Ryan Sheckler Says He's Nearly Six Years Sober, 'Skating Better Than Ever'

Ryan Sheckler is getting ready to celebrate a big milestone — six years of sobriety — and he tells TMZ Sports things have gotten so much better for him since he swore off booze.

The skateboarding legend gave us a life update while at LAX this week … and he raved about the sober lifestyle.

He said it’s helped him in all areas — including on his board.

“I’m headed to Paris right now to go skate,” he told us. “I thought I was done competing. And I’m skating better than ever right now.”

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Sheckler — who’s now a husband and a father of two — explained he decided to ditch alcohol back on March 30, 2020 … after he says it was affecting his loved ones.

“I wasn’t just hurting myself,” he told us. “I was hurting the people around me. I think once I took a grasp to, like, I’m hurting people that really care about me, I couldn’t deal with it anymore.”

Sheckler went on to say, “there’s nothing better” than the way he’s currently operating.

The 35-year-old also chatted with us about one of the new projects he’s working on — a movie titled “Dream.”

Ryan plays a cop in the flick … and check out our interview, it’s a role he says he’s now very comfortable in.