodney is that he is so humble and kind even while doing these outta the world tricks. He is a pioneer of love and skateboarding.
6:07 are you serious?!?!?!?!!
I'm sayin! When that happened, I had to go back like 3 times. I'm gonna go back in slow motion now..
When I first saw that I just assumed it was a hospital flip, but after watching it like three times in slow motion I actually have no idea what’s even happening.
It looks like a heel flip to toe flip. Insane.
This raw footage is the best footage I've ever seen of Rodney Mullen hands down. Ty!
rodney mullen.because of him i started to skate. even though skate boarding is not that a good thing to do in the Philippines
THESEEKER Desperate keep it up man!
Skateboarding is for everyone no matter where you live. Express yourself : )
This video was awesome! All of my favorite Mullen moments are on here!!
This will never be irrelevant.
he is the most fun person to watch on a skatebord ever a perfect blend between technical and having fun
When he slams those primo slides it's like asmr to me.
I love mixing in different forms of Caspers in my combinations. Darkslide and flip into a Casper plus whatever flip out.
It never gets old watching Mullen skate. The true champ of skateboarding
So sick!!! Super amped to skate later because of this
Could watch this a hundred times. The original OG
If you ask someone who the goat skateboarder and they don't say Rodney Mullen. They are not to be trusted.
Lmao
Its never get old.watching him skate,or creating Art is pure joy.
5:08 those wheels! I remember the days of the tiny wheels, like 42mm, fat ass decks, and HUGE pants😂
circa'93-'94
he's so happy
Best skating footage I have ever seen hands down. What a King 👑👑👑
Goat! The chuck norris of skateboarding
jjforeal2 not even chuck was this good at what he does
chuck can easily make one foot fakie 720 quadruple kickflip sexchange to handstand darkslide 720 gazelle flip out
jjforeal2 I see Bruce Lee not Chuck Norris
So amazing to watch this old raw footage! Mullen is incredible
Every trick in this video he invented. Well most of them anyway. His moves will be studied for centuries to come.
Skateboarding is "The House that Rodney Built"
Centuries lol
@DB Cooper's MoneyBags No worries bro
@DB Cooper's MoneyBags My tummy hurts
I think what's even more impressive about Rodney is the fact that he's pigeon toed and able to do all this insane stuff. He makes skating look like an artform love it, I wanna see him skate again we only get little snippets here and there but nothing really big!
Such a pioneer. I think I get more stoked off some old school Rodney clips than I do off a 2018 Nyjah session. Bad comparison but still follow both sides of skating.
Brandon C sounds like ur just stating a reasonable fact of ur opinion. No caparison needs to be made
So nice to finally watch these without having to listen to someone's idea of good music..thank you!!
6:03 just wow. How he can do that?
seriously. or many kick drop to many and kickflp out !!?? inhuman... 🤯
Magnets!!! Or magic, I'm not too sure...
Most innovative skater ever! It's thanks to him that we have most of the awesome tricks we see today.
Mullen must go through nine boards a session. Love it.
This is the best skateboarding video ever made.
This is so dope
A true legend in his own time. How his mind and body work together in such harmony to provide such blistering speed and accuracy to deliver some of these tricks is simply astonishing. I doubt the world of skateboarding will ever see anything quite like Rodney Mullen ever again.
I've never seen Rodney not land a trick until now. Feels good to know he doesn't land it all first try lol. Must have taken alot of work.
Legend!
Thanks for uploading
People are strange when you're a stranger
Anyone get that?
Of course, I love the Beatles (JK)
Ramoning Stones
yup. It was a clip from one of his skate vids.
The Doors
Douglas Mcdonald Rodney vs Daewon round 1
Fantastic👍👍Thank you for posting
The GOAT
Thanks so much for sharing this!
Great compilation alot of it is from my 1st skate video and my intro to Rodney. Globe's opinion.
Those last few minutes are an artist at work and it’s beautiful
This is like watching someone play THPS doing only special moves
I remember back in the early 90s I was 11 and learning to ollie. Watching Rodney Mullen for the first time, everything was incomprehensible.
I can barely nose manual and he does this in my face. - 2:21
Rodney was so underappreciated when I was a kid in the 1990s, he was just known as the freestyle guy with a skinny ass board. So glad to see him getting his recognition finally!
I wouldn’t really call most of this rare. A lot of this footage was used in his videos from the late 90’s, early 2000’s. I specifically remember seeing quite a bit of it in Rodney Mullen vs. Daewon Song rounds 1 and 2.... Incredible footage though, as always when dealing with Rodney Mullen.
Maybe the rare thing, is, that we see the bails and fails from the 90s Plan B-videos.
That standing casper drop to primo was crazy, and he made it look like it was nothing :) True legend, there will not be anyone to compare against him, ever. And here was the only swear word i have ever heard from him, and it only made him look more humble and human. Good example that words also have much more power if you just use them wisely. Thanks!
The two tricks at 6:04 are like... WHAT?!?! I didn't even understand what had happened at the second one (after handstand to manual)
That was a varial heel underflip lol he created underflips along with 90% of tricks in this video :p he's honestly mind blowing
I'll never get tired of watching Rodney
Hes from other planet....no doubt
Not even a skater but this guy is a legend and simply brilliant. Love to see the skill and creativity to his skating.
2:36 for people saying he can't do rails...haha!
Yeah not many clips of him grinding rails he mainly stuck to curbs, ledges, benches and picnic tables. I'm guessing the rail clips are from one of the plan b videos were Mullen was basically forced to start street skating like everyone else at the time. and if i recall the director was the one that encouraged him to take his crazy freestyle tricks to the streets... Mike Ternasky
Mullen always skated streets you fucking ninny.
i love when i see people complaining about certain skeaters not skating certain obstacles, people skate whatever they wanna skate, whenever they wanna do it, isn't that the beauty of skateboarding?
Everything is amazing, but I love the way he utilized all the benches. Most other skaters completely ignore them. GOAT.
The best
Just almost every trick.. looks so clean . He rides away like it’s nothing. Amazing man
I came looking for treasure and instead, I found Atlantis.
1:03 this was the first casper slide ever recorded. The reaction says it all
Still in my opinion “The King of Freestyle”, OG Bones Brigade!
Rodney Mullen is to skateboarding what Jimi Hendrix was to guitar playing. No one will ever equal their genius. What an inspiration.
Only after all these years we actually comprehend what the fuck was he doing. I wish Rodney was gifted with ageless body, he had so much more ideas he would have realized but his body couldn't carry that much of abuse.
I was thinking the same thing, it probably was just trickery for most people watching hil but now we understand how crazy his tricks are
wadest me au why now and not before?
We weren’t retards c’mon. Every skateboarder in the early to mid 90’s knew very well what he was doing and he was the idol of a whole generation of young street skaters. We would spend hours upon hours in a parking lot trying to emulate him and realizing just how insanely hard everything he did with ease. Hell even skateparks were deserted for a while, we all wanted to be like Mullen and transform a simple flat ground spot and a curb into an outlet for creativity.
I actually had the opportunity to skate with Rodney and watch him in the early 90's. This guy was a machine. So far ahead of his time.
Light years ahead of da game
When it comes to the truest essence of what is skateboarding... There is nor will ever be any greater than Rodney. What his feet were able to do with a board... beautiful magic
Wonder why he never does noseslides or tailslides?
salty3180 Darkslide! Nuff said!
Maybe because flipping out of those is harder
I mean like al his crazy flip tricks
Damn. I've watched almost every video of his and just now realized he's never done a tail or nose slide. Maybe its his Achilles heel.
Too basic for him
The Godfather of skateboarding!! Glad I got to see him back in the 80's...the Greatest Of All Time...hail Rodney Mullen!!
Maybe about 30% of these tricks I could almost swear they were in Globe’s Opinion film. Are some of these tricks just throw-outs, different angles, re-takes, etc.? There are some iconic looking darkslides and combos on the picnic tables. Thanks for the footy either way.
I think it was more referring to being non tony hawk pro skater video clips... like the videos you unlock for each pro skater which is were many young skaters were first introduced to the legend of Rodney Mullen, and are the video parts that people are most fimilar with... I havent seen them in years so could be wrong but I think most of these clips are from his actual video parts, not from the video games vid clips... and unless you were buying skateboard videos back in the day, then theres a lot of his early stuff that you'd have missed... keeping in mind youtube didnt launch till 2005... which by that time we already had pro skaters 1-4, the 2 underground games, and american wasteland game... I think most big Mullen fans have seen the majority of his work over the years but for the average/casual skater fan that just knows him as the freestyle skater from the video games they may have never seen a lot of this stuff... and I feel like some of these clips have been fixed to be slightly higher quality then what is available to watch on youtube (many early mullen clips/parts that are on youtube are shitty quality having been filmed on vhs cameras combined with having been uploaded in the early days of youtube... the coolest/rarest part to me was the ending where he seems to be explaining either to a skating peer or some young fans the art of rail slides/flips.
Some of that first footage was from 93 Plan b virtual reality..good video all around and some was from Rodney vs Dawon..and what you said
Tyson stop fucking dropping million word nonsense comments!!
take a chill pill dude
Topher Henley Its raw footage. Theres no music.
This is the Tesla of the skateboarding world, he is the man who came up with the shape of skateboards today ( it's a freestyle boards bigger brother) , thank you for sharing this great footage , and thank you Rodney Mullen for everything you did for skateboarding .....
I love how he rode his wheels down to like 12 mm😂 All that skating ig👌💯
Oh No
it used to be a trend in the 90's. Small wheels, big pants
Yeah if i remember correctly in like the early-mid 90s when i started skating wheel sizes were only like 40-50mm max! I feel like there may have even been 30-35mm wheels then but there definitely wasn't any 50+mm wheels or if there was they were rarely seen besides of course on long board. I do recall hearing or seeing something about how Rodney preferred ultra small wheels compared to the industry standards and would wear his wheels down so much he might as well been skating on straight bearings haha... maybe 30-35mm was his preferred wheel size but no one made them so he would wear them down himself to the size he wanted or some shit like that... Im positive ive heard a story along those lines cause even compared to other classic skate parts from the same era, Rodneys wheels still look small in comparison but I know for the tech skating Rodney does/did, having a lower center of gravity is preferred, which is part of why he skated small wheels and later invented tensor low trucks...
Tyson that was a long ass comment pretty much full of bullshit.
Tyson was spot on, except there were a (very) few big wheels out there..probably maxing out around 80mm, but almost no one used them. By the mid/late 90s larger wheels started making a comeback.
Well back in my days, sometime after the ceramic wheels turned in to urethane and using nose of the board for switchstance was invented..:D This was the era when boarding went from slalom, street surfing, free riding and pipe, to street spots, ledges, rails, kickers and ramps. This also means that the speeds in those spots were much slower and you could choose better flat grounds to do the new advanced technical tricks. And for what i know Rodney has always been trying to invent new ways to make better / lighter and more balanced boards, trucks, shapes and materials.
So at mid 90's the board and trucks got much thinner, had their first real nose and it was common to take the new wheel to some machine worker who had lathe, to take some extra weight of the wheels (so they were made to be thinner and smaller). The wheels got larger again when the drops and ledges started to grow and there was more need for speed in rough spots.
Skateboarding will always be mainly measured by real raw skills but there really is a aspect on the importance of your gear vs your style and preferences. It has often been common to make line to your grip tape to see nose or tail and where to put your legs to get the board flip better, some people use lead weights to balance their board, Daewon doesn't use bushings, some like thin, wide or slick boards, some like thin shoes and others like them to be stiff, some people think its gay to use protective pads, and it effects on your style if you think that your swag looks cool, etc.
Seems like the difference in these things is more in our heads than in physical reality. Things that bother us often amplify if we are required to show something to others. The magic in your true feeling sounds like hippie, but its real when it comes to extreme performance. That's also what separates competitive skateboarding from natural skateboarding. It's also very different to film skateboarding alone in peace and safe place, or when there is kids, beautiful women, and commentators screaming and looking at you.
Love Rodney. He’s such a unique soul and the most badass skater I ever did see. Watching him skate could bring tears to my eyes; it’s as beautiful as figure skating.
He might be called "the godfather"of "Tech"-Sk8ing...)... X ...)...
agreed
Thank you for blessings us with this.