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Ryan Sheckler
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Ryan Sheckler has been skateboarding since before he learned to read. Under the encouragement of his dad, he first jumped on a board when he was just four years old and has been kick-flipping and rail-sliding his way to the top of the skateboard world ever since. He became a sponsored skateboarder when he was just 10 years old. Back then, Ryan spent up to 22 hours a week practicing tricks in his backyard - where he had his very own skatepark!
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Called the "most-sought-after sixteen-year-old since Harry Potter" by TransWorld Skateboarding, Ryan Sheckler has been skating at X Games since he was just 13-years-old, when he became the youngest athlete ever to win gold (Park, 2003) at X Games. Since then he has become one of the core street skaters in the industry, but he has yet to medal in Street at X, something that has a lot to do with his small size. Each year he gets closer though. His arsenal of tricks, clean airs and speed helped him take the season's top honors at the 2005 Dew Tour, and overall points champion of the WCS 2005 World Street season.
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Ryan Sheckler took the skateboarding world by storm at the 2003 X Games, when he won a gold medal at the age of 13. Sheckler grew up in California and began competing in amateur events in 1996; at the age of 8 he had his first sponsor. In 2003 he became the youngest skateboarder to turn pro, and he ended the year with victories at the X Games, the Gravity Games, the Vans Triple Crown and the Slam City Jam, wowing audiences and seasoned pros with his skill and ambition. A familiar face in skateboard-related media, his appearances have included brief bits in MVP2: Most Vertical Primate (2001) and Grind (2003, starring Adam Brody and featuring an appearance by Bam Margera). In 2004 he toured with Tony Hawk and he appears in the Hawk Underground 2 video game. Still one of the top-ranked skateboarders on tour, Sheckler has recently taken an interest in racing motocross.
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At the age of 18 months, Ryan Sheckler found his dad's old school pool riding skateboard. Soon after that, Ryan began to push around on one knee, and eventually stood up on the skateboard. Ryan Sheckler is now a teenager, still in school, who ... happens to be a professional world famous skateboarder. Ryan was home schooled through 7th and 8th grade, and attends Futures High School (a one-on-one school program for athletes and actors). Ryan loves riding moto-X along with skateboarding.
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Ryan Sheckler is featured as one of the members of the cast in the MTV reality television series Life of Ryan. He was born on December 30, 1989 in San Clemente, California, and is famous for being one of the world’s youngest professional skateboarders. When he was only 18 months old he found his father’s old skateboard, and it became his constant companion over the next few years. Since he was six years old, he has practiced various skating tricks in his for more than 20 hours each week in his backyard, which has been set up with a half pipe, a number of grind rails and tabletops.
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