Ryan
Sheckler
United States
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Skateboarding
Date of birth | December 30, 1989 |
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Birthplace | San Clemente, USA |
Age | 36 |
Nationality | United States |
Career start | 2008 |
Disciplines | Skateboard Street / Skateboard Park |
Ryan Sheckler has been earning the SKATE LIFE tattoo on his forearm since he first set foot on a skateboard. In 2003, at the age of 13, he was the youngest competitor ever to win X Games gold. He repeated the feat in 2008 and again in 2010.
To date, Ryan has won the Action Sport Tour’s (AST) championship three times and almost countless more contests, from his California Amateur Skateboarding League (CASL) championship titles to the ISF Skateboarding World Championships in 2010.
He’s just as comfortable skating in made-for-TV competitions as he is throwing down in the streets, and he’s nabbed sick street footage around the world. But he wants to prove that the skate life is about more than just skateboarding.
In 2008, he partnered with Red Bull, Oakley, Etnies, Nixon and other sponsors to create the Sheckler Foundation, funding enrichment programmes for children in underprivileged communities, medical research towards curing spinal cord injuries and childhood diseases, and programmes for injured action sports athletes.
After that Ryan kept on notching up career milestones, including numerous X Games medals and pioneering roles in ever more groundbreaking video parts, not least of which was in 2019's You Good?
2023 would see Ryan create his own personal milestone with his career-defining Lifer video part for Red Bull alongside the Rolling Away documentary which accompanied it. During 2024 he would become the biggest crowd draw of the Red Bull Drop-In Tour South America, shutting down demos in Brazil, Argentina and Chile in a single week!