Skating legend Rodney Mullen keeps reinventing himself. While most experts get drawn into a black hole of perfecting their craft, the “Godfather of Street Skating” manages to regularly ...

When asked why he became interested in skateboarding, 14-year-old Japanese prodigy Isamu Yamamoto points to his hero and the Godfather of modern street skating — Rodney Mullen. "He is the reason.

Here's what you need to know about Rodney Mullen's skating: It. Changed. ... As in, he would get hounded by fans on the street, so he stopped skating in public and became something of a recluse.

The one to put on your calendar is this: At 1 p.m., Hawk and Mullen will be part of a panel exploring "the inventive process behind tricks," which we have to hope involves Hawk demoing a McHawk or ...

Skateboarding runs through Rodney Mullen from head to toe. It is integral to his lifestyle, his mindset, and his way of being. As the inventor of numerous street skating tricks, Mullen is ...

Rodney Mullen is so revered by other skaters that he only skates at night, in order to be by himself. For eleven years, ... the movement that made street skating possible.

Rodney Mullen, considered the Godfather of Street Skating, invented many of the tricks that street skaters use today. Skateboarding’s inclusion in the Olympics is, in part, due to Mullen’s creativity ...

Legendary skateboarders Tony Hawk and Rodney Mullen will be at the National Museum of American History this weekend for Innoskate, a skateboarding innovation festival. Photo by Flickr user M ...

Skateboarding, and the legacy of ... legendary pro Rodney Mullen told The Verge he lamented the death of the skate video. ... And it’s not all street or vert tricks like you used to see in the ...

WASHINGTON, June 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The skateboarding collection at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History will more than double in size during a special ceremony June 22 in which ...

In this exclusive excerpt from his forthcoming book, 'The Impossible: Rodney Mullen, Ryan Sheckler, and the Fantastic History of Skateboarding,' GQ researcher Cole Louison chronicles the ...