Godzilla Flip (Rodney Mullen) [View all]

Hello Lounge, I know I don't post in here very often, but I just saw this the other day and I really wanted to share it. I could never skate, but I've loved watching pro skateboarding since the 90s, and Rodney Mullen is widely considered to be the most influential skater of all time, at least when it comes to freestyle and street skating. He invented many of the most basic tricks that are at the root all of skateboarding.

In this video above, which is shot in 1000FPS slow motion, he performs a Godzilla rail flip, a trick he invented in 1979. The board flips 2.75 times and rotates 180 degrees. The skater rotates 180 degrees in the opposite direction. Technically this is a double varial rail flip with a 180 body varial -- Godzilla flip for short. In super-slow motion, it's hypnotic. This video was shot a year ago, when Rodney was 58 years old.

He's also one of the nicest and most humble dudes on the planet, so he's got that going for him too.