Sklog: LanceMountain.com
Sklog: LanceMountain.com
By Rob Brink
The Skateboard Mag February 2008
Anyone blessed with the legendary status Lance Mountain possesses should damn well have a website these days. But Mr. Mountain's site isn't just some sort of hype and destination for the skateboard community to keep up on all the latest Lance Mountain news, contest results, roster hops and whatnot.
Refreshingly, it's more of a scrapbook of his life, family, art, friends, interests, memorabilia, career and more. It's essentially a story—and should be required reading for anyone who's ever stepped on a skateboard.
Lance shamelessly brings us back to time when he played in a bagpipe band in full Scottish garb at 13 years old. So many personal moments of his colorful and remarkable past—not just as a skateboarder, but also a human being—are on display, that feeling as if you just broke into his room and stole his diary is inevitable. But it's this sort of intimacy that differentiates Lance's site from the rest.
With a few sections seemingly incomplete and in the works ("Blackmail" piquing my personal curiosity), most anyone should be looking forward to what else Lance will present to us in the coming months. In the meantime, however, the class pictures and Darth Vader helmet hair from Lance's youth should keep you laughing until the new stuff comes.
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