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Lance Mountain was one of the most popular skateboarders throughout most of the 1980's, and one of the five most legendary members of the Bones Brigade, as featured in the 1987 classic The Search For Animal Chin (Bones Brigade Video Three).

When contests were the main judge of status in the skateboarding world, Mountain was a top competitor during street skating's first phase, but he specialized at riding vert (on ramps and in pools), where he also regularly placed in the top five.

Mountain was first sponsored by Variflex in 1982 before joining Powell Peralta a year later, where he formed a strong friendship with Stacy Peralta, the team leader and director of the Bones Brigade video series.

Mountain gained further eminence when he won the Upland Turkey Shoot at Upland Skatepark in 1983, against tough competition from fellow team riders Steve Caballero, Mike McGill and Tony Hawk. This was followed by Mountain acting as the backdrop of skateboarding's first video, The Bones Brigade Video Show, from 1984. In it, Mountain serves as the segway for all the video's various parts as he cruises around Los Angeles, when street skating was in its infancy.

Mountain's popularity in skateboarding waned at the same time as most pros did in the early 1990's, when skateboarding generally took a dive in popularity, and a new crop of progressive kids came up, both in street and vert. As new vert competition from the likes of Danny Way, Bucky Lasek, and Colin McKay presented itself, Mountain retired from skateboarding. He left the Bones Brigade in 1992 and began to focus more on being the team manager for his new company "The Firm" . During skateboarding's unpopular years, he also got heavily involved in a new project called 411, a skateboarding "video magazine", and a series which continues to this day.

After the Firm shut down he joined Flip skateboards.

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