The ink has been dry for a few months now, but Quiksilver has just now released the official Louie Fountain "Welcome To The Team" video. The deal includes both outerwear and eyewear sponsorship. Prior to Quiksilver, Fountain had been riding Holden outerwear and Ashbury eyewear. He remains with K2 snowboards.
"I've been riding for Quiksilver this entire past winter," Fountain told ESPN by phone from his home in Idaho, "but it happened so late and there was so much other stuff going on at the time that it unintentionally stayed pretty low key. I had already been traveling so much with the team, and I'm such good friends with the crew that when I started actually riding for them it didn't really feel like anything had changed." Other than what he was wearing, of course.
Fountain joins an already heavy roster that includes Travis Rice, Todd Richards, Bryan Fox, Hampus Mosesson, Austin Smith and Jakob Wilhelmson. Look for Fountain's part in the upcoming People film, "Nice Try," in stores this September.
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