Name: John Rodney Mullen
Gender: Male
Hometown: Redondo Beach, CA or Hermosa Beach, CA
Date of Birth: August 17th, 1966 in Gainesville, FL
Family: married to Traci Mullen
Occupation: Engineer / Skate Brand Owner / Skateboarder
Started Skating: 1977
Started Competing: 1977
Turned Pro: 1980
Favored Discipline: Street vert freestyle
#1 Sponsors: Almost, Enjoi, Darkstar, Tensor, Speed Demons, Matix, Globe
Stance: Regular
Nicknames: Mutt, King

Career Highlights
1977 - Mullen won the first freestyle contest he entered
1980 - joined the Powell-Peralta Bones Brigade
1984, 85, 87, 88 - featured in The Bones Brigade Videos 1-4
1988 - appeared in feature film, Gleaming the Cube
1992 - began World Industries with Steve Rocco
1990+ - featured in videos by Plan B, A-Team, Globe and Almost
2002 - won Transworld Readers' Choice Award for Skater of the Year
2002 - created Almost skateboard company
2003 - wrote "The Mutt: How to Skateboard and not Kill Yourself"


**Tricks Invented**
50-50 Saran Wrap
50-50 Sidewinders
360 Flip
360 pressure Flip
540 double kickflip
540 Shove-it
Airwalks
Backside 180 Flip
Casper 360 Flip
Casper Slides
Caballerial impossible
Double heelflips
Flatground Ollie
Frontside Heelflip Shove-its
Godzilla Rail Flip
Gazelles
Heelflip
Helipops (360 Nollie)
Half-cab kickflip underflip
Helipop Heelflips
Half Flip Darkslide
Handstand flips
Kickflip Underflip
Kickflip
No Handed 50-50 Kickflip
Ollie Impossible
Ollie Nosebones
Ollie Fingerflip
One footed Ollie
Rusty slides
Sidewinders
Switchstance 360 Flips