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ixi@mastodon.online ("IXI") wrote:

From 19-20th July the Oceanside Freestyle Skateboarding Contest 1986 was held.

"With a little bit of practice" and to the frustration of his competition 19 year old Rodney Mullen would again dominate the discipline and continue to "build the house skateboarding lives in".

"After inventing the flatground ollie he went on to unveil kickflips, backside flips, heelflips, 360 flips, double flips, impossibles, darkslides, and onward."

Without him "skateboarding would still be in the dark ages."

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• video: Final 2 minute run, short interview ("With a little bit of practice") and after-credit footage of the young Rodney Mullen, featuring a plethora of 80's freestyle tricks like Ollie Airwalk, handplant variations and flips. From 1986's Thrasher Magazine's Oceanside article: "Rodney Mullen is, well...so many things have been written about him that I'm not even going to bother. If you don't know about Rodney by now then you probably can't read anyway. Basically he skated pratically flawless. The tricks this guy does are pure state of the art. I won't go through them all, but will say that he has developed an ollie air-walk that will make your head spin. And to finish his whole run off, how about 30 or so one-wheeled 360's? Needles to say, Rodney won. Many are starting to wonder if he is even from this planet."