Rodney Mullen

Rodney Mullen is one of those rare names where the word influential undersells it. He literally invented the vocabulary other skaters speak in. The flatground ollie, the kickflip, the heelflip, the 360-kickflip. Half of modern street skating traces back to tricks he willed into existence on flat ground in Florida. What gets me is the inventor's mindset behind it, the patient obsession of someone solving the same problem a thousand different ways. He even studied at the University of Florida, which fits the analytical streak I sense in his approach. I think of him less as an athlete and more as the architect of a whole language.

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Name (English)

Rodney Mullen

Name (Japanese)

ロドニー・ミューレン

Reading

ろどにー・みゅーれん

Born

August 17, 1966 (age 60)

Origin

Gainesville, Florida, United States

Occupation

skateboarder

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Horse

University

University of Florida

• Official sitehttp://www.rodneymullen.net/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/rodneymullen/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney%20Mullen
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%89%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9F%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313447

Tags

• Florida
• skateboarder

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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