Rodney Mullen is skateboarding’s master genius, the godfather of street skating, the most technical wizard to ever ride a skateboard, the OG’est of OG’s. If you’ve ever watched or attempted any flip trick on a skateboard, you can go ahead and thank Rodney.
Rodney Mullen, skateboarding;s OG trick master. Photo: J. Grant Brittain
Need further proof? Go to Wikipedia … Mullen has been credited with inventing the following tricks (years included):
- Godzilla rail flip (1979)[46]
- 540 shuv-it (1979)[46]
- 50/50 Saran wrap (1979)[46]
- 50/50 Casper (1980)[46]
- Helipop (1980)[46]
- Flatground ollie (1981)[46]
- Gazelle flip (1981)[46]
- No-handed 50/50 (1981)[46]
- No-handed 50/50 kickflip[3]
- Kick flip (1982)[46]
- 540 double kickflip[3]
- Heel flip (1982)[46]
- Double heelflip[3]
- Impossible (1982)[46]
- Caballerial impossible[3]
- Sidewinder (1983)[46]
- 360 flip (1983)[46]
- Switch 360 flip[3]
- 360 pressure flip (1983)[46]
- Casper 360 flip (1983)[46]
- Half-cab kick flip (1983)[46]
- 50/50 sidewinder (1983)[46]
- One-footed ollie (1984)[46]
- Backside flip (Backside 180 Kickflip) (1984)[46]
- Ollie nosebone (1986)[46]
- Ollie finger flip (1986)[46]
- Ollie Airwalk (1986)[46]
- Frontside heel flip shove-it (1988)[46]
- Switchstance 360 flip (1990)[46]
- Helipop heel flip (1990)[46]
- Kick flip under flip (1992)[46]
- Half-cab kickflip underflip(1992)[3]
- Casper slide (1992)[46]
- Half flip darkslide[46]
- Handstand flips[3]
- Primo grind-Primo slides
- Rusty slide[3]
Creating street skating in the 1980s. Photo: J. Grant Brittain
