best freestyle skater in the world...ever.

Rodney Mullen is probably the best freestyle skater of all time. he is amazing and has invented so many tricks. Rodney mullen was born in august 17, 1966 in Gainesville Florida. Rodney Mullen began skateboarding at the age of eight after he promised his worried father he would stop the first time he became seriously injured. Rodney began practicing in full pads, and hung out with his sister's surfer friends who skateboarded on the week days. In 1977, having owned a skateboard for less than a year, Rodney took third place in the Boy's Freestyle event at Kona in Jacksonville. Bruce Walker saw his performance and sponsored Mullen through Walker Skateboards. when he was in Florida he did not have alot of room to skate so he practiced his freestyle tricks. Rodney cites 1979 - 1980 as his "most creative time". Mullen claimed many competitive victories in the late 70s, mostly in his home state, Florida , culminating in a win at the Oceanside Nationals in June, 1979. Rodney enjoyed skateboarding and wanted to go big someday soon. At the age of 14 Rodney Mullen entered the Oasis pro competition, in that competition he defeated world champion Steve Rocco. after that he was sponsered by a skateboarding team called Bones Bregade. this team has alot of really good skateboarders in it. while he is here he goes in a skate video called Rubbish heap. In 1991 Rodney Mullen joined the high profile skateboarding team called Plan B. the plan B founder Mike Ternesky Influenced Rodney Mullen to swith from freestyle to street skating and showcased the results in the 1992 Plan B video Questionable. Rodney Mullen starts out with freestyle tricks like he ussually does really well on. and then he moves into different terain and on to flat ground tricks and shows off his board slides, grinds, and a trick called a kickflip underflip. this is when you do a kickflip then in the air hit it into a heelflip. (so it is basicly rewinding a kickflip in the air if you think about it). after that he finishes it all of with a casper slide.Mullen's Questionable performance may have marked the beginning of a new era in street skateboarding. His reluctant departure from freestyle to become a street skater was a symbol that legitimized the technical direction street skating had taken over the previous few years. Mullen specialized at this progression in subsequent Plan B videos; noteworthy is 1993's Virtual Reality where Mullen showcases the newly-mastered darkslide. her is something rodney has said about skateboarding. I can't wait to wake up in the morning... A lot of times I can't sleep because I can't wait to try something new. How many people never really experience that feeling? Rodney Mullen, 2003. Mullen's participation in Plan B dissolved after Mike Ternasky died unexpectedly in 1994. In 1997, Mullen started his own company, A-Team, with the intent of forming a super team with the defection of plan b from the world industries empire. Rodney talked to friend and fellow pro Daewon Song to plan the video Rodney vs. Daewon, which featured each skater competing in segments from trick to trick.Almost folded in 2000 and Mullen went from company founder to company rider under former Almost rider Marc johnson who started Enjoi skateboards. Mullen left Enjoi to head Almost skateboards with Deawon song. the company which he still helms and skates for. Mullen's role at Almost includes research and development on new designs and technologies, including Tenso trucks in 2000 and experimental and composite deck constructions for Dwindle brands.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.In 2003 Rodney wrote and released his autobiography, entitled The Mutt: How to skateboard and not kill yourself. In late 2003 Rodney Mullen was voted as the all-time greatest action sports athlete on the Extrem sports channel's Legends of the Extreme countdown. 2007 - 2009 signaled another transition in his skateboarding career as Mullen worked to erase his riding stance, allowing him to move from Regular stance to Goofy Stance. now here is a video of Ridney mullen doing amazing tricks.....