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u/Colspex · 36 pointsr/videos

Rodney Mullen was doing the stunt work in the 1989 skateboard movie "Gleaming the Cube" with Christian Slater. He is young and wearing a wig, but sure enough - his routine is still cut from marble

Edit: I also recommend his book "The Mutt: How to Skateboard and Not Kill Yourself". A great read!

u/scrolltroll · 6 pointsr/skateboarding

I learned a whole bunch of stuff from reading his autobiography. Back in Rodney's freestyling days, he would sand down his boards into various shapes and it would help him perform certain tricks better. Sometimes he would make a rounder nose and a tail because boards used to look like this. Also, he sanded down the sides to lock into a perfect primo/to-rail trick.

Here's some more recent evidence in his Almost Round 3 part(notice how the tail and nose are more squared off than normal).

u/thebonelessone · 3 pointsr/Fantasy

I watched a ton of Epically Later'd years ago, not so much these days.

As far as my top 3 skate books?

  1. The Mutt: How to Skateboard and Not Kill Yourself - Rodney Mullen is one of the most unique individuals I have ever come across, and this story will move you. The ending gets me every time I read it.

  2. Hawk: Occupation: Skateboarder - While it's admittedly fairly dated now, it's a great inside look at the history of skateboarding from the guy who was present for most of it, and effectively helped thrust it more or less permanently into the public consciousness.

  3. Stalefish: Skateboard Culture From the Rejects Who Made It - There is admittedly some bleed-over from the prior two books, and this one is largely more anecdotal than biographical, but you get a look at various aspects of skateboarding from people who spanned its history, from the late 50s to the late 00s.
u/tb21666 · 2 pointsr/skateboarding

That's the cover from/to his book, The Mutt.

u/Jazz_Ressox · 1 pointr/sports

He also wrote a cool Book