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Ryan Sheckler: Tony Hawk
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Shortly after he turned pro, Ryan Sheckler won the gold at the street competition at the 2003 X Games and ... took top place in the street event at the 2003 Slam City Jam. Ryan Sheckler has toured with Tony Hawk and Shaun White on Tony Hawk's Gigantic Skatepark Tour and also had a role in the skateboard movie Grind. In 2004, Ryan became the youngest pro skateboarder to win gold in the X Games. On top his 2005 Dew Action Sports Tour Athlete of the Year, Ryan is also a two-time World Cup of Skateboarding’s National Street Champion. He took home the Global Assault title in Australia in 2006 and his career hit the mainstream in 2007 when MTV debuted his reality show, The Life of Ryan. You can check out the show on Mondays at 10:30PM on MTV!
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Sheckler's career took shape during the summer of 1995, when Sheckler's dad built him and his friends a new quarter pipe along with a few other additions making it a small skate park. A few years later, he joined the CASL (California Amateur Skateboarding League) and entered one of their contests and won. He idolized Tony Hawk and wanted to invite him to his seventh birthday party. Hawk attended the party and took some time to practice with Sheckler. [3] During 1997-2001 Sheckler was winning the CASL state championships, where he picked up his first eye wear sponsor, Arnette, the same company sponsoring Tony Hawk. In 2004 he was named the World Cup of Skateboarding’s National Street Champion.
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In 2003, (at the age of 13 and weighing in at less than a hundred pounds) Ryan became the youngest skateboarder to win gold at XG. He ... swept the entire skateboarding comp scene, winning Gravity Games, SCJ, VTC overall, WCS North American Street overall and WCS World Street overall. Since XG '03, he's appeared in Sports Illustrated For Kids, put in an appearance (with Tony Hawk) on Teen Nickelodeon, filmed for his part in the new Almost video and traveled to Spain, Australia, and Canada. In the fall ('04), Ryan will start his freshman year at San Clemente High School.
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Ryan has been honored with a nomination as the Laureus World Action Sportsperson of the Year. This is a very prestigious award - the Patron of Laureus is Nelson Mandela and the winners are selected by a jury including sport superstars from Tony Hawk to Dan Marino. Other nominees in the action sports category include Red Bull athletes Shaun White, Daniel Dhers and Mick Fanning.
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