Rodney Mullen

Rodney Mullen is a professional freestyle skateboarder. He invented more than two dozen skateboarding tricks including the flatground ollie, the Kickflip, the Heelflip and the 360 flip. Mullen was originally discouraged from skateboarding by his father, who was concerned that the sport was dangerous. However, Mullen's father eventually relented. Mullen began skateboarding at age 10 and at 13 turned professional. He has one of the best professional skateboarding records in history, winning all but one event in 34 competitions.RodneyMullen.Net: Bio

Mullen attended the University of Florida and studied biomedical engineering, but left in his senior year to pursue professional skateboarding full-time. Mullen currently runs the Almost skateboard company, a company which he founded in 2002.Tividan.blogspot.com: Rodney Mullen (September 9, 2007)

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