Rodney mullen net worth
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Rodney Mullen: the life and career of a skateboarding icon
For many riders, historians, and athletes, Rodney Mullen is the most influential street skater in the sport's history.
The Floridian invented several skateboarding tricks, including the heelflip, the ollie kickflip, the 360 flip, the flat ground ollie, and the impossible.
The "godfather of modern street skateboarding" won his first world title at the age of 14. From then on, Mullen won 34 out of 35 freestyle events he entered.
"I defended my world title over 35 times, and I recall being genuinely happy about it only twice. The rest were hollow victories tainted by playing it safe," admitted Mulled in 1999.
"The media told the world of my greatness while I felt like a fraud. I was cowardice wearing a crown."
Progressively, he shifted his interest from freestyle to street skating. As time went by, Mullen became more than just a prolific skateboarder.
He created his own brands and companies, developed his inventive talent, and became a popular public speaker.
Early Days
John Rodney Mullen was born on August 17,
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About Rodney Mullen
Rodney Mullen won his first world skateboard championship at the age of 14; over the following decade, he won 34 out of 35 freestyle contests, thus establishing the most successful competitive run in the history of the sport. Over the following years, he turned from freestyle, translating his accumulated skills to a newer, different form of skateboarding. He is widely considered the most influential street-skater in the history of the sport, having invented many— if not most— of the tricks used today, including the street Ollie, kick-flip, 360-flip, Impossible, etc. As a consequence, Rodney was deemed “Godfather of modern street skating” in the Tony Hawk video game series, which featured his character over a span of about 8 years.
Publications: In 2004, Regan Books published his autobiography, co-written with Sean Mortimer. In their December 2006 issue, Los Angeles Magazine included him among their top 100 most influential people. In 2011, Cole Louison wrote The Impossible, a book on skateboarding as a whole, largely from the perspecti
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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, d
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