Professional skateboarding Lance Mountain

1 professional skateboarding

1.1 powell-peralta firm
1.2 flip
1.3 sponsorship
1.4 influence

professional skateboarding
powell-peralta firm

lance mountain took first or second place in every amateur contest in participated. mountain s first skateboard deck sponsor variflex, company joined in 1981; mountain moved powell-peralta team in following year(1982). during time powell-peralta formed strong friendship stacy peralta, team manager , director of bones brigade video series—mountain appears in 8 bones brigade videos, including well-known video search animal chin (the final video 1991 production eight).

mountain gained further eminence when won upland turkey shoot contest @ upland skatepark in 1983, event in fellow team riders steve caballero, mike mcgill, , tony hawk competed. followed mountain s 1984 appearance in skateboarding s first, full-length company video bones brigade video show, in mountain filmed segue segments of vert (a style of skateboarding involves skateboarding on vertical u -shaped ramp) , freestyle (a style of skateboarding involves technical skateboarding on flat ground) parts; segments depict mountain skateboards throughout streets of los angeles, us.

in 1990s, skateboard industry underwent major transformation; popularity of street-style skateboarding superseded of vert skateboarding, thereby diminishing status of bones brigade while prominence of next wave of skaters increased. in 1991, mountain left powell-peralta cofound own skateboard company firm and, former powell-peralta teammate ray barbee, recruited team of notable skateboarders included bob burnquist , rodrigo tx teixeira.

following company s further development, firm signed distribution deal blitz distribution. following 4 videos , on decade of existence, mountain announced end of firm on march 13, 2006.

flip

following demise of firm, several former team members recruited flip company—mountain, burnquist, , teixeira (all 3 skateboarders appeared in flip full-length video extremely sorry (2009)). of march 2013, mountain , burnquist continue sponsored flip. team rider flip, mountain 1 of professional skateboarders featured in tony hawk s proving ground, appearance marked mountain s first appearance in tony hawk series of video games.

sponsorship

as of october 2012, mountain sponsored flip, independent trucks, spitfire, nike sb (announced on may 7, 2007), , stüssy clothing.

influence

in transworld skateboarding s 30 influential skaters of time list, mountain selected in eighteenth position , skin phillips, editor-in-chief of magazine, commended mountain ability put smile on faces of skateboarders on 4 decades of professional skateboarding. @ time list released in december 2011, mountain stated in response: feel i’ve influenced in sense if want it, it. if don’t want it, don’t it. don’t rely on people saying can or saying can’t do.