Rodney doesn't need to be the skater of a year because he's the skater of several generations

@lucavinnied.502

5 жыл бұрын

Francky TRUE TRUE

@alexsimmons326

5 жыл бұрын

True.

@Khourylol

5 жыл бұрын

You not wrong

@Nominay

4 жыл бұрын

Steve Caballero was actually awarded Skater of the Century by Thrasher, in 1999, but yes, I think in our hearts we can safely give it to Mullen instead. No offense Steve!

Mullen being skater of the year would be like the owner of a company being employee of the month. Lol

Rodney never won the Thrasher SOTY, but he did win the Transworld Reader's Choice SOTY in 2002.

@TysonHook-22-

3 жыл бұрын

I've heard it stated from Jake Phelps or from someone else recalling of J.P. That Thrasher use to have a SOTY fan vote or considered having a fan vote aspect but quickly realized it wouldnt work because no one wouldve ever won besides Rodney Mullen. Not 100% positive but I believe the story as I heard it told was that the first few SOTY awards had a fan vote aspect and each year Rodney was overwhemingly picked as SOTY by Thrasher readers but was never honored as such instead Jake Phelps and Thrasher employees voted on SOTY themselves and they quickly got rid of the fan vote aspect entirely, but I believe the first few SOTY awards had some sort of fan vote aspect to them or maybe it was pro's themselves voting on who they thought was SOTY but the legend has it that Rodney was voted year in year out by fans for the first few years of SOTY awards. Of course it should be taken with a grain of salt as the myths and legends of both Mullen and Jake Phelps constantly grow larger than life so maybe im spreading a rumour with no basis or maybe its truth thats slightly skewed over the years of retelling either way its just an interesting tidbit of information I've heard from somewhere.

I'm so blessed to have grown up in a city (Wilmington, DE which is 20 mins south of Philadelphia). Even though we didn't have any skatepark, there were PLENTY of street spots, and better yet, a 20 minute drive to FDR skatepark. Growing up being 11 years old skating FDR was truly amazing. I remember when the Xgames came to Philly twice in 2001-2002 (I think), I went both years, and I remember the second time I went, my dad took me and my brother over to FDR during an Xgames intermission, and Eric Koston was there, I remember he fell at one point and his board rolled over to me, I picked up his board and handed to him, he just said Thanks little dude! And having played him on THPS the very night before, it was a moment I will never forget. Truly amazing I am so grateful

@pvdev8044

Жыл бұрын

For some reason your account reminds me of stories about the first few months of playing Magic the Gathering on the west coast and the first tournaments people started. Kids growing up and messing around with with Alpha Lotuses or just rare Alpha and Beta cards in general, right as they came of the printing press. I did not know Thrasher back then but I remember watching 411 videos and then finding out about Rodney Mullen when playing the Tony Hawk video game series. I'll always remember when I unlocked his video, I could not believe what I was watching. I did manage to land a couple of his tricks later on (Casper slide and the standing on the edge of the board flippy thing) and he will forever be my favorite sk8ter. I did not grow up in the US but those are some of the only times (the 90's) where I wish I'd have had a front row somewhere other than where I actually grew up so I could have witnessed the emergence of that whole subculture first-hand. Thankfully I at least got to experience a good chunk of it in a delayed way, and then a little bit later in real time through the internet and the early days of online gaming. All of this stuff was simply mesmerizing and interestingly enough the internet itself (along with other factors of course, but it's a big one) ended up destroying a lot of that creativity and diversity. At least I find it harder to find these days.

Can't pick a year for Mullen's SOTY? No worries; he's Skater of The Century.

@skylarmccloud4080

6 жыл бұрын

Mullen has been dubbed "The Godfather Of Skating" He holds the highest title, but in a very humble way.

@napalmkitty6686

5 жыл бұрын

skylar mccloud oh man hes so cool and humble. We are lucky to have him!

@DeathBringer769

5 жыл бұрын

@@skylarmccloud4080 Godfather of Street Skating, considering he wasn't the godfather of vert ;)

Mullen was already decreed the "Godfather Of Skating" you can have 20 SOTY awards and they wouldn't measure up to Mullen's title. So it would be kind of redundant.

Mullen can't be SOTY for a simple reason: he's already the greatest in skateboarding history.

*Short Answer:* He never did the big vert airs, was never comfortable with the scene, public, or media, and he was _waaaaay_ too technical and ahead of his time for any of the judges to even comprehend how to compare him. But he still won just for being there, so _"it was always a contest of who was the first to get second."_ *-some documentary*

@jonathanduarte720

5 жыл бұрын

"Short"

Mullen needs a lifetime achievement award or something

@suburbia8831

6 жыл бұрын

More like The Godfather award 👑

@p00lwuzhere97

5 жыл бұрын

@Tobias Funke fuck you and your family

@Haywood-Jablomi

4 жыл бұрын

@Tobias Funke you know that's objectively false

@euminkong84

4 жыл бұрын

Mullen himself said he feels honored to have taken part in creating a language greater than himself. He is the godfather of street skateboarding.

@TheMapleDreamer

4 жыл бұрын

@J he literally invented the flat ground ollie, kick flip and heel flip, nearly every modern trick is just a variation of those. He also helped design the modern skateboard as you know it, using his knowledge of why you're even able to manipulate the board the way you can.

As I recall, Rodney was a contender for SOTY for his part in Round 2, but I forget the one or two other considerations he was one-upped by. In his book, Mullen makes it sound like Round 2 was the first street part of his that he was legitimately proud of.

Andy MacDonald did the first mega ramp jump from what I recall. It was in a 16mm section of a Transworld video. It did not have a quarterpipe after it though, so I think that's generally referred to as 'big air' rather than 'mega ramp'.

Yeah, Rodney was all about underground. For some reason people like to watch skaters flying at the speed of light and grabbing their boards in the air rather than something that only one person in the world can do and nobody else will probably ever get close to it... What a ruthless world! Keep your head up, Rodney! You are above SOTY's, you deserve the Best Skater Ever Reward!!!

His legacy as an originator of skateboarding is worth 1000 times more than a 4 page spread in a magazine. Just my opinion

Cause its thrasher....thrasher doesnt acknowledge freestyle skateboarding.....easy answered.

@suburbia8831

6 жыл бұрын

Jake Phillips is a tool. I meant him years ago @ spot & in San Diego he’s a cocky self entitled asshole

@nikokaapa

5 жыл бұрын

Do you mean Phelps? A rough angel.@@suburbia8831

@phillipduffie8732

5 жыл бұрын

Jake Phelps is dead now

@ericduminil

4 жыл бұрын

Street skating would be really boring without Rodney Mullen. He invented at least half the tricks which are featured in Thrasher.

I love watching your vids and learning about different skateboarding stuff. Am 26 and stopped skating 11 years ago, trying to get back into it. Skateboarding is hard!

@SquirrelASMR

6 жыл бұрын

You retired your career at the age of 5?

@nutchunder

6 жыл бұрын

I am basically in the same boat, hahaha. 10 years and 100 pounds makes for a different feel for sure!

@tomsy6522

6 жыл бұрын

Squirrel ASMR math is hard too eh! Would be 15 my guy. Lol

Mullen and his style will never get old. As long as he does tricks I cannot do, and never will do - which includes pretty much all of them - he will be fresh, amazing, and the absolute unadulterated king of skateboarding.

Hey dude, doubt you'll read this, but i started skating in 2007 and your videos helped me so much. it was super inspirational to see some random nerdy looking kid on a farm doing noseslide trick tips when i first started skating because I always associated skateboarding with "the cool kids" and never thought I was cool or athletic enough to skate. I just turned 28 and Ive been skating for over 10 years at this point (never stopped) you might not get much notoriety for what you've done for skating but I still do this day think back to those trick tips you made whenever I go out and skate. You were the first do to breakdown tricktip video in a very understandable format and I honestly feel like many skate youtubers use a similar format to what you did back in the day. Props homie!

Mullen's street skating reminds me of the painter Paul Cezanne; innovative, extremely technical, different, not flashy enough, seemingly unmotivated by fame. Cezzane was also super shy like Mullen. Picasso called Cezzane "the father of us all" and claimed him as "my one and only master!"

I remember your old channel! Back in 2007, I was trying to get back into skateboarding for the second time, I would watch Rodney Mullen videos. I wanted to do the trick he would do a lot (later identified as "Walk the Dog") which led me to your channel on "How to Walk the Dog." After that I watched your other tutorials. I remember taking notice of your freestyle board. I didn't know about freestyling boards back then, but I remember trying to buy one like it. I guess I felt it would be easy to do things like treflips on, which is why I wanted it. In hindsight, it probably makes those types of tricks harder.

Went to temple with suciu and I would skate Cecil almost everyday. I never saw him skate Cecil though, he did come by with a book once in a while and read on the brick ledges. I also saw him at love a couple of times, he'd show up do what he wanted to do in a couple tries and then leave. Dudes amazing on a skateboard and one of my favorites, wish he skated with us all though. This was around 2013-15.

@NathanielHD

5 жыл бұрын

Also in was smoking a blunt on the basketball courts that have the sketchy triple kink that suciu 5050d and I saw tom asta switch front crook to popover into the crusty bank . I have a picture of it on an old phone that broke and I need to see if I can get it. Also ishod skating love gap.

I remember your old videos. I remember watching the plasma spin video where I had no idea what trick it was but it blew my mind. I remember you got a sponsor from a company called Zyklon. Those were the good old days of KZread

I like how you are talking about skating and have a Kandinsky behind you.

@JohnSmith-ix5gx

6 жыл бұрын

a Kandinsky is painted on both sides

Why be skater of the year when you're already a skate god :) Being SOTY would probably degrade him ;P

You should change the title of the video here. Rodney wasn't Thrasher SOTY but he was Transworld SOTY. I know 90% of skaters forgot about Transworld, but he was skater of the year, just a different publication. The year was 2002

Mullen was the first who did flat ground ollies. His years of isolation is how he became so creative to invent most of todays street tricks. And then you have tho other street skaters who had a huge impact before todays skate boom. Natas, Gonzales, Valelly and I think Frankie Hill belongs in that crowd. Personally I think Mullen, Valelly and Gonzales progressed street skating the most. Impossibles and trayflips mullen did back in mid 80s.

one of the honest guys about everything on youtube is Rad Rat i have to say, i even watch stuff that i generally dont find that interesting and still being entertained, keep up the good workz >)

I don't even skate but I love the THPS series and I love this channel. Some super interesting stuff here

From everyone knowing you to a guy thinking that you were in the army with him

@matrixarsmusicworkshop561

6 жыл бұрын

Maui Millen hahah gold

@matrixarsmusicworkshop561

6 жыл бұрын

Maui Millen nugget

Thank you for answering my question :) definitely the highlight of my night.

Thanks for answering my question :)

heck yeah my dude. keep them coming!

I'm totally relating to the living on the farm in the middle of nowhere not having anybody close who skated ,I grew up in Santa Cruz in the 80s it was tough man

Skate 3 and 2 servers are up again so you should update the game reviews and talk about the Skate 3 online features a bit more.

@Ckypwnd

6 жыл бұрын

Klaus-Erik Krönkvist up again? When the hell did they go down?

@gimmegamma4849

6 жыл бұрын

Ckypwnd they were for a good 3-4 years bro,but oh is a nice thing to see

@virtuaskimmer6714

6 жыл бұрын

Klaus-Erik Krönkvist Damn man you got the P's3 or Xbox? Can you see if the have my park it was crazy on the P's3 user:Ganjulationess

@klauserikk

6 жыл бұрын

Virtua Skimmer i have a ps3

@dustinalicea3304

6 жыл бұрын

Add me:DustyyShellz

Transworld 2002 readers choice skater of the year - Rodney Mullen

Glad to hear you talk about your early days that is what I know you from originally here on YT. I have been combining street & freestyle for over 12 years now. I used to use your videos to help me, especially with the Flamingo stand in particular. BTW Mark's last name is pronounced SU-CHEW. I grew up next to him my friends were friends with him I was too busy focusing on my own skating at the time to care but I did know him and it's cool to see him considered a true professional. Some of the old clips on my channel are some of the spots that Mark used in his old sponsor me footage. (San Jose, CA)

I’m from Michigan and still live here cool to know your from here too

Rodney should definitely get a Life time achievement award if he hasn't already.

Maybe if they had skater of the decade, Mullen would've gotten it for either 80's or 90's

@benhaney5843

4 жыл бұрын

Probably not actually. Almost certainly not. Tony Hawk would win 80s, Koston or Thomas or somebody would win 90s. This isn't my personal opinion necessarily but if Thrasher gave out those 2 awards in like 1990 and 2000, he wouldn't have won

skater of the year would be a understatement anyway.. he's more like skater of the century.. Godfather of skateboarding is the perfect title for him

Mullen was never SOTY because he is the Immaculate. He is the Untouchable. He is the reason people believe. He is Skater of the universe.

Why would you give the greatest skater of all time an award for a year?!!!!!

6:38 Suicu Grind 7:12 Bennet Grind

Because hes a God? SOTY would be like awarding a Navy Seal a boy scout of the year award.

keep up the good work man

when i was a little kid watching every skate video i could find on youtube and i remember the viral kick flip tutorial it just hit me so hard bruh lol crazy to seem how far you came !

literally the Godfather of Street Skating. everyone knows him and at least some of what he's done for the sport. plus, he's the most humble dude ever, he wouldn't want it lol

Hey Radrat, i wanted to ask you if you think that switching stances may change one's skill. I've been skating goofy for about three years and i sucked terribly, and after couple of ankle injuries i had to stop skating and i started to wonder if i skated regular i would be a better skater. Also, maybe mongo pushers should be skating the other way, like mongo goofy should be regular with normal push?

Yea it's Soo-choo. The people I skate with call anything that you rotate into and rotate out of back to the original position a Suciu grind.

Came here from vlskate. Been on a binge for a while now. Love the nerdy bits of skateboarding

I have a question? Will you please wear that zebra hat in the next video????

Mullen is SKATER OF THE CENTURY.

He technically hasn’t won Thrasher’s SOTY, but he did win Transworld’s Skater of the Year in 2002.

When was the first board with concave.

Congratulations on your channel

suciu is pronounced sue-choo

@amandawisby1569

3 жыл бұрын

That’s how I’ve heard it

I remember that kickflip video hahah

Rodney Mullen is the skate godfather he needs not to be skater of the year for he is to humble, but Dude is a fucking legend,and legends are immortal.

Mullen couldn’t win “skater of the year”. But if there is a “skate god of the year”, he’d win every year.

Can we get some Grind King updates soon?? Also, a Brand Breakdown on Darkstar, and maybe a Retro Rippers on Chet Thomas? I would love to hear a lot about each of these, and some in depth info on Darkstar... Particularly their iconic art style (not what McKee did, I've looked into that.) And their board technologies over the years, and anything else they were iconic for. Also, the drum loop sounds like Sinatra by Helmet XD Have a good day!

Rodney was probably never Skater of the year award because Thrasher was underground. I remember having oldschool skate magazines/books as a kid and. .although skating was amazement, it seemed like there were views of it

@130world1

6 жыл бұрын

Books I got from my much older uncle up north

Two uploads in a three days?! Lol, jk. Keep up the good work Aron, and I’ll enjoy the videos whenever you get them out. Edit - one recommendation- an upgraded mic would help the sound a lot. Edit 2 - hmm....I thought you had a different mic before, so if you do, please disregard this. Lol.

Just watched a rodney documentary last night from a on skateboarding dvd from like 02 i believe it was when he was still on enjoi hahah old one

You're definitely a relevant part of the larger skate-world sphere now Raddy. You might not feel like it, but it is what it is.

A skate god like Rodney Mullen doesn't need to be on the cover of a magazine. We all know that all the skaters to ever be dubbed skater of the year still don't come close to Mullen's greatness.

Short answer: it's less about tech achievements than attitude and style, they have to have that "thrasher" element

Dude, what's up with that drum loop in the background? please, if you need music collabs to be on the background here i'm in for it hahaha kinda of annoying that one, takes the attention away. Really like your research in skarteboarding history, tho

@vgrepairs

6 жыл бұрын

Igor Maia please send him your music man!

@wowza935

6 жыл бұрын

Skarteboarding sounds fancy.

@trentheselden8574

6 жыл бұрын

Igor Maia You got the drums, I’ll do the bass :P

@Sidnfjdkdndfbd

6 жыл бұрын

Igor Maia now u point it out now thats the only thing i can hear

@ovaerd

6 жыл бұрын

Please save this rat, man.

Skater of the year is not good enough for someone if Mullen's caliber. Lifetime Achievement, Skater of the Millennium, the HolyShitWeCan'tInventAnythingBecauseYouAlreadyInventedItAll award would be more in line with a true legend like Mullen.

really good point

Anyone hear about Rune Glifberg anymore? That should be a retro rippers.

@ps5622

6 жыл бұрын

Andrew Haffner he was at the flip demo in France a few days ago!

@Painless1992

6 жыл бұрын

Dude is active and gets some coverage in the spotlight from time to time. Still ripping, even contests.

@andrewhaffner5304

6 жыл бұрын

Nice!!

@AustinHansen

6 жыл бұрын

I’ve been wanting to know what happened to Gailea Momolu

@grosgraslarge

6 жыл бұрын

Paul Stewart Ah stylé il y avait qui de la team flip ?

Rad rat my second question is are hospital stalls possible...(a blunt stall when you hand stand on the nose of the board)?

I love your videos. I'd love to skate with you lol I'm sure everyone would

Make your own teleprompter with that pad on a stand next to the camera, i feel like you just want a break from talking to me as it is now. You have way too much charisma to be staring at a pad like that. I'm so happy to see this channel grow!

Sickk! 👉🏼

I have a question rad rat..are flamingos(flips) fround upon in the skate community or do I just not see anyone do them.?

360 on flat is pretty nice

I wonder why Mullen never did Street in the early X-Games. Was it because the early street events were more vert based?

Who did the best/hardest manual trick?

I literally fucking watched those trick tips 12 years ago as a kid wtf

DUDE I've been watching your videos since 2010 whitout realizing

He's back!

Hey rad rat. I know this is a bit of a long shot but could you do a retro rippers on Jason lee.

Wow didn't realize that was the reason why Rodney never won the year round 3 came out. Keep it up your videos are always awesome.

I remember that old channel ❤️

Just submitted a question for the Rat!

RAD RAT can you please do a video on what happened to SHORTY’S skateboard’s?

That's so crazy I used to watch your videos all the time

What do you think about jeff grosso's loveletters?

@AgentXaos

6 жыл бұрын

Look at him he's a red blooded American male who skates...why wouldn't he love the letters?

If you gave Rodney Mullen skater of the year, he would’ve taken in it as an insult

Sorry Rat I have to bring up something you left out about skater of the year. Thrasher always likes the gnarly gap and rail guys. As for a revolutionary trick of the year achievement what about the casper slide? To this day I only know of less than 5 skaters who've really done them well.

Mullen never won SOTY because it was just chosen by Jake Phelps who isn't into technical skating. Instead he mostly just chose people he was friends with like the year he picked some dude I had barely heard of who happened to play bass in his band.

I don't think the mega ramp had anything to do with it. I don't even remember it till later. It was his unbelievable vert skating but also, he was a great street skater too at that time. Hardly any vert guys were really good on street. But his part in plan b video was big part of it.

Yo Rad Rat have you picked Session back up lately? They've got a new build for a "Free Flip" mode where you actually can control the flip speed and you manually catch your own tricks. Would love to see you do a video on it. Something I think you would really enjoy.

Radrats the shit!

SKATE 3 SERVERS ON RADRAT

nice Kandinsky!

Skater of the Year is a Thrasher thing. You have to be in the cool kids club to get it. Rodney probably should have won it in 92 or 93 because those parts were outrageous at a time when being tech was at its coolest. Cardiel and Agah got those years, which makes sense since they were bay area dudes that were cool with Phelps. Pure tech will never win SOTY because Thrasher is about gnar.

Freestyle was only a big deal when Rodney was skating another thing all the 80s pro say they hated freestyle but the place would shut down and everyone would come and watch when his name was called Rodney doesn't deserve a skater of the year he deserve the best skater in history award and someone should make that award just for him

He is the soty every year for me we all owe Rodney for all our tricks we can definitely say he had a heydey prior to the soty award being invented it was 1981 or so never lost a single freestyle tournament can't tell you exactly I was born 1982

I love Kristian Svitak Team Insanity Black Label days and 1031 and Radrat i watch your videos because i can actually learn something about skateboarding. Keep up the good work and just wear a I love haters t shirt hahah

Mullen is the skater of the millennium!