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Rodney MullenRodney Mullen (born August 17 1966, Gainesville, Florida) - Skateboarder He was the youngest of a family of five. His father was an ex Korean War Navy bombardier. Having dental and pharmaceutical degrees, he practiced as a dentist. Later he became involved in property development where he made the bulk of his fortune. His mother also had two degrees in English and Physics and was crowned Miss University of Florida. He had two older sisters Sara and Vicki. Mullen started skateboarding on borrowed boards when he was 8, it wasn't until he was 10 that he got his first skateboard. His father was opposed his son's wishes to practice the sport. His father promised him a skateboard for the New Year, on the condition that he always wore pads, and that he would give it up if he got hurt. On January 1, 1977, Mullen had his first skateboard, a black Bonzai. His first sponsor was the Inland Surf Shop where he used to skate in their carpark. After winning first place at the Kona contest in 1979 he was sponsored by Walker Skateboards. During the 1980s at 13 he turned professional and began skateboarding for the legendary Powell Peralta Bones Brigade team. In 1988, Mullen appeared in the feature film Gleaming the Cube, alongside fellow Bones Brigade team members and movie star Christian Slater. Mullen's other videos include The Bones Brigade Video Show, , , and . He also appeared as a guest on That's Incredible!. In the 1990s, Mullen left Powell Peralta and formed World Industries with Steve Rocco. He skated for another World Industries affiliated company, Plan-B. During that decade he improved on the technical area of some of the tricks he performed, and moved from the traditional small freestyle skateboard to the larger, now standard, street skateboard. Mullen was also featured in several Plan-B videos including: The Questionable Video, Virtual Reality, and Second Hand Smoke. Sometime in the late 1990s Mullen left Plan-B and formed the A-Team. He starred in the extremely popular Rodney Mullen vs. Daewon Song video series, and continued to push the limits of technical street skating by taking his tricks to new levels of difficulty and new terrain. Mullen's ability to do the seemingly impossible on a skateboard has earned him the nicknames "The Godfather of Street Skating", "The King of Freestyle" and "The Mutt" by skateboarding fans. After A-Team's end, Mullen joined Enjoi Skateboards. His shoe sponsor, Globe, put out a new full length team video "Opinion" in 2001. Mullen also won the Transworld Readers' Choice Award for Skater of the Year in 2002. At the end of 2002, Mullen left Enjoi and created a new company, Almost Skateboards out of Dwindle Distribution. With a team consisting of Daewon Song, Ryan Sheckler, Chris Haslam, Greg Lutzka, Cooper Wilt, William Patrick, and Rodney Mullen himself. In December 2004, Almost skateboards released the much-anticipated video "Almost-Round Three." The "Round Three" video finds Rodney Mullen versus Daewon Song once again. He currently wears Matix clothing as his apparel sponsor. Tricks see: Skateboarding trick for detailed description of trick skating maneuvers Rodney Mullen has invented the following skateboarding tricks during his career: - Godzilla Rail Flip
- 540 Shove-it
- 50-50 Saran Wrap
- Helipops (360 Nollie)
- Gazelles
- No Handed 50-50 Kickflip
- Heelflip
- Double heelflips
- Impossible
- Ollie Impossible
- Sidewinders
- 360 Flip
- 360 pressure Flip
- Casper 360 Flip
- 50-50 Sidewinders One footed Ollie
- Backside 180 Flip
- Ollie Nosebones
- Ollie Fingerflip
- Airwalks
- Frontside Heelflip Shove-its Switchstance 360 Flips
- Helipop Heelflips
- Kickflip Underflip
- Casper Slides
- Darkslide
- 540 double kickflip
- Caballerial impossible
- Half-cab kickflip underflip
- Handstand flips
- Rusty slides
- Kickflip
He is also one of only a handful of people in the world who can execute a Yoyo Plant (an extremely difficult handplant invented by Yoyo Schulz in 1982) '''---- Rodney Mullen in action:''' The famous Darkslide, invented by Rodney, himself Mullen, Rodney Mullen, Rodney
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