Honestly in my opinion Rodney is the best skater, and will always be; I started skating because of THPS 2 and he was my favorite character to use. He is the embodiment of creativity and openness, which is the soul of skating. And that Jonny, is the reason why you are one of my top favorite pro skaters, as your style reminds me so much of his, of course, with your own twist.
Rodney Mullen was perhaps literally the only skateboarder who didn't have "a" special move he had like 15 of them. Playing as him in Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 should have been nonstop "Ding, Ding, Ding" with 15 varieties. It was a missed opportunity for that game, Rodney should have been an unlocked secret boss who had 15 specials.
For all of you that have the dvd, go to the scene select option, then click "more." If you push up, you'll move the cursor over the words "Round 3" in the corner. Select it to unlock Rodney and Daewon's parts from rounds 1 and 2!
Also, as for the Jack Nicholson clip, it's almost certainly staged. There's another video out there where he does it again but it's slightly different.
I'm a BMX freestyler who got a job working at FREESTYLIN' magazine in 1986. My roommates and I practiced at a place in Redondo Beach we called The Spot, every night. Rodney, when staying in Cali with Rocco, would practice on the concrete right next to where road. In late 1986, I think it was October or November, he showed me a half flip underflip. IN 1986. Freakin' amazing. One of the coolest humans I've ever met.
Xavier Cugat (from the star on the walk of fame) was one of the people responsible for the spread and embrace of Latin music in the middle of the 20th century. He was born in Spain, came into his own musically in Cuba, and became an influential band leader (and still also a musician in his own right) in the US. Music’s always been very important to Rodney, and I guarantee that was not a random choice.
Regarding the dog at 19:15… Rodney’s early nickname was “Mutt”, and there’s dog easter eggs in a lot of his videos. Also, the “Big Dog” song in his Future Primitive part is very unique, then and now, and has trippy lyrics. It contains biochemistry references and describes a mythically large pet dog… “one turd repels traffic. helicopters can’t get in close to neutralize” 😅 I think it was recorded especially for that part.
In the US we call those "fork lifts". I loved Round 3 so much when it came out, Mullen somehow managed to top his performance in Round 2, which seemed impossible at the time.
Gobbelstaufer (probably the wrong spelling) sounds so cool, though, right? another case where them Brits just made a hot mess of a language. I know that english came before fork-lifts... just messing around. It is a rad-sounding word. German is like that
Even if at my thirties and that I don't skate anymore, Rodney's tricks sometimes come to my mind. He was such a hero for me and apart from the way that he invented most of modern skate tricks, his STYLE still seems fresh today. You can tell from many of his flip thicks that he actually invented them, because of the way he performs them. Nice that you make a contribute to him. BTW: the "Jack Nicholson" thing was a guy who was NOT him, but a guy who pretended to be like him to get money from pictures and stuff. Saw that in another skate channel a long time ago. Love your channel and keep it up. Greetings from Spain :)
In Rodney’s own words. “There is no such thing as Switch there is only Frontside and Backside tricks.” Of course you have to be Rodney Mullen for this logic to make sense.😮
I was so mesmerized by how good Rodney Mullen is that I didn't even realize how well it was filmed like you said those transitions, the trick choices, the pacing all of it was pinnacle filming. Thank you for pointing it out. That cameraman and editor really didn't get enough credit for that!
Danke for the review and step by step, Jonny. This is one of those parts I've been watching for years and it never fails to impress. Its simply one of the best ever, from the tricks, lines, and filming. Perfect Mullen.
It was great to hear what all of these tricks are..only seeing in at regular speed i didn't know most of the tricks he was doing ..thanks Jonny! More breakdowns!
Simply amazing. In '07, I used it in a presentation on the history of skateboarding. Even though they'd already seen it, the few skaters in the audience were shaking their heads in reverence the whole time.The non skaters simply could not appreciate the magic they were witnessing. Rodney made so many of these tricks look wayyy to easy for the layman to comprehend the skill and talent required.
my friend showed me this video nearly 4 years ago now and its what sparked my interest in skateboarding and part of what made me buy my first complete setup 4 months later after skating an old board he gave me, rodney truly is one of a kind and an absolute innovator and genius of skateboarding
One of my favorite skate videos of all time. This came out during my best years skating. Cant believe this video is almost 20 years old. Rodney and Deawon's part were the best.
Rodney and Daewon killed, but imo Haslam's part was just as epic in its own way. The giant quarterpipe kickflip. One foot boardslide down stairs. Kickflip to 1 foot nose manny. What he lacks in technical ability he more than makes up for with style.
My older brother skates his whole life and this was his favorite video (mine too). I ended up going into parkour, but Mullen is the best! All the handstand stuff plus he can back flip!
I think it would be so cool to sit down with Rodney and watch his video parts and have him talk about it. Like how he got the idea to try it and how long it took. I love watching him talk about his process.
He absolutely hates talking about himself. He's so humble. Physics Girl did a video on TH-cam with Rodney about the impossible physics of his tricks and he was explaining his process. I won't spoil it, you should check out the video.
@@Krmpfpks i was just coming to say this to the previous person who replied lol. It was a good watch. He still has such an obvious joy and love for skateboarding.
@@skater4god1 I saw the Ted Talk too. That was the most out of his shell that I've ever seen Rodney. Dude is probably the most humble guy in any field where he is hands down the most excellent example of that field. Hats off to Rodney.
Rodney Mullen is just mesmerizing. Even non-skater understand how insane is tricks are. I was raise in northern Canada and skateboarding was not a natural sport for us. I have fond memory of showing my friends THPS2 intro and how mindblown we were by Mullen.
All 3 of the Rodney VS Daewon videos are the greatest skate videos ever made. Daewon is just as crazy talented as Rodney and when I watched those videos I couldn't even sit down. I kept getting up and saying: "What!?!" Those videos are just bonkers.
OMG I didnt know it was THAT amazing that you had to slow it down to see the technical creations he adds to the combos. Ive seen some of these and I never noticed him doing certain underflips on tricks. Legendary!
if you understand skate history, there is no question who the GOAT is. not just his era but "GREATEST OFF ALL TIME"!!!! id seen only a few videos before Plan B "Second hand smoke" came out. ... my brain melted. casper slides, dark slides, underflips.... just the intro and the song were perfect.
When Rodney does what you called the fakie big heel to caper at 4:45, the board actually flips the opposite direction from a big heel. Its actually more of a 360 pressure flip to casper!
This part is probably the greatest of all time as far as I’m concerned, or tied with a couple others in an “apples and oranges” sort of way. Practically every Rodney Mullen part that had come out since Future Primitive had become my new favorite, but somehow this one just continued the trajectory into wayyy unmatched virtuosity, science, and athleticism. Also, as always with his parts, the music was perfect and made you think “oh yeah, of course Rodney would pick this” :) The special features of the DVD also came with two other amazing segments in the special features: - a Rodney Mullen retrospective compiled from all of his parts After the Powell Peralta era (basically the videos he had the rights to since he co-owned the companies from then on) - a Daewon Song retrospective starting all the way back from when he was a little kid, progressing all the way up to alternate takes from that DVD, all over a Chemical Brothers track that starts out gentle and pleasant and slowly builds into a frenzy. It’s really cool. The main section also has: - a Chris Haslam part which is of course insane - I think the introduction of Ryan Sheckler to the skate world as an extremely talented teenager, not even fully grown yet, already hucking off huuuge gaps What a video. ALSO Right up among my alltime favorites is Another DVD from this era of almost: the Daewon / Haslam project ‘Cheese and Crackers’. It’s one of the most creative things I’ve ever seen, and progress deeper and deeper into insanity over the course of the short 25min video. It’s almost what you’d imagine if Rodney was to skate transition.
Rodney is the best. Thanks Jonny, for continuing to remember his legacy. Although, one trick was missing in that video, the Nollie impossible late flip.
I remember Daewon vs Rodney 1&2 couldn’t believe there wasn’t more !! Epic side by side parts . They were the bar back in the day ..! I’d say they are them who created, set and raised “the bar”.! The epitome of mastery!!!
Thanks Jonny, this is awesome. Every time I watch him skate I see all those years of solo garage grinding as a kid. It seemed to let him push his balance and foot dexterity completely outside human bounds. Maybe there's a secret in that.
I remember buying Round 3 as soon as it was available and sitting with my buddy just in awe of this part and Haslam’s in particular. Still one of the best videos ever put out. I remember having my mind blown by the primo slide variations. It was like getting a glimpse into the future.
I remember falling in love with Rodney’s ingenuity, creativity, technical ability, and personality as a sort of an anti-social intellectual type who broke into mainstream skating because he was simply too good to be ignored or ostracized. It started off with a few tricks of his I saw featured on the old 411 Video Magazine VHS tapes back in the day… then I picked up a couple more old tapes that featured him, and of course later the THPS series, but Round 3 was my favorite part of his. And this was my favorite skate video, along with some of the early Alien Workshop videos, Enjoi’s Bag of Suck, and Lakai’s Fully Flared… Your English as a second language is really impressive, your skateboarding style and ability is impeccable, and don’t worry about the haters who say that “all you do is try to be a modern day RM” If they think or say that, then either 1. They’re just trolling. 2. They haven’t seen enough of your material to know how much more broad the scope of your style and bag of tricks are. Or 3. They’re jealous, because to them EA Skate games are as close as they’ll ever come to half of what you’ve accomplished on a deck. 🤝
I love Rodney, always something different. I would love to see him at something like Tampa Pro Am or SLS, I think the judges would have no clue how to score his tricks 🤣
This still one of the best videos ever made. Not just Mullens part, but sextant others on there too. Salabanzi going huge, Haslam doing crazy gaps, Arto nearly dying... it's got it all
I love dudes like this who are so positive and happy! for some reason I always seem to get angry and irritated with people... I aspire to be more like this gentleman, God bless:)
I'm in my mid-30s. I lost all my DVDs in an accident a few years ago. 90% of my collection were fiction movies and the last 10% were documentaries. In the documentaries only 2 were about skateboarding, an activity I did only like 2 to 5 years in my teenage years in Europe. And obviously Almost Round 3 was the one (the other, I think, was a 411VM in Brazil I don't really know why). This episode is a pillar of History in skate for all the reasons you explained (not only skate-wise). Honestly I think a lot of us started by seeing Tony Hawk's 900 and playing THPS, but the first name that always comes in my mind is Rodney Mullen. He was in his own bulbe at the right time and he will stay a legend forever.
Woah, habe den Part schon ewig nicht mehr gesehen. Aber ist immer noch so krass wie damals! Die DVD von "Round 3" steht nach wie vor in meinem Regal. Unglaubliches Video ❤
thank you very much for this video Jonny. i knew the rodney movie for so long and watched it several times, back in the days always being kept by the beauty of his tricks. after so many years i really apprechiate your commentary, enlighten me - giving knowlegde and explanation to what in the world happens and putting into words what was for me impossible to do, but did it - thank you! my all time favorites are casperslides and impossibles... so eyecandy :)
I love how at 16:42 his pants are ripped at the knees and they weren't in the other clips, you can see he clearly fell and ripped it but keept going and executing more perfect tricks
That handstand to nose manual at the beginning is one of the most incredible things ever done on a board. It's looks like a real life glitch in the matrix.
My #1 motivation video back in the days. Years of skating almost every day one can only imagine how many times I've watched this part! Daewon Song part is insane as well
This Almost video meant a lot to a lot of people who were skating at that time. Some of which who I know have passed on. Rodney Mullen is the unsung God of Skateboarding.. Tony Hawk got the credit. For me this was the golden era because i was at my best back then.
Not only Rodney's but also Chris Haslam's Part from Almost Round Three were and still are mindblowing. I remember buying this in my local skate shop and how I was watching this over and over again ❤
I’ve always loved Rodney’s parts in those movies, I still have the original vhs tapes and watch them from time to time. Also is called a forklift in English.
I was a skater in the 90s and early 2000 we was skating in different countries and visit famus Spots around world also was as some great content s i still Watch skating but i had to quit skating because some personal stuff but i grew up whit so many great skateboard legends and Movies i loved the yellow skateboard movie shortys cheese and crackes just to name a few 😊 but props to you and others new legends who pushed it to another level awsome only thing i miss is in our day we had not so great parks and smooth clean ground to skate we had to skate more punk style whit gnarly asfalt and places that often few houls in the street but no problem just glad thats u and others great skaters took it to a level we never could believe it could be done ✌️💯i really enjoying watch what u do and made great clips and movies and so insane clean tricks and tricks we even dont could dream about so props to all new great skaters best place ive been was in Tokyo in 2017 i dosent had my board whit me just to cruice around and of course Mullen had be a legend for ever in invented new street trick s and he still skate so impressed but the style you dudes do the tricks now and new ones is mad talent and even more pretty to watch 🤟But i say props to Mullen and many more so it is the Way it s done now just amazing pure skill and gnarly it s so beautiful to watch thanks and props all the way keep skating so long u body can do it 😀😉Ans and again thank you so much!✌️ Greeting s CZ 75 Shadow 🤟 Independence Truck s and Blind world industry prime Santa Cruz boards and many other s 😀
i just started my skating career with my two yo son, and you are a great inspiration for me and my son (we plenty of your vids together)! greetings from winterthur btw ;)
Bro, he has a great technique, timing, and body/feet control, really awesome. The tricks he's doing seems "pretty easy" due Rodney's confidence and style, they look so Sweet!!! RodneyGod Mullen
The spot at 6:53 is where I met RM one day. I used to stake that spot almost every day. It was so epic to be able to have a session with him. Edit: To Jonny. It was a long time ago so I can’t say for sure what trick he was trying but what I can say is he was there for hours and left without landing it. He battled just like everyone.
Looks like with his under flips he uses "bad" tech by kicking down instead of flicking, which gets his foot in position for the under flip. I assume the underflip's upward momentum negates the kick flip's downward
For me - 1st place in All time Skateboard is for Rodney and the second one is for you, Giger because you are one of the few worthy to cast his spells !
I actually have this on physical disc. This part might be the greatest skate part of all time. So many things you absolutely need to slowmo to see what's going on. He makes things look so effortless while landing the most insane stuff so cleanly all the time. Rodney is a skating GOD.
I always enjoyed Round 1 part the best. Rodney really embraced his street skating and prove he could of been a huge contender in street. Round 3 was him going back to his freestyle tricks. Dan Corrigan did a similar video explaining the same thing about Rodney misunderstood contributions to freestyle skating!
Crazy. Yeah I can see how that would be super hard. When this came out Rodney already had 20 years of practice with those from his freestyle days. That type of skating was dead and buried and Rodney brought it into the street skating culture. I don't care if it's cool or not, those tricks are sick.
I like how stance just went away for Rodney one night while he was thinking about skating. He just "realized it's all in your head". And just like that stance is nothing to him anymore? Dude is an alien.
3:48 Jonny, i think the nose of Rodney's board being squared off has alot to do with this!! Maybe he only does this with a chipped / old deck before throwing it away. U can really see the nose @ 3:10
This was beautiful to watch. 😪👍 Its art! Its Masterful! J said it best, "There's his bubble and then everyone else. Thank you gentlemen. Im gonna go Skate now. ✌️🇺🇸👌
I remember when that part came put and the awesomeness of it got me stoked. But you didn't really get all of the magic because some of the flics are so quick. No watching this review with slomo😮. And I have to admit that it is probably 15 years ago I watched this for the ladt time it is hard to explain what I missed back than. Thanks Jonny
I still have the original dvd with original case of this and i brought it the week it was released not knowing i was buying history, also the ryan Sheckler part was great, the ollie over the power box at the end was insane
I was first introduced to skating with the Tony Hawk games. Had almost zero interest in skating myself. I tried it a couple times and was awful. But learning about Rodney made me become a fan of it anyway. Just as a pure spectator. He is an absolute wizard. So insane that he still has so many NBDs. And that this video part arguably has never been topped.
5:45 I don't skate but i admire the skill above all othe sports hands down. Except fir R-willys ability to do insane tricks on his bicycle 🚲 hes beyond talented. Ok i digress back to Rodney king mullen 😂 he is just an anomaly in the sport of skate boarding. Everyone is unique in their own way and cant be duplicated, especially Rodney!
This is skateboarding in my opinion and , before we had parks everywhere it made small towns fun..... Then they put signs up everywhere "NO SKATEBOARDING " we became criminals in our small college town, which was fine cause running from security made things even better 85 to 92 were the best years , Rodney and his long socks and shorty shorts made us laugh , Natas was my hero ...Its crazy that Rodney became the godfather of tech, changing street forever. Personally, i love mixing both worlds,skaters who can truly do that are rare.
_[Jonny watches Round Three:]_ _(Names every trick Rodney pulls off, including all his NBDs)_ _[Sees a forklift:]_ I think that's called a Gabelstapler
Watching Rodney skate is magical, no matter how many times you see it, he's the best of all time.
Honestly in my opinion Rodney is the best skater, and will always be; I started skating because of THPS 2 and he was my favorite character to use. He is the embodiment of creativity and openness, which is the soul of skating. And that Jonny, is the reason why you are one of my top favorite pro skaters, as your style reminds me so much of his, of course, with your own twist.
Rodney Mullen was perhaps literally the only skateboarder who didn't have "a" special move he had like 15 of them. Playing as him in Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 should have been nonstop "Ding, Ding, Ding" with 15 varieties. It was a missed opportunity for that game, Rodney should have been an unlocked secret boss who had 15 specials.
For all of you that have the dvd, go to the scene select option, then click "more."
If you push up, you'll move the cursor over the words "Round 3" in the corner. Select it to unlock Rodney and Daewon's parts from rounds 1 and 2!
Also, as for the Jack Nicholson clip, it's almost certainly staged. There's another video out there where he does it again but it's slightly different.
Link?
@@icantollie th-cam.com/video/4ZeV64jASWs/w-d-xo.htmlsi=wGkFN3XAZABXI4vY
At the 5 minute mark exactly.
@@DevonReed27it’s an impersonator walking to work. The walk of fame is lousy with em.
I was so proud to work on this video. Animating the titles and DVD menus. Daewon and Rodney’s round 1 and 2 are hidden on the dvd
That's awesome man! Thanks for contributing to this timeless piece of art! ❤
Nobody today can wrap their impossibles like rodney did man. Straight vertical rotation could NEVER be mistaken for a 3 shuv!
I'm a BMX freestyler who got a job working at FREESTYLIN' magazine in 1986. My roommates and I practiced at a place in Redondo Beach we called The Spot, every night. Rodney, when staying in Cali with Rocco, would practice on the concrete right next to where road. In late 1986, I think it was October or November, he showed me a half flip underflip. IN 1986. Freakin' amazing. One of the coolest humans I've ever met.
Xavier Cugat (from the star on the walk of fame) was one of the people responsible for the spread and embrace of Latin music in the middle of the 20th century. He was born in Spain, came into his own musically in Cuba, and became an influential band leader (and still also a musician in his own right) in the US.
Music’s always been very important to Rodney, and I guarantee that was not a random choice.
Everyone is working off the foundation Rodney built. That’s just how it is. He is and always will be The Man
Almost round 3 was so impactful as a young skater. Chris Haslams part was my favorite. But literally every skater in the video was memorable.
as i read this i could hear chris haslams part music start playing in my head lol. Best skate vid ever made, cheese and crackers close second
Regarding the dog at 19:15… Rodney’s early nickname was “Mutt”, and there’s dog easter eggs in a lot of his videos. Also, the “Big Dog” song in his Future Primitive part is very unique, then and now, and has trippy lyrics. It contains biochemistry references and describes a mythically large pet dog… “one turd repels traffic. helicopters can’t get in close to neutralize” 😅 I think it was recorded especially for that part.
In the US we call those "fork lifts".
I loved Round 3 so much when it came out, Mullen somehow managed to top his performance in Round 2, which seemed impossible at the time.
dude everybody's part on that project was fucking bonkers. no team was touching almost 3 for a loooooong time.
Gobbelstaufer (probably the wrong spelling) sounds so cool, though, right? another case where them Brits just made a hot mess of a language. I know that english came before fork-lifts... just messing around. It is a rad-sounding word. German is like that
gabelstapler@@juicicles5881 "gabel" is fork, stapler is "stacker" "fork stacker"
I’m never calling it a forklift again. It will be forever a gabelstapler (Siri told her how to spell it)! All I can hear now is 🦃 stapler. I’m ruined.
@@Oogadoog It's orange too.
Even if at my thirties and that I don't skate anymore, Rodney's tricks sometimes come to my mind. He was such a hero for me and apart from the way that he invented most of modern skate tricks, his STYLE still seems fresh today. You can tell from many of his flip thicks that he actually invented them, because of the way he performs them. Nice that you make a contribute to him. BTW: the "Jack Nicholson" thing was a guy who was NOT him, but a guy who pretended to be like him to get money from pictures and stuff. Saw that in another skate channel a long time ago. Love your channel and keep it up. Greetings from Spain :)
I love this part! Seeing you do a deep dive and slow down each trick makes me appreciate it more! Rodney will always be my favorite ❤
In Rodney’s own words. “There is no such thing as Switch there is only Frontside and Backside tricks.”
Of course you have to be Rodney Mullen for this logic to make sense.😮
Yeah, the guy who came back from a decade worth of scar tissue tearing to make himself stannce-less.😅
This part is still so crazy.. for me it is the best part ever.. no cap 100%
I also got this video as it was released. My best skatevideo all time
I was so mesmerized by how good Rodney Mullen is that I didn't even realize how well it was filmed like you said those transitions, the trick choices, the pacing all of it was pinnacle filming. Thank you for pointing it out. That cameraman and editor really didn't get enough credit for that!
That bounce-back that he does is TRULY unquestionably GOATed
How is that even physically possible
Danke for the review and step by step, Jonny. This is one of those parts I've been watching for years and it never fails to impress. Its simply one of the best ever, from the tricks, lines, and filming. Perfect Mullen.
It was great to hear what all of these tricks are..only seeing in at regular speed i didn't know most of the tricks he was doing ..thanks Jonny! More breakdowns!
Simply amazing. In '07, I used it in a presentation on the history of skateboarding. Even though they'd already seen it, the few skaters in the audience were shaking their heads in reverence the whole time.The non skaters simply could not appreciate the magic they were witnessing. Rodney made so many of these tricks look wayyy to easy for the layman to comprehend the skill and talent required.
my friend showed me this video nearly 4 years ago now and its what sparked my interest in skateboarding and part of what made me buy my first complete setup 4 months later after skating an old board he gave me, rodney truly is one of a kind and an absolute innovator and genius of skateboarding
One of my favorite skate videos of all time. This came out during my best years skating. Cant believe this video is almost 20 years old. Rodney and Deawon's part were the best.
Rodney and Daewon killed, but imo Haslam's part was just as epic in its own way. The giant quarterpipe kickflip. One foot boardslide down stairs. Kickflip to 1 foot nose manny. What he lacks in technical ability he more than makes up for with style.
Love that you honor Rodney for what he has built. He's just far beyond good.
My older brother skates his whole life and this was his favorite video (mine too). I ended up going into parkour, but Mullen is the best! All the handstand stuff plus he can back flip!
I love that it starts with the nolie flip out, and the board is saluting you with "Hello".
I think it would be so cool to sit down with Rodney and watch his video parts and have him talk about it. Like how he got the idea to try it and how long it took. I love watching him talk about his process.
He absolutely hates talking about himself. He's so humble. Physics Girl did a video on TH-cam with Rodney about the impossible physics of his tricks and he was explaining his process. I won't spoil it, you should check out the video.
You should also Watch rodneys TED Talk.
@@Davivd2 he is very humble. I saw that video a long time ago but might rewatch since its been a while. He also has a good TED talk.
@@Krmpfpks i was just coming to say this to the previous person who replied lol. It was a good watch. He still has such an obvious joy and love for skateboarding.
@@skater4god1 I saw the Ted Talk too. That was the most out of his shell that I've ever seen Rodney. Dude is probably the most humble guy in any field where he is hands down the most excellent example of that field. Hats off to Rodney.
Rodney Mullen is just mesmerizing. Even non-skater understand how insane is tricks are. I was raise in northern Canada and skateboarding was not a natural sport for us. I have fond memory of showing my friends THPS2 intro and how mindblown we were by Mullen.
All 3 of the Rodney VS Daewon videos are the greatest skate videos ever made. Daewon is just as crazy talented as Rodney and when I watched those videos I couldn't even sit down. I kept getting up and saying: "What!?!" Those videos are just bonkers.
please dont forget almost cheese and crackers, almost was on a completely different level of cinematography, their vids are art
Agreed 100%👍
OMG I didnt know it was THAT amazing that you had to slow it down to see the technical creations he adds to the combos. Ive seen some of these and I never noticed him doing certain underflips on tricks. Legendary!
that spring pop he does at 0:17 is the sickest shit EVER!!! never seen that by noone else
Train in Vein still one of my fave songs, because of this part
Me to. This is the song that got me into The Clash
Honestly i started admiring Rodney Mullen because of your videos, i didn't even knew who he was until a saw you doing a primo slide and got hooked
if you understand skate history, there is no question who the GOAT is. not just his era but "GREATEST OFF ALL TIME"!!!! id seen only a few videos before Plan B "Second hand smoke" came out. ... my brain melted. casper slides, dark slides, underflips.... just the intro and the song were perfect.
When Rodney does what you called the fakie big heel to caper at 4:45, the board actually flips the opposite direction from a big heel. Its actually more of a 360 pressure flip to casper!
This part is probably the greatest of all time as far as I’m concerned, or tied with a couple others in an “apples and oranges” sort of way.
Practically every Rodney Mullen part that had come out since Future Primitive had become my new favorite, but somehow this one just continued the trajectory into wayyy unmatched virtuosity, science, and athleticism. Also, as always with his parts, the music was perfect and made you think “oh yeah, of course Rodney would pick this” :)
The special features of the DVD also came with two other amazing segments in the special features:
- a Rodney Mullen retrospective compiled from all of his parts After the Powell Peralta era (basically the videos he had the rights to since he co-owned the companies from then on)
- a Daewon Song retrospective starting all the way back from when he was a little kid, progressing all the way up to alternate takes from that DVD, all over a Chemical Brothers track that starts out gentle and pleasant and slowly builds into a frenzy. It’s really cool.
The main section also has:
- a Chris Haslam part which is of course insane
- I think the introduction of Ryan Sheckler to the skate world as an extremely talented teenager, not even fully grown yet, already hucking off huuuge gaps
What a video.
ALSO
Right up among my alltime favorites is Another DVD from this era of almost: the Daewon / Haslam project ‘Cheese and Crackers’. It’s one of the most creative things I’ve ever seen, and progress deeper and deeper into insanity over the course of the short 25min video. It’s almost what you’d imagine if Rodney was to skate transition.
Thank you for your nice walktrough of the video. Your passion for Rodney really shows :)
Rodney is the best. Thanks Jonny, for continuing to remember his legacy. Although, one trick was missing in that video, the Nollie impossible late flip.
Haven't watched this in a while, what incredible set of tricks.
I remember Daewon vs Rodney 1&2 couldn’t believe there wasn’t more !! Epic side by side parts . They were the bar back in the day ..! I’d say they are them who created, set and raised “the bar”.! The epitome of mastery!!!
Yeah we need a round 4
cheese and crackers was also godly
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This is the first skate video I saw as a kid. So nostalgic! Love this video
Thanks Jonny, this is awesome. Every time I watch him skate I see all those years of solo garage grinding as a kid. It seemed to let him push his balance and foot dexterity completely outside human bounds. Maybe there's a secret in that.
I remember buying Round 3 as soon as it was available and sitting with my buddy just in awe of this part and Haslam’s in particular. Still one of the best videos ever put out. I remember having my mind blown by the primo slide variations. It was like getting a glimpse into the future.
I remember falling in love with Rodney’s ingenuity, creativity, technical ability, and personality as a sort of an anti-social intellectual type who broke into mainstream skating because he was simply too good to be ignored or ostracized. It started off with a few tricks of his I saw featured on the old 411 Video Magazine VHS tapes back in the day… then I picked up a couple more old tapes that featured him, and of course later the THPS series, but Round 3 was my favorite part of his. And this was my favorite skate video, along with some of the early Alien Workshop videos, Enjoi’s Bag of Suck, and Lakai’s Fully Flared…
Your English as a second language is really impressive, your skateboarding style and ability is impeccable, and don’t worry about the haters who say that “all you do is try to be a modern day RM” If they think or say that, then either
1. They’re just trolling.
2. They haven’t seen enough of your material to know how much more broad the scope of your style and bag of tricks are.
Or 3. They’re jealous, because to them EA Skate games are as close as they’ll ever come to half of what you’ve accomplished on a deck.
🤝
I love Rodney, always something different. I would love to see him at something like Tampa Pro Am or SLS, I think the judges would have no clue how to score his tricks 🤣
This still one of the best videos ever made. Not just Mullens part, but sextant others on there too. Salabanzi going huge, Haslam doing crazy gaps, Arto nearly dying... it's got it all
I love dudes like this who are so positive and happy! for some reason I always seem to get angry and irritated with people... I aspire to be more like this gentleman, God bless:)
Great tribute to Rodney Mullen. Definitely one of the best video parts ever!
Absolutely love this video! Great to showcase rodney especially slowed down to show just how fucking talented he was!
I'm in my mid-30s. I lost all my DVDs in an accident a few years ago. 90% of my collection were fiction movies and the last 10% were documentaries. In the documentaries only 2 were about skateboarding, an activity I did only like 2 to 5 years in my teenage years in Europe. And obviously Almost Round 3 was the one (the other, I think, was a 411VM in Brazil I don't really know why). This episode is a pillar of History in skate for all the reasons you explained (not only skate-wise).
Honestly I think a lot of us started by seeing Tony Hawk's 900 and playing THPS, but the first name that always comes in my mind is Rodney Mullen. He was in his own bulbe at the right time and he will stay a legend forever.
Woah, habe den Part schon ewig nicht mehr gesehen. Aber ist immer noch so krass wie damals! Die DVD von "Round 3" steht nach wie vor in meinem Regal. Unglaubliches Video ❤
thank you very much for this video Jonny.
i knew the rodney movie for so long and watched it several times, back in the days always being kept by the beauty of his tricks.
after so many years i really apprechiate your commentary, enlighten me - giving knowlegde and explanation to what in the world happens and putting into words what was for me impossible to do, but did it - thank you!
my all time favorites are casperslides and impossibles... so eyecandy :)
I love how at 16:42 his pants are ripped at the knees and they weren't in the other clips, you can see he clearly fell and ripped it but keept going and executing more perfect tricks
It is unbelievable how unbelievable Rodney Mullen is/was...always.
That handstand to nose manual at the beginning is one of the most incredible things ever done on a board. It's looks like a real life glitch in the matrix.
My #1 motivation video back in the days. Years of skating almost every day one can only imagine how many times I've watched this part! Daewon Song part is insane as well
This Almost video meant a lot to a lot of people who were skating at that time. Some of which who I know have passed on.
Rodney Mullen is the unsung God of Skateboarding.. Tony Hawk got the credit.
For me this was the golden era because i was at my best back then.
Not only Rodney's but also Chris Haslam's Part from Almost Round Three were and still are mindblowing. I remember buying this in my local skate shop and how I was watching this over and over again ❤
Haslam’s kickflip to one foot nose manual should be in an art gallery 😍🤌🏼
i dont think ive ever seen a kickflip smith look as good
I’ve always loved Rodney’s parts in those movies, I still have the original vhs tapes and watch them from time to time. Also is called a forklift in English.
I was a skater in the 90s and early 2000 we was skating in different countries and visit famus Spots around world also was as some great content s i still Watch skating but i had to quit skating because some personal stuff but i grew up whit so many great skateboard legends and Movies i loved the yellow skateboard movie shortys cheese and crackes just to name a few 😊 but props to you and others new legends who pushed it to another level awsome only thing i miss is in our day we had not so great parks and smooth clean ground to skate we had to skate more punk style whit gnarly asfalt and places that often few houls in the street but no problem just glad thats u and others great skaters took it to a level we never could believe it could be done ✌️💯i really enjoying watch what u do and made great clips and movies and so insane clean tricks and tricks we even dont could dream about so props to all new great skaters best place ive been was in Tokyo in 2017 i dosent had my board whit me just to cruice around and of course Mullen had be a legend for ever in invented new street trick s and he still skate so impressed but the style you dudes do the tricks now and new ones is mad talent and even more pretty to watch 🤟But i say props to Mullen and many more so it is the Way it s done now just amazing pure skill and gnarly it s so beautiful to watch thanks and props all the way keep skating so long u body can do it 😀😉Ans and again thank you so much!✌️ Greeting s CZ 75 Shadow 🤟 Independence Truck s and Blind world industry prime Santa Cruz boards and many other s 😀
I wish It had a raw footage. I remember watching that clip infinite times when i was a kid. Good memories
Brilliant break down and commentary on his Almost round 3 part. Cheers!
i just started my skating career with my two yo son, and you are a great inspiration for me and my son (we plenty of your vids together)! greetings from winterthur btw ;)
Mullen would be proud, Mr. Giger. Keep doing the Creator's work.
What you’re missing @ 5:44 is while in nose manual he is hopping a steel grounding cable that is as thick as your thumb.
Fork lift. Love Rodney Mullen round 3 video. Grew up watching it all the time.
Bro, he has a great technique, timing, and body/feet control, really awesome. The tricks he's doing seems "pretty easy" due Rodney's confidence and style, they look so Sweet!!! RodneyGod Mullen
The spot at 6:53 is where I met RM one day. I used to stake that spot almost every day. It was so epic to be able to have a session with him. Edit: To Jonny. It was a long time ago so I can’t say for sure what trick he was trying but what I can say is he was there for hours and left without landing it. He battled just like everyone.
Looks like with his under flips he uses "bad" tech by kicking down instead of flicking, which gets his foot in position for the under flip. I assume the underflip's upward momentum negates the kick flip's downward
I wish nothing but success for you Jonny
For me - 1st place in All time Skateboard is for Rodney and the second one is for you, Giger because you are one of the few worthy to cast his spells !
I actually have this on physical disc. This part might be the greatest skate part of all time. So many things you absolutely need to slowmo to see what's going on. He makes things look so effortless while landing the most insane stuff so cleanly all the time.
Rodney is a skating GOD.
I always enjoyed Round 1 part the best. Rodney really embraced his street skating and prove he could of been a huge contender in street. Round 3 was him going back to his freestyle tricks. Dan Corrigan did a similar video explaining the same thing about Rodney misunderstood contributions to freestyle skating!
Those handstand flips are no joke , took me 9 months to land a primo handstand flip sloppy..
Rodney is on another level
Crazy. Yeah I can see how that would be super hard. When this came out Rodney already had 20 years of practice with those from his freestyle days. That type of skating was dead and buried and Rodney brought it into the street skating culture. I don't care if it's cool or not, those tricks are sick.
Have the DVD in my parents downstairs. Menikmati, Yeah Right, and this beauty. Miss those times.
I like how stance just went away for Rodney one night while he was thinking about skating. He just "realized it's all in your head". And just like that stance is nothing to him anymore? Dude is an alien.
The apparatus Rod does the fs crook pressure hardflip out is called a forklift
3:48 Jonny, i think the nose of Rodney's board being squared off has alot to do with this!! Maybe he only does this with a chipped / old deck before throwing it away. U can really see the nose @ 3:10
Bitter mehr solche Videos!❤
5:58 people most commoly refer to them as a "forklift" over here in the states btw
The local shop that sponsored me at the time got a copy when it was new and they put it on... we all lost our minds hahaha. Such a good time.
Reviewing old parts is awesome.
11:35 that's called Gazelle Underflip. Gazelle on there own is mind boggling. Combining it with Underflip just splattered my brain. 🤯
This was beautiful to watch. 😪👍 Its art! Its Masterful! J said it best, "There's his bubble and then everyone else. Thank you gentlemen. Im gonna go Skate now. ✌️🇺🇸👌
I remember when that part came put and the awesomeness of it got me stoked. But you didn't really get all of the magic because some of the flics are so quick.
No watching this review with slomo😮. And I have to admit that it is probably 15 years ago I watched this for the ladt time it is hard to explain what I missed back than.
Thanks Jonny
I still have the original dvd with original case of this and i brought it the week it was released not knowing i was buying history, also the ryan Sheckler part was great, the ollie over the power box at the end was insane
PLEASE DO THIS MORE!!!
I was first introduced to skating with the Tony Hawk games.
Had almost zero interest in skating myself. I tried it a couple times and was awful.
But learning about Rodney made me become a fan of it anyway. Just as a pure spectator.
He is an absolute wizard.
So insane that he still has so many NBDs.
And that this video part arguably has never been topped.
The Globe Opinion quick shot in this video 11:59
That's the Always Sunny in Philly bar corner lol
For those that don't know of course.
This part is the big reason I started skating. Grew up on this 😭
5:45 I don't skate but i admire the skill above all othe sports hands down. Except fir R-willys ability to do insane tricks on his bicycle 🚲 hes beyond talented. Ok i digress back to Rodney king mullen 😂 he is just an anomaly in the sport of skate boarding. Everyone is unique in their own way and cant be duplicated, especially Rodney!
That trick at around 7mins looks more like a dolphin heel to truck stand fs 180 out. Crazy!
This part has one of my favorite songs 👍🏼🔥
Not only one of the best, but introduced a generation of kids to The Clash. That song is still a favorite!
I loved this part growing up! You should review his Globe Opinion part next
can you review daewon's part as well ?
This is skateboarding in my opinion and , before we had parks everywhere it made small towns fun.....
Then they put signs up everywhere "NO SKATEBOARDING "
we became criminals in our small college town, which was fine cause running from security made things even better
85 to 92 were the best years , Rodney and his long socks and shorty shorts made us laugh , Natas was my hero ...Its crazy that Rodney became the godfather of tech, changing street forever.
Personally, i love mixing both worlds,skaters who can truly do that are rare.
When I skated, Rodney Mullen was a big inspiration for what I wanted my skill level to be at. Thank you Rodney Mullen.
_[Jonny watches Round Three:]_ _(Names every trick Rodney pulls off, including all his NBDs)_
_[Sees a forklift:]_ I think that's called a Gabelstapler
Amazing content 🎉 love your analytical way of commenting!
5:30 he's also skating right over a wire to complete this manual