Rodney Mullen vs. Daewon Song

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Rodney Mullen vs. Daewon Song is a skateboarding video series that features influential skateboarders Rodney Mullen and Daewon Song. [1] [2] [3] Three video installments were released under the titles Round 1, Round 2, and Round 3 (the third "round" was incorporated into the debut video for the Almost skateboard company that was cofounded by Mullen and Song). [4] [5] [6]

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Round 1 (1997)

The first video shows Mullen "competing" against Song—the two are close friends outside of the video series. [7] The video also features combined parts from the World Industries, [8] A-Team, [9] and Blind teams [10] (as they were in 1997 when the video was released). Song and Mullen both appear in their own parts [11] [12] that are combined with small sections that feature members of their respective brands' teams.

Round 2 (1999)

Compared to the first video, Round 2 was produced in a slightly different format. As with Round 1, the video features individual parts from Mullen and Song, [13] and there are also combined parts from the World Industries, A-Team, and Blind [14] teams—some World team members had, by this time, formed the Deca brand. However, there are also short advertisement-like sections throughout the video for the other brands that were being distributed by Dwindle Distribution at the time, making the video similar to an issue of a video magazine.

Round 3 (2004)

As it is effectively an Almost video, the third installment is considerably different from its predecessors. Almost: Round Three not only includes Song and Mullen, but features full-length parts from the Almost team of the time: Chris Haslam, [15] Cooper Wilt, [16] Greg Lutzka, [17] Ryan Sheckler, [18] and "William Patrick", [19] who was really Tyrone Olson in a costume.[ citation needed ]

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