![]() ![]() Mullen began skateboarding at the age of ten, on New Year's Day of 1977, after a neighborhood friend introduced him to a skateboard. Despite Mullen's condition, "He had an incredible dexterity with his feet," said Phil Chiocchio, former owner of the Florida skatepark, Sensation Basin. As a child, Mullen slept in boots designed to correct a severe pigeon-toe condition. ![]() Mullen has appeared in over 20 skateboarding videos and has co-authored an autobiography, entitled The Mutt: How to Skateboard and Not Kill Yourself, with writer Sean Mortimer. Over the following years, he transitioned from freestyle to street skateboarding, adapting his accumulated freestyle skills to street and inventing or expanding upon additional tricks in the process, such as primo slides, dark slides, and Casper slides. Rodney Mullen won his first world freestyle skateboard championship at the age of 14 over the following decade, he won 34 out of 35 freestyle contests, thus establishing the most successful competitive run in the history of the sport. ![]() As a result, he has been called the "Godfather of modern freestyle skating." Mullen is credited for inventing numerous tricks, including the flatground ollie, kickflip, heelflip, impossible, and 360-flip. He is considered the third most influential skater in the history of the sport, just behind Tony Hawk and Mark Gonzales. John Rodney Mullen (born August 17, 1966) is an American professional skateboarder who practices freestyle skateboarding and street skateboarding. ![]()
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