For the second year, Premise teamed up with Six Flags Magic Mountain Theme Park in Valencia, CA to provide action sports shows on a skatepark demo course inside the park all summer long. The Ride The Mountain team consists of a hand selected group of Southern California's finest amateur skateboarders, BMX riders and inline skaters including Doug Des Autels (team captain and local technical skating wizard), Chris Mendes (one of California's top ranked amateur skateboarders and 2008 AST Dew Tour finalist) and even professional skateboarder Chad Knight made a few appearances.

I had the pleasure of attending the shows during the final weekend (Labor Day) and I even donned a Team Six Flags shirt and skateboarded with the team. Despite the heat the team put on some memorable performances and drew large crowds of park goers. We even had local photographer Rob Norland on hand to document the shows with an array of photographs and video footage. The final weekend went out with a bang and everyone is looking forward to next season.




For more information about the Ride The Mountain team, visit www.myspace.com/ridethemountain

Here is a link to a slide show of photos that Rob Norland took during the final weekend of shows:

http://s41.photobucket.com/albums/e296/thenorlander/6flags/?albumview=slideshow

Also check out this teaser video clip of Doug Des Autels pulling off one of his signature technical tricks on the skatepark rail:




-Chris Patnaude, Account Coordinator

Lunch today: McDonalds Filet o Fish meal (real healthy huh?)