Ryan Decenzo

Skateboarder

Hometown:

Huntington Beach, CA

Birthday:

07/20/1986

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Make no mistake, Ryan Decenzo is in the business of having fun. Or is he having fun doing business? Paradoxically, the fun can be quite a bit of work these days…and the work, well it’s actually pretty fun.

Inarguably Canada’s greatest all-time street skater, the Dana Point, California resident has invested a substantial amount of blood, sweat and tears to reach his promised land.

That land – the one which finds him as a new father, as well as owner of his own board company – is all part of the plan.

Make no mistake, Ryan Decenzo is in the business of having fun. Or is he having fun doing business?

So what was the plan? Let’s start with the great stuff: living, growing, and skating as one of the best, the wild schedule of constant filming, taking a team trip around Europe with Globe, grabbing podium finishes at Dew Tour and X Games (including 3rd place at X Games 2023), and competing with the top skaters at Street League and the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Add to that a 4th place finish at the 2023 Pan American Games, and you start to see the full picture.

Then the mostly good stuff: finding new spots, pounding away at your phone to connect with fellow area pros, photogs, and related industry peeps, traveling, and helping out the generation below you. Also worth mentioning: appearing in multiple recent issues of Thrasher, with a full interview currently in the works, plus a steady output of video parts like “Sender Bender” and “1990”, and recent Red Bull snow-based projects (including the Winter Creek Gap) that have stretched what’s possible on a board.

Then the lames: taxes and the organization of receipts, sending invoices, booking travel, making sure your health insurance is updated, healing up from injuries, and navigating the politics of an industry that can be surprisingly intense.

For Ryan, the best days still have always been the classics. “Man, there’s nothing I like better than coming home from a big trip – getting my homefront dialed back in – and then going for a super session with my bro and my friends – just getting stoked on what one another are doing, and how we’ve progressed since we’ve been away. That’s still the best.”

Have fun working, Ryan. We know you’ve still got the best job in the world.

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