Rodney Mullen tore his own hip joint apart on purpose. “Sheer desperation,” he says by way of explanation. “Doctors would not recommend it.” By 2003, after nearly 30 years of ...

Cole Louison is the research editor at the Bleacher Report and the author of The Impossible: Rodney Mullen, Ryan Sheckler, and the Fantastic History of Skateboarding. The legend has done the ...