How old is ryan sheckler in 2011

Mariano is known for changing skateboarding through his natural abilities and unique style. His tricks and even his clothing styles have been copied by skaters for over two decades. He owns four-star clothing and is the co-founder of Royal Trucks. He is also known for his parts in some of the best skating videos out there.

Rodriguez, aka P-Rod, could technically be considered the Michael Jordan of skateboarding. He has starred in quite a few of the popular skating video games that are on the market and has two Gold medals from the X games. His most significant contribution to the actual sport was the pioneering of the switch stance. Ryan Sheckler was a year-old kid with a mouth full of braces when he made his X Games debut in the Skateboard Park event in , but even his toughest competitors knew to take him seriously.

I was just stoked to be there and skating with guys like Eric Koston, who I'd looked up to my whole life. According to family lore, confirmed by the family photo album, Sheckler first started playing around on his dad's skateboard when he was 18 months old. By that measure he had actually been skating longer than most of his new X Games competitors.

He had turned pro earlier in , but had been on industry watchers' radar long before that, ever since he won his first California Amateur Skateboard League championship, when he was 7. Even before getting to X Games, was shaping up to be an especially good year for the young skater. Though Sheckler is now known as a strategic skater, with a stack of medals and one of the most successful careers in skateboarding to show for it, back then he was running on pure adolescent ambition.

I didn't have a strategy," he said. Sheckler, now 24, has had recent reminders of what it was like to have that unadulterated passion for the sport that has now been a driving force in his life for as long as he can remember and has become a career.

His younger brother Kane, now 15, is coming up fast behind him and has that same gleam in his eye. He gives Kane the same advice that mattered most to him, received from Koston and his other heroes when he was a teenager.

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