Those Magnificent Mulls
THRASHER|May 2017

Rural Worblers in the Big City

Michael Burnett
Those Magnificent Mulls

When Dave Mull was a child, his family were resigned to the fact that he would probably spend his life in jail.

“I was a pretty violent kid,” Dave, now 28, admits. “We had this deck ten feet off the ground,” youngest brother Steve explains, “and I was lounging on the railing, laying down on it and Dave opens the door and comes out and pushes me off the side. I fell off and landed on my back on a rock! All of our best memories involve Dave hurting us or inflicting pain. But yeah, he takes the anger out on skateboarding these days.”

Of Vermont’s Mull brothers, Dave may be the one you’ve heard of, or at least seen his stunt work. Remember that third story drop-in board slide down the mountainous metal-capped hubba? Yep, Dave was the longhair piloting that foolhardy mission. And while jumping out of trees and off of roofs might be keeping him out of the pokey, it’s Steve who the brothers say is the true crash-test dummy of the family. Or more like the guinea pig (as his NBD no-comply flash ‘n’ roll in this article will attest).

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