When Rodney is around Tony he opens up soooo much. He is so relaxed and open. He trusts Tony so much and knows he will never belittle him or do him wrong. It’s like being around a brother. Even with Ellis now Rodney trusts him. Love the interviews with Tony and Rodney and Ellis.

@doaSkid69

5 ай бұрын

Ohh yeah perfect 💯👌❤

@arcadesunday4592

5 ай бұрын

They're both skaters... easy conversation. I found so many close and genuine friends just by skating. Same mindset (when it comes to one's art).

@steveyoung2877

5 ай бұрын

i’m the same way. trait of autism

@nsxmatt

5 ай бұрын

@@steveyoung2877 Give me a break. Everyone who’s shy or anti social thinks they have autism now like it’s a trendy thing.

@steveyoung2877

5 ай бұрын

soemthing tells me everyone gives you a break. because they don't wanna be around you lol. @@nsxmatt

Growing up watching Rodney was a blessing. What a savage and such a brilliant mind

Rodney Mullen is such a genuine, humble human being. When I think about the type of person I want to be perceived as, it's someone like him.

Rodney is just such a wonderful individual, a true individual. Skateboarding is so incredibly lucky to have benefited from a mind like his amongst our ranks.

FINALLY! Someone compiled the best things from Texas onto one shirt...and it didn't take too much room either. Texas skater here, saw Phillips so many times when I was a kid, the ENTIRE ramp shook when he was on it. RIP Big Tex

@edwardduarte7393

5 ай бұрын

I have the Bones Brigade version of that shirt. Bought it on The World's Best Ever..

"Everything you need to hear has already been said by somebody.... but you need to hear it from somebody that means something to you so you to finally listen" wow that just blew my mind!

Sounds like the difference between musicians who write their own music vs. musicians who have someone else writing their music. Mullen's drive is not just doing tricks but creating tricks and something original for himself.

@Blackisss

5 ай бұрын

Well put friend

@ryangregohara

5 ай бұрын

Good analogy. There are a handful of skaters out there that I always equate to the art and improvisation of the jazz greats…Charlie Parker, Miles Davis etc.

@RockyTop85

5 ай бұрын

Excellent analogy

@briantomcollins

5 ай бұрын

That's actually a pretty good analogy.

@dylanvinitamusic2033

5 ай бұрын

I mean..... I guess so. Except writing your own songs is much easier than just inventing your own ways to manipulate gravity. Lol

Growing up in the 90's was so rad - You guys are awesome!

@mho...

5 ай бұрын

as 90s teenager, i totally agree, awesome time it was!

Mullen: invents %70 of skateboarding. Also Mullen: so self conscious he has to be told he has nothing to prove.

@PitBullPlaysGames

5 ай бұрын

because hes not a good skater

@triztenklk

5 ай бұрын

He's a high ranking God of skateboarding my guy​@@PitBullPlaysGames

@jackjames1

5 ай бұрын

@@PitBullPlaysGameshe invented the kickflip!!!!

@Thisisdarkdata

5 ай бұрын

@@PitBullPlaysGames you must’ve smoked crack as a child with that logic

@user-vw9kl6ns8x

4 ай бұрын

Why would you say that?​@@PitBullPlaysGames

There would be no modern skateboarding without this genius.

I did a darkslide on accident a few times, but on purpose, very very difficult.🤔🍻

Watching another wizard sesh, big ups to the Z Boys and Jay Adam's, Rodney is the wizard that drove the street needle. He made the whole world our playground with a creative mind and just a few of his inventions.

Rodney Mullen is the reason i started skating. i bought THPS4, and was unlocking the videos through the levels, or maybe from beating it? i cant recall. everyone's parts looked the same, but 12 year old me saw Rodney's clip, and i was blown away! i started staking after that want wanted to be just like that. ended up learning the primo flip!

Mullen has always been one of my favorite skaters. He was so chill and humble, and invested some of the most amazing tricks ever, still to this day.

This will always be the coolest trick

@ruffsnap

5 ай бұрын

100%. Darkslides are, like Rodney said, one of those "oh, holy shit" lightbulb type moments that really totally flipped (ha, pun intended) skateboarding trick possibilities on their head. It's such a simple thing to do to just flip the board over when you think about it now, but Rodney being the one to do that was just revolutionary

@PitBullPlaysGames

5 ай бұрын

no they arent theyre stupid

@dngrouscrgo

5 ай бұрын

@@ruffsnapit wasn’t revolutionary, Mark Gonzales did the trick two years before him in the Video Days part

@ruffsnap

5 ай бұрын

@@dngrouscrgo It absolutely was. Get fucked lmao

@eternalrewind2190

5 ай бұрын

​@@dngrouscrgohe did it from a cave man... Rodney did the first proper darkslide just like how he did the first flat ground Ollie

As an Okie it was an absolute trip to hear that he first did the Darkslide in OKC. Rodney is such a legend.

I remember seeing that Virtual Reality vid for the first time back in '93. Rodney's part blew my mind. Loved the Jim Croce songs on his part too.

Always ahead of his time in Skateboarding trick innovations

@DeanGoldbarry-jo7fd

5 ай бұрын

Because he invented more than half of them.

One of the coolest skate trick names there is “darkslide” shit so sick haha

This is the second segment of this interview I've watched. These guys are just such legends.

I was never into Rodney but have tons of respect and see a lot of his influence in younger skaters. My crew were all Muska fans. 🤙

@chadneuendorf9431

3 ай бұрын

They were and are doing all the tricks he invented !!' He is the architect !!!!

I’m terrible now but early 2000s I learned to get pretty good at skating because of these two guys. Rodney Mullen was my biggest inspiration. I wish I still was skating but life happened.

@jasondashney

28 күн бұрын

Life is still happening. Go get a board. Skateparks are full of middle-aged guys who haven't skated in ages who are just getting back into it and can barely ollie up a curb and they go out once every week or two to have some fun and roll around.

"that's on brand" so accurate too, ofc rodney invented this shit alone in the middle of the night.

I love how humble rod is, and I love how they can take the piss out of 80s freestyle skating a bit too haha.

Oklahomie checking in

@gabbyb9939

Ай бұрын

Hell yeah - OKC is indeed crazy at night

Rodney Mullen is both a poet of the spoken word and a poet of skateboarding. He should win a Pulitzer for his contributions to skateboarding

The first time i seen the darkslide my head almost exploded

Love from OKC

The god father of modern skateboarding! My personal favorite of all time, there will never be another Rodney.

@mitsukibakugo9735

5 ай бұрын

And street skating as well.

This is amazing. Totally get what they were saying about street skater cred there at the end. "Come off and land in a pogo" LOL sometimes Jason nails it

This mafaka is why I started skating. Shaped my mafakin life. Much love to Rodney

Darkside one of my fav grind tricks 🔥

@Spaghettaboutit

5 ай бұрын

Just a heads up - a grind requires contact with the axle of the truck of the thing you are “grinding” - anything short of that is a slide or manual - which is why this called a darkSLIDE - I’m sure there is a weird fucked up way to invent a new trick and turn it into a dark grind - but I don’t know how that would work. Other than maybe some sort of inverted smith or crooked grind with a small double-walled crevice.

All hail Rodney raddest since sliced bread

It's crazy seeing the hawkman show this love to his life long pal, The Rod has so much emotion and love for his sport and he created so many tricks people just take for granted as time has elapsed Hawkster is in love with this dude on a no homo... bromance level ❤

I used to love watching this guy skate. I'm 35 idk how old he was when I was 13 but dude he was awesome!

@DanArnets1492

5 ай бұрын

A 30-something, he's older than Tony and he is 50 IIRC

That advise about "being you", "to do what you want" Is such on brand to skateboarding

Those plan B videos were a truly master class in skateboarding.

I once saw a video of Mullen doing a reverse Casper slide. I've never been able to find that clip again and to this day is it one of the craziest tricks i have even seen. I kind hope it wasn't just a dream I had.

@jasondashney

28 күн бұрын

His Virtual Reality part I think. You mean where he does it like an upside down nose wheelie?

LOL darkslide into pogo, clip it!

Darkslide and the edge of skating in a few tries

Hands down best skater to ever live. All three are legends though.

"2 in the morning... 3 in the morning."

Imagine having to tell a genius just do you. Just goes to show what genuine human being he is.

Not knowing the channel, the thumbnail had me wondering what Rodney mullen has been doing for the last few years tattooing his head

I've always thought of Rodney as the progenitor of street style.

I like how I grew up watching these guys skate, and now they both have more hair than me lol

Inventing the dark slide in the middle of the night in Oklahoma City and landing it after a few tries? Hawk (contemplates for about half a second): Yeah that's on brand [for Rodney Mullen]

gold

❤

Rodney Mullen has a genius level skate IQ but that's almost selling him short. It's matched with artistic mastery. Tony is more of an athlete-skater, but Rodney brings the artistic and psychological side out of him more. They are both very, very sharp dudes

Rodney Mullen also innovated thps games. (Flatland)

That's on brand 😅

Rodney is and always will be a skate king/God/creator

What a treasure!

Rodney is one bad ass mother!!

Rodney probably went out that night and did a darkslide to pogo, just to see if he could.

I want to know about ‘Mike T’.. who is he?

@tvsavery666

5 ай бұрын

He's talking about Mike Ternasky, the creator of H-Street skateboards and Plan B.

Note to self: "Oh my God you idiot." So humility is essential to being an amazing skater. I need to keep that in mind.

Rodney Mullen, the Textbook example of there being an *EXTREMELY* fine line between incredible genius & like straight jacket in a padded room kinda insane…

@Jamsaladd

4 ай бұрын

hes not insane.... thats an ignorant take. his brain just works a lot faster and more differently than yours.

@jasondashney

28 күн бұрын

My favourite line from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies is when Will Turner says something like "this is either insanity or brilliant" and Jack says "it's remarkable how often those to coincide" or something like that.

@lect0n7

6 күн бұрын

@@Jamsaladd You completely missed the point of what I was saying, I never called him insane, insulting my intellect & calling me ignorant won’t change the fact that when I was 7 years-old, I came up with the idea _(still in use to this day)_ to use SONAR to warn dolphins & whales of tuna nets…I said this idea to my father (the electrical engineer who invented the consumer level carbon monoxide detector in 1984, and within 10 years, it was federal law that any business or house had to have one), now, my dad was a in the U.S. Coast Guard Electronic Support Unit & he knew who to contact to make it so a week later, I was presenting this idea to a room full of people at the _Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution._ all that said, intellect is hereditary, my father has it, my kids have it & my sisters & I have it…I’m sorry life isn’t fair, the Soviet Union attempted to make it fair for everyone…didn’t work…

Who's Mike T?

@jasondashney

28 күн бұрын

The guy who started Plan B

@jasondashney

28 күн бұрын

Mike Ternaski.

So the darkslide was invented in Oklahoma ❤

How can someone get in contact with Rodney?

This man has kickflipped a picnic table b4.

@PitBullPlaysGames

5 ай бұрын

so what? anyone who knows how to skate can do that

The fucking GOAT

Yeah, Rodney. Why the hell didn't you think to create one of the most legendary grinds ever?

Only Rodney can just invent tricks in the middle of the night alone lol

Why is it called darkslide? Is it cause he invented it at night or that grip tape is usually black (dark)?

@birdsteak9267

5 ай бұрын

Dark, no color, light, color. The light is a beam of all 7 colors.

@icantollie

5 ай бұрын

The latter

Still nobody is asking the question that literally everyone that is me wants to know: How the fuck did Rodney Mullen wind up in a Ghost Recon game?

The man who invented the kick flip is worried about inventing a trick to remembered for….

No one is on Mullen’s intellectual level

@ 1:28 bro relax you’ve done more for skateboarding than everyone who’s ever skated combined

So Rodney did you ever figure out how to go from darkslide and then throw it up to grind 🤣 #nbd

The title of this video is disrespectful to Mark Gonzales

Mark did it first.