How Ryan Sheckler and Cutting Edge Technology Makes the Sickest 3-minute tour of NYC I've Seen

I still remember the first time I saw Ryan Sheckler skate. It was a segment on BlueTorch TV, the Fox Sports program that preceded Fuel TV and it was a few years before this clip. I just remember how weird it looked when he spun 360 flips on a board almost bigger than him off a 3 foot loading dock, a trick I can only land in weird skateboarding dreams.

Now fast forward 13 or 14 years, myriad X-Games skate street golds and a few seasons of his own MTV reality show and Sheckler, at the ripe old age of 23, is already an old legend and, admittedly, kind of a bitch a la Bam Margera. Still when his new video with GoPro came out, I wknew it'd be sick.

So here's the set-up: GoPro has this new remote wireless system you can hook up to multiple cameras, allowing for ridiculous shots that would previously be impossible even with a team of 10 cameramen, much less 2. And yet that's what the kid does here, killing it as he skates from Manhattan Bridge to Chinatown to LES Skatepark (no doubt the reverse of Ginsberg's "park to pad to bar to bellevue to museum to Brooklyn Bridge") is one of the sickest combinations of still-awesome street skating and never-seen-before visuals. To get this 3-minute video in what was probably the shortest shoot of all time for such a long segment is nothing less than amazing. But with the combo of one of the best skaters in the game, this new Go Pro backpack/wireless remote combo and 50 GoPro cameras (at $300 buck each so we're still looking at, like, $15 grand worth of cameras) they've managed to make a pretty sick video tour of NYC and just in time for Friday, might I add.

Enjoy the weekend.

- Ryan