“Just a little bit, without being put to sleep, or just tearing myself.
The whole process took about seven years. Twice while he was doing this, police came by to investigate because he was screaming so loudly they thought someone was being mugged. He braced himself against shopping cart racks, fire hydrants, and the wheel well of his truck. He started exerting huge amounts of painful pressure on his own joint, hoping to tear the scar tissue a tiny bit at a time. Eventually he got desperate enough to try doing it himself. He feared that without treatment, he wouldn't be able to skate again. “They don't want to go bigger than shoulders,” he says. Mullen says his doctors told him there was a treatment for smaller joints that get stuck like this. But a hip joint was too big and too risky. “They put you to sleep and they put something like a boat clamp to you and they chhhkk,” he says, with a snapping motion. “Doctors would not recommend it.”īy 2003, after nearly 30 years of skateboarding-if you’ve ever seen kids skating, you’ve seen tricks Mullen devised-the legendary athlete had pummeled his right hip joint so much that scar tissue and the grinding of bone on bone had gotten the joint stuck in a single track. “Sheer desperation,” he says by way of explanation. Rodney Mullen tore his own hip joint apart on purpose.
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