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It’s official, Chris Grenier has finally been tricked by the Ashbury boys to ride for them. We know it’s true cause they sent us this video.

Seems it’s officially too expensive to manufacture $800 snowboards in Vermont. According to the Burlington Free Press, Burton is closing up its manufacturing facilities in Vermont and moving all production to Austria, where the not-so-premium boards have been made for the past few years.
“It makes the most economic sense to produce all of our high-end [...]

Alliteration is fun, and K2 is taking advantage and giving stuff away! If you’re good at “social media” you have the chance to win snowboards, coffee and more from Wille Yli Luoma, K2 and Heart Roasters all week long. Check out http://k2snowboarding.com for more info!

We were so busy pretending we were in French Canada watching the Shakedown this weekend, we didn’t notice Snowmission 2010 was going down in Quebec. Luckily, they sent us a video and press release about it. Congrats to Jess Kimura and Jason Dubois taking top honors.

Jason Dubois went home yesterday with the Polaris RMK 800 [...]

Thanks to the magic of “the Internet” we knew who landed, who blew it and who made money the minute it happened at the Ride Shakedown at the Summit at Snoqualmie and stayed warm while watching! Some members of out faithful staff toughed out the elements though, so the full story, photos, scandalous secrets and [...]

The Ride Shakedown is underway at the Summit at Snoqualmie. Last night the rail best trick happened, with Izzy Lalive taking it for the women with a 50-50 to front 180 out and a switch boardslide. For the men, Austin Hironaka held it down in true Northwest style, hitting up a pillar made of cable [...]

Maybe that double double was good for something, Iouri Podladtchikov got the highest score in Winter X Superpipe history… except of course, the only other person who can do it wasn’t there. Full pipe results and the women’s slopestyle broke down like this:

Hola! Nikita are already planning the next photoshoot for the Spring Summer 2011 look book. Packing up and heading out from 23rd April 2010, the Nikita crew and team are hitting up North West Mexico. If you feel you got the look or want to recommend a friend because you think ‘she’s [...]

All this time I’ve been going to the newsstand for the latest news in music, art and entertainment, but apparently there is this thing called the “Internet” where everyone is “blogging” about it. Everyone, including Justin Timberlake (read: Justin Timberlake’s staff), and the latest post on jt.com is an interview with a man taking the [...]

Don’t miss the Ashbury/KR3W demo on March 27th at Bear Mountain. (seriously!) The whole Ashbury and KR3W teams will be there along with their friends. (wait, these guys have friends?) This is your only chance to see all of these guys in one place at one time. (not that you will be able to tell [...]

Apparently they have the X Games in Europe now? Everything is the same, except they judge in the metric system, right? God, we’re stealing jokes from a ski blog. Whatever, men’s slopestyle is over, here are the results.

Last summer, when High Cascade and Windells snowboard camps got rope tows to access their terrain, it was great news for lazy snowboarders everywhere. Well, ok, mostly lazy snowboarders in the US, since up in BC, the camps have always been lift-accessed. And this year there’s even better news, the number of rope tows accessing [...]

Rome’s Stoken event series has returned after a short hiatus, and the good times are guaranteed.  What Stoken lacks in rigid structure, international point rankings, and official rotation judges, it makes up for in what’s most important in any snowboarding event… having FUN with a big crew.
Be ready to get awesome on three communal features [...]

The season may ALREADY be winding down in the fine state of Wisconsin thanks to warm temps and alternative precipitation, but that’s no reason to hang it up yet. This weekend is Empire Collective’s Picnic in the Park at Devil’s Head Resort. You should go because The Rumorator will be there! Oh yeah, and some [...]

…Evan Litsios, who can thank Chris Erickson for filming and sending in his trick. Enjoy your fame, glory and new FUNhat gear. Thanks to everyone who entered!! We’ll trick someone into giving away something else soon, but for now, go enter Shayboarder’s giveaway for Limited Edition 686/New Balance stuff.

We were all excited to watch the finals of the Arctic Challenge today. Too bad they ended before we woke up. Stupid time difference. Oh well, the results from the Slopestyle are in and Peetu came out on top with a run including a cab 270 front board to fakie, frontside 540 melon on the [...]

Luckily for our generation, it was after 1984 when we read George Orwell’s book. But imagine reading 1984 say, in the 60s, when it had the potential to come to fruition. Scary stuff. In case you haven’t read it (you should) the basic gist is a the world has become a place where “Thought Police” [...]

Funny thing about the halfpipe. Once one person does a trick, everyone else wants to do it too. Iouri Podladtchikov landed his own 1260 Double Mickey in Davos, SUI. And according to Twoleftfeet, he did it second try. Good thing Shaun already got that gold medal, Wheaties box, and sweet Rolling Stone cover, huh? Check [...]

While the world fell in love with double corks, the Aries 2010 Project was on display in Vancouver. Paid for by Nike, and curated by Nemo’s Trevor Graves, the snowboarding time capsule included lots of stuff you’ve probably never heard of (or if you have, tried to forget.) Austin Will spent the last week polishing [...]

The filming of “The Shred Remains” has officially kicked off. Although we’ve gotten a couple shots here and there in prior weeks, this was the first real trip to get the project underway.  Eiki, Lazz, Will and Paxson along with filmer Leland McNamara,  Team Director Ryan Runke, TWS and Method-Mag photographer Frode Sandabech and myself [...]

Someday we won’t have to have special days to encourage girls to snowboard (cause they’ll realize there are ton of hot dudes, duh) but until then… March 11, 2010 at Wachusett.

It’s crazy that someone who wins back-to-back Olympic gold medals like Seth Wescott would just get a lousy spot on the Colbert Report, and not even any network late night tv invitations. It must be because he’s a snowboarder. Oh wait. Anyway, the Wheaties people gave finally Wescott some love with his own box of [...]

We can admit to excitedly buying up some of the US Snowboard stamps when they were released (seriously, order stickers, you’ll get one), so we should be no less excited by Torah Bright’s own postage stamp, other than the fact it’s for mailing stuff in Australia. And who knows how much $.55 Aussie cents is [...]

Not to be confused with another, much larger event up north in VT, the US GOPEN is back for it’s second year at Ski Sundown in CT. Be there, or be somewhere else.

It seems some people might be under the misconception that we don’t like Shaun White here at YoBeat, so let’s clear this up. We like Shaun White. He’s an AMAZING snowboarder, he’s really funny, he’s great for traffic, and of course, he’s rich, which means we would totally let him him take us out to [...]

After “the weather” (officially not the fact that having an event opposite the Olympics might prevent some competitors from showing up) postponed the Arctic Challenge, the event is happening this weekend, March 5-7th. If you’re not in Norway, good news! The event is being live cast right here, and aside from trying to figure out [...]

There will be World Quarterpipe Championships this year in Vermont, but that’s no reason not to be on the east coast immediately following the US Open. Not only is Pat Moore’s Back to the Boneyard back for another year, but Last Call, Eastern Boarder’s all-out shred fest at Loon is back for it’s 10th year [...]

It isn’t often that upon a person’s passing you can honestly say, “The world will never be the same without you…” and have it mean exactly that. People are born, people live, and people die in lifetimes that consist of half-blinks of history’s eyes. There are a select few who manage to leave their indelible [...]

Watch it. He’s the pride of New Hampshire, dammit.

Feeling reminiscent for the 90s? Don’t remember the 90s? Either way, Pat Moore is bringing The legendary Boneyard back to Waterville Valley for the second year in a row. Last year saw the return of 90s locals such as Preston Strout, Matty Johnson, Andy Benhardt and Brian Barb, and this year promises to be even [...]

Scotty Lago may not have won the gold medal, but he certainly struck gold in Vancouver. Despite his questionable morals (aka, having a good time) the New Hampshire native will be honored with his very own parade this Sunday, February 27, in his hometown of Seabrook, NH. Actually, the parade was seemingly planned before the [...]

The rumors are true, it’s finally been dumping snow in Vermont. My dad even went so far as to send me braggart-videos of my mom, shredding! Of course, we’re still banned, so we’ll have to deal with the 15 inches of fresh that just fell here, but we’re happy to see the Northeast finally getting [...]

Finally, we have a reason to stay up past 10! Everyone from Shaun White to Scotty Lago (ok, that’s really it) have been, or will be, tearing up the late night circuit. Oh, that’s just me who goes to bed at 9:30? Anyway, all these appearances are on the Internet the next day! If you [...]

As it is no secret the internet and video games have ruined the attention spans of today’s youth, Sessions (with the help of Dangerzone’s Tim Bradley) put together a quick little video of what you may expect to experience on February 27 and 28th at Northstar-at-Tahoe. Unfortunately, no one has figured out how to make [...]

As good Americans, it’s hard not to be offended by the display put on by the snowboarders on the US team over the last few days. First example, we have Louie Vito, who was so busy rocking out to his iPod before his run, he didn’t even know it was his turn! The nerve! Luckily, [...]