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Mandatory Coverage: Olympic Men’s Halfpipe

By Rumorator von Rumorstein • Feb 18th, 2010 • Category: Features, Latest, Random

Okay, we can’t get away from it right now. The Olympics are on, and last night Shaun White fulfilled the NBC prophecy by becoming the golden boy once again. Sorry I didn’t tip anyone off to that spoiler right there. Not that it matters. Maybe you DVR-ed the events last night and you’ll get to [...]


MADE in Milwaukee

By Rumorator von Rumorstein • Feb 11th, 2010 • Category: Features, Latest, Random

Where the shred gets MADE
Want to become a great snowboarder, win contests and impress your friends? It’s doable, but I don’t suggest calling in a “nationally known reality show” to turn you into a champ. However it seems that some girl, we are going to call Ashley B1, did just that to get her game [...]


Dear Santa: A Letter from the Rumorator

By Rumorator von Rumorstein • Dec 19th, 2009 • Category: Features, Latest, Random

Dear Santa,
I’m usually not into asking for much, apart from free stickers and maybe the occasional cigarette every 20 minutes, but these YoBeat wish lists are for the greater good. These are not things I need, they are things snowboarding needs. Sure I’ll benefit a little bit, but you know what they say, “A rising [...]


10 Ways to Make Snowboarding Rad Again

By Rumorator von Rumorstein • Nov 2nd, 2009 • Category: Features, Latest, Random

Snowboarding is fucking weak. Seriously, in the hierarchy of radness, snowboarders are just above ultimate fighters and just below NASCAR drivers. There was a time when snowboarding knelt before no one (except skateboarding and surfing, obviously. And street luge). Reputable companies like Totino’s wouldn’t get anywhere near snowboarders. Only Juicy Fruit gum had those kinds [...]


Six Simple Steps to Social Media

By Rumorator von Rumorstein • Aug 20th, 2009 • Category: Features, Random

Use Social Media to Alienate Your Core Customers


Seasons Enders in Wisconsin

By Rumorator von Rumorstein • Apr 9th, 2009 • Category: Features, Random

Spring conditions at their finest
I showed up to the Empire Collective’s Picnic in the Park at Devils Head Resort a few hours after it got under way for two reasons. The first being that despite this being a spring jam and the past two weeks’ temperatures ranging between 40 and 70 degrees, the days weather [...]


Midwest Conquests: The Sticker Hunt

By Rumorator von Rumorstein • Feb 26th, 2009 • Category: Features, Random

I’ve been snowboarding in Wisconsin for about a billion years now, and I’ve come to terms with the realities of it.
• Your winter won’t really start until December.
• It will rain in February and the snow will suck from then until closing.
• Those 686xLevi’s snowdenims have got nothing on that dude rockin’ the Ski-doo one [...]