Life of Ryan is a reality television series from MTV, featuring 17-year-old teenager Ryan Sheckler, who is also a professional street skateboarder and winner of numerous extreme sports competitions. He is famous for being one of the youngest professional skateboarders, often compared to the likes of Tony Hawk and traveling around the globe to compete. The show focuses on how he’s also still just an ordinary teenager in many ways, worrying about curfews, girls and peer pressure. He’s also dealing with his parents’ recent divorce, and trying to be a responsible father figure for his younger brothers.