The Mutt Book

Title	The Mutt
Subtitle	How to Skateboard and Not Kill Yourself
Latest Edition	1st
Author	Rodney Mullen
Author 2	Sean Mortimer
Format	Paperback, Hard Cover
Pages	288
Publisher	It Books
Published	2005
Language	English
ISBN-10	0060556196
ISBN-13	0060556198
Dimensions	6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
Print Status	In Print
Special Features	Colored exclusive pictures and photo secuences of Rodney Mullen signature tricks.
Available at	Amazon.com

Preview

This book is his autobiography, a story which reveals so much more about the man who is responsible for more of modern skateboarding's development than most pro skaters involved in the sport today. It's also a very inspiring story about Mullen's own personal challenges with family, personality disorders and many challenges that helped to shape him into the man he became.

From the Back Cover

Rodney Mullen is the godfather of skateboarding-the world freestyle champion of the 1980's. The most admired street skater of the 1990s. And today a multimillionaire skateboard company owner. But at age six, Rodney was the family misfit who had to wear braces to straighten out his pigeon-toed feet. He learned to skate by himself, and eight years later he was a world champion-but his father looked down on the sport and pressured Rodney to quit. By the time he finally broke free from his abusive home life, the popularity of freestyle had waned and given way to vert and street styles. So Rodney picked up his board and started from scratch-using his freestyle background to usher in a new era of street skating. The Mutt is a sometimes sad, often hilarious, and ultimately triumphant chronicle of the curious life and times of a world-champion skateboarder.

Table of Contents

1. Living Nowhere
2. Nurturing a Nerd
3. Skateboards and Weed
4. The Beginning of the End
5. Running Away from Contents
6. With a Little Help From My Friends
7. The Karate Kid School of Skating
8. Winning But Really Losing
9. Turning Pro
10. Stay of Execution
11. Rat on a Skateboard
12. Storm Warning
13. Skin and Bones
14. First-Time Loser
15. Watching the Decay
16. "RealLife" and the University of Florida
17. The Great Escape
18. A New Company
19. Loan Sharks and Skateboard War
20. Jumping Off Fjords
21. Hickeys and Homecomings
22. The Most Ill-Equipped Businessman
23. Terminal Diagnosis
24. Starting Over
25. Nerd Love and Devilman
26. Phone Call to My Father
27. Doomsday
28. Enjoi!
29. Almost