What Marketers Can Learn From Rodney Mullen

**skategeezer** · 10-22-2009 01:39 PM

**Wells** · 10-22-2009 01:58 PM

What the hell does that second paragraph have to do with Rodney Mullen? Look at old stuff to get inspired. Fucking groundbreaking advice right there. Nobody's ever thought to do that.

Painfully obvious point: Rodney Mullen, while a brilliant technical skateboarder, is about as far from "california surf style" as you can get. If the writer actually understood skateboarding, he'd know that Rodney's skating is a hybrid of Floridian flatground freestyle and San Francisco streetstyle.

**skategeezer** · 10-22-2009 03:11 PM

yeah, it's amazing what people write on da internet!

**zionboard** · 10-22-2009 04:11 PM

Just curious: what's typical of SF-streetstyle?

BTW: they could learn that it's the stoke and fun that comes in the first place, not their business.
I feel Rodney's desicion to leave the competitive freestyle scene was influenced by career opportunities, but he never forgot what skating is about.

**miSSionary** · 10-22-2009 04:25 PM

Originally Posted by Wells

What the hell does that second paragraph have to do with Rodney Mullen? Look at old stuff to get inspired. Fucking groundbreaking advice right there. Nobody's ever thought to do that.

Painfully obvious point: Rodney Mullen, while a brilliant technical skateboarder, is about as far from "california surf style" as you can get. If the writer actually understood skateboarding, he'd know that Rodney's skating is a hybrid of Floridian flatground freestyle and San Francisco streetstyle.

Some people just don't get it, you my friend, are one of those people.

sk8geezer, thanks for sharing, that video has me going and it's time to skate! zionboard, great post!

**SheepGoToHeaven** · 10-22-2009 04:59 PM

That and hes a pretty good entrepreneur, and he has a degree, and he doesnt wear skin tight jeans to skate in.

**Wells** · 10-22-2009 11:44 PM

Originally Posted by zionboard

Just curious: what's typical of SF-streetstyle?

I'm just talking about flip-in flip-out ledge tricks. It's just tech street.

Originally Posted by miSSionary

Some people just don't get it, you my friend, are one of those people.

sk8geezer, thanks for sharing, that video has me going and it's time to skate! zionboard, great post!

Rodney's a sick skater; but the guy who wrote this article is a doofus. Fear not: skateboarding's awesomeness outweighs one skater's misuse a bad analogy.

**Cann0n** · 10-22-2009 11:53 PM

Rodney is the MAN! Been my favorite skating for some time now.

**SpeedFiend** · 10-23-2009 11:48 AM

thats my man

i always wanted the version of sweet home in this video, any idea on who covers it? from the globe video

**zionboard** · 10-23-2009 11:59 AM

The globe-DVD has a sweet home version by Moby, but I'd have to compare to be sure its the same.

**zionboard** · 10-23-2009 12:14 PM

Full credits off the globe DVD version:

Extreme Ways
performed by Moby
courtesy of V2 records,
written by Moby
published by Warner - Tamerline publishing corp.
o/b/o itself and the little idiot music (BMI)

Love that video btw, watched it way to much.
Props to my local skateshop for knowing my preferences.