Pop an ollie and innovate! | Rodney Mullen | TED

Translator: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Morton Bast

Translator: Sune Vilsted Østergaard Reviewer: Anders Finn Jørgensen

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So, that's what I've done with my life.

Det er hvad jeg har lavet i mit liv. (Latter)

(Laughter)

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Thank you.

Mange tak.

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As a kid, I grew up on a farm in Florida,

Som barn voksede jeg op på en gård i Florida,

and I did what most little kids do.

og jeg gjorde hvad de fleste børn gjorde.

I played a little baseball, did a few other things like that,

Jeg spillede lidt baseball, og et par andre ting som det,

but I always had the sense of being an outsider,

men jeg følte mig altid lidt som en outsider,

and it wasn't until I saw pictures in the magazines

og det var ikke før jeg så billeder i magasiner

that a couple other guys skate, I thought,

af nogle gutter som skatede, at jeg tænkte,

"Wow, that's for me," you know?

"Wow, det er lige mig."

Because there was no coach standing directly over you,

For der var ingen træner, som overvågede en,

og de gutter var bare dem selv.

and these guys, they were just being themselves.

Der var ingen modstander overfor dem.

There was no opponent directly across from you.

And I loved that sense, so I started skating

Og jeg elskede den følelse, så jeg begyndte at skate

when I was about 10 years old, in 1977,

da jeg var omkring 10 år gammel, i 1977,

and when I did, I picked it up pretty quickly.

og da jeg gjorde det, kom det ret nemt til mig.

Faktisk så er der her nogle billeder fra 1984.

In fact, here's some footage from about 1984.

It wasn't until 79 I won my first amateur championship,

Det var ikke før '79, at jeg vandt min første amatørkonkurrence,

and then, by 81, I was 14, and I won my first world championship,

og i '81, hvor jeg var 14, vandt jeg

mit første verdensmesterskab,

hvilket jeg synes var fantastisk,

which was amazing to me,

and in a very real sense, that was the first real victory I had.

og i virkeligheden var det min første ægte sejr.

Oh, watch this.

Se det her.

This is a Casper slide, where the board's upside down.

Det her er et casper slide, hvor brættet er omvendt.

Mental notits til den. (Latter)

Mental note on that one.

(Laughter)

And this one here?

Og denne her? En ollie.

An ollie.

So, as she mentioned, that is overstated for sure,

Som hun nævnte, så er det helt klart overvurderet,

but that's why they called me the godfather of modern street skating.

men derfor kaldte de mig 'the godfather'

af moderne street skating.

Her er nogle billeder af det.

Here's some images of that.

Jeg vil sige, jeg var omkring halvvejs i min professionelle karriere,

Now, I was about halfway through my pro career

in, I would say, the mid-'80s.

jeg vil mene, det var midt i '80erne.

Freestyle itself -- we developed all these flat ground tricks, as you saw,

Vi udviklede selv alle disse flat ground tricks

som du så, men der udviklede sig

but there was evolving a new kind of skateboarding,

en ny form for skateboarding, hvor nogle tog det til

where guys were taking it to the streets, and they were using that ollie,

gaderne, og brugte ollies,

like I showed you.

som jeg viste jer? De brugte den til at komme op på ting,

They were using it to get up onto stuff like bleachers and handrails

som bænke og gælendere, og over trapper

and over stairwells and all kinds of cool stuff.

og alle mulige seje ting.

So it was evolving upwards.

Så det udviklede sig opad.

In fact, when someone tells you they're a skater today,

Når nogen i dag siger, at de skater,

they pretty much mean a street skater,

så mener de stort som en street skater,

because freestyle, it took about five years for it to die,

fordi freestyle døde efter 5 år,

and at that stage, I'd been a "champion" champion for 11 years, which --

og på det stadie havde jeg været en "mester" mester

i 11 år.

Phew!

And suddenly, it was over for me, that's it -- it was gone.

Og pludselig var det hele ovre for mig. Det var dét.

Det var væk. De tog min professionelle model af hylden,

They took my pro model off the shelf,

which was essentially pronouncing you dead, publicly.

hvilket helt essentielt erklærer dig officielt færdig.

That's how you make your money, you know?

Sådan tjener du penge.

Du har dine egne signatur-skateboards, og hjul, og sko

You have a signature board and wheels and shoes and clothes.

I had all that stuff, and it's gone.

og tøj. Jeg havde det hele, og nu er det væk.

The crazy thing was, there was a really liberating sense about it,

Det vildeste var, at der var en virkelig

befriende følelse ved det, fordi jeg ikke længere skulle beskytte

because I no longer had to protect my record as a champion.

min titel som mester. "Mester," igen.

"Champion," again.

Mester lyder så fjollet, men det var hvad det var, ikke?

Champion sounds so goofy, but it's what it was, right?

What drew me to skateboarding, the freedom,

Hvad der fik mig til at skate, friheden,

was now restored, where I could just create things,

var nu genskabt, her kunne jeg skabe ting,

because that's where the joy was for me, always,

for det var her det sjove var for mig,

was creating new stuff.

jeg skabte nye ting.

Den anden ting jeg havde, var en dyb brønd af tricks

The other thing that I had was a deep well of tricks to draw from

that were rooted in these flat ground tricks.

at trække af, som var forankret i flat ground tricks.

Stuff the normal guys were doing was very much different.

Ting som de normale fyre lavede var meget anderledes.

So, as humbling and rotten as it was —

Det var ydmygende og råddent,

And believe me, it was rotten.

og tro mig, det var råddent. Når jeg tog til skate spots,

I would go to skate spots, and I was already "famous guy," right?

og jeg var allerede en "kendt fyr".

And everyone thought I was good,

Og alle troede jeg var god. Men i dette nye terræn,

but in this new terrain, I was horrible.

var jeg elendig. Så folk ville sige. "Åh, han er -

So people would go, "Oh, what happened to Mullen?"

Åh, hvad skete der med Mullen?" (Latter)

(Laughter)

So, humbling as it was, I began again.

Hvor ydmygende det end var, så begyndte jeg igen.

Here are some tricks that I started to bring to that new terrain.

Her er nogle af de tricks som jeg begyndte med at tage med

ind i det nye terræn. (Skateboard-lyde)

And again, there's this undergirding layer of influence of freestyle --

Og igen, så er der det omsurrede lag med indflydelse fra freestyle,

Oh, that one?

som gjorde mig - Åh, det der?

That's, like, the hardest thing I've ever done.

Det er umiddelbart det sværeste jeg nogensinde har lavet.

Okay, se det der. Det er et darkslide.

OK, look at that, it's a Darkslide.

Se hvordan jeg glider på bagsiden?

See how it's sliding on the backside?

Those are super fun, and, actually, not that hard.

De er supersjove. Og faktisk er de ikke så svære.

You know, at the very root of that, see, Caspers,

Ved I hvad, roden heraf kommer af caspers,

see how you throw it?

læg mærke til hvordan du kaster det?

Simple as that, right? No biggie.

Såre simpelt, ikke? Inget problem. (Latter)

And your front foot, the way it grabs it --

Og din forreste fod, måden som den griber på det på, er --

I'd seen someone slide on the back of the board like that,

jeg havde set nogle glide på bagsiden sådan der,

og tænkte "Hvordan får jeg det over?"

and I was like, "How can I get it over?"

Fordi det endnu ikke var gjort endnu. Og så kom det

Because that had not yet been done.

til mig, og her er det.

And then it dawned on me, and here's part of what I'm saying.

Jeg havde en infrastruktur. Jeg havde det dybe lag, hvor

I had an infrastructure. I had this deep layer,

where it was like, oh my gosh, it's just your foot.

det var som -- det er bare din fod.

It's just the way you throw your board over.

Det er bare måden du kaster brættet over.

Just let the ledge do that, and it's easy,

Bare lad kanten klarer det, og det er nemt,

det næste du opdager er 20 tricks

and the next thing you know, there's 20 more tricks

baseret på variationer heraf.

based out of the variations.

Så det er den ting, her, se det her,

So that's the kind of thing -- here, check this out,

her er en anden måde, jeg vil ikke overdrive.

here's another way, and I won't overdo this.

En smule overbærende, det forstår jeg.

A little indulgent, I understand.

There's something called a Primo slide.

Der er noget som hedder primo slide.

(Skateboard lyde)

It is the funnest trick ever to do.

Det er det mest morsomme trick nogensinde.

(Skateboard lyde)

It's like skimboarding.

Det er som at skimboarde.

And this one, look how it slides sideways, every which way?

Og den her, se hvordan den glider sidelæns begge veje?

OK, so when you're skating, and you take a fall,

Okay, når du skater, og du falder,

the board slips that way or that way; it's kind of predictable.

brættet ryger den vej eller den vej. Det er ret forudsigeligt.

This? It goes every which way -- it's like a cartoon, the falls,

Her? Kan det ryge hvilken som helst vej. Det er som i tegnefilm,

and that's what I love the most about it.

og det er hvad jeg elsker mest ved det.

It's so much fun to do.

Det er så sjovt. Faktisk, så da jeg startede med at lave dem,

In fact, when I started doing them, I remember, because I got hurt.

kan jeg huske, fordi det gjorde ondt. Jeg skulle opereres,

I had to get a knee surgery, right?

So there were a couple of weeks where I couldn't skate at all.

ikke? Så der var et par dage, faktisk

et par uger, hvor jeg ikke kunne skate.

It would give out on me, and I would watch the guys,

Knæet gav op. Og jeg så på de andre,

jeg tog ud til en lagerbygning, hvor

I'd go to this warehouse where a lot of the guys were skating,

de skatede, mine venner, og jeg tænkte:

my friends, and I was like,

"Jeg må finde på og lave noget nyt.

"I've got to do something new, I want to do something new.

Jeg vil starte forfra. Helt forfra."

I want to start fresh."

Så natten før min operation, kiggede jeg,

And so the night before my surgery, I'd watched, and I was like,

og tænkte "Hvordan gør jeg det?"

Så jeg løb hen og hoppede op på brættet,

"How am I going to do this?"

So I ran up, and I jumped on my board,

og jeg cavemanned og flippede det ned,

and I Cavemanned, and I flipped it down,

og jeg kan huske at jeg tænkte, jeg landede da helt let,

and I remember thinking, I landed so light-footed, thinking,

hvis mine knæ giver op, har de bare det mere at lave i morgen.

if my knee gives, they'll just have more work to do in the morning.

(Ler) (Latter)

(Laughter)

And so, when it was the crazy thing.

Det var helt skørt.

I don't know how many of you guys have had surgery, but --

Jeg ved ikke hvor mange her, er blevet opereret,

men -(Latter)- man er så hjælpeløs, ikke?

(Laughter)

you are so helpless, right?

You're on this gurney and you're watching the ceiling go by,

Du er på sengen og ser loftet kører forbi,

sådan er det hver gang, og lige når de sætter

every time, it's always that,

and right when they're putting the mask on you before you go to sleep,

masken op for ansigtet, sover man,

det eneste jeg tænkte var: "Når jeg vågner har jeg det meget bedre,

all I was thinking is, "Man, when I wake up and I get better,

the first thing I'm going to do is film that trick."

det første jeg vil, er at filme det trick." (Latter)

And indeed I did, it was the very first thing I filmed, which was awesome.

Og det gjorde jeg. Det var den allerførste film

hvilket var helt fantastisk.

Lad mig nu - jeg fortalte lidt om udviklingen

I told you a little bit about the evolution of the tricks.

og tricks. Overvej det indhold, på en måde.

Consider that content, in a sense.

Det vi gør som street skatere er, at du

What we do as street skaters is, you have these tricks --

har disse tricks. Jeg kunne arbejde på darkslide

Say I'm working on Darkslides, or a Primo,

eller primo, udtryk som I nu kender til. (Latter) (Ler)

that you guys know this stuff now.

(Laughter)

What you do is, you cruise around the same streets

Det man gør er at køre rundt på de samme gader

man har set hundrede gange, men pludselig, fordi du

that you've seen a hundred times,

but suddenly, because you already have something

allerede har det der passer til dette område,

in this fixed domain of this target, it's like, what will match this trick?

så tænker man, hvad vil matche det trick?

How can I expand, how can the context,

Hvordan kan jeg udvide, hvordan kan indholdet, hvordan kan

how can the environment change the very nature of what I do?

miiljøet ændre på det jeg gør?

Så du kører og kører og kører, og faktisk, så må jeg indrømme,

So you drive and drive and drive, and, actually I've got to admit,

men det er besværligt for mig fordi jeg er her,

just because I was struggling with this because I'm here,

but I'll just say it, is, I cannot tell you,

men jeg siger det bare, jeg kan ikke sige jer, ikke kun at være her

not only to be here in front of you,

foran jer, men hvor privilligeret det er for mig at være her på USC campus,

but what a privilege it is to be at US campus,

because I have been escorted off of this campus so many times.

fordi jeg er blevet eskorteret væk så mange gange. (Latter)

(Laughter)

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So let me give you another example of how context shapes content.

Lad mig give jer et andet eksempel af hvordan

kontekst skaber indhold.

This is a place not that far from here, It's a rotten neighborhood.

Det er et sted ikke langt herfra.

Det er et råddent nabolag. Din første tanke er:

Your first consideration is, am I going to get beat up?

"Bliver jeg banket her? " Du går ud - Se på denne væg?

You go out and -- See this wall?

It's fairly mellow, and it's beckoning to do bank tricks, right?

Den er ret mild, og kalder bare på et bank trick, ikke?

But there's this other aspect of it for wheelies,

Men der er et andet aspekt i det til at lave manuels,

so check this out.

se efter. Her et nogle få tricks, igen,

There's a few tricks, again,

how environment changes the nature of your tricks.

hvordan miljøet ændrer det oprindelige trick.

Freestyle oriented, manual down -- wheelie down.

Freestyle orienteret, manuel ned.

Watch, this one? Oh, I love this, it's like surfing, this one,

Se den her? Åh jeg elsker den. Det er som at surfe,

the way you catch it.

den måde man fanger brættet på.

This one, a little sketchy going backwards,

Den her er lidt usikkert, da man kører baglæns,

and watch the back foot.

og se den bagerste fod, se den bagerste.

Oops --

Oop. (Latter) Igen en reminder der. Igen, det vender vi tilbage til.

(Laughter)

Mental note right there.

Again, we'll get back to that.

(Laughter)

Here, back foot, back foot.

Her. Bagerste fod, Bagerste fod. Okay, op?

OK, up there?

That was called a 360 flip.

Det kaldes et 360 flip. Bemærk hvordan brættet vender

Notice how the board flipped and spun this way, both axes.

og snurre samme vej, begge akser.

And another example of how the context changed,

Et andet eksempel af hvordan kontekst ændrer,

and the creative process for me and for most skaters,

og den kreative proces for mig og de fleste andre skatere,

er, du tager afsted, står ud af bilen, ser efter vagter,

is, you go, you get out of the car, you check for security,

you check for stuff.

du leder efter ting. (Latter)

(Laughter)

It's funny, you get to know their rhythms, you know,

Det er skægt, I kender deres rytme,

de drenge som kører rundt, og

the guys that cruise around --

(Laughter)

skateboarding er så ydmygede en ting.

Skateboarding is such a humbling thing, man.

Uanset hvor god du er, skal du stadig håndtere det --

No matter how good you are, you've still got to deal with --

Du rammer væggen, og da jeg ramte den, det første man gør er at

So you hit this wall, and when I hit it,

the first thing you do is you fall forward,

falde forover, og jeg tænker, okay, okay.

and I'm like, all right, all right.

Mens du tilpasser

As you adjust ...

you punch it up, and then when I would do that,

så retter du dig mere op, og når jeg gør det,

it was throwing my shoulder this way ...

så drejer det min skulder denne vej, hvilket,

which as I was doing it, I was like, "Oh wow, that's begging for a 360 flip,"

mens jeg var i det, fik mig til at tænke: "Åh wow, det tigger

efter et 360 flip," for det er sådan man gør sig klar til et 360 flip.

because that's how you load up for a 360 flip.

And so this is what I want to emphasize that, as you can imagine,

Så det jeg ønsker at understrege, er,

som I nok kan forestille jer, alle disse tricks er lavet ud fra

all of these tricks are made of submovements,

sub- bevægelser, udøvende motoriske funktioner, mere detaljeret

executive motor functions,

more granular to the degree to which I can't quite tell you,

til den grad jeg ikke kan forklare, men noget

but one thing I do know is,

jeg ved er, hvert trick er lavet ved at kombinere to eller tre

every trick is made of combining two or three or four or five movements.

eller fire eller fem bevægelser. Og så, mens jeg kører op

And so, as I'm going up, these things are floating around,

flyder disse ting rundt, og du skal på en måde

and you have to sort of let the cognitive mind rest back,

lade den kognitive hjerne, slappe af, træk stikket ud lidt

pull it back a little bit,

og lad din intuition kører mens de føler disse ting.

and let your intuition go as you feel these things.

And these submovements are kind of floating around,

Og de sub-bevægelser flyder rundt

og når man rammer væggen, forbinder de hinanden

and as the wall hits you, they connect themselves to an extent,

til et omfang, og her det kognitive,

and that's when the cognitive mind: "Oh, 360 flip, I'm going to make that."

siger, "360 flip, jeg klarer det."

So that's how that works to me, the creative process,

Det er sådan det fungerer på mig, den kreative del,

the process itself, of street skating.

processen af selve street skating.

Næste - ????? (Latter) De er samfundet.

So, next -- Oh, mind you ...

(Laughter)

Those are the community.

De er nogle af de bedste skatere i verden.

These are some of the best skaters in the world.

These are my friends -- oh my gosh, they're such good people.

De er mine venner. Og hold op, de er sådan nogle gode mennesker.

And the beauty of skateboarding is that,

Og det smukke ved skateboarding er, at

no one guy is the best.

ingen er den bedste. Faktisk, jeg ved det er råddent at sige,

In fact, I know this is rotten to say, they're my friends,

de er mine venner, men nogle af dem

but a couple of them actually don't look that comfortable on their board.

ser faktisk ikke så komfortable ud på deres bræt.

What makes them great is the degree to which they use their skateboarding

Det der gør dem gode er til den grad de

bruger skateboarding til at individualisere dem selv.

to individuate themselves.

Hver eneste af disse drenge, når du ser dem,

Every single one of these guys, you look at them,

bare du kan se en silhouet af dem, kan du genkende dem,

you can see a silhouette of them, and you realize,

"Oh, that's him, that's Haslam, that's Koston,

"Åh, det er ham, det er Haslam, det er Koston,

there's these guys, these are the guys."

der er disse fyre, det er de fyre.

And skaters, I think they tend to be outsiders

Og skatere, jeg tror de har en tedens til at være outsidere

who seek a sense of belonging,

som søger en følelse af at høre til,

but belonging on their own terms.

men kun på deres egne premisser,

And real respect is given by how much we take what other guys do,

og ægte respekt bliver vist ud fra hvor meget vi ser

de andre fyre lave, de grundlæggende tricks, 360 flips,

these basic tricks, 360 flips, we take that, we make it our own,

vi tager dem, og laver dem vores egne, og på den måde giver man selv

and then we contribute back to the community

noget igen til samfundet, indefra,

the inner way that edifies the community itself.

der opbygger fællesskabet selv.

The greater the contribution,

Jo større bidrag, jo mere udtrykker og former vi

the more we express and form our individuality,

vores individualitet, hvilket er meget vigtigt for mange af os

which is so important to a lot of us who feel like rejects to begin with.

som føler sig afvist fra starten af.

The summation of that

Tilsammen giver det os

gives us something we could never achieve as an individual.

noget vi aldrig kunne opnå individuelt.

I should say this.

Jeg siger det. Der en slags smuk symmetri

There's some sort of beautiful symmetry

that the degree to which we connect to a community

at i den grad som du kobler dig til et samfund

is in proportion to our individuality,

er proportioner af vores individualitet, som vi udtrykker

which we are expressing by what we do.

ud fra det vi gør.

Next,

Næste. Disse gutter. Meget lignende samfund

these guys, very similar community that's extremely conducive to innovation.

som er ekstremt befordrende for innovation.

(Laughter)

Læg mærke til nogle af disse billeder fra politiet.

Notice a couple of these shots from the police department.

But it is quite similar, I mean, what is it to hack, right?

Men det er ret ens. Hvordan hacker man?

It's knowing a technology so well that you can manipulate it

Det er ved at kende teknologien så godt, at du kan manipulere den

and steer it to do things it was never intended to do, right?

og styre den til at gøre ting som det aldrig ville have gjort, ikke?

Og de er ikke alle onde.

And they're not all bad.

You can be a Linux kernel hacker, make it more stable, right?

Du kan være en Linux kerne hacker, for at gøre det mere stabilt, ikke?

More safe, more secure.

Mere sikkerhed, mere sikkert. Du kan være en iOS hacker,

You can be an iOS hacker,

make your iPhone do stuff it wasn't supposed to.

der får din iPhone til at gøre ting den normalt ikke skulle.

Not authorized, but not illegal.

Ikke godkendt, men ikke ulovlig.

And then, you've got some of these guys, right?

Og så har vi nogle af disse gutter?

What they do is very similar to our creative process.

Det de gør er meget lig med vores kreative process.

They connect disparate information,

De forbinder uensartede informationer

and they bring it together in a way that a security analyst doesn't expect.

og bringer dem sammen på en måde

som en sikkerhedsanalytiker ikke regner med. Ikke?

It doesn't make them good people,

Det gør dem ikke til gode mennesker,

but it's at the heart of engineering,

men det er i hjertet af ingeniørvidenskab, i hjertet af

at the heart of a creative community, an innovative community,

et kreativt samfund, et innovativt samfund

and the open source community, the basic ethos of it

og et open source samfund, det basale etos af det

is, take what other people do, make it better,

er, gør hvad andre folk gør, og gør det bedre,

give it back so we all rise further.

giv det tilbage, så vi alle kan hæve os yderligere.

Very similar communities, very similar.

Meget ens samfund, meget ens.

We have our edgier sides, too.

Vi har også vores kantede sider. Det er sjovt, min far havde ret.

(Laughter)

It's funny, my dad was right.

These are my peers.

Det er mine kammerater.

But I respect what they do, and they respect what I do,

Men jeg respekterer hvad de gør, de respekterer mig

because they can do things, it's amazing what they can do.

fordi de kan gøre ting. Det er forbløffende hvad de kan.

Faktisk var en af dem kåret af Ernst & Youngs

In fact, one of them,

he was Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year for San Diego County,

årets entreprenør i San Diego regionen,

du ved aldrig hvem beskæftiger dig med.

so they're not -- you never know who you're dealing with.

We've all had some degree of fame.

Vi har alle haft nogen grad af berømmelse.

In fact, I've had so much success that I strangely always feel unworthy of.

Jeg har faktisk haft så meget succes, at jeg

altid følte mig uværdig til.

I've had a patent, and that was cool, and we started a company,

Jeg havde et patent, det var sejt, og startede

et firma, og det voksede, og det blev det største og så gik det

and it grew, and it became the biggest,

and then it went down, and then it became the biggest again,

ned og blev det største igen,

hvilket er sværere end den første gang og så solgte vi det,

which is harder than the first time, and then we sold it,

og så solgte vi det igen.

and then we sold it again.

So I've had some success.

Jeg har haft noget succes. Og til slut

And in the end, when you've had all of these things,

når du har haft alle de ting, hvad er det så der fortsat

what is it that continues to drive you?

driver dig? Som jeg nævnte, det med knæet og de ting,

As I mentioned, the knee stuff and these things,

what is it that will punch you?

hvad er det som skubber dig?

Because it's not just the mind.

For det er ikke kun dit sind.

Hvad er det som skubber dig og får dig til at lave noget

What is it that will punch you and make you do something

and bring it to another level, and when you've had it all,

og tage det til et andet niveau, og når du har haft det hele,

sometimes, guys, they die on the vine with all of that talent,

nogle gange, gutter, så dør de med alt det talent

og en af de ting vi alle har haft, alle sammen, er berømmelse,

and one of the things we've had, all of us, is fame --

I think the best kind of fame, because you can take it off.

den bedste form, for du kan tage den af.

Jeg har været hele verden rundt,

I've been all around the world,

and there will be a thousand kids crying out your name,

og der var tusinde af børn, som skrev dit navn

and it's such a weird, visceral experience.

og det er en mærkelig oplevelse.

It's like, it's disorienting.

Det er en smule desorienteret.

And you get in a car, and you drive away,

Du går ind i en bil og kører væk,

and 10-minute drive, and you get out,

og efter 10 minutters kørsel, stiger du ud

and no one gives a rat's who you are.

og der er ikke en eneste som interessere sig for dig. (Latter)

(Laughter)

And it gives you that clarity of perspective of, man, I'm just me,

Det giver dig den klarhed i perspektivet af, mand,

and popularity, what does that really mean again?

jeg er bare mig og popularitet, hvad

betyder det egentlig? Ikke meget.

Not much.

It's peer respect that drives us.

Det der driver os, er respekten blandt venner. Det er det

That's the one thing that makes us do what we do.

som får os til at gøre det. Jeg har brækket

I've had over a dozen bones, this guy, over, eight, 10 concussions,

mange knogler. De gutter, den her fyr, har haft otte, ti hjernerystelser,

to the point where it's comedy, right?

til det punkt hvor det er sjovt, ikke?

It is actually comedy, they mess with him.

Det er faktisk sjovt. De driller ham.

(Laughter)

Next,

Næste. Det er noget som er dybere, og der er her jeg -

and this is something deeper.

jeg tror jeg var på turne, da jeg læste en af

I think I was on tour when I was reading one of the Feynman biographies.

Feynman biografierne. Jeg tror det var den røde eller blå.

It was the red one or the blue one.

And he made this statement that was so profound to me.

Han kom med denne udtalelse, som var så dyb for mig.

It was that the Nobel Prize was the tombstone on all great work,

Det var, at Nobel prisen

var en gravsten for alt fremragende værk

and it resonated because I had won 35 out of 36 contests

og det gav genlyd, for jeg havde vundet 35 ud af 36 konkurrencer

that I'd entered over 11 years, and it made me bananas.

som jeg deltog i, i løbet af 11 år, og det gjorde mig skør.

In fact, winning isn't the word, I won it once.

Vundet er ikke det rigtige ord. Jeg vandt én gang.

The rest of the time, you're just defending,

Resten af tiden forsvarede

hvor du går ind i en slags skildpaddeskjold, forstår I?

and you get into this, turtle posture, you know?

Where you're not doing -- it usurped the joy of what I loved to do

Hvor du ikke gør. Det tog glæden ud af det jeg elskede

because I was no longer doing it to create and have fun,

at gøre, for nu gjorde jeg det ikke for at skabe ting og have sjov,

and when it died out from under me,

og da det døde under mig, det var en af

that was one of the most liberating things,

de meste befriende ting for så kunne jeg skabe ting igen.

because I could create.

And look, I understand that I am on the very edge of preachy, here.

Se, jeg forstår godt, at jeg er på kanten

af prædiken. Det er ikke derfor jeg er her.

I'm not here to do that.

It's just that I'm in front of a very privileged audience.

Det er fordi jeg er foran et priviligeret publikum.

If you guys aren't already leaders in your community,

Hvis I ikke allerede er ledere i jeres samfund,

you probably will be, and if there's anything I can give you

så bliver i det sikkert, og hvis der er noget jeg kan give jer

that will transcend what I've gotten from skateboarding,

som transcendere det jeg har fået af skateboarding,

the only things of meaning, I think, and of permanence,

de eneste ting af betydning, tror jeg, og permanens.

it's not fame, it's not all these things.

er ikke berømmelse, det er ikke alle de ting. Hvad det er,

What it is, is that there's an intrinsic value in creating something

at der er en værdi i at skabe noget

for the sake of creating it,

for grunden til at skabe det, og bedre end det,

and better than that, because I'm 46 years old, or I'll be 46,

fordi, mand, jeg er 46 år eller bliver 46, og hvor

and how pathetic is that I'm still skateboarding, but there is --

patetisk er det at jeg stadig skater, men der er-

(Latter)- der er den skønhed, ved at falde ind i

there is this beauty in dropping it into a community of your own making,

et samfund du selv har skabt og se det sprede sig

and seeing it dispersed, and seeing younger, more talented,

og se yngre, mere talentfulde, anderledes talenter,

just different talent, take it to levels you can never imagine,

tage det til højder du aldrig drømte om

because that lives on.

for det lever videre. Så tak for jeres tid.

So thank you for your time.

(Applause)

(Bifald)

Kristina Holly: I have a question for you.

Krisztina Holly: Jeg har et spørgsmål til dig.

(Applause)

Du genskabte virkelig dig selv fra

So you've really reinvented yourself in the past, from freestyle to street,

freestyle til street og for fire år siden gik du

and, I think it was about four years ago you officially retired.

officielt på pension. Er det rigtigt? Hvad nu?

Is that it? What's next?

Rodney Mullen: Det er et godt spørgsmål.

Rodney Mullen: That's a good question. KG: Something tells me it's not the end.

KH: Noget siger mig det ikke er slut.

RM: Ja. Hver gang du tror, at du har fulgt noget til dørs

RM: Yeah. Every time you think you've chased something down,

it's funny, no matter how good you are, and I know guys like this,

det sjovt, uanset hvor god du er,

og jeg kender sådanne folk, det er som om man polerer en bæ.

it feels like you're polishing a turd, you know?

Kender I det? (Latter)

(Laughter)

Og jeg troede, den eneste måde som jeg kunne udvide det

And I thought, the only way I can extend this

var ved at ændre det infrastukturelle

is to change something infrastructural.

And so that's what I proceeded to do, through a long story,

og det er hvad jeg vil gøre, igennem en lang historie,

one of desperation, so if I do it, rather than talk about it,

en af desperation, så hvis jeg gør det i stedet for at tale om det,

if I do it, you'll be the first to know.

hvis jeg gør, vil du være den første der ved det. KH: Vi stiller ikke flere spørgsmål.

KG: All right, we won't ask you any more. RM: You'll get a text.

RM: Du modtager en sms.

KH: (Ler) Okay. Tak. Godt arbejde. (Bifald) RM: Tak. Mange tak. (Bifald)

KG: Right, thank you, good job. RM: Thank you. Thank you.

(Applause)