What would skating be without Alan Gelfand

[Rappin Rabbi]

I was thinking, what would skating be without Alan Gelfand. Before, skating was like a razor or something, nothing too special, but Alan Gelfand made it a sport by inventing an ollie. He is my new idol, he made skating what it is today, so what are your thoughts about Alan Gelfand?

[AlmostJeff]

In my opinion he created skateboarding what it is today...without him we would probably have found some other way of getting into the air...but who knows maybe we would still be doing freestyle.

[skizzate]

Ethier way someone would have figured out slaming the tail make the board pop. He figured it out first though, so he does deserve some credit.

[Rappin Rabbi]

He had to redigsn the board though to make it work, so if somebody else found out, it would have ended up different

[AlmostJeff]

Yeah I true...I think about what skating would be like without rodney mullen no kickflips or heelflips or basically any other trick on street.

[FIGHT!]

just to be clear, he invented the ollie on transitions, not flat ground.

[McJesus]

I was gonna say what fight! said. Rodney mullen would've still created the flat ground ollie.

[gmgsci]

^I would think somebody else, well-maybe mullen-would had invented the flat ground ollie.

But I still have more for the Z-Boys.

[Rappin Rabbi]

Yeah I true...I think about what skating would be like without rodney mullen no kickflips or heelflips or basically any other trick on street.
rodney mullen invented kikflips and heelflips based on what he knew about ollies, I dont think he would have origionally invented it

[Blind Sheppard]

He definetely invented the flatground ollie and that's final. We had this discussion years ago.

[Rappin Rabbi]

thank you shepand, I thought he didnt by what thease guys said, I thought that when I made this thread, thanks for clarifieing that for us
THANK YOU

not sarcasm in case if you were thinking so, sorry if you did

[360degrees]

Rodney Mullen invented a hell of a lot of stuff, he owns the new skating world still. He's 40 this year by the way.

[Rappin Rabbi]

http://www.ollieair.com/index.asp?biodetail.asp~mid
omfg read that forth paragraph in the article, he is my idol. kewl and ironic

[NoneMoreBlack]

Whenever i get to rappin rabbis posts, it takes me 10 minutes to figure out what the hell he was trying to say. Is this just me? Or is it the lack of communication skills combined with his terrible spelling that makes all his posts like a rubix cube.

[loganownzj00]

Whenever i get to rappin rabbis posts, it takes me 10 minutes to figure out what the hell he was trying to say. Is this just me? Or is it the lack of communication skills combined with his terrible spelling that makes all his posts like a rubix cube.

It's not just you.

[sk8_zoo_york]

i can understand him. but that was funny what u said^^. lol

[Rappin Rabbi]

I have good spelling, and when I mispell a word you can understand it i guess, I think I should work on my wording, thanks for the constructive critizism

[Ramp]