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Rodney Mullen
Born	August 17, 1966 (1966-08-17) (age 41)
Nationality	American
Occupation	Engineer / Skate Brand Owner / Skateboarder / Author
Known for	Skating

Rodney Mullen (Gainesville, Florida) is a professional freestyle skateboarder, and is considered to be among the most influential skaters in the history of the sport of skateboarding.^[1] He is credited with inventing many tricks, including the Kickflip, the Heelflip, the 360 flip, and the Impossible. He currently resides in Hermosa Beach, California with his wife Traci. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... If you hold the copyright to an image (e. ... is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ... Location in Alachua County and the state of Florida Coordinates: , Country State County Incorporated (city) 15 April 1869 Government  - Type Council-manager  - Mayor Pegeen Hanrahan  - City Manager Russ Blackburn Area [1]  - City 49. ... Skateboarders Skateboarding is the act of riding on and performing tricks with a skateboard. ... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ... A skateboarding trick (Inward Heelflip) A skateboarding trick is a maneuver performed on a skateboard while skateboarding. ... The 360 flip, also known as a 360 kickflip, 360 varial kickflip, 3-6 flip, 3 Flip, Tré Flip, skateboarding trick that was invented by professional skateboarder Rodney Mullen in 1979. ... An Ollie Impossible is a skateboarding trick which was first performed by freestyler Rodney Mullen in the early 1980s. ... The municipal pier in downtown Hermosa Beach. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ...

Career - the 1980s to present day

His tenure at World Industries marked the beginning of a shift in his skating career from freestyle to street skating. He left the World Industries team to join Plan B, a super team made up of some of the highest profile pros of that time. Throughout this period Mullen was urged by Plan B founder, Mike Ternasky, to adapt his freestyle skating to street. This approach was first seen in the 1992 Plan B video Questionable, and ushered in a new era of street skating that took freestyle tricks which were traditionally done without rolling, or at slow speeds in a confined flat area, to a more varied terrain, often at speed and incorporating obstacles. Plan B Skateboards is a skateboarding company based out of Vista, California. ...

After the death of Ternasky in a car accident, Mullen started the A-Team in 1995. It was his take on forming a super team with the defection of Plan B from the World Industries empire. A-Team folded in 2000 and Mullen went from company founder to company rider under former A-Team rider Marc Johnson, who started Enjoi Skateboards. Mullen left Enjoi and headed to Almost Skateboards along with Daewon Song, where he continues to maintain professional status. Mullen expanded his product development and created Tensor Trucks in 2000^[2] and has also developed experimental and composite deck constructions for Dwindle brands.[1] In 2000 he was granted US patent number 6,443,471 for a skateboard truck assembly.^[3] Marc Johnson is a professional skateboarder who rides for Chocolate Skateboards, part of the Crailtap family. ... The Enjoi panda logo Enjoi is a skateboarding company that offers a line of professionally endorsed skateboard decks as their primary product. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... David Daewon Song (born February 19, 1975 in Seoul, South Korea) is a Korean, goofy-footed skateboarder. ... Tensor Trucks is a skateboarding truck company founded and designed by professional skateboarder Rodney Mullen in 2000. ... Dwindle Distribution is the largest skateboard manufacturing company and distributor. ... For other uses, see Patent (disambiguation). ...

In 2002 the World Industries companies, under the holding name Kubic Marketing, were bought out by Globe International for $46 million. Kubic's management remained intact and Mullen began working for Globe International under the Dwindle Distribution brand.^[4]

In late 2003, Rodney Mullen was voted as the all-time greatest action sports athlete on the Extreme Sports Channel's Legends of the Extreme countdown.^{[citation needed]} Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Extreme Sports Channel is a UK-owned, Netherlands-based extreme sports television channel available across Europe and the Middle East. ...

2004 saw the announcement by Dwindle that it has been producing skateboard decks in China under the direction of Mullen. A Dwindle spokesperson explained that the move was “to better control our current product quality and develop new advanced products. All this, while simultaneously lowering the price on existing skate-deck products.”^[5]

Mullen also penned an autobiography in 2004 with the help of Sean Mortimer, entitled The Mutt: How to Skateboard and Not Kill Yourself.

Mullen continues to skate street and the tricks he pioneered; like the Kickflip once considered technical and difficult, are now considered basic tricks. Rodney, however, continues to invent and adapt his own tricks such as underflip and darkslide variations. Kickflip (originally Magic flip or Ollie flip), also known simply as a flip is an aerial skateboarding trick where the skateboarder kicks his board in order to make it flip 360 degrees along the boards long axis. ...

Appearances in '80s culture

• Rodney Mullen did many of the skateboarding stunts for Christian Slater in the 1989 skateboarding movie Gleaming the Cube. He can be seen performing his own unique freestyle maneuver in silhouette in order to look like Slater. At the end credits, he can be seen, from an overhead view riding his own Mike McGill skateboard with the camera only zooming in on his foot work.^[6]

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Appearances in modern culture

Mullen has appeared in the Tony Hawk Pro Skater (THPS) console games including THPS 2,3,4, Tony Hawk's Underground, Tony Hawk's Underground 2, Tony Hawk's Underground 2 Remix, Tony Hawk's American Wasteland, and Tony Hawk's Project 8. He also appears as a featured rigger skater in Tony Hawk's Proving Ground.^[7] This article is about the American skateboarder. ... Tony Hawks Pro Skater (1999) is a skateboarding video game for PlayStation, Dreamcast, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color, and N-Gage featuring professional skater Tony Hawk in the first in a series of such games. ... Tony Hawks Underground, also called THUG and loosely referred to as Tony Hawks Pro Skater 5, is a skateboarding video game available for the PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance and Xbox platforms released in 2003. ... Tony Hawks Underground 2 (also known as THUG 2 or Tony Hawks Pro Skater 6) is the sixth installment in Neversofts Tony Hawks Series and is the sequel to 2003s Tony Hawks Underground. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Tony Hawks Underground 2. ... Tony Hawks American Wasteland, also known as THAW or Tony Hawks Pro Skater 7, is a video game that has been released for the PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360, Nintendo GameCube and PC. The game was developed by Neversoft and published by Activision. ... Tony Hawks Project 8, also known as Tony Hawks Pro Skater 8 but officially abbreviated as THP8, is the eighth installment in the Tony Hawks Series. ... Tony Hawks Proving Ground (abbreviated as THPG and occasionally referred to as Tony Hawks Pro Skater 9) is a video game developed by Neversoft for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 video game consoles; by Page 44 Studios for the PlayStation 2 and Wii; and by Vicarious Visions... Tony Hawks Proving Ground (abbreviated as THPG and occasionally referred to as Tony Hawks Pro Skater 9) is a video game developed by Neversoft for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 video game consoles; by Page 44 Studios for the PlayStation 2 and Wii; and by Vicarious Visions...

Mullen's invented tricks

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• Frontside and Backside 180 Kickflip
• 50-50 Saran Wrap
• Varial heelflip
• 50-50 Sidewinders
• 360 Flip
• 360 Pressure Flip
• 540 double kickflip
• 540 Shove-it
• Boto Flip
• 720 Shove-it
• Backside 180 Flip
• Casper 360 Flip
• Casper Slides
• Darkslides (Adapted from Mark Gonzales' idea)
• 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(commonly called a truckstand)
• Ollie Kickflip
• Ollie Impossible
• Ollie Nosebones
• Ollie Fingerflip
• One footed Ollie
• Switch 360 Flip
• double kickflip
• 540 flip
• inward heelflip
• hardflip
• 180 kickflip underflip backside
• triple kickflip
• double heelflip
• triple heelflip
• Ollie

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Selected videography

• Powell Peralta: Skateboarding in the '80s (1982)
• Powell Peralta: The Bones Brigade Video Show (1984)
• Powell Peralta: Future-Primitive (1985)
• Powell Peralta: The Search for Animal Chin (1986)
• Powell Peralta: Public Domain (1988)
• World Industries: Rubbish Heap (1989)
• Plan B: Questionable (1992)
• Plan B: Virtual Reality (1993)
• Plan B: Second Hand Smoke (1994)
• Plan B: The Revolution (1997)
• World Industries: Rodney Mullen versus Daewon Song (1997)
• World Industries: Round 2: Rodney Mullen versus Daewon Song (1999)
• Globe Shoes: Opinion (2001)
• ON Video: Winter 2002 Issue - Mullen is featured in a documentary (2002)
• Almost Skateboards: Round Three (2004)
• Globe Shoes: United by Fate, Vol. (TBA 2008)
• The Man Who Souled the World (2007)^[8]

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Current sponsors

• Almost Skateboards
• Globe Shoes
• Tensor Trucks
• Matix