Rodney Mullen Debuts New Tricks, Captured in 360 Degrees

Rodney Mullen skates only by himself, and only at night. This makes some sense, because back in the late ’70s and early ’80s, when Mullen was pioneering many of the tricks on which modern street skating is based—the flat-ground ollie, the kick-flip, the 360-flip, the heel-flip—he did so alone, with a storied monastic dedication, in his family’s barn in Gainesville, Florida. Now 49, Mullen has in recent years been equally absorbed in a new endeavor: conditioning his body to perform the tricks he came up with more than three decades ago, as well as new ones, with his opposite foot forward. He has not been aiming simply to ride switch, as many other riders do and have done, however. Mullen has set out to reverse his native stance—to feel as adept at skating with his right foot forward as he is with his left. He is seeking genuine goofy-footedness.

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