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Round 1<\/h1>\n<div class=\"blog\">\n<div class=\"hreview\">\n<p class=\"summary\">\n\t\tFellow A-Team, Blind and World Industries skaters Rodney Mullen and Daewon Song ride<br \/>\n\t\t&#8220;against&#8221; each other in feature length video parts across some classic school terrain.<br \/>\n\t\tThey are supported by a host of then up-and-coming riders who are now firmly established<br \/>\n\t\tas all time greats in their own right.\n\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\n\/\/2007-04-20: Rodney vs Daewon 1\n\/\/-->\n<\/script>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>  <abbr class=\"dtreviewed\" title=\"20051102T1606Z\">Nov 2, 2005<\/abbr>  by<br \/>\n  <span class=\"reviewer vcard\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"fn\">Board Crazy<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><br \/>\n  <span class=\"type\" style=\"display: none;\">product<\/span><br \/>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rodney Mullen vs Daewon Song, Round 1\" src=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/files\/photos\/rodneydaewon1.jpg\" class=\"photo\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"item\">\n    <span class=\"fn\">Rodney Mullen vs Daewon Song, Round 1<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n<div class=\"description\">\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\n      <abbr title=\"4\" class=\"rating\">&#x2606;&#x2606;&#x2606;&#x2606;<\/abbr>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\n\t\t\tI recently got hold of this close to legendary 1997 skate video on DVD. Yes, I know<br \/>\n\t\t\tyou can download it illegally, but the quality of ripped videos online is appalling.<br \/>\n\t\t\tErm, or so I&#8217;ve heard &#8211; of course I would never steal and nor should you&#8230;\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\n\t\t\tBut anyway, the point is the quality is bad and you can&#8217;t freeze frame (very well)<br \/>\n\t\t\tor playback downloaded videos in slow motion which is really something you need to<br \/>\n\t\t\tdo with a decent skate video &#8211; especially where Rodney is concerned because half<br \/>\n\t\t\tthe time at normal speed I have not got the slightest idea what he&#8217;s doing with<br \/>\n\t\t\this skateboard.\n\t\t<\/p>\n<h2>What&#8217;s It All About?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\n\t\t\tIn reality Mullen and Song are good friends and the whole idea of a competition was<br \/>\n\t\t\tsimply something that appealed to them as a slightly new way to present a skateboard<br \/>\n\t\t\tvideo. This was something that was confirmed by <a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/rodney_mullen_book.html\" title=\"Review\" rel=\"tag\">Rodney Mullens book<\/a>. Having said that,<br \/>\n\t\t\tthe &#8220;competition&#8221; element does provide an easy framework from which to review the<br \/>\n\t\t\tvideo.\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\n\t\t\tThe thing is &#8211; and anyone who knows of my great respect for Rodney knows that I don&#8217;t<br \/>\n\t\t\tsay this lightly &#8211; Daewon probably wins. That is, if you restrict the competition to<br \/>\n\t\t\tthe arena that it&#8217;s originally presented in (the schoolyard) and ignore Rodney&#8217;s<br \/>\n\t\t\tfreestyle parts on the streets of L.A. which are kind of seperate to the competition<br \/>\n\t\t\tbit (it certainly seems like a &#8216;Rodney only zone&#8217; in the video).\n\t\t<\/p>\n<h2>Daewon Song<\/h2>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\n\tDaewon comes on first, and his part is replete with the best flips into and out of grinds that I&#8217;ve ever seen. People often call<br \/>\n\tRodney a machine because of the way he churns out his flatland tricks but he&#8217;s got nothing on Daewon.  I swear it&#8217;s almost \t\timpossible<br \/>\n\tto catch him placing a foot wrong.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\n\tWhat&#8217;s equally as impressive is the speed at which he rides and tricks.  Fakie kickflip nosegrinds with a shuvit or revert out are<br \/>\n\tover in a split second.  He lands backside kickflips and 360&deg; flips that are quite simply\theart breakingly clean, and stomps nollie or switch frontside heelflips on the flat or over benches, a trick that I find particularly brilliant to watch.<br \/>\n\tThen you&#8217;ve got the bluntslides of all varieties which Daewon (and this video) are reknowned for.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\n\tWhat makes it difficult for\tRodney to &#8220;win&#8221;, if we must pick a winner, is that Daewon levels a pretty strong challenge when it<br \/>\n\tcomes to tricks that I personally had always thought of as Rodneys speciality.  Specifically, I&#8217;m thinking of flips into and out of<br \/>\n\tmanuals and bench top manuals.  And somehow, these too seem cleaner when Daewon does them.  The clincher is Daewons<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/tricks_b.html#backsideflip\" title=\"Define : Backside Flip\">backside flip<\/a> into\ta switch manual down the double bench setup.<br \/>\n\tIn fact, you might even go so far as to say that the only pure street trick that Daewon doesn&#8217;t do better is a<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/tricks_d.html#darkslide\" title=\"Define : Darkslide\">darkslide<\/a>, and that&#8217;s because he doesn&#8217;t do one at all&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<h2>Rodney Mullen<\/h2>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\n\tThe problem with Rodneys part is that he opens with the weakest bit of his routine.  It&#8217;s still great, but in comparison to what you&#8217;ve<br \/>\n\tjust seen Daewon do it looks shoddy at times.  This means that you&#8217;ll sort of come away, like I have, thinking Daewon gets the better of<br \/>\n\tRodney.  On the plus side, his part just keeps getting better and better, until some of the flatland and flatland influenced flip tricks<br \/>\n\tremind you what this man is all about.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\n\tSo he starts with a <em>lot<\/em> of <a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/tricks_c.html#crooked\" title=\"Define : Crooked Grind\">crooked grinds<\/a> and he always looks<br \/>\n\ta little bit &#8216;gangly&#8217; on his skateboard, if you know what I mean. Like, when he lands a revert out of a crooked or a nollie flip out<br \/>\n\tof a nosegrind (two tricks that both skaters do several times) he&#8217;ll wobble a bit, or the flip will be a bit messy and the skateboard<br \/>\n\tlands before Rodney does (whereas Daewon almost always catches the board cleanly in mid-air).  It&#8217;s things like this that sort of add<br \/>\n\tup and give you the general impression that Daewon is just a &#8216;better&#8217; pure street skater.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\n\tSomething else that may influence my opinion of Rodneys part is the fact that I&#8217;ve seen a lot of short clips from it before, reproduced in<br \/>\n\tvarious videos such as the Tony Hawks bonus movies or pro files etc&#8230; So I guess it didn&#8217;t have quite so much &#8216;wow factor&#8217; as it could<br \/>\n\thave if you haven&#8217;t seen these bits before.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\n\tHaving said that, I won&#8217;t sell Rodney short.  As we all know there is just some stuff that only he does and a lot of this happens near<br \/>\n\tthe end of his street run\tand in his flatland section, and it&#8217;s amazing especially when you slow it down and actually work out what he&#8217;s<br \/>\n\tdoing with his feet. I won&#8217;t give too much away but here are some of my personal favourites&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<ul class=\"bullets\">\n<li>Nollie <a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/tricks_p.html#phobiaflip\" title=\"Define : Phobia Flip\">Phobia Flip<\/a><\/li>\n<li>720&deg; <a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/tricks_t.html#truckstand\" title=\"Define : Truckstand\">Truckstand<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Truckstand To Truckstand<\/li>\n<li>360&deg; Back Foot Double <a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/tricks_u.html#underflip\" title=\"Define : Underflip\">Underflip<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Triple <a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/tricks_p.html#pressureflip\" title=\"Define : Pressure Flip\">Pressure Flip<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"getit\">Get It From&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpbolvw.net\/jc102shqnhp46D6DCDC4658E95A7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"TotalVid Video Downloads\" target=\"_blank\">Total<br \/>\n\tVid<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/files\/layout\/ext.gif\" class=\"ext\" alt=\"External Link\"\/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/files\/85116nswkqo9bibihih9badjeafc.jpg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/>offers a high quality<br \/>\n\tRodney Mullen vs Daewon Song video download for only <b>$2.99<\/b>.  If you have a decent DVD player and you want to slowmo<br \/>\n\tthe tricks in this video like I did, you can also buy the actual DVD from TotalVid for $19.95 (which, by the way, is way<br \/>\n\tcheaper than places like www.skateboard.com).  The fact that they are offering a 30 day free trial is icing on the cake.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"qhpe7f2t6jc3u0aun\">\n\tI picked up a mint copy on DVD for \u00a34.99 (about $9) from E-Bay, however I think I was quite lucky since it doesn&#8217;t<br \/>\n\tseem to get sold there very much at all.\n<\/p>\n<h2>Other Skateboarding Reviews<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"bullets\">\n<li>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/rodney_mullen_book.html\" title=\"Review of &#039;How To Skateboard And Not Kill Yourself&#039; by Rodney Mullen\" rel=\"tag\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tHow To Skateboard And Not Kill Yourself, By Rodney Mullen<br \/>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/tensor_low_trucks.html\" title=\"Tensor Low Trucks\" rel=\"tag\">Tensor Low Trucks<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>  <span class=\"version\" style=\"display: none;\">0.3<\/span>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"resources\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/post?url=http:\/\/www.board-crazy.co.uk\/rodney_daewon_1.php&amp;title=Rodney Mullen vs Daewon Song - Round 1\" title=\"Post This Article To Your Del.icio.us Bookmarks\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/files\/layout\/delicious.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Post To Delicious\"\/>Post To Del.icio.us<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/myweb2.search.yahoo.com\/myresults\/bookmarklet?t=Rodney Mullen vs Daewon Song - Round 1&amp;u=http:\/\/www.board-crazy.co.uk\/rodney_daewon_1.php\" class=\"popup1\" title=\"Add This Article To Yahoo My Web 2.0\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/board-crazy.co.uk\/files\/layout\/yahoo.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Add To Yahoo! 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