Rodney Mullen

Rodney Mullen (born August 17 1966, Gainesville, Florida) is a professional skateboarder, considered one of the most influential skateboarders in the history of the sport. He has invented a good number of skateboarding tricks throughout his career.

Tricks

See: Skateboarding trick for detailed description of trick skating maneuvers

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Rodney Mullen has invented the following skateboarding tricks during his career:

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• Flatground Ollie
• Godzilla Rail Flip
• 540 Shove-it
• 50-50 Saran Wrap
• Helipops (360 Nollie)
• Gazelles
• No Handed 50-50 Kickflip
• Heelflip
• Double heelflips
• Ollie Impossible
• Sidewinders
• 360 Flip
• 360 pressure Flip
• Casper 360 Flip
• 50-50 Sidewinders
• One footed Ollie
• Backside 180 Flip
• Ollie Nosebones
• Ollie Fingerflip
• Airwalks
• Frontside Heelflip Shove-its
• Switchstance 360 Flips
• Helipop Heelflips
• Kickflip Underflip
• Casper Slides
• Half Flip Darkslide
• 540 double kickflip
• Caballerial impossible
• Half-cab kickflip underflip
• Handstand flips
• Rusty slides
• Kickflip

He is also one of only a handful of people in the world who can execute a Yoyo Plant (an extremely difficult handplant invented by Yoyo Schulz in 1982). He invented his own variation of this trick in 1987, the Yo-ho, which is regularly performed today by professional freestyler Terry Synnott.

Related Topics:
1982 - Terry Synnott

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