Rodney Mullen

Check out today's pro skater!
It's Rodney Mullen!

Full Name: John Rodney Mullen
Date Of Birth: 17 August 1966
Hometown: Redondo Beach, CA
Favored Discipline: Street
Stance: Regular
Career Highlights:

• 1977- Mullen won the first freestyle contest he entered
• 1980- joined the Powell-Peralta Bones Brigade
• 2002- won Transworld Readers' Choice Award for Skater of the Year
• 2003- wrote ''The Mutt: How to Skateboard and not Kill Yourself''

Rodney Mullen Quote: '' Do what you love and try not to look at what people occupy themselves with. Most people seem restless and bounce around too much to focus or even pay attention enough to themselves to figure out exactly what they really do love, as opposed to what the people that surround them are doing. ''

Tony Hawk

Well, I haven't updated this blog for about ten days.. Sorry Guys!
Now! Let's look at the famous Tony Hawk!

Full Name: Anthony Frank '' Tony '' Hawk

Date Of Birth: 12 May 1968

Hometown: San Diego, California

Height: 6 ft 3

Weight: 77 kg

Favored Discipline: Vert

Stance: Goofy

Career Highlights: 1982- Joined the legendary Bones Brigade team.

                            1989- Featured in Gleaming The Cube movie.

                            1999- X Games 4- Tony Hawk lands the first 900

Tony Hawk Quote: '' I'm pretty happy with the way things turned out. I mean, I never thought that I could make a career out of skateboarding. ''

The Manual

Manual

How to do it?

• Place your back foot on the tail of the board.
• Bend your knees.
• Shift your weight.
• Keep balancing.
• Push your front foot down to end your manual.

The Boardslide

Boardslide

How to do it?

• Skateboard at a medium to fast speed as you come up to the rail so that you don't stick on the rail.
• Ollie to get on the rail.
• Turn so that you are facing in the same direction.
• Make subtle adjustments to your balance.
• Be ready to get back to the ground.
• Bend your knees to impact the drop.
• Keep riding.

Boardslide Sequence

The Pop Shove-it

Pop Shove-it

How to do it?

• Put your feet just like an ollie, but have your back foot more in the toe side pocket of the tail, the place where you start the shuvit with your back foot.
• Bend your knees, not that much at first, but just enough to jump.
• Now start jumping.
• Stay above the board, watching it spin.
• When it spins 180, catch the board with your feet, and land on the trucks.
• Back down to Earth.

Pop Shove-it Sequence

The Heelflip

Heelflip

How to do it?

• Place the front foot safely behind the back bolts or onto and slightly towards the heel-side edge of the board.
• Place the ball of the back foot on the tail of the board slightly angled.
• Pop the tail by pushing down with the back foot while jumping into the air.
• Slide your front foot out diagonally in order to start the board rotating while you stay with your shoulders centered over the board. Put your front foot over the top bolts and kick.
• Lift both feet out of the way so that the board can spin properly.
• Catch the board and roll away. It is considered good style to stop the board's rotation with the feet in midair rather than to allow contact with the ground to stop the board.

Heelflip Sequence

The Kickflip

Kickflip

Kickflip is one of the basic tricks in skateboarding.
Invented by Rodney Mullen.

How to do it?

• Ollie.
• Lift the back foot from the board.
• Slide the front foot off the skateboard diagonally forward and towards the heel of the foot.
• Stomp on the board if you see griptape.
• You just landed your first kickflip!

Kickflip Sequence