Cast & Crew

DOB: 6/28/74
Kettering, OH

Rob started skateboarding when he was 15 winning his first competition 24 days later. That same year, Rob became the youngest member of the legendary G&S skateboard team. After only a short time as an amateur, Rob turned professional at the age of 16, joining the Ohio-based Alien Workshop team, forgoing his senior year of high school. As a professional, Rob attracted a growing number of sponsors, appeared in skate movies, on magazine covers, signature skateboards, and other merchandise. One of his best known sponsorship deals developed after he befriended the founders of the Droors Clothing line. He not only began promoting their clothing, but was given the opportunity to design a signature line of the first athletic skate shoe. The nearly 30 shoes designed by Rob helped establish DC Shoes. This exposure to the business side of skateboarding inspired him to venture into other projects such as the world-famous skateboarding training facility in San Diego and the now defunct hip hop label, P-Jays Records. At the age of 25, Rob rededicated himself to street skateboarding. He began competing for the first time since his early professional years and received a multitude of awards and international recognition. The success and accolades renewed his desire to give back to the sport. He quickly identified the niche that needed to be filled in order to advance the sport – tackling the struggle that skaters faced in finding legal street skating sites in the United States. As Rob experienced firsthand, street skateboarders are often ticketed, arrested and harassed by overly aggressive security guards and police. Rob realized that many cities were open to compromise but were not qualified to follow through on their end of the agreement and they built poorly constructed parks that do not meet street skating standards. He decided to task himself with providing street skaters with legitimate, safe and challenging street skating venues.

The formation of the Rob Dyrdek/DC Shoes Skate Plaza Foundation resulted in the Kettering Skate Plaza in his hometown of Kettering, Ohio. Working with the Site Design Group, Rob designed the skate park by educating himself in design and drafting techniques. He used photos of his favorite skate spots to assemble an illustrated book of tricks and obstacles for the plaza. The 40,000 square foot Kettering Skate Plaza opened in June 2005.

While building the Skate Plaza, Rob's long time dream of making a movie about skateboarding came to fruition. Rob’s foray into the film business manifested itself in the writing, financing, casting, producing and starring in his feature film, Street Dreams. The story is about a young skater from the Midwest who is suddenly faced with national exposure and personal adversity, reminiscent of Dyrdek's own rise to fame. In 2006, Dyrdek became a reality TV star due to the success of MTV's Rob & Big. The three-season series was picked up by MTV after a skit written by Rob in The DC Video became an underground sensation. The series ended in April of 2008. Don’t worry, Rob is coming out with a new show on MTV called Fantasy Factory set to premier in February 2009, "I’ll actually start filming a new show that I call “Fantasy Factory” next month, which will be more about my skating, friends, business ventures, and adventures that I’m going to be getting into over the next year or so."



DOB: 12/30/89
San Clemente, CA

Skateboard phenom, Ryan Sheckler stepped onto an old board belonging to his father when he was just 18 months old. He took the board with him everywhere he went for the next three years. In 1995 Ryan came across his first skateboard ramp at his buddy’s house in his native San Clemente neighborhood. The rest they say is history.

After several years competing as an amateur in the prestigious California Amateur Skateboard League and winning amateur championship after championship. Shortly thereafter at the age of 13, World Industries encouraged Ryan to give up his amateur status and turn pro and immediately put an end to any and all uncertainty of his ability as a pro by winning every major professional event including the NBC Gravity Games, Vans Triple Crown, Slam City Jam and the premier skate event in the world, ESPN’s X Games becoming the youngest person ever to earn a coveted X Games gold medal.

Since turning pro, Ryan has dominated the contest circuit winning practically every title out there not only defending of his National Street Championships, but adding a World Championship along with the overall title in Skateboard Park at the Mt Dew Action Sports Tour. To this day Ryan is the undefeated AST Dew Tour Skateboard Park Champion.

In 2007 MTV Networks brought Ryan’s life to television with his reality show “The Life of Ryan”. It was such a sensation that MTV instantly signed on for a second season. Following the success of his TV show, screams at every contest and appearance Ryan made were deafening by girls girl’s sporting t-shirts bearing “The Future Mrs. Sheckler”.

At just 18 years old, Ryan has turned his name into a franchise with signature merchandise lines, huge commercial endorsements, charitable foundations (Sheckler Family Foundation) and television series among other ventures.

Between skate sessions, video and magazine shoots, trips and tours, Ryan tries to find as much time as possible to enjoy his other passions including motocross, surfing and anything relating to cars.


DOB: 12/31/84
Northridge, CA

I’m sure you’ve heard the name Paul Rodriguez. The 20-year-old Paul shares his name with his father, a famous Comedian and TV star. But, Paul is just as well known in skateboarding, as his father is in his profession. He goes by the name Paul Rodriguez, without the “Jr.” and is also referred to by the nickname “P-Rod” which was given to him by his older cousin.

Rodriguez excels in the genre of street skating, which uses environmental objects such as stair rails, curbs and benches as launching pads for tricks. He is well respected, however, for his technical mastery on a skateboard. Paul has been called “one of those few skaters who are born to skate.”

P-Rod is so highly regarded as an athlete that he is the face of Plan B Skateboards and one of only five people in the world with a shoe named after him by Nike. In 2005 Nike SB released it’s first signature model skateboard shoe, the Zoom Air Paul Rodriguez, and Rodriguez has the distinction of being the only Hispanic to receive a pro model shoe with Nike as well as the first skateboarder to receive this honor.

When he’s not out skating the streets or his own private training facility, he may be just hanging at the mall or seeing movies with friends. Paul enjoys shooting videos, but loves spending his time skating with his friends at his favorite spots. For having success at such a young age, Paul remains very focused and grounded.



DOB: 3/27/85
Long Beach, CA

A native of Long Beach, California, Terry Kennedy aka TK aka Compton Ass Terry came from humble beginnings and picked up skateboarding at the age of 14 after seeing close friend and fellow pro Evan Hernandez making a living riding a skateboard. TK quickly realized that this was a legitimate way of “making it” in life rather than fall into the world that surrounded him of drugs and violence which left Terry with 2 gunshot wounds in 2005. So began his career of unheralded competitive and media notoriety. Early in his career TK was selected as Team Captain for renowned music executive and recording artist Pharell Williams shoe brand Ice Cream. TK has appeared in rap icon Snoop Doggs “Drop it like it’s hot” video as well as ABC’s family show “Switched”. TK also maintains a close bond and friendship with fellow pro and reality TV star Bam Margera appearing in countless episodes of Bam’s hit MTV reality series “Viva La Bam”.

TK sees skating as his job with rarely a day passing that he’s not out in the street s perfecting his craft. While admitting his passion for the sport, TK is the first to acknowledge his appreciation for everything that skateboarding has brought into his life. Terry remains undaunted in his quest to be one of the elite athletes in the sport and a household name.



DOB: 6/11/77
West Chester, PA

Ryan Dunn is best known for his appearances on Jackass, MTV's Viva La Bam, and Homewrecker. In addition to being a main character in Rob Dyrdek’s Street Dream, Dunn played the main character in Bam Margera's 2003 film Haggard, which was based on a failed relationship Ryan had experienced.

Dunn is known for wrecking cars; he once flipped a car 8 times into oncoming traffic with Bam Margera, Jess Margera (who suffered a cracked wrist), and Chris Raab in the car. Years later, while filming for Jackass: The Movie, Ryan was driving a golf cart with fellow Jackass Johnny Knoxville where it was decided that he would launch the golf cart over a sand trap and into a plastic statue of a giant pig, and the statue would simply be crushed. However, the statue did not crush but instead forced the golf cart upside down landing on Knoxville. They stopped filming the skit at that point.

In 2005 MTV gave Dunn a show of his own entitled Home Wrecker. The show featured Dunn helping people get their own back on friends who had victimized them by "wrecking" their homes.