Rodney Mullen不久前入选滑板名人堂,为教父颁奖的是传奇滑手Steve Caballero和多才多艺的Ben Harper，他们对教父的评价颇高，尤其是Ben Harper："他在我没学Nollie时就开始教我Nollie Inward Heel了"(颁奖现场视频进来看)
Rodney Mullen, 2013 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Rodney Mullen将滑板带上了街头，这项荣誉非他莫属，直到现在他也不停地为滑板事业做出自己的贡献。83年的Magic Flip演变成如今的Kickflip，同年诞生的helipop打开了各种nollie招式的大门，使得滑板里产生了Switch姿势，接下来的大乱，Impossible，Heelflip，BS Flip等等招式都接二连三诞生，Rodney Mullen改变了整个滑板界
Fittingly inducted into Skateboarding's Hall of Fame the same year as Alan Gelfand (Invented the ollie on vert), a humble Rodney would be more than worthy of this honor for his adaptation of the vertical ollie to flatground alone. The freestyle "ollie pop" on flat ground in 1982 is probably the single most influential trick in skateboarding history-the cataclysm for an entirely new dimension, which literally got skateboarding off the ground- then later up curbs, over benches, and onto handrails. Most amazingly, however, for Rodney, this milestone accomplishment was only one of probably hundreds of other equally pivotal innovations he contributed between 1982 up through 1990 that would ultimately become the very building blocks of street skating.
The "magic flip" in '83 would become the kick flip, the "helipop" around that same time would open the door to nollies (popping the board off the nose), which then in turn would eventually lead to the rise of the switch-stance. The 360 flip would come a few years later, along with the ollie impossible, the heel flip, backside flip, double flip, ollie grabs, dark slides, and onward. Rodney Mullen essentially build modern skateboarding from the ground up then passed on his creations for the entire world to continue evolving.
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