Rodney Mullen is the godfather of skateboarding, the world freestyle champion of the 1980’s and now a multimillionaire owner of two major companies A-Team and Tensor trucks which are the #1 trucks seen on most skateboards. Rodney’s life however was never so easy for him. As the book describes Rodney was born in Gainesville, Florida to a strict dentist and he never talks much about his mom. Rodney in his early years was always being forced to do things his dad made him do to try and shape him like his father, he made him go on hunting trips and go to dentist conventions but Rodney didn’t want to be like his father (like every teenager ever). His neighbor introduced him to skateboarding by giving him his first skateboard and the rest is history.