Biography

Sheckler was born in San Clemente, California. At 18 months Sheckler found his dad's old school skateboard. Sheckler taught himself to push it around by using ne kne, nd eventually stood up on the skateboard. Sin the age of 6, he spent up to 22 hours a week practicing tricks in his backyard, which includes a half pipe, table tops and several grind rails. He developed his own trick called the Sheck-lair and indy Kickflip flyout.

Kickflip is an Aerial Skateboarding Trick where the Skateboarder kicks his Skateboard in order to make it flip 360 degrees along the board's long axis. The modern Kickflip was invented by Rodney Mullen in 1983.