We've got a new site and it's time for some new content. I rolled down to Ryan's house in San Clemente to ask him a couple questions about his MTV show and other projects he's working on. Gretchen, Ryan's Mom and Manager, answered the door with three cameramen, a couple microphone guys, and about a dozen others with walky-talkies and clipboards.  I had no idea I’d be walking on to a film set.  Luckily it was lunch time for the crew and Ryan was ready for his interview.  We headed out to his backyard skatepark and knocked out a couple questions.  We even had time for a little Guitar Hero and unicycle session before the crew returned.  Video footage coming soon!.

Your MTV show, Life of Ryan, starts tomorrow.  Are you nervous?

Not so much nervous as I am excited.  I think it’s gonna be different seeing myself on MTV.  Even right now we just see the commercials and the commercials are crazy ‘cause everyone’s seeing that.  I just hope the whole skateboard population doesn’t think it’s ridiculous and doesn’t discount me for that.  So, we’ll see what happens.  It’ll be alright.

Sick and tired of having a camera in your face all day?

Not sick and tired of it but it definitely gets a little bit taxing you know?  When you want to have a little bit of privacy or little alone time.  The only time I get off is when everyone breaks for lunch.  It's heavy but it's fun.  We’re almost done.

Is there going to be a lot of skating in it?

Yeah.  There's a ton of skating in the show.  That was one of the main points for me to get across to the MTV people and everyone that's doing the show.  You know, I am a skateboarder and it needs to be a skateboarding show.  There's tons of skating in it.  There's more skating in it then Rob and Big and all the other skate shows so its pretty sick.

Are you gonna have mini parts in it?

There's good scenes of skateboarding in, I think, every episode and then from all the footy we filmed back here I think we're gonna make a video from just the skatepark or I don't know.  I don’t really know want they’re doing but it'll be alright.

You filming for any major parts right now?

Yeah.  Right now I’m juggling in between this and the Plan B video and the Red Bull video.  We sop filming for MTV in a week and then once that stops then I go straight to filming for the Plan B video until I get that finished. 

When is the Plan B video coming out?

Well, we're supposed to be done by January/February so it's gonna be heavy get a part out by then but I’m gonna do it.

You have a cast on your elbow.  What happened?

Last dew tour, I broke it.  I fractured a little bone in there and then tore one of the main ligaments in the elbow so I had to this thing on.  This thing sucks.  I hate casts.

How much longer do you have to wear it?

Couple weeks.  I think I get it off in two weeks.

Are you going to skate anyway?

Yeah.  I mean I’ve been skating with it for a little bit so.  I think I get it off right before next Dew Tour.  Hopefully.

When you get wrecked like that, do you go to some normal doctor or do you go to some special sports medicine therapist?

Yeah, I have this sports doctor that I use.  It’s the same doctor that Kelly Slater uses.  I try to stay within the sports realm.  They know what’s going on.

Do you get heal bruises?

I do definitely get heal bruises.  I’ve only got like 1 or 2 in my life but they're not fun.  I can't deal with them.

Do you have like a special secret to healing them?

Yeah.  Stop skating for a week and its goes away.

I saw you heelflip body varial revert over that barrier at GVR last year.  Are you going to throws that down some stairs?

I want to throw it down stairs.  I can.  Or I want to throw it off this new hip that we found over by the border of Mexico.  There’s a crazy hip that launches you seriously 8 feet in the air so I’m gonna do it over that hopefully.

What other big projects you working on?

Big projects?  Buying a house soon, hopefully.  That's gonna be a huge project.

Can you buy a house before you're 18?

You can buy it and move in when you're 18 but we want to get started now.  So we're doing that and I’m filming trying to get that whole Red Bull video going and filming that Plan B video.

Are you going to stay in San Clemente?

Yeah. I'm gonna live here for sure.

Who do you normally skate with?

Well now that I ride for Plan B, I skate with P Rod [Paul Rodriguez] and Jereme [Rogers] and PJ [Ladd] all the time now.  I go down to Carlsbad and they're normally all down there so it's pretty sick.

Have you been skating in that warehouse with those guys?

Yeah.

Is that sick or what?

Yeah. P Rod’s warehouse is amazing.

Out of everybody skating right now, who’s ripping the hardest?

Right now, I think Greg Lutzka is on a mission right now.  I think he's skating pretty damn good.  it's pretty awesome.

Who’s going to be the next big thing?

Justin Figueroa.  For sure.  Figgy.  He's on it man.

That front feeble down that handrail on the cover of Skateboarder?

Ridiculous.

Do you get contacted by a lot of obscure companies that try to sponsor you?

I don't think there's been too many obscure ones ‘cause I think people know not to just to just do that you know?  Actually, this one dude on MySpace tried to get me to ride for his Harley painting company.  They just paint bikes.  I was like, “What do you mean?  How do you even do that? Are you gonna paint my skateboard or something?”  There are crazy things here and there but nothing too outrageous.  

What the gnarliest trick you've ever seen go down in real life?

I think seeing Chris Cole do that double 360 flip at X Games down that double set was pretty heavy.  I hadn't seen that before.  Chris Cole is ******* good.

Is there 1 thing you hate about the skateboarding industry?

Haters.  Yeah.  I just wish that haters would go away, but whatever.  They aren’t going away, so keep hating.

If there is one thing you've learned from skateboarding, what is it?

It takes time to learn tricks you want to learn.  I knew right when I started skating I wanted to be good at nollie and switch and it was so hard to learn so I gave up.  I just started skating fakie and regular and never did switch really. It wasn't until like beginning of last year I stared doing all my switch and nollie tricks.  And now, a year and half later, almost 2 years later, I can barely start doing a lot of switch and nollie tricks.  It just  takes time for any skateboarder to learn new tricks.