![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The wistful tone of Croce’s song stamps those seconds in eternity, highlighting why people record themselves skating in the first place: so people will believe all the tall tales they’ve been told. As the video ends, the song shifts to Croce’s “Time in a Bottle,” and the video slows down to show just how many times Mullen’s board twists and flips in the air, and just how many seconds he spends floating right above the fray. Jim Croce’s crooning voice and honky tonk piano in “You Don’t Mess Around With Jim” heightens all the Paul Bunyan aspects of Mullen’s own renown. The amount of coordination and daredevil disregard that went into his tricks made him something of a folk hero if there wasn’t video evidence of his complex maneuvers, it would all seem fake. We wouldn’t have the kickflip, flatground ollie, 360 flip, and more, without his contributions. Rodney Mullen is skateboarding’s great pioneering experimentalist. ![]()
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