One of my heros ..

“Rodney Mullen walks alone.
He is a pioneer, a revolutionary, a wizard for lack of a better word. And as such, he must walk alone. Alone since his days as a 10-year old when it took him three years to become the best freestyle skateboarder in the world. Alone in the late 1980s when he crossed into the world of streetskating, thereby inventing a deluge of tricks, most of which remain the fundamentals of skateboarding today…”

http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050710/SPORTS/50710020/1119/sports