John Rodney Mullen (born August 17, 1966) is an American professional skateboarder who practices freestyle skateboarding and street skateboarding. He is considered the most influential street skater in the history of the sport, being credited for inventing numerous tricks, including the flatground ollie, kickflip, heelflip, impossible, and 360-flip. As a result, he has been called the "Godfather of Street Skateboarding". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Mullen ## Notes - [[Pop an ollie and innovate - Rodney Mullen]] ## Quotes - [[Context shapes content]] - [[Skaters... they tend to be outsiders, who seek a sense of belonging, but belonging on their own terms]] - [[The beauty of skateboarding is that no one guy is the best]] - [[The degree to which we connect to a community is in proportion to our individuality, which we are expressing by what we do]] - [[The greater the contribution, the more we express and form our individuality]] - [[There was a really liberating sense about it, because I no longer needed to protect my record as a champion]] - [[There's intrinsic value in creating for the sake of creating it]] - [[What makes them great is the degree to which they use their skateboarding to individuate themselves]]