Rodney Mullen: "Build on a Bedrock of Failure" Keynote - Velocity Santa Clara 2014
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- Rodney Mullen's keynote from the 2014 O'Reilly Velocity conference in Santa Clara, CA.
Watch our interview with Rodney Mullen here: • Rodney Mullen (Almost ...
Failure sucks, especially for skydivers and bomb-diffusers. For skateboarders, it's a necessary part of progress; hence, they develop a well-honed eye for risk assessment as well as a clarity to flush out what are real vs imagined dangers, giving rise to a confidence to go after more creative, daring, and better outcomes. This is why the best skaters tend to be the best fallers, because a kind of intuition for minimizing damage emerges, so seemingly catastrophic falls become sustainable, which eventually forms a hardened foundation that can hardly be attained in any other way.
About Rodney Mullen (Almost Skateboards):
Rodney Mullen is widely considered the most influential skateboarder in the history of the skateboarding. The majority of ollie and flip tricks he invented throughout the 1980's, including the flatground ollie, the Kickflip, the Heelflip, and the 360 flip are regularly done in modern vertical and street skateboarding.
Despite Alan Gelfand's justifiable fame for inventing the ollie air (Gelfand's maneuver being primarily a vert or pool oriented trick) Mullen is responsible for the invention and development of the street ollie. The ability to pop the board off of the ground and land back on the board while moving has quite likely been the most significant development in modern skateboarding. This invention alone would rank Mullen the most important skateboarder of all time.
John Rodney Mullen was born August 17, 1966 in Gainesville, Florida.
Rodney began skating when he was 10 years old. His father opposed his desire to skate, but he agreed to buy Rodney's first skateboard on January 1, 1977, on the conditions that he always wore safety pads and he quit skating if he were ever to be injured.
Rodney's first sponsorship came through Bill Murray, owner of Inland Surf Shop. Using a Walker skateboard, Rodney entered the Boys Freestyle Contest in 1977 at Kona skatepark in Jacksonville. He placed third, but that was enough to attract the attention of skateboard manufacturer Bruce Walker. Rodney was immediately sponsored by Walker Skateboards.
For the next three years, Rodney claimed first place in every contest he entered. He went on to win nearly 30 contests, mostly in Florida. His success culminated with another win at the Oceanside Nationals in California.
After placing first at the Oasis Pro competition in San Diego, Rodney began his professional career with the Powell-Peralta Bones Brigade in 1980.
Throughout the decade, Rodney Mullen invented countless skateboarding tricks, including the flat-ground ollie. Although The invention of the flat-ground ollie was arguably his most significant addition to skating. It also allowed Mullen to further innovate the sport: the Kicklip, Heelflip, and 360 Flip are just three of his most popular tricks, all of which became standard tricks for street and vert skating. He appeared in Bones Brigade Videos in '84, '85, '87, and '88. Rodney also appeared in the 1988 film Gleaming the Cube, alongside actor Christian Slater.
In 1992, alongside Steve Rocco, Rodney Mullen created World Industries. Throughout the 90's Mullen was featured in numerous videos, including World Industries' Rubbish Heap ('89), Plan B's Questionable ('92), Virtual Reality ('93), and Second Hand Smoke ('95). Some recent videos include the Rodney Mullen vs. Daewon Song series, Globe Opinion, and Almost: Round Three.
In 2002, Rodney won the Transworld Reader's Choice Award for Skater of the Year, and started up the Almost skateboarding company. In 2003, he wrote an autobiography titled "The Mutt: How to Skateboard and Not Kill Yourself.
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It’s a gift to listen to him speak. Then you see him skate. Then you see how he treats others. Thank you Rodney this was beyond good.
He is a brilliant speaker and an extremely intelligent human being.
ImageX you forgot the inventor of modern street skating!
Rodney seems to really love his friends, true legend
Just listen to the man talk. His vocabulary is like poetry he sounds like a absolute genius.
To have a large vocabulary and the intuition to know precisely how to apply it, with a mind that sees life in a much deeper than face value level is just, so unbelievably rare
Rodney has such an excellent vocabulary
thank god we have this guy
"un realistic to make constant process" yet this man's made constant progress and that's why he's humble as hell
no, he had setbacks just like everyone..
That makes absolutely no sense
Its so beautiful the way he describes things.
LOVE hearing Rodney speak.... I gain so much wisdom and clarity from his experiences. Thank you!
lol Rodney is what happens when a straight up genius grabs a board
KIM JONG-IL
@@memyself1176 what the fuck
Here's yesterday's inspiring Rodney Mullen "Build on a Bedrock of Failure" keynote from the O'Reilly Velocity Conference.
whatever you do, dont think about it too much :D
Not only the absolutely most vital skateboarder to ever exist!!!The absolute best ambassador for the sport as well!!!He embodies the love that skateboarders have for the sport,and some of us can’t articulate it to this degree!!THANK YOU RODNEY MULLEN!!!
Just started skating 3 days ago. After the first push i slipped and now my right foot is entirely blue and my ankle hurts. Can't wait to get back on the board lol.
What can a professional skateboarder teach us about the value of failing? (And after watching footage of some of Rodney's spills, some of your fails might not seem so awful.)
Surprisingly inspiring. Thx.
Amazing advice.
What's the point of doing this stuff if you're not getting paid millions? No corporate sponsorship and a standardized method to measure who is better than who. Pointless. And a crime!
I can't pay attention to this guy. He's no athlete. Isn't this like a hoola-hoop?
Take my sound advice. Make skateboarding like corporate organized football. Then maybe it would be worthy to be praised.
***** First off, it's not even done in the streets. It should be called "Designated and Corporate Controlled Circus Done-in-doors League" which is pretty much how skateboarding is mostly viewed by us "working class upper echelon citizens".
This Romney Mulder thinks he can teach people with skateboard logic?!? Wow....that in itself is stupid skateboard logic. He needs to sign over his rights to a corporate industry and let them dictate what skateboarding culture should be. Not from these loser skateboarders.
Anybody can do the skateboarding thing. Just look at hipsters on penny boards. Instant "rad". Simple toys for simple minds. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. ✋👮™
***** have fun with your "Done Indoors League".
forever skate god, thank you Rodney
That was awesome.
Rodney is absolutely brilliant the way he thinks about skating
I'm not a skateboarder massive fan tho! I never realized how much skaters have to go through apart from obvious physical pain. There so beutiful.
Rodney is god to us! He is quite possibly one of the smartest human an earth and that's why I collect only his boards! Thank you Rodney! I can only dream to seat down with you one day and talk about the universe!
marco invernizzi Marco Mullen...
smartest humans on earth? haha. cute. Rodney is very smart no doubt, but this is a scripted speech. Rodney had contributed a wealth of ideas and innovation to the sport of skateboarding, however that does not qualify him as the smartest human. Please elaborate. What other achievements go along with his contribution to skateboarding that would honor him the distinction; 'Smartest Human'? Michael Jordan was the best at his sport.. is he too the smartest human? Perhaps if he had a large vocabulary?
biltospill Obviously you know nothing of Rodney Mullen, he has build some of the most successful skate companies ever. He is a engineer As well, which he used to make his own truck geometry that he patented and numerous other Innovations in and out of skating. Oh and that he invented more then half of the tricks we use today. He maybe not the smartest person on this planet but one of the brightest, talented geniuses to ever grace a board. Never disrespect mullen ever! EVER!!! Like you ever will be even half is man's greatness.
@@Biltospill chill out man
You're not smart for inventing tricks that flip that way and over there. Everyone can do that any time, nothing special. so, do you really have his decks collection? That's questionable, I don't think you have
Genius .. .
Man is he smart. Legend
When I skated during late 80's to early 90's this guy was a diety along with Caballero, Hawk and McKill 👌
Wow, that's another way to say that you are stupid, I am, and still can notice your sarcasm. Im 24. I would note it right away that you are calling me stupid. I think you should show more precaution next time, definitely
ouch, that's gotta hurt!
Carlos Pacheco Yeah it surely does, but Endurance is key.
This is more about skating.it a life lesson fall and get up again
Skate is innovative because is not regulated by government.
it will regulated after olympics =((
@@pavelvinogradov9615 only “professional level” skating
You're talking as if its necessary government's regulation, unnecessary
animal chin reincarnated
skateboarders aren't a community anymore.
it never really was tbh
It was in the '80s
It was late 80's to early 90's, it was a way of life for us
Lol what.
Check instagram buddy.
That was legitness
if jesus was a skater