The skateboarder said he was also nicknamed "cryin' Ryan" on set after the teen got emotional over his parents' separation. Despite the traumatization he experienced, Sheckler said he doesn't regret his time on the show because "it served a purpose," plus he didn't "know any better" at the time.
Bro, I was 17 years old," he said. It's boring. And it takes so much energy. For me, drugs and alcohol just stole memories.
People tell me about good times I had. I was there, but I have zero recollection of it. And that sucks. Do you know how many of those you and I have?
And I love hanging out with you. To have that happen with people I love hanging out with that I don't remember. What is the point? I really just believe in that now. In my legacy, I want to be known as a dude that always had fun skateboarding and that was always there to lend a hand to someone that wanted to learn, or someone that needed help especially with my foundation.
We do a lot of work with Autistic children. I love it. For the past four or five years, we've been working with Adaptive Action Sports guys who are in wheelchairs and charge harder than most skateboarders that I know. To watch a kid who is paralyzed from his waist down roll into a ramp that he's never done when kids are complaining about their board being chipped and they don't want to drop in without being held.
It's okay, there's a process to skateboarding, and I understand that process but when you see a kid in a wheelchair do it and slam and figure his way back up to his wheels alone, it gives me chills. It's the most powerful thing I've ever seen. It takes away the right for anyone to complain. It's beyond powerful. It's beyond motivating. We also do a lot of gang prevention for kids and at risk youth, clinics in the park. I'm really trying to just show love.
There's so much hate going on. I've realized how powerful this position is that I'm in right now. I have friends that are dead from stupid decisions. Life is about choices. I used to say it all the time, that I liked the hectic energy. Well if you like hectic energy, you're always talking about it, you're always going out aggressive, talking about fights and things like that, guess what you're going to find?
Fights and the hectic energy that just cause nothing but pain. So I stopped looking for that hectic energy. Did I lose a lot of friends? Not to death but to my actions? Yeah I did, and it's the best thing that ever happened to me.
The people that did not care about my well-being or me succeeding are out of my life. The people that wanted to party with me at 2 p. My energy and my positivity has created this barrier. People can't even be around me that are messing around or shady. Shady people expect shady things to happen to them. That's why I don't think people should carry guns. I've never come across a guy with a gun because I don't carry a gun. I don't put myself out there like that.
The second you own that, that's your power. All of a sudden it's not about trying to look at a situation from a human being standpoint where you don't agree. It's okay not to agree. There's a way to talk to anybody when you're in a situation battling about not agreeing. It's okay. You're allowed to have your own opinion, but it's the way and the tone that you deal with it.
The understanding of, "Okay I'm understanding where your beliefs come from and I acknowledge that. This is where my beliefs come from, and this is what I'm doing.
In front of all my friends with cameras? But anyways, they kicked us out and told us to never come back. That whole day — probably about eight hours? I was pissed. I had gotten myself to this mental state to be able to do that trick and be confident with it. I got my mind into fight or flight. To have to calm down from that is like, impossible for me. And so, we just went on a little homie mission later that day.
I went back with just the filmer and photographer and did it first try right out of the car. It had to be done. I had to do it. I knew I could do it, so to do it first try just felt great. I was psyched when it was all over. That Taiwan trip seemed like a huge success. You guys all stacked. I want to go back to Taipei really bad. But yeah, dude. This year has been… interesting. Was the plan to enter some contests this year, or were you planning to focus on your own projects?
Happy to be out there just cruising. Like, you know how hard it was to get through that period — why are you making it harder for this new guy? Kids now just want to go and skate in the big contests. I mean, good for them, you know? I just skate for different reasons.
I just wanted to change. Something was calling at me and I know now it was Jesus that just wants me to be on a different path. Ryan describes why he loves reading the Bible and making a concerted effort to grow in his faith every day. The Book of Revelation, for me, has been pretty much the biggest eye opener and anyone that has read it will understand that it talks about when Jesus is coming back. Those are two adults that made an adult decision to split up, had nothing to do with me, took me a long time to realize that.
And for me, I look at marriage different now, through the eyes of the Bible. We take the sin out of the relationship and leave it wholesome and leave it real and communicate, which allows us to grow into believers in Christ but also allows us to look forward to something possibly super magical in the future.
Until it became my deal.
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