I was never a skater, but I am a gamer, and I played (and loved) the Tony Hawks games, and the first time I saw Rodney Mullens highlight reel on the first game, it absolutely blew my mind! I never knew the things he could do were even possible in real life! Yet here he was, doing casper slides and darkside grinds and pogo-ing in real life! Absolutely incredible dude, incredible talent, and an absolute legend. I hope he knows just how highly even non-skaters like myself think about him! He's like the Pele or the Michael Jordan of the sport. He has no equal.
As a skater who grew up hours from a city, in a flat town, Rodney was an inspiration. He showed it was possible to get creative even if all you have is your board, a friend's board, and an empty parking lot.
"When people are immersed they feel in a way that's beyond words. And when they connect with you in a way that's beyond words you feel it in your spirit and soul." - Rodney Mullen
great quote. i can definitely relate to it from the other perspective of the guy that was never that much of an active skater personally, but through the videogames learned the vocabulary and concepts, and further on through videotapes (also found through the games) learned the culture. 20 years on i still have respect and interest for the culture, and here i am still watching skateboarding videos and what not. there is a real spiritual connection like he describes from growing up around these games and rest of the culture that really shape one as a person. the games were basically a love letter to the skateboarding culture, its hard not to fall in love with it if you liked the games and millions did. my personal main fixation and hobby is something else but still, skateboarding 4 life. theres nothing else like it that combines athletics and artistry in such a raw and cool way with so much room for personality.
Mullen talking about himself like he’s nothing is astonishing as it’s always been his videos I show other people who think skating is kids stuff and frivolous. Pure mastery of the board. Nothing less. He’s the king.
When I was a kid everyone knew who Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero, Lance Mountain and Christian Hosoi were but none of us had ever heard of Rodney Mullen. I'm so glad he was added to the roster on THPS2 and onward. It was what finally gave him the recognition as the inventor of a ton of the tricks we see today, and solidified his legacy as the father of street skating.
On the other side of the Atlantic, in the late 80 s, me and my friends where completely in awe with what Bones Brigade, and specially Rodney, was doing on a skateboard... To this day, I still think that Rodney is one of those very few (Aly, Senna few ) athletes that will never be surpassed, no matter how much the sport evolves. Thank you, Rodney! Cheers from Portugal
I’m that 2nd generation of kids that fell in love with skating through the Tony Hawk games (THUG to Proving Ground) l always like to say that Tony Hawk introduced me to skateboarding while Rodney Mullen made me fall in love with it. Seeing all of his video parts at such a young age made me realize that even the unimaginable was possible. To this day I still do Casper flips, primo slides and pogos whenever I can. Thank you to the man who inspired multiple generations 🙏🏼
Mr Mullen you sir, are an incredible human being. Skateboarding wouldn’t be as progressive without you. You were the missing link man. We are we are because of you brother.
Going from being all but forgotten, to be recognized as the godfather of skateboarding. What a mind trip that must have been! I have so much respect for this man.
Dope and mad relatable, I did a Tre and my cousin who played the video game growing up called it out and it tripped me out that he knew what it was. Skate or die.
Literally one of the greatest to ever do it and hes just so humble. You can really see his passion for what he has done and what the sport has done for him. I spiritually want to be on his level.
if you do something for 9 hours a day, every day, you will get really good at it after a few years. Rodney has amazing willpower and is doing what he loves.
I can 100% say, Tony Hawks Pro Skater, and pro skater 2 specifically that made me want to do this in real life and beg my parents to find me a skate board. And it was not the big ramps and big air, that still scares me. But it was Rodney Mullen's videos I unlocked in the games, that showed me something I felt like I could do, the flatground tricks from Rodney's videos and the tricks i the game is what made me go out and skate. And I lived in Oklahoma on a terrible street. I started out practicing tricks on grass, I had to learn to Ollie or I was going to bail every 5 feet on the road. Eventually me and 3 friends all had boards and all played THPS together. After a year of of us bailing face first onto raod 1,000s of times from these little tiny pebbles, I was fed up and asked my mom for a broom and started sweeping the street on our block to get all of those little rocks out of our way, before I knew it we had 4 brooms out there and really gave us some space to finally cut loose and go full speed for a block We had curbs too, and most of the time we would just ride straight towards a curb and try to figure out new new tricks to land on the curb then Ollie or do a trick out. The curb trick I always tried to do but only landed once, was a kick flip going up to the curb, land in a premo o the curb, then do a premo flip off of the curb and back on the street. I wish I had a camera back then! My favorite trick that I got pretty good to where it was my normal warmup everyday. The board isn't moving anywhere. Tip it up to a premo, a premo kickflip style flip straight into a Casper, then a Casper flip that spins in 2 directions. Then.... Just repeat it over and over. I always wanted to do it while riding and sliding but I never got to that far I was just better at staying flat in the middle of where I started. I haven't skated in like 10 years. I want to get a new board because my nephews just got a board and I tried to show them a few things and I sucked again! XD if you don't use it, you loose it for sure in skating.
This a good video for Rodneys birthday. This is my favorite channel on UA-cam, been really enjoying these Mullen videos, my favorite skater of all time, can’t wait for what this channel has in store for the future.
This man understands the meaning of transcendence in a deeper level. We can see how important is he in this field by listening to the level of apretiation he has for his peers and art/discipline. Thanks for this great upload.
Brilliant talk from Rodney. I recently picked up skateboarding and watching a lot of these pros talk about why they do it is truly inspiring to me and really helping me stay motivated to get better and better. Such an amazing sport
Mullen is the GOAT. Love hearing him talk, comes off like a really nice guy too. I picture him as that one friend who always gets hyped for you when you land something no matter what it is.
Myself like millions more im sure, love skateboarding because of this man. And the humbleness he talks with is mindblowing. "Im just the flatground dude and literally all of them are better than me" says literally the greatest to ever do it, the genius, the inventor, the pioneer, the inspiration, that still to this day very few can reach the level of
Rodney was always my favorite to play as on THPS! Legend. It's also crazy to see how the sport has progressed. People are doing things these days that you could ONLY do in video games back in the day. It's awesome.
Rodney is like a Zen master. He's so humble yet he invented some of the most important tricks in skating history. I'm a total lamen, but I LOVE watching him as an artist, and art can be manipulating the laws of physics on a plank of wood as much as it can be painting on a canvas. Tony changed the game too, and through a video game, skating evolved to the point where, I don't think, it'll ever die.
I remember watching an interview where rodney said he had never played the tony hawks games despite being in them and that disappointed me because I assumed he didn't really understand the impact that THPS had on the world of skateboarding. its cool to hear that not only does he understand the impact THPS had on skateboarding but also how the games evolved skateboarding and the impact it had on his life. even if he's never played THPS, he understands the importance of THPS.
What an inspiring video. So much of that resonated with me as a skater growing in through that phase. I remember distinctly when skating became popular, I was already a skater and suddenly everyone was buying boards and in turn I became popular. Such a weird time. And such a powerful display by Rodney. Brb gunna watch Rodney vs daewon 🙂
He said none of his videos had that much people noticing him, but the video clips of Rodney on THPS were huge in his legend growing and a whole new generation knowing how amazing he is
It’s so true. Before the tony Hawk game, Thrasher normalized skating, just slower. The perfect picture of the nth try made it possible, attainable. The camera angle made it look bigger and normalized how big you would try.
Rodney is easily one of the most humble people ever to exist. If I actually tried skating, I would fall and break my neck trying to stand on the board lol, but I just loved playing these games as a kid.
I hope you stopped trashing yourself Rodney, never once in my younger years did anyone around me complain about your “style” or trick selection… It was sooo outside the box it pushed us to try the stuff that seemed impossible… What your were adding to conventional tricks was out of this world…I don’t care what anybody says, that pre, during and post A-Team era was magic… I also wish that version of World Industries you were apart of was still around… 🙌🏽
“Popularity is like eating styrofoam, there’s nothing in it” this man is a gem!
Listening to Rodney Mullen talk is alway so inspiring. Respect to such a legend 🙌
It’s unreal
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His voice is so calm and soothing I would join his cult any day.😂
@@gregoryjames174 haha we already did
Indeed... if I had to put it in words.. I'd say. You'll see the world differently once you've seen it though the eyes of a street skater. 💯
I was never a skater, but I am a gamer, and I played (and loved) the Tony Hawks games, and the first time I saw Rodney Mullens highlight reel on the first game, it absolutely blew my mind! I never knew the things he could do were even possible in real life! Yet here he was, doing casper slides and darkside grinds and pogo-ing in real life!
Absolutely incredible dude, incredible talent, and an absolute legend. I hope he knows just how highly even non-skaters like myself think about him! He's like the Pele or the Michael Jordan of the sport. He has no equal.
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True that, altough Rodney only first appeared on Pro Skater 2. Been replaying the first one lately, there aren't even manuals.
As a skater who grew up hours from a city, in a flat town, Rodney was an inspiration. He showed it was possible to get creative even if all you have is your board, a friend's board, and an empty parking lot.
I remember not being all that impressed with his video in THPS2. But his video in 3 blew my mind and still does.
And yet...he's so humble.
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag nachträglich lieber Herr Mullen ;)- ❤
Everything this dude says is deep, he looks to the world with very special eyes
Indeed
"When people are immersed they feel in a way that's beyond words. And when they connect with you in a way that's beyond words you feel it in your spirit and soul." - Rodney Mullen
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great quote. i can definitely relate to it from the other perspective of the guy that was never that much of an active skater personally, but through the videogames learned the vocabulary and concepts, and further on through videotapes (also found through the games) learned the culture. 20 years on i still have respect and interest for the culture, and here i am still watching skateboarding videos and what not.
there is a real spiritual connection like he describes from growing up around these games and rest of the culture that really shape one as a person. the games were basically a love letter to the skateboarding culture, its hard not to fall in love with it if you liked the games and millions did. my personal main fixation and hobby is something else but still, skateboarding 4 life. theres nothing else like it that combines athletics and artistry in such a raw and cool way with so much room for personality.
@@test-tl8dt COULDN’T HAVE SAID IT BETTER ‼️
This dude is incredibly deep..what he is saying is really simple, but you can tell its not simple to him by the way he describes the feeling.
Mullen talking about himself like he’s nothing is astonishing as it’s always been his videos I show other people who think skating is kids stuff and frivolous. Pure mastery of the board. Nothing less. He’s the king.
He's so humble that he doesn't realise how much he changed skateboarding forever ❤
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When I was a kid everyone knew who Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero, Lance Mountain and Christian Hosoi were but none of us had ever heard of Rodney Mullen. I'm so glad he was added to the roster on THPS2 and onward. It was what finally gave him the recognition as the inventor of a ton of the tricks we see today, and solidified his legacy as the father of street skating.
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I love this guy so much. Love listening to him speak.
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The best of Rodney Mullen from Almost Round 3 will forever be the best video compilation of this man. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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He is so clearly a genius. The level of depth in his thoughts is incredible.
Agreed!
On the other side of the Atlantic, in the late 80 s, me and my friends where completely in awe with what Bones Brigade, and specially Rodney, was doing on a skateboard... To this day, I still think that Rodney is one of those very few (Aly, Senna few ) athletes that will never be surpassed, no matter how much the sport evolves. Thank you, Rodney! Cheers from Portugal
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This is easily becoming one of the best skate channels on UA-cam; I have immensely enjoyed all these interviews with Rodney!
Thank you! 🙌
The world owes a lot to Rodney Mullen no doubt. Not only is he the Einstein of skateboarding, he's also an open source advocate and a man of wisdom.
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Couldnt have chosen a better face of skating than rodney and tony
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Every time I listen to Rodney Mullen I want to cry, this man needs protecting at all costs
Absolute legend. Thank you Rodney. For everything.
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I’m that 2nd generation of kids that fell in love with skating through the Tony Hawk games (THUG to Proving Ground) l always like to say that Tony Hawk introduced me to skateboarding while Rodney Mullen made me fall in love with it. Seeing all of his video parts at such a young age made me realize that even the unimaginable was possible. To this day I still do Casper flips, primo slides and pogos whenever I can. Thank you to the man who inspired multiple generations 🙏🏼
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Happy belated birthday, Rodney. Thanks for everything!
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I love how he paints a perfect picture for you, you feel the struggle and hard work it took him
the only person who can actually skate like a character in tony hawk's video games is this guy right here.
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Andy Anderson 😉
@@the6ig6adwolfwould love to see Andy and Rodney connect and have a conversation
Rodney is one of those dudes that I could listen to for hours just talk about his stories and experiences.
Same!
I don't think Mullen will ever realize that He is the reason street skating exists.
Mr Mullen you sir, are an incredible human being. Skateboarding wouldn’t be as progressive without you. You were the missing link man. We are we are because of you brother.
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I could listen to Rodney talk about anything for hours. This was great.
So can we!
i read his book at least once a year and i've always wished there was an audiobook version spoken by rodney.
Every time I hear him speak, I am so inspired by him.
We agree
Going from being all but forgotten, to be recognized as the godfather of skateboarding. What a mind trip that must have been! I have so much respect for this man.
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Dope and mad relatable, I did a Tre and my cousin who played the video game growing up called it out and it tripped me out that he knew what it was. Skate or die.
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They need a Rodney Mullen game!😊
Watching Rodney speak about this in this manner just confirms that he is a genius that was working at a different level for the beginning.
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happy birthday rodney
so humble... "they are all better than i was!"... He was absolutely the GOAT at that time for street
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Rodney is a national treasure
Agreed!
He makes it look so easy. There will never be another
I'm 40 & thinking of skateboarding again because this guy is inspiring af
Do it!
Rodney Mullen is why i skate i'm old now and still love his videos
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Shout out to the wisest man in skateboarding.
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Rodney is the Godfather. He speaks with conviction.
He does
He invented the kick flip didn’t he
@@zachaddington5264he invented the:
Frontside & backside 180 kickflips
50-50 saran wrap
Varial heelflip
50-50 sidewinders
360 Flip
360 pressure flip
540 double kickflip
540 Shove-it
Casper 360 flip
Casper slides
Darkslides (Adapted from Mark Gonzales' idea)
Double heelflips
Flat-ground ollie
Godzilla rail flip
Gazelle
Heelflip
Helipops (360 Nollie)
Half-cab kickflip underflip
Half-cab impossible
Helipop heelflips
Handstand flip
Kickflip underflip
No Handed 50-50
Ollie Kickflip
Ollie Impossible
Ollie nosebone
Ollie fingerflip
One footed ollie
……….. among others. He basically invented modern street skating. He is the godfather of modern skateboarding.
pure legend in the truest form of the words
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I aspire to be just 1/100 of a man like Rodney Mullen, and I would be a great person.
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rodney mullen will go down as one of the greatest influences of art in the modern era, period.
Rodney Mullen is so down to earth man because of him i found out my favorite trick in skateboarding which is the darkslide 😊
Love a good darkslide
Literally one of the greatest to ever do it and hes just so humble. You can really see his passion for what he has done and what the sport has done for him. I spiritually want to be on his level.
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who let this man's soul be this beautiful?
Happy birthday to the GOAT!
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if you do something for 9 hours a day, every day, you will get really good at it after a few years. Rodney has amazing willpower and is doing what he loves.
I can 100% say, Tony Hawks Pro Skater, and pro skater 2 specifically that made me want to do this in real life and beg my parents to find me a skate board. And it was not the big ramps and big air, that still scares me. But it was Rodney Mullen's videos I unlocked in the games, that showed me something I felt like I could do, the flatground tricks from Rodney's videos and the tricks i the game is what made me go out and skate.
And I lived in Oklahoma on a terrible street. I started out practicing tricks on grass, I had to learn to Ollie or I was going to bail every 5 feet on the road.
Eventually me and 3 friends all had boards and all played THPS together. After a year of of us bailing face first onto raod 1,000s of times from these little tiny pebbles, I was fed up and asked my mom for a broom and started sweeping the street on our block to get all of those little rocks out of our way, before I knew it we had 4 brooms out there and really gave us some space to finally cut loose and go full speed for a block
We had curbs too, and most of the time we would just ride straight towards a curb and try to figure out new new tricks to land on the curb then Ollie or do a trick out.
The curb trick I always tried to do but only landed once, was a kick flip going up to the curb, land in a premo o the curb, then do a premo flip off of the curb and back on the street. I wish I had a camera back then!
My favorite trick that I got pretty good to where it was my normal warmup everyday.
The board isn't moving anywhere. Tip it up to a premo, a premo kickflip style flip straight into a Casper, then a Casper flip that spins in 2 directions. Then....
Just repeat it over and over.
I always wanted to do it while riding and sliding but I never got to that far I was just better at staying flat in the middle of where I started.
I haven't skated in like 10 years. I want to get a new board because my nephews just got a board and I tried to show them a few things and I sucked again! XD if you don't use it, you loose it for sure in skating.
🎮🛹🙌
Happy Birthday Mr Mullen
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This a good video for Rodneys birthday. This is my favorite channel on UA-cam, been really enjoying these Mullen videos, my favorite skater of all time, can’t wait for what this channel has in store for the future.
🙌🙌🙌 Thank You
This man understands the meaning of transcendence in a deeper level. We can see how important is he in this field by listening to the level of apretiation he has for his peers and art/discipline. Thanks for this great upload.
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Brilliant talk from Rodney. I recently picked up skateboarding and watching a lot of these pros talk about why they do it is truly inspiring to me and really helping me stay motivated to get better and better. Such an amazing sport
Amazing!!
Mullen is the GOAT. Love hearing him talk, comes off like a really nice guy too. I picture him as that one friend who always gets hyped for you when you land something no matter what it is.
He is the best
Myself like millions more im sure, love skateboarding because of this man. And the humbleness he talks with is mindblowing. "Im just the flatground dude and literally all of them are better than me" says literally the greatest to ever do it, the genius, the inventor, the pioneer, the inspiration, that still to this day very few can reach the level of
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Mullen/Vallely 2024!!!
Haha
Hearing Rodney speak with such honor and emotion about skateboarding and his place in it and how it shaped him is inspiring.
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I love how much he still loves skating man.
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Nothing but Love!
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Rodney was always my favorite to play as on THPS! Legend.
It's also crazy to see how the sport has progressed. People are doing things these days that you could ONLY do in video games back in the day. It's awesome.
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Happy Birthday to Rodney!
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His level of stoke and passion after all these years is so inspiring
Rodney Mullen interviews are the greatest to watch, his voice is the Morgan freeman of skateboarding
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Rodney is like a Zen master. He's so humble yet he invented some of the most important tricks in skating history. I'm a total lamen, but I LOVE watching him as an artist, and art can be manipulating the laws of physics on a plank of wood as much as it can be painting on a canvas. Tony changed the game too, and through a video game, skating evolved to the point where, I don't think, it'll ever die.
He is truly amazing
A true master knows he is never done learning.
I remember watching an interview where rodney said he had never played the tony hawks games despite being in them and that disappointed me because I assumed he didn't really understand the impact that THPS had on the world of skateboarding. its cool to hear that not only does he understand the impact THPS had on skateboarding but also how the games evolved skateboarding and the impact it had on his life. even if he's never played THPS, he understands the importance of THPS.
GOAT & Genuis!
THIS guy is able to transfer the power of skating to our hearts like no other !!
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"and it never ended." Respect to Tony Hawk and so many people helping people in this subculture. Nice clip-thanks
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So prolific, i could listen to Rodney talk for hours about anything.
Check out the 45 min interview on this page
Love the way he talks.
What an inspiring video. So much of that resonated with me as a skater growing in through that phase. I remember distinctly when skating became popular, I was already a skater and suddenly everyone was buying boards and in turn I became popular. Such a weird time. And such a powerful display by Rodney. Brb gunna watch Rodney vs daewon 🙂
Thanks for sharing!
The best of the best describing skate history like I need to hear it
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👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I hope the world never forgets the brilliance of this man. He like Tony, is a living legend.
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It's magical and lovely he's way in skateboard and the way he talks about skateboarding and freestyle .
😁✌🏾
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The games were brilliant. Never had an interest in the real thing myself but can always respect it. Especially guys like Rodney.
He said none of his videos had that much people noticing him, but the video clips of Rodney on THPS were huge in his legend growing and a whole new generation knowing how amazing he is
100%
It’s so true. Before the tony Hawk game, Thrasher normalized skating, just slower. The perfect picture of the nth try made it possible, attainable. The camera angle made it look bigger and normalized how big you would try.
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Rodney Mullen + Andy Anderson goats
Need those two in a room!
Couldn't of said it better 👏 🙌 💯
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He’s such a beautiful soul
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I cried a little😢
Watched a few videos of RM over the past years, and he is incredibly well spoken..very soothing to listen to
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"All these dudes that skated a zillion times better than I" says the best skater of all time lol
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🤟❤️🔥Happy belated Birthday Rodney 🛹💨💨
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The style trend is quite notable love the full circle
There would be no street skating without Rodney
Rodney is easily one of the most humble people ever to exist.
If I actually tried skating, I would fall and break my neck trying to stand on the board lol, but I just loved playing these games as a kid.
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What an awesome guy
Yep
Street style came around to Rodney , thank you Rodney!
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I love Rodney and listening to him he microdosed for a long time or fully dosed to have opened his subconscious up to this level
i love this dude
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I pray 2 god that Mr.Mullen knows how much we all love and admire him as a skater and as a human.
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Great interview for the archive of the many that he has had. Now the only thing we need is to give this man a controller and see how he fares lol
I hope I can meet this man some day.
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This game is the best part!
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@@storied_skateboarding Yes Sir!
there were other skateboarding games but i loved the thps series, ill never be that good but i can play like a pro skater
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why is no one talking about the audio being doubled up this shit is driving me crazy
I hope you stopped trashing yourself Rodney, never once in my younger years did anyone around me complain about your “style” or trick selection… It was sooo outside the box it pushed us to try the stuff that seemed impossible… What your were adding to conventional tricks was out of this world…I don’t care what anybody says, that pre, during and post A-Team era was magic… I also wish that version of World Industries you were apart of was still around… 🙌🏽
i learned kickflip , ollie and pop shove it, i am almost 40 and bought the THPS games for the nintendo last year.
Awesome
The most beautiful mind in skateboarding
Totally