The Mutt

I know a few of you skate here. Anyone here know about Rodney Mullen? Just was curious, watched this video and picked up Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 and just got my urge back to skate again, bad! That game introduced me to skateboarding and great music when I was a wee little lad!! I grew up watching Rodney, Reynolds, Kevin Harris, Lynn Cooper all those guys.

I need tips since it's been 2 years since I last rode a board. Just thought i'd through this thread up.

sorry for the language http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-ld7-Tmka4

bowl skating

knee and elbow pads and use those mech gloves ,, this is more my speed not a street skater

He's also got a pretty good autobiography out too...

http://www.amazon.com/Mutt-How-Skateboard-Kill-Yourself/dp/0060556196/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1306961214&sr=8-1

-Rob

How weird, last night I was watching Future Primitive. While it's all great, I love Rodney Mullen's freestyle routine. (That's the main reason I was watching it.)

It's online but kind of grainy: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-780186365696723496#

I need to order that and Skatevisions on DVD.

Let's put it this way: my best skateboard was a Tony Alva 30x6 single kick with Tracker Wide trucks and Kryptonic Green 70mm wheels for park use and Road Rider 4s for street work.

I think maybe that dates me a little. Gave myself a concussion and 8-stitch Harry Potter scar with that board. There was no such thing as a bike/skate helmet at the time.

racinginc215 wrote: I haven't skated since Brand X went out of Business and Sean Goff retired.

Cool. I have a Brand X deck in my garage.

I have the black/pink check model. (Hey, it was the '80s.)

yeah i'm reading his book now

The board I just got was just a cheapy from my local shop, 31.5 by 7.75, perfect for what I want to do. The first skater and first video I ever watched was a Globe video and Rodney was the first skater I watched, I thought that's how all skateboarding was so I grew up loving freestyle and flatland. I do want to try his primo 360 fingerflip lol

I miss the "old" guys in skating, now all the young d bags drove them away they did is when it was fun, now it's too serious.

Duke- NICE haha and love these videos

PICS....please lol

I was never big on the freestyle stuff, but I'll still drop in on a miniramp, fall into a curb, or crack an ollie.

I recently got my Jeff Kendall "Jagermeister" deck back from a female acquaintance...she had it for almost 20 years, but it looks exactly like I remember it. I thought I'd put it on eBay, but just can't bring myself to let it go. I bet with new bearings, it would even ride well.

Mine looks just like this, but thrashed.

Back when I skated I always liked Jamie Thomas, Rodney Mullen, Eric Koston, and some others. It wasn't that long ago but it seems like it.

NickF40 wrote: PICS....please lol

Yeah, I need to shoot some pics. I also have a Vision Agent Orange. That one is complete.

<--39 y/o who skates bowl & miniramp

I have a pretty decent working knowledge of the history of skateboarding.

Get back out there. There are a LOT of older skaters out there--we're just a quiet little faction.

Is it wrong that everytime I hear "Skateboard" the first thing that pops into my head is "Gleaming the Cube?"

Oh, I also have a Madrid cheapie in like 31x7.5 or so that I bought in college for commuting. Plain white on top and I did a nice airbrush rainbow sunburst on the bottom.

EvanB wrote: Back when I skated I always liked Jamie Thomas, Rodney Mullen, Eric Koston, and some others. It wasn't that long ago but it seems like it.

haha yeah those guys I watched too. Caballero was a favorite too. Reynolds and Koston I was always entertained by but Rodney just flat out amazed and still amazes me.

Tom, that is a sweet board haha

Gamby, yeah that's pretty good! I guess like you said they're out there, but I just get sick of skating with these young guys who get pissed off everytime they don't land something or someone else does a trick that they haven't tried yet. That's why I want to try and find the older crowd haha I think they'd be more enjoyable to skate with.

Duke, damn I thought Madrid went out but I guess they came back since the boom for the longboards and cruisers came back, that's sweet!

It feels weird lol i'm slowly getting back in my goofy groove

Anyone else watch "The Search for Animal Chin" a hundred times? IIRC it was the first full-length skate movie. Definitely showing my age.

i built this in the basement of my new (old) house im working on...

jhaas, the bowl looks awesome! how long have you been skating it? last time i was there, you had just finished welding the re-bar.

That looks like something out of a berkeleying Tony Hawk computer game. To have that inside your own house is awesome.

In reply to jhaas:

Oh my GOODNESS.

That is the board I had. I was much better on my bike, though. And even that isn't saying that much! LOL.

that bowl is SWEET!! yeah it looks like a "special" level lol and it's IN your house? I wanna come over

HunterJP, that is sweet looking and don't worry, so am I haha I just missed skating so much

what for tips can you fellas give me, and maybe some pointers....other than don't fall off and learn how to ollie haha

"Mullen says "No style that had to be measured."

Rodney is a true skater. All these new pop-skaters always worried about "steeze" don't have the first clue about true skateboarding. I miss the old days where bad style was known as your personal style, as long as you could do the tricks people gave you credit; where credit is due.

The 59 dislikes are probably from "steeze" fanatics that do not have the first clue about TRUE skateboarding. Pride and Pop Culture ruins individualism."

This was taken from an interview video. That is probably one of the best things i've ever read on youtube, so true and how I feel. It's not about fame and fortune and popularity, it's about fun and individuality and doing all these tricks before you do become too old and can't do them anymore. I think that's what most are away from now; it's fun.