The Mutt Book
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| Title | The Mutt |
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| 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
- Living Nowhere
- Nurturing a Nerd
- Skateboards and Weed
- The Beginning of the End
- Running Away from Contents
- With a Little Help From My Friends
- The Karate Kid School of Skating
- Winning But Really Losing
- Turning Pro
- Stay of Execution
- Rat on a Skateboard
- Storm Warning
- Skin and Bones
- First-Time Loser
- Watching the Decay
- "RealLife" and the University of Florida
- The Great Escape
- A New Company
- Loan Sharks and Skateboard War
- Jumping Off Fjords
- Hickeys and Homecomings
- The Most Ill-Equipped Businessman
- Terminal Diagnosis
- Starting Over
- Nerd Love and Devilman
- Phone Call to My Father
- Doomsday
- Enjoi!
- Almost