Ryan Sheckler's Orange Lip Balmer,

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Candid Conversation: Ryan Sheckler

Updated: December 17, 2009, 4:13 PM ET

By Mary Buckheit
ESPN Action Sports

Ryan Sheckler has been laying low for a bit. With his television show off the air and a few nagging injuries keeping him off his board and out of the limelight, Ryan's been taking the time to concentrate on his Foundation and get his focus ready for some serious skating as soon as his body is healed. Mary Buckheit caught up with Ryan to get the latest from him on Plan B, his recovery from injury, Life after reality television and more.

Jody Morris Courtesy of Red Bull Doesn't this kid have a cellphone? It's almost 2010 and he's rich!

You've been off the board for months with a foot injury, how's life in rehab?
This is the longest break I've ever had in my whole life and I'm going absolutely crazy. But, at the same time, I can focus on my Foundation. It gives me time for things I never have time for. I'm taking care of business and it's alright, it's probably a good thing. It's a nice little break especially around the holiday time.

What's the status of the Plan B video, "Unquestionable?"
If there was one horrible thing about this injury it was the interruption of the Plan B video. Basically everybody is skating, that's where it's at; we're working on it, we're getting our tricks done. As soon as I'm back this is my top priority, I'm real anxious to get back to this.

So when will we see it? If you had to give an ETA on this thing how long is our wait?
I'm thinking maybe end of this year, beginning of next. I'm pretty sure that's what we're aiming for at this point.

With some team changes at Plan B in the past year—the loss of Ryan Gallant, Jereme Rogers and Brian Wenning—how has the team changed? Has it gotten tighter knit, or is everyone just doing their own thing?
Man, I don't really know what to say, Mary. It's funny, you put this huge family of skateboarders together and then—I don't know. I mean, I got voted on the team. I had to be voted on the team, the same as everybody, right, we all did. So, I feel like we reached out and tried put this together and I just don't know what those guys are thinking walking away from it. It's balancing everything else they've got going on in their lives and their future, I'm sure, I can't speak for them, but sure, losing Jereme and Ryan and Brian Wenning has kind of put a damper on the team. On the other side, it also gives us a chance to bring on some new heavy hitters, so, hey, it's all positive change. I think everything happens for a reason.

Most people find out about a guy leaving a team through a website, or something. How does it work for team members, is there an open discussion when a guy is going to leave, or thinking about leaving?
I hear about it from my teammates. Like, Jereme, he came and told all of us that this is what he wanted to do and he wanted to continue his music career so you can't really tell someone what to do or talk them out of something that their heart is already set on, so at that point you just listen and you just have to say, alright man, good luck, we'll be here, we'll be here skating, doing our thing. I'm supportive of that, it's just weird that people quit riding when you think you're all having so much fun. It comes at an interesting time because these tours and these trips that we're going on were some of the most fun that I've ever been on. I don't know, I would never leave Plan B, but that's me.

Would you ever drop a verse on one of Jereme's new raps songs?
No, no, no. Negative. Never.

So maybe, then?
I'm a skateboarder, not a rapper.

Jody Morris Courtesy of Red BullWhen you've got you're own massive training facility, cab flips like this one start coming together nicely.

What's the word on the street about the project Danny Way's got brewing out in Hawaii?
He's basically building a huge skatepark on his property in Kauai, I think is the island. He, Andy and Bruce Irons share a bunch of acres out there so they're building something massive, which is great because nobody is ever going to whine about going to Hawaii.

What are your skateboarding goals for 2010?
This is definitely a fresh start for me. I've never had this big of a break from it and I think that coming back into skateboarding is going to feel like the best thing that's ever happened to me. I'm really looking forward to getting back on my board.

Do you think you'll ever have a year as gnarly as Chris Cole? (In 2009, Cole was Thrasher's Skater of the Year, he won Battle at the Berrics, the Maloof Cup, the Wallenberg comp, the Crossroads best trick comp, placed in X Games, and cab flipped the Carlsbad gap.)
I'm not trying to be as good or better than anybody, that's not how I work. When I come back, I just want to skate my style and skate in a way I am happy with. I believe that I am capable of having a year like Chris just had, and I feel like have had those crazy years before. You know, we're competitors but we're all friends—really good friends—so when somebody has one of those year's, for me, it's nice to be in a place where it feels like we can all respect each other and respect what we're doing and respect mutual accomplishments. It pushes you to be a better skateboarder and it makes you want to have fun while you're doing it. I'm not worried about getting back and putting together a huge year. I'm worried about my part in the Plan B video and I'll take the competitions that I choose to skate seriously, but there's more to it than that, even after this injury it's not a one-track thing, it's still a lot of fun.

Which one of your friends is most fun to watch these days?
I'm pretty much Paul Rodriguez's and Chris Cole's biggest fans. It's cool to have role models like that. Their hard work is inspiring.

Jody Morris Courtesy of Red BullRyan pulls a casual bluntslide on a Panamanian flatbar.

When you talk about friends and being fans of each other, do you feel like people in the skate community have eased up on the hate? Tons of people love you, but on the flipside, lots of people absolutely love to hate you. What makes you so polarizing, was it the early success, or the TV show, or what?
I don't know. It's true, but I have no idea. If you're doing something that's cool, and they don't think it's cool, then they're real quick to be like, 'F that and F you and you suck at skating.' It doesn't even make sense most of the time. People hate. They just hate. At times people were really direct, and it was 'don't watch that show,' or 'don't support that kid.' I think the TV show came off the air and everybody just kind of forgot about it. People hate me for whatever reasons they come up with, or they hate me because their friends said they should. What can I do about it? What can I do about people who look at things the wrong way? At the end of the days it's like, you're wrong, I'm just a skateboarder, how can I help you.

No one can dispute the fact that you do a lot of good work in the world by way of The Sheckler Foundation and your support for Beat The Odds and other fundraisers.
What's funny is I get hate for doing stuff like that, which is absolutely unbelievable but that's when I know that it just doesn't make sense. Some people just don't have their mind right. I am involved in those kind of things because I feel like I have a responsibility to help the kids and people and injured athletes who need it. That Children's Defense Fund event last week was about the most amazing thing I've been a part of in a really long time. I feel really blessed to be involved in those things. I feel like I am supposed to give back. I have a responsibility to do more than just skateboard and sit around.

Mary Buckheit is a columnist for Page 2. You can read more of Mary's conversation with Sheckler on her column here.

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http://espn.go.com/action/skateboarding/news/story?id=4728710

YoBeat Exclusive Dew Tour Breckenridge Coverage

By admin • Dec 18th, 2009 • Category: Features, Latest, Stories

Since it’s Christmas, Dew Tour is letting pretty much anyone into the contest in Breck this weekend, especially Red Bull riders. Even BMXers like Daniel Dhers showed up (with snow tires.) It was overheard that he was only there because he heard that dancer chick Louie Vito is hanging out with was going to be there. He tried to impress her with his sweet moves, but kept sliding out in the snow.

By Jared Souney

YoBeat more or less skipped the first year of Winter Dew due to budget restrictions/not caring at all, but this year we decided to give it a go. After all, our own cross-dressing college flunky writer is there, writing stories about where the skiers are eating dinner, so we figured we’d have an in. No such luck. Our “in” was off trying on women’s footwear, and trying to get the scoop on what was happening at the Target house at 5 am. Still, we figured we should cover the event. Everyone’s doing it. We saw it on Twitter. So we’re trying our best, and we managed to pull together some of the first images to hit the ‘net from the Breck stop.

The shot below was taken from the media area. The photography pit if you will. Historically they’ve put these in really shitty places, out of the way of TV cameras, and out of the way of useable photo angles. This time they were nice and put us a little closer. I only had a 600mm so it was hard to get close enough, but if you look closely, the “A” indicates Shaun White’s double cork. Louie Vito is in the background, too.

We snuck in to get a little closer at one point. We couldn’t resist, especially since event partner MTV had brought in a shirtless, younger Ryan Sheckler to keep the crowd hyped. Girls are into Louie Vito, but he’s taken by that dancer chick. Despite being a little cold, Ryan got it done. He had to ride bigger wheels on hill, though. And he got chapped nipples mid double pits to chesty.

After the Sheckler demo, Shaun White was ready to drop for his run. Unfortunately his boards (all of them) got burnt up in the Red Bull HQ foam pit fire. His sponsor was too busy with some wierd twitter giveaway to send new boards, so he had to skate too. He used Ryan’s board. Fortunately, his summer Dew Tour buddy Nate Adams was in town, so they did a doubles run, which distracted the judges and most of the Olympic committee. Oh wait, this contest doesn’t count towards that does it? Right after the run, BMX Pro Ryan Sher got kicked out for the second event in a row for holding up a Kris Bennett sign.

Unfortunately that was all we could get before the dude pictured below on the left, who seems to have a stick up his ass at every event, kicked us all out of the media area so they could make room for NBC executives’ families (okay, so that didn’t necessarily in Breck, but it did happen at the Orlando Finals in 2007, which is where I shot this photo). See all those kids, and dudes without cameras? Yeah, that’s supposed to be where the photographers were. Instead I got to stand in back of the halfpipe. The back. Behind it. You can’t see from there let alone take photos. The TV camera is so they could film the kids having fun, while we weren’t getting any photos. Thanks guys. I’m not still salty about that.

Of course, the Soda Fest is still on TV over the weekend if you want to watch. But there are other things on TV. And while we like the sound of Todd Richard’s voice, you should be out shredding yourself and not watching TV. But if you’ve got a swine flu and you must stay home, allow us to offer some alternative programming choices.

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http://www.yobeat.com/2009/12/18/dr-pepper-is-better-than-mt-dew/

Ryan Sheckler Beats The Odds

Fri, 04 December 2009 at 2:20 pm

Ryan Sheckler keeps it cool as he steps out at the Children’s Defense Fund 19th Annual Los Angeles Beat the Odds Awards Dinner held at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills on Thursday night (December 3).

The Beat The Odds Awards dinner honored five incredible Los Angeles area high school students — Erick, Jonathan, Tracey, Tyree, and Maria for their personal hard work, academic excellence, community service, and perseverance despite the tremendous obstacles they face in their daily lives.

Ryan just completed work on Tooth Fairy with Dwayne Johnson and Julie Andrews. The flick is about a bad deed on the part of a tough minor-league hockey player results in an unusual sentence: He must serve one week as a real-life tooth fairy.

Tooth Fairy hits theaters on January 22.

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http://justjaredjr.buzznet.com/2009/12/04/ryan-sheckler-beats-the-odds/

Sheckler's CFO Pleads Not Guilty to Embezzlement Charges

November 25, 2009

Vol. 4, Issue 49, December 3-9, 2009

By Norb Garrett

The former Chief Financial Officer for pro skateboarder Ryan Sheckler posted $250,000 bail this week after pleading “not guilty” to two felony counts of grand theft following his arrest on Nov. 13. Matthew Mercuro, 36, of San Clemente, was arrested by Huntington Beach police at his office in San Clemente after employees at Sheckler’s company noticed suspicious transfers of large sums of cash during an internal review of the company’s finances. According to the District Attorney’s office, Mercuro is suspected of embezzling more than $365,000 and transferring the monies into personal bank accounts including his wife’s and a friend’s.

Brian Mulherin, who is prosecuting the case for the District Attorney’s office, said that because Mercuro posted bail, the preliminary hearing originally set for Nov. 30 has been moved to January 11. Mercuro pled not guilty at his arraignment on Nov. 19.

Mercuro’s San Clemente-based attorney, E. Nicholas Hansen, said certain aspects of the investigation raise questions. “We need to determine why the Huntington Beach Police Department conducted an investigation knowing none of the alleged crimes occurred within their jurisdiction,” said Hansen, who specializes in white collar crimes, “and whether they acted at the request and direction of a family member of a well-known public figure.”

If convicted, Mercuro faces a maximum sentence of six years and eight months in state prison.

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http://www.sanclementetimes.com/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=2041&cntnt01dateformat=%25B%20%25d%2C%20%25Y&cntnt01returnid=99

Ryan Sheckler Robbed

Pro skateboarder's CFO allegedly embezzled funds.

November 16, 2009, 3:19 PM

By: Josh Brooks

White collar crime is still crime, so when it was reported last Friday that Ryan Sheckler's OC Register on Friday.

Mercuro is charged with two felony counts of grand theft and is currently being held in jail with bond set at $400,000. Mercuro, who had been a friend of the Sheckler family for almost ten years, had transferred funds from the companies to personal accounts of his wife and a friend.

Mercuro's arraignment is scheduled for Tuesday and could face up to six years and eight months in state prison.

Speaking to Ryan Sheckler's agent today, Steve Astephen, from the Wasserman Media Group, he said, "It just shows that if you're a crook, you'll get caught." Astephan added, "It's not so much about the money for Ryan. The reason he [Mecuro] was hired was that he was a family friend. So, Ryan's mostly upset that it was a friend that would embezzle his money...It just goes to show you can't trust anyone these days." When asked what the next step was, Astephen said Ryan and his lawyers plan to prosecute him to the full extent of the law and recoup the money that was stolen.

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http://espn.go.com/action/skateboarding/blog/_/post/4660747

Sheckler Family Bonding -- Getting a TRO

Posted Dec 11th 2009 3:20PM by TMZ Staff

As the old saying goes ... the family that restrains together, stays together.

Gretchen Sheckler -- mother of Ryan Sheckler, famous skateboarder and MTV reality star -- filed a restraining order against a guy she claims is harassing her, Ryan and her other two sons, Shane and Kane.

As we first reported, middle son Shane got into a fight with an intruder last week after he tried to trespass on the family's Orange County property.

The alleged intruder is currently in Mission Hospital. When he gets out, the protective order bans him from having any contact with any of the Shecklers.

There is a hearing to make the order permanent next week.

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http://www.tmz.com/2009/12/11/ryan-sheckler-shane-kane-tro/

Ryan Sheckler's Lil Bro Beats Down Intruder

Posted Dec 8th 2009 12:17AM by TMZ Staff

Possible stalkers, take heed -- Ryan Sheckler's teenage brother will open up a can of whoop ass if you get too close to his star bro.

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ Shane Sheckler got into an altercation with a middle-aged guy who kept showing up at the family home. We're told the guy was turned away once by Ryan's mom, but showed up again late Saturday night.

The middle Sheckler bro returned home at around 11:00 PM and encountered the alleged intruder and the two of them got into it. By the time cops arrived, we're told they found the alleged intruder in the street nursing wounds from the altercation.

The alleged intruder was taken to the hospital. He has not been charged yet -- but we're told he probably will be once he leaves the hospital.

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http://www.tmz.com/2009/12/08/ryan-sheckler-shane-shecker-brother-intruder-fight/

Ryan Sheckler battles just like everyone else.

Posted on December 8, 2009 9:09 PM

Etniesskate.com put up this awesome video that shows how hard skateboarding really is. They ran a commercial on Fuel Tv, which featured Ryan Sheckler and some amazing skateboarding. Well, contrary to what most people might think, this was quite the battle. Watch the trial and error on Etnies Skate here.

click here to view the video.

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http://www.redbullskateboarding.com/news/2009/12/ryan-sheckler-battles-just-lik.php

Ryan Sheckler jumps over Steve Nash in Mission Video

video courtesy of: http://hoopeduponline.com/2009/12/17/ryan-sheckler-ollies-steve-nash/