Watching Rodney Mullen Skateboard for the 1st Time

[@Crumbz19]

So Rodeny at 14 basically skated the perfect run because in his mind it was the last day he'll ever get to skate. what a fucking legend.

[@sthompson12132]

incredible story

[@don951]

No. That is just how he skated. I was at Del Mar in 1982 and he put together a flawless no touch run. Just a machine.

[@cablevamp3163]

The guy perfected skateboarding before the skateboard itself was perfected That’s just mind blowing

[@cryptidian3530]

@@don951 The godfather of street skating.

[@SongJLikes]

It simply doesn’t get more bad ass than that.

[@RSpracticalshooting]

Seeing Tony fanboying over Rodney's perfect score 40 years later is the greatest thing ever. I love Tony Hawk so fucking much.

[@juffurey]

and when Rodney started talking about the bones brigade patch you could see his eyes light up! never lost that energy that's what makes him Tony Hawk!

[@brentsrx7]

Do a 900!

[@andrewwadsworth1143]

Why don't you marry him if you love him so much?

[@RSpracticalshooting]

@@andrewwadsworth1143 maybe i will. and you're not invited

[@RemoWilliams1227]

Yeah Tony is just a solid bro.

[@mitch3384]

I can honestly say that if Rodney's parents followed through and stopped him skateboarding after that, my life, and the lives of pretty much everybody watching this video, wouldn't be the same. That intersection in time was a big deal for millions who fell in love with skateboarding. What an amazing person to have as the figurehead of skateboarding.

[@davidswanson5669]

During this story all I can think about is “I hope I’ve gained enough wisdom, by the time my kids are teenagers, to not let my own plans for them get in the way of their destiny”. Rodney’s dad ultimately realized his son had found his calling in life, and he let it happen, and didn’t get in his way.

[@Underpantsniper]

I wonder if Rods parents realize they could have greatly altered the future of a multi billion dollar industry and millions of people's lives by not letting him continue to skate.

[@XDBjoernXD]

So true. I started skating, when I was pretty young and fell in love with it since. Even when it means just cruising. There was a time my bike was broken down and I was still excited, that I skated 3 kilometers just to the skatepark.

[@Tyrannosaurus_STFU_III]

"It was a perfect run!" You can't fake that kind of excitement. He was amazed.

[@snowyrox3331]

Normally that would be unbelievable, but luckily there's an entire vault of videos of Rodney doing perfect, flawless runs repeatedly to solidify Tony's amazement. Rodney was a god in his prime. Very rarely would he ever stumble.

[@handfloboxingreview1673]

Watching Rodney for the first time was mind blowing. The man defied what I thought was possible to do on a skateboard. He is the GOAT.

[@cerebrix]

I got to see him do a demo inside a mall in front of a Swatch store when I was like 15 or 16 (im 49 now), on a polished tile floor and he didn't fuck up even once. Shit didn't even make any sense. Just bonkers. I think maybe 20 people showed up, tops.

[@jonw8697]

he has a ted talk

[@handfloboxingreview1673]

@@cerebrix dang I’m jealous. That’s a once in a life time experience right there

[@YouilAushana]

"There is no spoon".

[@kelzuya]

His stuff doesn't age. Even his freestyle stuff as a teenager just blows you away still.

[@coolguyhino92]

2:43 40 years later, _The_ Tony Hawk is *still* absolutely astounded by that perfect score.

[@cablevamp3163]

Well skating starting from a plank of wood and skate trucks in like the late 60s to basically a sport of sidewalk surfing and hand stands and riding walls in the 70s Mullen doing what he did in 81 was like 20 years ahead of everyone else That’s just insane to think about

[@fademusic1980]

I wish we got a rodney episode every christmas

[@cleaveuntome42]

Can we vote on this?! I second this and my name is also Rodney

[@tres909]

Hawk vs Wolf vs Mullen

[@Sausageholster]

I 3rd this even if Rodney wants to do it at 3am

[@DANCERcow]

Rodney Mullen is the best technical skater in history! He revolutionized skating and changed it for ever. Rodney showed what skateboarding could be!

[@sacredgeometry]

He is a genius. I dont think there is any other explanation for his ability to do what he does with a skateboard. He saw it and understood things about the logistics of skating that noone else did. Watching him skate its pretty obvious. There is no other skater like him and noone else did anything like that before him. That is true creativity.

[@RSpracticalshooting]

@@sacredgeometry absolutely. he does with a skateboard what mozart did with musical notes. it's pure art.

[@greyk610]

Yep, I always have the most respect for dudes who did what they did without anyone to idolize and replicate because he basically just invented everything he did as he went. This guy is like the godfather, and the reason we see what we see today.

[@righty-o3585]

He invented tricks 20 and 30 years ago that are still to this day some of the most difficult tricks to land.

[@thewatcher3308]

First time I saw him do a Casper slide, I was confused 😂 like "did he just slide on it upside down?!"

[@michdo23]

I am in my mid-40s, and from Europe. We used to watch these guys on VHS tape at our local skate shop where the owner let us hang out. Mullen, Hawk, Kaupas, McGill, Caballero and Lance Mountain were our heroes. This dude is such a legend for me, i would get the shakes if i ever would meet him. Also, his life is like a Hollywood movie. Highly intelligent gifted kid has a talent to become the best skateboarder in the world, but his parents wont't let him, make him wear pads and eventuelly try to make him quit. But he follows his passion, becomes a millionaire, holds TED-talks and is still a legend to this day. Absolut GOAT.

[@desnekke7073]

Die guten alten Zeiten bei coast in essen abhängen oder bei Titus in Münster, Skaten gute Zeit haben und vhs Videos gucken ❤

[@amwinters]

How could you leave out Hosoi!?

[@MrPek-fe9fp]

Well said! True, every word. Greetings from Finland.

[@ben.daniel]

I randomly got to meet him in Melbourne Australia. I was waiting for my girlfriend to finish work and I saw a guy walking toward me wearing an Enjoi t-shirt. I was like "...man, that guy looks like Mullen". I looked down and saw he was wearing Globes and walking pigeon-toed and I knew it was him. Before I realised what I was doing I'd stepped in front of him to say hi. That's really out of character for me. I basically thanked him for skateboarding. He was super nice and not put out by some guy accosting him in the street.

[@JamesCharbonneau]

The exchange starting @5:20 talking about a blind trick is great: Rodney: You know what it’s like when you land something and you’re feeling the tug, because you don’t know what’s going on, right Tony: I’m usually looking at my board, Rodney

[@timdupill9839]

Hilarious.

[@bobbycrosby9765]

There's several hilarious moments like that when Tony and Rodney are together. I remember Rodney talking about how left foot right foot doesn't matter and Tony is staring at him like he's speaking some alien language.

[@mj9608]

I hope rodneys parents understood how much he means to the world and how proud they shoulda been of him

[@derrickcisneros1480]

MY friends dad lives next door to Rodney's dad! I'm trying my best to get that address just to shake his hand.

[@SlickRick4EVER]

@@derrickcisneros1480- you’re full of crap…

[@AvianDnD]

@@derrickcisneros1480 my dad works at nintendo

[@RshadowA]

Have you read Rodney Mullen's autobiography? His dad was an orthodontist and didn't want Rodney to skateboard because he was worried about him wrecking his teeth. Well, one day, Rodney smashes his teeth and starts crying and his dad assumes Rodney is crying from pain but he actually crying because he was freaking out because his dad told him that if he wrecked his teeth, it was over. When his dad realised how much Rodney Mullen loved skateboarding, he let him do it. It's such a cool story.

[@JimmyNissfolk]

​How would you not have the adress if he lives next to your friends dad? Lol dank lie bro ​@@derrickcisneros1480

[@JamesCharbonneau]

Rodney: You know what it’s like when you land something and you’re feeling the tug, because you don’t know what’s going on, right Tony: I’m usually looking at my board, Rodney

[@icantollie]

According to his autobiography he would practice his runs blindfolded so that he could make eye contact with the judges during contests

[@BiblicallyAccurateToaster]

What Tony did for vert & the public eye on skating Rodney did for street & those of us within the skate community. Love seeing these 2 heroes of mine together this many years later.

[@maladjustedtv]

Rodney Mullen is the greatest of all time. Period.

[@downrightcarnage]

I was born in the 90s so my first exposure to Rodney was THPS2. I remember watching his video over and over to watch his Casper slide 360 flip at the end. I knew it was a special trick but the fact he could do it irl blew my mind.

[@zurielsama]

As someone who tried to skate a lot growing up it's really cool hearing from these guys. It's basically seeing the first generation of famous bros who you respected as a kid!

[@kevinnaughton9597]

I’ve already watched this whole interview once and this is making me go back to watch it again. Such a rad dude

[@XDBjoernXD]

Rodney is such a legend. The dude is so creative and joyful. He inspired me to start skating when I was 6 years old and saw the bestof youtube clip. I instantly feel better, when I am on a board. I love skatebarding.

[@alexneidermeyer284]

Mullen was my favorite skater before I ever knew who Rodney Mullen was. One of my favorite movies growing up was Gleaming the Cube with Christian Slater, even though I don't skate because I can't, my interest in skating was born from that movie because it had everything pool, vert, street, flat, downhill and a great story with great acting. But what stood out to me the most were the scenes of Brian skating in the construction area, it blew my mind. By the time I saw it what most people envisioned when you heard the word skateboarding was street skating, so to see someone doing all those amazing tricks without ramps, rails, stairs, humps, bumps, just flatness was breathtaking. Then decades later the internet informs you that the stunt skater for that scene was the man became legend himself Rodney Mullen. Every time anyone mentions how Mullen skates alone at like 3am that construction scene plays in my head.

[@feelinghealingfrequences7179]

was? who is your fav now?

[@alexneidermeyer284]

@@feelinghealingfrequences7179 That 'was' is reference to my personal past, not the past tense of my favorite skaters identity. Growing up my favorite skater was an unknown movie stunt double for Christian Slater, whom I much later learned was Mullen.

[@perc3136]

So they made a movie about mullens life ??

[@darksu6947]

Why can't you skate? Did the aliens abduct your legs? I'm really sorry if they did bro. If you happen to be in a wheelchair I'd be more than happy to push you around, pop wheelies and make race car sounds since you can't skate and everything. You deserve to have fun too 🥲

[@stephaniejean2426]

​​@@darksu6947This is exactly why skateboarding is the world's best sport, with the world's coolest people!

[@profoundwanderer1441]

Hawk and Rodney hands down cemented their status as basically gods of skateboarding. It's extremely difficult to argue that.. 😂

[@RSpracticalshooting]

I'm not sure any sane person would try to argue against that lol They're the reason people even give a shit about skateboarding. Tony for bringing it to the world commercially and Rodney for inventing half the shit everyone does on a board.

[@profoundwanderer1441]

@@RSpracticalshooting Trust me.. i'm open minded/ question everything around me. Obviously it can be debated.. but you kinda proved my point, haha. I can name legends in the making right now.. but yeah dude you are absolutely right!

[@disturbed157]

​@@RSpracticalshootinggrowing up my friends hated Rodney. They liked rails and gaps and he didn't do those so they would argue with ya.

[@Dylans503]

​@disturbed157 then who would they argue would be better technically?

[@JD_13]

@@disturbed157so thats why you’re no longer friends with them, right?

[@Doolinski]

I just want to say, all these comments are so wholesome, makes me happy to read. Rodney inspired all of us in one way or another, and we must keep perpetuating that to everyone who skates.

[@TheGonzogibby]

Lemme bring it down a notch: at the start, when Rodney said “I just felt like a dork with all these pads on,” I immediately thought, oh damn, you gonna hurt Tony for real - pads on or not. Obvs this isn’t the context or what The Mullen indented. I just like to balance the scales of things on the internet. Too much Rodney wholesomeness we do not deserve!

[@CarcPazu]

I was a skater in the 80s and it has shaped me like nothing. Made me fearless, take risks and push myself and see beyond the initial pain. Skating shapes strong minds.

[@rickeykoga2312]

1000%. Any kid who you see skating is a person of determination and grit. Every skater shares the bond of loving the sport so much that the pain and fear are secondary to the stoke. Many people never feel anything close so we the lucky ones in this world

[@notveryobviousguy4373]

Hockey did it for me. Never grew around asphalt unfortunately, wish I did

[@sense_maker1816]

It teaches discipline and you can transfer that to every other area of your life.

[@stuartrobertson5062]

@@notveryobviousguy4373same no room to be a bitch when you've got 18 other guys just as afraid as you held up by the fact you dont wanna let eachother down.

[@SkimmelToe]

or in my case, you discover youre a coward and quit.

[@ineedmyhat]

I really wonder how different life would be had we not got Tony Hawks pro skater games. I mean i had no clue skateboarding went beyond those big chunky single kick boards, and sidewalk surfing lol then but tony comes along like "naw, this is skateboarding !". And now i know about folks across the planet who adore this sport and throw themselves at any obstacle, hoping to best it, and impress their peers. God bless all of you who read this. Truly, i pray you all have joy and health forevermore.

[@morrisalanisette9067]

i just watching the 'toy machine' skate video from the mid 90s which included a few of the skaters on the cast of THPS, and realized THPS probably wouldn't exist without those skaters pushing themselves and doing those big tricks. And I started to see the cause and effect of all humans that is progressing forward, like even the dudes that made the hand rails in a factory and installed it, the workers that put down the pavement for them to land on. Idk i just had a vision seeing how everything is all connected and we are all part of it contributing to it

[@andyb3522]

Most skaters attempted tricks. Rodney performed them. He will always be remembered as a skateboarding pioneer. Not just the innovation he brought to the sport, but the sheer mastery. It was art. Truly poetry in motion. A majestic dance on the board. And he's so respectful and humble, I think to this day he probably has no idea how many people he profoundly affected just by being himself. They say that you should never meet your heroes. But I truly believe Rodney is an exception. The same can probably be said for Tony too, I'll admit I first heard of Tony Hawk through the videogames, but I've never seen any examples of him being anything less than humble and truly respectful, even his cameos and appearances in films. He's always been a great guy and an amazing skater.

[@TonyMarselle]

Growing up in Southern California tony was talked about like he wasn’t real. I thought he was made up to sell skate boards. Like Tony the Tiger.

[@ca9968]

Watching this...seeing two of the guys from The Bones Brigade that I used to watch on Public Domain and Ban This every weekend morning before hitting the streets of the East Rand in Johannesburg to go and spend all day skating in the very early 90`s and then seeing that Ray Underhill Cross on the wall beside them has just sparked some seriously good memories...man o man do I miss those carefree days of heading to a local street spot and meeting up with all of the local skaters from my area, spending hours and hours throwing ourselves at a 6 stair set or a bank at a shopping center in the hot African summer or during the dry but bitterly cold Joburg winter... One of the best guys in the neighborhood had an "Underhill Cross" deck back when I hit high school in 1991...

[@MarkMelchior-lb6vv]

I feel much of what Rodney shared here. He is a blessing to the world and we are not bums. Legends never die.

[@TheAnimeist]

Freestyle competitions today still contain elements of what Rodney was doing in the 1980s. The innovation speaks for itself.

[@greyk610]

Lol, I love seeing Tony fan girl like this. You can tell he has so much respect for Rodney.

[@wademedlin6831]

He is what got me into freestyle. I just had to have his chessboard Powell deck. With skid plates. Yeah. This man changed my whole view of skating. Him and Phillips.

[@NoelBuller]

Very sick throwback

[@thecuriousquest]

These two pretty much came up with all the main ingredients of modern skateboarding. Thrasher magazine. The house that Rodney built. Look for it. Tony created a foundation for today's vert skaters, showing the world what's humanly possible during hang time on a vert ramp. True physical artists. Creative as fuck minds, envisioning a trick, and making it happen, and sharing them with all of us!

[@patkelley8293]

I believe I saw Rodney first on Bones Brigade I video. His original moves became staples of street skating. I just remember how we all felt connected with these pros. Skating was healthy fun that challenged all of us to be better and be ourselves! Thank you Tony and Rodney!

[@gbone2636]

Gave up skateboarding at 18 when I got a car and was tired of getting injured. Still keep up with what Rodney Mullen is doing, transcended the sport. My friends who didn't even skate said he was their favorite because of his video from THPS. Just a legend.

[@jimbeam-ru1my]

"Gave up skateboarding at 18 when I got a car and was tired of getting injured." Good job. skating isn't for adults unless those adults are good enough to go pro and make a living at it. Hanging out with skaters is something adults shouldn't do either. The alcohol, drugs and stupidity of the sub-culture doesn't do anything for you as an adult. Most people that deeply immerse themselves in a skater lifestyle grow up to be low wage losers with a substance abuse problem.

[@RSpracticalshooting]

Looking back, having all those skate videos in the THPS games was absolutely goated.

[@alectateformayor5129]

I quit skating at 18 when i became a herion addict I always wish i tried harder just to be alittle bettwr then i was

[@tylermccann6187]

Pretty much this whole video one thing keeps flashing through my mind…this guy is so damn humble. He changed the skateboarding world and he’s always acting like he was fortunate to win competitions or fortunate to be in the same company as Tony hawk and the other bigs. He is legit the biggest influence in the history of skateboarding tricks. But tue dude is humble and grateful every day all day

[@halycon404]

My favorite interviews with Rodney aren't actually with other skateboarders. It's when he gets interviewed by people who aren't in the sport and they realize at some point that he invented it all. It's always someone who saw his Ted talks or something and they ask him about the history of the sport. Rodney starts talking about a mistake he made while practicing which in turn later became the ollie, kickflip, or some other trick that even they know of. There's always this moment where for a second they are in awe, flabbergasted, that every single thing they know about skateboarding came from one guy. And Rodney is always just, "Whatever, it doesn't matter that I came up with it. It matters what other people did with it. The story is about working through failure, not the tricks.". Not the way Rodney would put it, but it's basically what he says. He shuts that down. The next thing is the interviewer doesn't know what to do. You can see it on the interviewers face. They have questions but they can't ask any of them. They realized the person they are interviewing is the Albert Einstein of skateboarding and he doesn't want to talk about E=MC^2. It's beautiful. Every single time.

[@NoBrakes23]

"I'm usually lookin' at my board, Rodney." 🤣

[@madscientist6843]

Eyeballing the Judges doing that trick is cold....I am constantly amazed by Mullen

[@cjc2611]

Tony giving Rodney his flowers through the entire interview is so dope to see

[@schuug]

I fucking love Rodney Mullen. An absolute genius and huge inspiration, even outside of skateboarding.

[@ScottLangley-e2e]

thank you for changing the game and bringing your own style to the skate scene mullen.. ill always be a fan

[@mikesorensen5228]

In late 80's - early 90's I rode my first real skateboard....my friend and I found an old Tony hawk board with the chicken hawk logo in the garbage. We had no idea who Tony hawk was but it was so awesome that we got in our first fight. We both argued that we saw it first. At around ten years old, my friend and I decided that we would each get a turn to punch each other in the face to decide who would keep it. That's all I will say about that. The next board several years later when another friend really introduced me to skating. I bought a plan b where's Waldo board and we Ollied blocks of wood in his driveway. Then later in high school someone brought second hand smoke to watch in video editing class and we were blown away to discover rodney Mullen. Video editing class morphed into filming skate videos class.

[@gregwisniewski9604]

Every time I see Tony and Rodney together, it's like Rodney is an alien who landed to teach the world how to skateboard, and Tony is the human who understood that the world would appreciate him, but never understand him.

[@LMan8787]

Rodney was, by a country mile, the biggest influence on my skateboarding as a young teen in the early 2000s. I actually grinded out learning handstands. Never could get the one-handed-finger-flip-to-primo-to-540-flip-to-casper-to-casper-to-land, but a rolling handstand I eventually got.

[@tacticalmatt7030]

i picked up a skateboard because of the love for thps 1 and 2 rodney is the reason i kept skating hes a legend and so inspirational

[@Frankenwookie]

Rodney and Tony are two of my favorite humans ever. I was a never a vert or freestyle skater and was always the skater that couldn’t land a trick “perfect” like Mullen, but big and dirty like Hawk. Love these guys.

[@therealdarthvader9936]

The two godfathers of skateboarding, so amazing that they came up together in that world and see them now, sharing those experiences with us mortals. They were my idols growing up back when I was still a serious skater, especially Rodney me being a street skater

[@hoodymchoodson1499]

Homie is so humble. RM's flip tricks made him a God and every kids eyes that ever watched the skate video

[@cristiant6566]

this convo transported me back to when i use to skate, i dont think about it much anybore but this hit me right in the feels lol. will have to watch the full ep now!

[@gabereiser]

To have a legend talk about you this way. Rodney, you've always been the GOAT. Just goes to show how much your parents can fuck up your head for life. Rodney, you're not a bum, you never were a bum, you literally invented modern street skating. No one, NO ONE, did it like you. "I just kinda slide on the dark side of my board" (Casper Slide), "I like flipping my board so why not do it while moving" (Kickflip/Heelflip/All flips), "What we really need is a shove-it with a 540" (540-shoveit). "You guys like to stand on your trucks, watch me do it no-handed" (no-handed 50-50 grind). "Oh, and that thing I showed you earlier, I can do this out of it" (no-hander 50-50 to kickflip). "Oh and did you know that wood and metal slide?" (Primoslide)

[@AricTheAnderson]

I'm so fucking happy that they did this podcast.

[@kyle6209]

He probably is the best skater in history, there are different styles but what he could do and what he did to the sport was far beyond what is normal.

[@JJFX-]

Considering it was at a time when he's essentially inventing ways to do what he did, I'd say that's an easy greatest freestyler ever.

[@mjones7887]

How is there not all in like a TV show about the skateboarding in the 80s

[@doposud]

When i saw video of Rodney for the first time my mind was blown , that perfect control he had over the board was something out of this world

[@XxS1NxX]

Two goats of skating in one room talking about skating!. Need more of this!.

[@user-um3wj1uy8c]

this was such an incredible podcast. can we get rodney on the pod every christmas? as a treat for being good lol

[@OttoByOgraffey]

I love seeing these guys, talking the good old days. Way cool.

[@CaptainOnePocket]

Just finished Rodney's book... great read. Thank Mr. Mullen.

[@joemilner7710]

“Don’t rot in public..” man I wish other artistic legends like him would have understood this. What an amazing person

[@coreysuffield]

the thumbnail image is wrong, the contest they are talking about(oasis 80') was 6 years prior to the shot in the thumbnail(oceanside 86')

[@LilYeet-oz5lv]

Incorrect

[@magicwood2360]

Rodney I can't say thank you enough for your contribution to skateboarding ❤🤙👊

[@lordadamis]

You guys dropping a lot of Rodney clips from that interview. Are you teasing us with the possibility of a part 2?

[@offgridmatt]

I could listen to Rodney all day talk about how to make salsa and it wouldn't get boring.

[@realjsm]

The GOAT of skateboarding. I'd like to thank Rodney's parents for supporting him skateboarding.

[@jerrycharles66]

I lived in Gainesville, Florida and remember when they built Sensation Basin a few miles from my house. I went to skate whenever I could and remember watching Rodney do freestyle skating in the parking lot. It was awesome.

[@joewatts2940]

How can you not love this guy

[@patrickwilson6314]

Love seeing these dudes talking in the same room so many years later. So awesome!

[@TheOnlyDJChillWill]

So much love and respect for Rodney.

[@phoenix1473]

100% brother.

[@timlangeloh4679]

Rodney has so much soul, he just radiates wisdom when he speaks.

[@andytweedy4026]

I really wish with all my heart I could meet tony he has been on my bucket list my whole childhood in the 90s still today I have all his games movies he's the reason I go out and skate

[@chesterpuffington8368]

When I saw my first video of RM I thought he was the best skater I ever saw. Nothing has changed since then, mind you I first saw him in the late 80's.

[@Mahiro801]

The Godfathers of Skateboarding, bow down

[@PsychicAlchemy]

I've always felt inspired by Mullen; such an awesome skater and person in general! While my connective tissue disorder prevented me from pursuing skating, I take all that inspiration and direct it toward the more cerebral talents I've developed. The awe of human achievement is cross-disciplinary!

[@88mphDrBrown]

I believe his oasis 80 freestyle run is on KZbin as well as his oceanside 86 that they used for the thumbnail.

[@blackbeansmatter1280]

Saw him skate up close and personal back in 86!

[@sethc4758]

Two legends in their own rights. and undoubtedly the two most significant skaters there will ever be. Rodney single handedly took skating from flat ground to street and invented at least half of the most well known flip tricks. Tony was the first skateboard superstar and really the only skater to reach such a level of fame and wealth.

[@robinkuiperij3089]

Can we get a series with all kind of short origin stories of all the skaters from back in the days please? I've been watching a lot of interviews and podcast lately of skaters and I watched Lords of Dogtown. I want more stories like these in a movie or series!

[@robertaBooey69]

He was the best in three different decades fn legend Rodney

[@whyitskeithd00d]

Rodney seems like such a nice dude

[@williambarringer6513]

We must protect him

[@cablevamp3163]

He reminds me of like a Buddha type person he’s so majestic

[@devinabrams5434]

The most legendary skaters in their respective crafts. Both amazing innovators.

[@S1E2SportQuattro]

“Feeling that tug, looking at the judges and thinking of barry” 💀

[@deejaycalieqop]

Meeting Rodney Mullen was a highlight of my skateboarding career growing up 🫡💯🙌

[@CompassIIDX]

He left this part out of the story, but he tells it in The Mutt: when he was going out of his way to try to look into the eyes of the judges while he did the 540 shove-it, he realized it was wasted because all their eyes were just glued to his board. 😅

[@woodnbikes]

I don't throw the word GOAT around too often, But there's 2 in the same room here....

[@Donald_Dump420]

Jason ellis and tony hawk have a podcast how did i not know this existed man. I love this

[@RAAZR-]

The pioneer in the air interviewing the pioneer on the ground. Iconic

[@markthompson5136]

“I’m usually looking at my board Rodney” 😂😂

[@maxxpowers5275]

Imagine how far behind skateboarding would be today if Rodney and Tony never skateboarded.

[@oldb-1kenobi]

"...don't rot in public." Sage advice and words to live by from a GOAT right there.

[@uncomfortablepinkman6447]

“I’m usually looking at my board, Rodney” 😂🤣

[@sjelliott6660]

"Name one person you'd love to have lunch with, living or dead" Rodney Mullen, every time.

[@mtflick]

Living legend. The goat. Kind and generous guy. Rodney Mullen.

[@THEslashman]

A pivotal moment in his life is also a pivotal moment in the history and progression of modern day skateboarding. A perfect run, indeed.

[@DravenxEyeless]

Rodney and Tony are basically the Goku and Vegeta of skateboarding

[@Mahi-jg5dx]

I find it funny, if I understood it correctly, that Rodney quite late find out he was not a bum anymore because people were listening to him on Ted talks and stuff. Man, a father's influence will haunt you for a life time...

[@JoeLucero-r5l]

I drive by where the Oasis park used to be on a regular basis. Sadly, it's just a parking lot under the 8 and 805 interchange.

[@Aeitch7775]

“I’m used to looking at my board Rodney 😒” 🤣

[@danielh3579]

Dude, mullen I had your boards growing up. Just wanna say your my one of my role models as I was growing up. Thanks man!

[@clifcoleman3675]

Jason: "so you're 14 and win"... Tony: "HE GOT A PERFECT SCORE" He still is amazed like 40yrs later

[@matthewbridges1438]

I have been looking for DAYS trying for find the deck directly behind Rodney’s head on the internet.

[@jdklc]

Love Rodney Mullen - so down to earth and so influential in the industry

[@MattMonk]

There's only one sport in the world that can trace it's existence back to one person, that's Rodney Mullen.

[@perc3136]

How have they not made a movie about this dudes life ?? Or have they?