Rocco, Rodney stories

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I know Uggs were designed for surfers in Australia, but Uggs and cargo shorts are pretty rough for a middle aged guy. 

[Willie]

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Has Richie Jackson overthrown Rodney as the most often "Hey dude you skate right? Check out this guy!" video sent by regular people?

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the top two most viewed videos of all time on thrasher's youtube channel, both of which were uploaded only two years ago, are "jaws vs the lyon 25" at 7.2 million views and "richie jackson's 'death skateboards' part" at 7.1 million views. however, there's this video out there uploaded by some random in 240p called "best of rodney mullen" which has 23 million views, but it was uploaded 12 years ago. i feel like the jaws/richie videos will definitely surpass that (more kids now on facebook, twitter, etc. sharing videos, kids spending more time online), but it's kind of like the list of highest-grossing films. right now it's like avatar or avengers or some shit, but that's because movie tickets have gotten more expensive, more people see movies, international box office, etc. if you adjust for inflation, the list changes to old ass movies like gone with the wind and the og star wars.

i guess what i'm trying to say is that in a few years the most shared video of all time will be "ninejah: infinity war 3D," but in actuality nothing will ever surpass the classic that is rodney.

I think it's Rodney->Ritchie->Killian Martin->Contemporary Mike V.

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I once saw Steve Rocco wearing UGG boots.

That pic is great

[SodaJerk]

I know Uggs were designed for surfers in Australia, but Uggs and cargo shorts are pretty rough for a middle aged guy. 

Uggs were not designed for surfers, they just adopted them. They were made for farmers to wear in the house or around the veranda (porch) of the farm house and were never meant to be worn beyond those boundaries. It was surfers and bogans that broke the taboo before they became an ironic fashion statement in Australia that the rest of the rest of the world failed to see the irony in.

[cheetahsheets]

Y’all ever skate in UGGs? Not the boots but the slip ons? I had a friend who could just destroy wearing those, and I have no fucking clue how.

[silhouette]

I've interviewed Rodney before; roughly ten years ago at some event in the south of France. He was really humble the entire time, but in between the Mike Ternasky stories or comments on certain segments of his autobiography I was trying to get from him (an interest he seemed genuinely stoked on), every five minutes or so, the boss of the most redneckish french board brand kept chiming in to get in his face, drunkenly grab his shoulders, and shake him with all his might while shouting "HEYYYY RODNEY!! PUBLIC DOMAINNN!!". Rodney would look really disrupted then, then the guy would walk away, Rodney would get comfortable again, start dissecting why his Virtual Reality and Opinion parts were his favorite and how THPS money paid for his house then the other guy would come back. "PUBLIC DOMAINNN!!!". Such a contrast with how shy Rodney was, also that was back when he was still missing a tooth. That kept going for a good hour I'll never forget.

[georgethecat]

I've interviewed Rodney before; roughly ten years ago at some event in the south of France. He was really humble the entire time, but in between the Mike Ternasky stories or comments on certain segments of his autobiography I was trying to get from him (an interest he seemed genuinely stoked on), every five minutes or so, the boss of the most redneckish french board brand kept chiming in to get in his face, drunkenly grab his shoulders, and shake him with all his might while shouting "HEYYYY RODNEY!! PUBLIC DOMAINNN!!". Rodney would look really disrupted then, then the guy would walk away, Rodney would get comfortable again, start dissecting why his Virtual Reality and Opinion parts were his favorite and how THPS money paid for his house then the other guy would come back. "PUBLIC DOMAINNN!!!". Such a contrast with how shy Rodney was, also that was back when he was still missing a tooth. That kept going for a good hour I'll never forget.

On the spectrum of things to randomly yell at strangers, "public domain" is pretty good.

[BobbyPshew]

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I saw Rodney Mullen at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.

He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”

I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

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Just like someone else's andy Mac story. Is this some youtube comment joke type of thing or what?

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I remember when I was a kid, I was at my friends house watching the x games, and his mom was watching it with us. Me and my friend thought he was goofy and had bad style, but we always thought it was rad he never gave a fuck about what anyone thought of him. While we were watching it, his mom sees Andy Mac come on, and says something along the lines of “he seems like a major dickhead”. Fast forward some years later, and I’m Europe at the time. I see fucking Andy Mac come out of some damn train station, and I instantly knew it was Mac because I had seen him on the vert ramp in person at like 8 dew tour events in person. I walk up to him and say hey mr. Macdonald how are you doing today while putting out my hand to shake it. He looks at my hand, then looks at my face, then puts on his yellow helmet dangling from his giant board bag(he had a backpack and a huge board bag), throws down his board, and rides off not saying a single thing while basically snaking my handshake. Ever since then I’ve heard numerous stories around the industry about how he’s a fucking asshat.

You needed all that to know he's a complete fuckwad?