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John Rodney Mullen^[3][4] (born August 17, 1966)^[5] crack an English professional skateboarder who practices freestyle skateboarding and path skateboarding. Flair is thoughtful one pay no attention to the near influential skateboarders of the whole of each time.^[6][7][8] Mullen is credited for inventing numerous tricks, including depiction flatground ollie, kickflip, heelflip, impossible, service 360-kickflip.^[9] Restructuring a do its stuff, he has been commanded the "Godfather of freestyle skating."^[10]

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Rodney Mullen is a legendary skateboarder who transformed the art of street skating.

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Known as the godfather of street skating, Rodney Mullen is one of the most prolific and influential skateboarders in history. Despite initial objections, his father eventually gave in and purchased Rodney's first skateboard in 1977, when he was ten years old, on the condition that he would always wear his safety pads and stop skating the moment he was injured. That same year he entered his first contest and came in third; then, over the next three years, he would place first in every contest he entered -- nearly thirty in all. In 1980, after winning the Oasis Pro competition in San Diego, Rodney began his professional skating career with the Powell-Peralta Bones Brigade. He would go on to invent tricks, like the flat-ground ollie, Kicklip, Heelflip, and 360 Flip that would completely revolutionize the art of skating. In 2002, Mullen won the Transworld Readers' Choice Award for Skater of the Year and founded the Almost skateboard company. In 2003, he wrote an autobiography titled The Mutt: How to Skateboard and Not Kill Yourself.

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“Rodney Mullen is, for me, hands down the best skater we've got.” — Steve Cave, Skateboarding

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Fittingly inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame the same year as his former Powell-Peralta teammate and fellow Floridian, Alan Gelfand, Rodney would be more than worthy of this honor for his adaptation of Gelfand’s vertical ollie to flatground alone. When Rodney innovated the freestyle ollie pop on flat ground in 1982, it became the single most influential trick in skateboard history—the cataclysm for an entirely new dimension to the sport, which literally got skateboarding off the ground—then later up on curbs, over benches, and onto handrails. Most amazingly, however, for Rodney, this milestone accomplishment was only one of probably hundreds of other equally pivotal innovations he contributed between 1982 up through 1990 that would ultimately become the very building blocks of street skating.

The magic flip in ’83 would become the kickflip, the helipop around that same time would open the door to nollies (popping the board off the nose). The 360 flip would come a few years later, along with the Ollie impossible, the heelflip, backside flip, double flip, Ollie grabs, dark slides, and onward ad infinitum. Rodney Mullen essentially built modern skateboarding from the ground up then passed on his creations for the entire world to continue evolving. A humble genius, Mu