1. Robert Lance Mountain was born on June 13,1964 and is an American professional skateboarder and artist who was one of the prominent skateboarders throughout the 1980s, primarily due to his involvement with the Bones Brigade.
14 Facts About Lance Mountain
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Lance Mountain took first or second place in over a third of every amateur contest he participated in.
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Lance Mountain gained further eminence when he won the Upland Turkey Shoot contest at Upland Skatepark in 1983, an event in which fellow team riders Steve Caballero, Mike McGill, and Tony Hawk competed.
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In 1991, Lance Mountain left Powell-Peralta to cofound his own skateboard company "The Firm" and, together with former Powell-Peralta teammate Ray Barbee, recruited a team of notable skateboarders that included Bob Burnquist and Rodrigo "Tx" Teixeira.
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In Transworld SKATEboarding's "30 Most Influential Skaters Of All Time" list, Lance Mountain was selected in the eighteenth position and Skin Phillips, the editor-in-chief of the magazine, commended Lance Mountain for his ability to "put a smile" on the faces of skateboarders over four decades of professional skateboarding.
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Lance Mountain provided graphics for a Peralta-directed television movie named When Disaster Strikes.
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In July 2023, Lance Mountain participated as a special guest artist in the Los Angeles art and music collective Surf Skate Roots Rock, reuniting with fellow skateboarding pioneers such as Tony Alva, Steve Olson, Lonnie Toft, etc.
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In June 2024, Lance Mountain organized an art and memorabilia exhibition to coincide with his 60th birthday.
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Skateboard equipment, photographs, paintings and other works produced or accumulated over the course of Lance Mountain's career were featured.
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Lance Mountain is often cited as one of the inventors of the fingerboard, as he fashioned the prototype out of cardboard, pencil erasers, and a disassembled Hot Wheels toy in the late 1970s.
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Lance Mountain's invention was featured in a Transworld Skateboarding magazine article, as well as the Powell Peralta video, Future Primitive.
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Together with Caballero, Lance Mountain was the co-designer of the Independent "Stage V" skateboard truck; Lance Mountain is the co-inventor, with Neil Blender, of the transitional skateboard maneuver the "Gay Twist".
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Lance Mountain's self-identified faith is Christianity, and he has been married to Yvette Loveless since November 31,1984.
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Lance Mountain appears in a brief, uncredited cameo role in Lords of Dogtown, in which he appears as a "bobby" police officer in England, United Kingdom, during a scene that portrays Tony Alva filming a commercial.