Rodney+Mullen

=**Mullen** =

Rodney Mullen was born in Gainesville, Fl in 1966. When he was ten his family moved to Redondo Beach CA. He was born with such bad pigeon feet that he had to were stiff braces in a V shape on his legs at night. When he walked he would trip over his own feet.

Through his life he was obsessed with self defense and made booby traps in his hotel rooms and his own very room. he always averaged higher than a 4.0 average in school all through elementary, junior high, and even collage. In his house you never underestimated his father and never asked twice when he would say no.

When he starting competing in competitions he never lost except for one contest. He was a freestyle skater and back when he was skating competitively it was simply were you skated to a song and some people just simply did cart wheels and handstands around their board. He instead stayed on his board in a Radius of three feet of where he started. he did little handstands on his board and flipped it with his hands.

He then decided he would create the flat ground Ollie were you pop the boards tail and tap the nose to even it out. he also created the Kick flip were you Ollie and tap the curve in the heel side of the board with your toe. he skated for a local skate shop and then moved on to higher ranks and bigger companies and finally went pro!

**Name:** John Rodney Mullen **Gender:** Male **Hometown:** Redondo Beach, CA or Hermosa Beach, CA **Date of Birth:** August 17th, 1966 in Gainesville, FL **Family:** married to Traci Mullen **Started Skating:** 1977 **Occupation:** Engineer / Skate Brand Owner / Skateboarder **Started Competing:** 1977 **Turned Pro:** 1980 **Favored Discipline:** Street **#1 Sponsors:** Almost, Enjoi, Darkstar, Tensor, Speed Demons, Matix, Globe **Stance:** Regular <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Nicknames:** Mutt, King

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Career Highlights
<span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**1977** - Mullen won the first freestyle contest he entered <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**1980** - joined the Powell-Peralta Bones Brigade <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**1984, 85, 87, 88** - featured in The Bones Brigade Videos 1-4 <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**1988** - appeared in feature film, Gleaming the Cube <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**1992** - began World Industries with Steve Rocco <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**1990+** - featured in videos by Plan B, A-Team, Globe and Almost <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**2002** - won Transworld Readers' Choice Award for Skater of the Year <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**2002** - created Almost skateboard company <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**2003** - wrote "The Mutt: How to Skateboard and not Kill Yourself"

<span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Tricks Invented
<span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__//The Impossible//__ by Cole Lousin is about Rodney Mullen's life. <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">
 * <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">50-50 Saran Wrap
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">50-50 Sidewinders
 * <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">360 Flip
 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">360 pressure Flip
 * <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">540 double kickflip
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">540 Shove-it
 * <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Airwalks
 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Backside 180 Flip
 * <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Casper 360 Flip
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Casper Slides
 * <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Caballerial impossible
 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Double heelflips
 * <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Flatground Ollie
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Frontside Heelflip Shove-its
 * <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Godzilla Rail Flip
 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Gazelles
 * <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Heelflip
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Helipops (360 Nollie)
 * <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Half-cab kickflip underflip
 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Helipop Heelflips
 * <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Half Flip Darkslide
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Handstand flips
 * <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Kickflip Underflip
 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Kickflip
 * <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">No Handed 50-50 Kickflip
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Ollie Impossible
 * <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Ollie Nosebones
 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Ollie Fingerflip
 * <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">One footed Ollie
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Rusty slides
 * <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sidewinders
 * <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Switchstance 360 Flips

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<span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__skateboard-city.com__ second picture down is a dark slide also a trick he invented. <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__jmartinez3.edublogs.org__ first picture was a kick-flip preformed by Rodney Mullen. <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Cave, Steve. "Rodney Mullen Profile - Rodney Mullen Pro Skateboarder Bio."//Skateboarding | Skateboard Trick Tips, Pro Skaters, Skateboard Reviews, Skateboard Help and More about Skateboarding!// About Skateboarding. Web. 07 Oct. 2011. <http://skateboard.about.com/od/proskaterbios/p/ProRodneyMullen.htm>. <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This site gave me information about when he was board to all the tricks he created. if also said stuff about his family life and his favorite thing to skate (street). It also told his number 1 sponsors. the author Steve Cave did a great job, there were links to other site. Looks very recently put on the web and very valuable information. this site was used because of the wonderful information put onto it. Purpose of the website was to provide information about the skater that created almost all of the tricks we do today.

<span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Alley, Blair. "Hometown: Rodney Mullen | Transworld Skateboarding." //Transworld Skateboarding | Skating News, Photos, Videos//. 5 Feb. 2009. Web. 07 Oct. 2011. <http://skateboarding.transworld.net/1000080165/features/hometown-rodney-mullen/>. <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The author did a great job at putting the information of this site. the information was put on about three and a half years ago but that doesn't matter because Rodney Mullen hasn't changed the information since then. It was very valuable information, and it did not have other links. because i trust Transworld magazine and this was their website so i knew it was trustworthy.

<span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Louison, Cole. //The Impossible: Rodney Mullen, Ryan Sheckler, and the Fantastic History of Skateboarding//. Guilford, CT: Lyons, 2011. Print. <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This book was used for most of the information provided. It gave a lot of accurate facts. It was a whole book about the life of Rodney Mullen and Ryan Sheckler and was also about the history of skateboarding. The author did an amazing job putting the facts and stuff into an enjoyable book without being boring like books that are nothing but facts even though everything in it was true.

<span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"Bio." //Rodney Mullen - The Godfather Of Street Skating//. Web. 11 Oct. 2011. <http://www.rodneymullen.net/bio.html>.