Rodney Mullen

Rodney Mullen
Born (1966-08-17) August 17, 1966 (age 60)
Gainesville, Florida
EducationUniversity of Florida Biomedical Engineering
OccupationSkateboarding

Rodney Mullen (born August 17, 1966 in Gainesville, Florida) is a professional freestyle skateboarder, and considered to be one of the most influential skaters in the history of the sport. He is credited with inventing many tricks, including the flat-ground Ollie (originally called the 'ollie pop'), the kickflip (originally called "magic flips"), the Heelflip, the 360 flip, and the Ollie Impossible (more often called the Impossible).

Tricks he invented

Mullen has invented many tricks. These are:

Movie appearance

Rodney Mullen did many of the skateboarding stunts for Christian Slater in the 1989 skateboarding movie Gleaming the Cube. He can be seen performing in order to look like Slater. At the end credits he can be seen from an overhead view riding his skateboard with the camera zooming in on his foot work.

Video game appearances

Mullen has appeared in many video games related to the Tony Hawk Pro Skater (THPS) console games. These include:

References

  1. ↑ Weyland, J (2002) The Answer is Never: A Skateboarder's History of the World Arrow, London. p276. ISBN 0-09-943186-6
  2. ↑ "The House That Rodney Built". Plan B Skateboards. 1994. Archived from the original on 2008-03-08. Retrieved 2008-05-31.
  3. ↑ Gleaming the Cube → Trivia on IMDb