Rodney Mullen skates to Beethoven

In early 2011, Almost skateboards held a contest where fans could take Rodney Mullen's tricks and create their own remix part set to whatever music they wanted. Because Rodney and I are both huge fans of classical music and I feel it very sad that too few skaters ever listen to any classical music at all, I seized the opportunity to create a part set to Beethoven's "Coriolan" Overture. As I used so many clips to create this file, my 2002 computer got overloaded when I tried to preview, so that I couldn't hear how the last few clips would time with the music until I generated the final file. Thus I feel like the last few clips are not properly timed after having done my best to time them as perfectly as I could.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• skateboarding
• Rodney
• Mullen
• Almost
• skateboards
• Beethoven
• Coriolan
• Overture

[RayJay712]

I remember watching a skate video about 10 years ago where Mullen skates to classical music. I believe the scene took place in an alleyway and I think it may have been Rodney Mullen Vs. Daewon Song round 1.

Do you know the video and/or composer?

[m2esectr]

@RayJay712 It was either World Industries' "Rubbish Heap" (1989) set to Paganini's Caprice No.2, or "Rodney vs Daewon, Round 2" (1999) set to "Clubbed To Death" by Rob Dougan from the Matrix OST.

[RayJay712]

@m2esectr yeh it was Round 2; thanks. The piano in the beginning sounds a bit like Beethoven Piano sonata 14, or it did in my distorted memory.

[johnsmithbrown]

That's really neat marco.