rodney mullen – most underrated skater ever
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- schneekind0
there are a lot of unterrated skaters but definitely not rodney mullen!
today people do techstuff down huge rails and gaps...
rodney skates more freestyle but that discipline died in the early 90s i think. anyway he is a great skater.- I guess freestyle tech isn't as marketable as getting huge air.dMullins
- egosmoke0
Absolute legend. I had a poster of him on my wall since when he was doing freestyle and vert was all the rage. Then it seemed like he went away for a while only to reappear in Second Hand Smoke doing darkslides and making everyone look bad. Rodney rules.
- Stugoo0
awesome skater by no means underrated... thanks for the reminder though, he is a legend!
- hiten0
He's a legend. I agree he was never in the cool crowd though, when I used to skate Muska was the king of cool.
- likewise. the shorty's team was the cool kids. Boomboxes and tattoos...baseline_shift
- Ambushstudio0
cool outfit
- mg330
Yeah, you're a little off with the "underrated" comment. Anyone who really knows skating knows that he's responsible more than anyone else in some ways for the progression from the 80s era street skating to what we have now. People used to laugh at freestyle back then - and look at the influence it has on modern skating now. Half the tricks people do now wouldn't exist if freestyle hadn't existed.
He's just not talked about much because he's not really skating anymore. He's not in videos, he's more on the business end of it now.
- seed0
He's my favorite skater. I was reading about him recently and was surprised to see how many tricks he invented that are standards today. I would think most people who really know skateboarding know how talented and influential he is. I think it's great that he is still skating professionally too.
- seed0
Everyone knows these are classic too:
- one of my fav vids of all time.baseline_shift
- i've seen this video many times, yet i'm still in awedijitaq
- seed0
- lvl_130
who is that at 2:57 in the video?
- airey0
"kids need to learn who pioneered that shit".
hahahaha.
they should probably know their history fullstop. you know, crazy shit like presidents or prime ministers (depending on where they're from), what started the world wars, what makes the middle east such a hotbed what the EU means to the world, why nato is a waste of time, how bush jnr stole the first election, etc etc. you get the picture.
rodney mullen was part of the first wave and will always exist in the history of the sport if anyone cares but let's get a fucking grip and just a modicum of perspective lol.
- creez0
he gets the respect he desserves
- seed0
I like that his style is so technical that he doesn't have to be super insane to be impressive. I love the unique street adapted freestyle.
- showpony0
underrated by skaters over 18, no. i'm 31, and have been skating for forever. this past weekend, however, i was at the 5boro back to banks competition, and i heard someone say something like "rodney mullen was the first to blah blah blah" and like 4 kids were like "who's that?"
i now sound old. that is all.
- blasphemy! kids need to learn who pioneered that shit.baseline_shift
- they got to learn this shit sometimelazerbass
- robotron3k0
I alway imagine he's like Rain Man on a skate board. He can really express himself with a skateboard, have lot's of fun, and do it perfectly – every time.
- bliznutty0
i never underrated him
- he always had the gift, but he wasn't into or good at PR like most of the goofballs leading the circuits,,,robotron3k
- moveinspace0
Far from underrated and any skater knows that Mullen paved the way for most of the street skating tricks we see today. When I used to watch the old Powell videos it never was Hawk, Mountain, or Cabellero who I got excited to watch. It was Mullen and Per Welinder.
- +5. per was amazing. i had a mcgill deck myself. shame he was such a fucking tool.airey