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    RODNEY MULLEN

    Sep 01, 2020 4 minutes
    by Bethany Ericson

    Meet Rodney Mullen, unstoppable freestyle skateboarding champion. He is known as the “godfather of modern street skating” for inventing most of today’s tricks. Mullen brought us the flat ground ollie, the kickflip, heelflip, and 360-flip, as well as dozens of more advanced tricks from his freestyle days, including kickflipunderflips and dark-slides. His hours of practice reimagining what he could do with a skateboard resulted in not just technical perfection, but mesmerizing grace. He left studies in chemical engineering to co-found a successful skateboarding company.

    And no one knows better that to solidly master a trick, a skateboarder must fall and then get up again. Over and over. Your mindset during these experiences can rob you

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