YoBeat: Making Fun of Snowboarding Since 1997

by Jim Ferrigno
It’s not easy being a slave to the big bad corporate machine. Days are filled with long, painstaking hours spent punching your fingertips to the bone, only to have your boss steal your precious red swing line stapler and move your desk down to “Storage B.” Well, that’s at least how it is [...]

In order to do this you will need a strong ollie, some determination, and a good spot. Caleb Flowers is a skateboarder at heart. Watch and lean as Caleb negotiates this sketchy line. Pushed in by a friend Caleb pops an ollie over a waist high rail skims a quick boardslide over rocks then puts [...]

Do we have a champ?

It’s no secret that snowboarding has hit the mainstream (6-plus years ago)! But while the snowboard industry is busy figuring out how to use the hype to sell more snowboards, the rest of the world is deftly using snowboarding to sell just about anything. For example:
Telephone Service

Technically, AT&T produced this commercial to show their (monetary) [...]

The Ride Shakedown is the place to be in the Northwest right now. Previously a “Canadian” thing, the mayhem shred fest landed stateside on March 12, 2010 at the Summit at Snoqualmie. After the nighttime rail shredding was done, Austin Hironaka and Izzy Lalive took top honors for their stunts, and Zimmerman was there to [...]

Earthquakes, poverty, internet haters and all sorts of stuff is currently ravaging this great planet.  What does Todd Richards think of this downward decline? Can he save us? Well, obviously not because he’s just an aging father of two, but he sure can make us laugh about it. 
Two earthquakes in 2010, is this a sign [...]

With so much on their plate Knife Show has only found time to make mini-edits. From their minds to your eyes, here are the two latest.

Episode 6: Scruffy Style!

Episode 7: Icelandic Style!
Check out more from Knife Show here

Yes ladies, Mr. Sell is single and searching for love.             p. Robbie Sell of Robbie Sell
With guns o’ plenty, a mean mustache and an apartment in Reno, Robbie Sell is nothing short of an American badass. After the tragic death of a once prominent snowboard career Robbie has recently [...]

Watch and learn fool. Be sure to check Cody’s part in the smash hit Skeleton Crew video and in the upcoming Commotion Video.

The streets are dead, the paths are where it’s at. A collaborative effort from Magic Hair Productions and The Bang Show
Edit: John Cywinski

This park at Mt. Hood Meadows was technically “closed.” Jeff Holce is in High School, so he doesn’t care!!
When you’re a teenager, it may be hard to imagine you will ever get “over” snowboarding. In fact, if you are under the age of 18 (or even 22), you should probably stop reading this right now. [...]

It’s no secret the Skeleton Crew is full of little people, so what else would you expect them to build if they had their way but a mini pipe with fun jibs? Last summer, this is what went down on it at Windells. This year, who knows that will happen!
This video is brought to you [...]

The Olympics are finally over and Todd is no longer in a foreign country. For Todd that means he can finally see his family again, for us, that means we don’t have to think about ice dancing anymore. This week we are bringing back the Todd in High Fives with Todd Richards. Here we go…
If I gave [...]

Story and photos by Brad Jameson
32 returned to Brighton Resort on 3/2/10 to host the 2nd annual 32 Day Banked Slalom and Rail Jam. After a long build day of shaping all 12 turns, 2 rails, 1 hitching post and a silly jump, it was time to start things off.
Brian Cook and company shuttled [...]

Helltrack has been an ongoing project in the hills of Lake Tahoe. Thanks to B.J. Baur and Roan Rogers for inviting me and some friends to go shred it. Don’t ask me where it is because I was literally blindfolded and flown in by helicopter.– Zak Shelhamer

Your narrator Zachary Sanford enjoys the ambiance. Photo Konstantinos Noulis
Whilst only a 45-minute train journey from London, arriving in Milton Keynes gives one the sense that perhaps he’s in the sprawling suburbs of a city in the American Midwest. Identically constructed office buildings occupy massive lots with space to spare. Its strip malls, boulevards and [...]

Dave takes a hands on approach. He’s actually whittling a snowboard out of that snow bank.
Amidst a sea of giant ski brands and influx of corporate culture, there are still plenty of small snowboard brands, run by snowboarders. Monument may be out of Washington DC, not exactly a snowboard epicenter, and Dave Tran may [...]

Alex “Lil’est” Sherman is growing up and with age comes the appreciation for fine pow. Here, the little one shows you the art of the pow butter, so study up!

Epic pow!

Here at YoBeat our days are filled with thinking about how to fill the Internet with highly marginally entertaining material, leaving us little time to make decisions about simple things such as who should get free stuff. That’s a problem though, when a contest ends and there are multiple worthy entrants. So in this here [...]

Todd’s busy, bored and ready to ditch the Olympics for some surf n’ turf and some family time in his sunny So-Cal home. In the mean time though, we’ll keep bugging him as he slowly loses his mind.
How do you feel about the bad press the American Snowboarders have been getting?
I think that when [...]

Two titans of snowboarding’s culinary community met, but only one could emerge victorious. Party Time Nate and Peter Line set out once and for all to determine who was the superior chef by cooking what else, but hot dogs!

Appetizers

Peter Line’s Hot Dog and Pork Rillette
Full Recipe

Party Time Nate’s Deconstructed Hot Dog
Full Recipe

Entrees

Peter Line’s Beef Hot [...]

Photo courtesy Quiksilver

Just four months ago, I had never heard of 16-year-old Sage Kotsenburg. Even while writing this, I can’t recall a photo or edit of the Park City hellion that wasn’t published by the Dew Tour. But since November, the 2010 Slopestyle Dew Cup winner has demanded my attention by shocking his way into my [...]

There are many ways to waste your valuable time. Watching this entire elph video is just one of them.

The 7th annual Holy Oly at Summit at Snoqualmie saw sun, fun and a shit ton of methods. Check out the full story and gallery here.

Finally the Olympic shit show has ended and we can refocus on the important stuff—being cool, getting a sponsor-me-tape squared away and keeping current with snowboarding’s ever changing scene. Luckily for you a top secret Yobeat document slipped through the cracks yesterday, and before the blogging world goes crazy stealing our secrets and branding our [...]

The best place to pick up chicks on the hill is obviously a girl’s snowboard contest like the Nikita Chickita. Since times are tough, I didn’t get to go to the European stop, but when the event came to Brighton I was all over it. When I got there though, I was intimidated by all [...]

Super rep Dustin Anderson gave the east coast kids a run for their money
Given the recent outrage over snowboarders enjoying themselves while representing their country at the Olympics, it’s pretty clear everyone else in the world hates fun. No one, however, seems to hate fun more than Mother Nature, who has now tried twice, unsuccessfully [...]

Our man on the Olympic scene, Todd Richards, is having a busy week. Besides texting me (possibly during the halfpipe Final), doing voice work for NBC, snuggling up with Celebrities and actually getting serious about a thing or two Todd’s head is spinning. We know you don’t care though, so we cracked the whip and [...]

Editor’s Note: This article was originally intended for run in The New York Times new “We Like Snowboarders” section. But the publishers discovered that the author is a complete idiot and doesn’t snowboard. Plus, Hannah Teter’s pursuits of saving Africa with candy are far more interesting.
The International Olympic Committee has found the inclusion of snowboarding [...]

Liu Jiayu of China had such good style, even the hack Vancouver2010.com photographer could get a good shot of her.
Over the past few days, the Vancouver Olympics have taught me a lot. I’ve learned various languages, thanks to the sketchy Euro streams I opted to watch rather than NBC (ok, I only really understood when [...]

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 [...]

This video came to us from Adrian at 720 Boardshop in the heart of Summit County. It features a few of his shop team riders, who seem to think Youtube videos are the sure fire way to record breaking sales, and nothing else is necessary. Adrian, however, is not so sure. So he asked us [...]

The top of the podium is a nice place to be.
Despite boyish good looks and solid snowboard skills, JJ Thomas has never been a Danny Kass or Shaun White type. He’s always been good, but just lacking that hype that creates true snowboard sensations. Maybe that’s why when JJ ended up in a 3-way tie [...]

In a world of double corks and 1080s, the 360 is often overlooked. Watch as masters of the 360 Jordan Mendenhall, Ben Gustafson, Jarad Hadi, Kyle Fischer, Sam Spedale, Eric Fernandez, Tyler Vergin, Nick Russell, Drew Fuller, Dylan Thompson, Tim Benasich, Sean Black, Harrison Gordon, Jonah Owen, and Caleb Flowers show you wussup. Enjoy.
With additional [...]