12 Jul 2016 Jahr - Skateboarding's Greatest Innovator Just Released His First Video in 12 Years

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Esquire Online

Here are a few things you need to know about Rodney Mullen: He's been a professional skateboarder for almost four decades, including a nine-year tenure on the legendary Powell Peralta Bones Brigade. After leaving Powell, he and a business partner borrowed money from a sketchy loan shark and started a board company called World Industries that they would eventually sell for twenty million dollars. He's a seriously devout Christian. He's battled anorexia. He holds two U.S. patents. The Smithsonian Institute has one of his personal skateboards in its holdings. He doubled for Ben Stiller in the skating sequences in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. His close friends include various active-duty Navy SEALs, Ben Harper, and Orlando Bloom. He loves Happy Gilmore and Nietzsche, Linux and Ghostbusters, Richard Feynman and the Swedish death-metal band Amon Amarth. He gets lost easily and often, including pretty much every time he tries to find his way back from the restroom in a restaurant. His Redondo Beach home is full of keepsakes from his heroes—including one of Harper's Grammy awards, an old iPhone case signed by UFC Hall-of-Famer Chuck "The Iceman" Liddell, and a ton of SEAL paraphernalia—but it's remarkably lacking in his own trophies; he's given them all away. He quit competing cold turkey years ago; he won't even play checkers.

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