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One of the first youtube videos I ever watched Absolute legend https://youtu.be/1U-cgn3cEGA

Absolutely! Skateboarding isn’t just a sport, it’s a masterclass in patience, creativity, and persistence. Rodney Mullen is pure legend. 🛹🔥

Man I watched so many of his skate videos in middle school. Flip, Toy Machine, Blind were my rotation of decks. The good old days…. 🍻

I’ve been skateboarding for 25 years and I’ll keep doing it as long as my body allows it. The feeling of freedom I get from riding, whether it be my skateboard, surfboard or snowboard is unmatched in any other part of my life. I’ve also met many life long friends through skateboarding. When you hear skateboarding is not a sport, it’s a lifestyle… I can assure you that is absolutely the case.

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He invented the Ollie and modern day skateboard shape. Goat.

I used to skateboard my whole youth with friends. For non skaters, you are mostly seen as a weirdo, but we had so much fun along the way. Feels a bit the same journey in Bitcoin, most people don't understand it but we will look back one day and say that were great times, we didnt care and did what we wanted to do. Be free , enjoy life!

Ice skating?

I’m now 63 years old. Still skateboarding and love it as much as ever. Rodney is a legend.

I read some articles about his early years a while back. He had an absolutely insane focus on his craft. He’d spend a fixed amount of minutes training his riding skills, his match routines and freestyle skills every single day. If somebody came up to talk to him, he’d stop the clock, because those minutes wouldn’t count towards his training regime. Apparently, at some point, a friend drove 20 hours across the country to meet him, and arrived in the middle of his training session. He politely told the dude to wait till he was done, because he was in the middle of his routine. He was in a league of his own, and I think it’s safe the say he singlehandedly lifted the sport to unimagined levels. I mean, he invented the kickflip and heelflip ffs.. The guy is a living example of achieving the impossible, and making it look easy in the process. An absolute legend!

And most importantly: he stayed humble despite all of his achievements and being the godfather of skateboarding as we know it. Incredible..

Back when skating was punk rock and counter culture. Before the skinny jeans took over