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The Next Best Thing from the Northwest
Austin Sweetin is a happy-go-lucky kid from Washington, but put him on a snowboard or in front of Guitar Hero and he becomes a monster straight from the depths of Hell. I’ve known Austin for two years now and he has only gotten better at riding a stick of [...]

Gov’y Meltdown

Artists rendering by Nick Lipton
Death threats from a changing town filled with mountain folk and Redbull addicted mini-shreds, my god Mt. Hood is changing. This was my first trip to Government Camp this summer, but that is not to say it was my first trip ever. In fact I have experienced, witnessed, and dealt [...]

Learning Action Sports lessons in San Diego

“Working Media” is the best scam ever. No stressing about how to get into the trade show for me, I just saunter up to the counter and toss out my business card that happens to say “media” on it and am instantly issued a coveted trade show badge. I [...]

The new Dunkin Donuts menu is epic! My iMovie editing skills are even better. Please enjoy Yobeat’s first video content, ever.

Shaun White’s long lost twin, discovered while brushing up on halloween classics.
We like to imagine them both yelling “OUTLANDERS!!!!” at anyone who challenges their rise to the top.

Shaun White. Japan. 2007

Malachai. Nebraska. 1984

Fun for Hours Under $100
You will need:
-Eight 2×4s ($14)
-Three 3/4-inch pre cut 2′x 4′ plywood planels ($32)
-One sheet 1/4 Plywood ($22)
-One sheet masonite ($7)
-One piece steel coping ($11)
-One Box screws (wood or drywall) $10
Hammer, nails, screw driver (drill), circular saw, one strong and useful male. (we used a nail gun, which was helpful, but not [...]

Tessa, (addressed to our intern, who although she is still our intern, hasn’t actually done anything since i moved away from Burlington, three years ago)
I represent the interests of 8 year-old snowboarding phenom (I know that when I was 8 I needed someone to represent my interests, like Barbies and My Little Pony) Alexis “Lexi” [...]

Editor: I got this email. It made me sad. I think it’s never played out to post another reminder of why you should never, ever steal someone’s snowboard.

Someone should give this kid another snowboard and then he should invest his money in one of these. Just saying.
Hello. I am writing to vent to you [...]

Kurt Cobain About a Son: Motion Picture Soundtrack
Bursuk Records

I remember the day they found Kurt Cobian’s body. Four days after my 14th birthday. We had a school dance and instead of Stairway to Heaven, they played Smells Like Teen Spirit as the last song. I think I cried. I really, really loved Nirvana.
Of course as [...]

by Brooke Geery

All Four Ones!!!!
Travis Rice says “Stop Over-Rotation.”
Photo by Jared Souney
A few weeks ago I wrote a story about photographer Dave Lehl pulling the impressive feat of all four ones. I gave it, complete with epic photos, to a “reputable” snowboard magazine, and although they thought it was “funny” they were concerned that [...]

This is 2008

Sarah Morrison recently came up with the best life plan ever. Instead of trying to do things that are fulfilling and make you happy all the time, just do the most ridiculous things possible and appreciate the random and amazing occurrences that pop up each and every day. Ever since adopting this theory, [...]

Steve Fisher takes down the Tomato

Kevin Pearce didn’t win with this run. This was during practice.
Maybe it’s the fact that Steve Fischer looks like the kid you used to give swirlies to in high school, or maybe it’s the fact that he only makes the finals sometimes at Winter X, but nobody really thought he [...]

Bursuk Records
I attended a small, liberal arts college in Vermont. Being that the theoretical grounds of the liberal arts education is providing a well-rounded education, in addition to classes in my major (art) I also took math classes, English class, sociology classes…you get the point. Another nice thing about liberal arts schools is that they [...]

Barsuk Records
You would think that being a one-man band would keep you pretty busy most of the time, but it seems David Terry of Aqueduct has a few things on the side as well. According to the Barsuk Records site, he is the sole member of Aqueduct and comes from Tulsa, OK although he currently [...]

From now until 2007 the most extreme of extremely extreme athletes will embark on Aspen at least once a year for a little event that I won’t call by name because this site is still banned from it and I work for them so no need to rock the boat. But this story isn’t [...]

Meadows Opening Day Weekend
by Brooke Geery

Jeremy catching some phat air.
I totally got conned into snowboarding opening weekend at Mt. Hood Meadows. See, I am afraid of people and I sort of have a flexible schedule, so the idea of going riding on a weekend, and opening weekend at that, tends to turn my stomach. Even [...]

by Brian DeRosia

Looking hot on the hill this season
What is going to be hot this year? What will all the shredders be wearing this year as they hit the slopes to jump and spin and “grind” (a term I still don’t think exists in snowboarding)? I’ll tell you what: pockets. But don’t just jump right [...]

Our talented staff
Beginning at dusk at the Sunset Drive-in and after partying at Club Metronome-a night consisting of steezy snowboarders, falling down, and breaking the law.
We all looked forward to this weekend and now that nearly a month has passed, it definitely deserves to be recorded in Yobeat history. For the Yobeat staff in town, [...]

SLC to RNO
JUNE 19TH: ARRIVE PARK CITY/SLC
We roll into Park City at the crack of 10 AM eight-hours later than we thought we would but with the two mechanicals and a short skate session at one truck stop, not too bad, 44 hours from VT to Utah. We roll into the Park City Skate Park [...]

VT to SLC
JUNE 17TH: LEAVE VT
The tour begins as we push off at the crack of 2 PM on a fine Vermont afternoon. Only two weeks earlier the idea came about to buy an RV and head West to meet with team riders and visit the summer camps at Hood and Whistler. Rolling in the [...]

by Hoyle

LRM Music
When Brooke sent me this record to review I had a ton of shit going and had no time to really listen to it, so when I did I quickly dismissed it as some typical midwest backpacker type mess (granted I knew absolutely nothing about Lost Role Models.) But then I figured if [...]

by Hoyle

Warner Brothers Records
The new release from Cut Chemist, the dj/co-producer of Jurassic Five, The Audience’s Listening is not what you would expect. On first listen, I thought it was too crazy. The tracks are all over the place and a little corny. It’s definitely not a mixtape (which Cut Chemist is famous for), but [...]

To be the proud owner of a brand new Haslam or Wilson Team Pack, all they had to do was email us!! It may have taken nine years, but we are finally giving back (more than attitude) to our loyal readers.

Brian Hampton

Tien Ho

by Brooke Geery
Since 1997, Yobeat has kept one tradition alive: forcing people to hold up a thing that says Yobeat so we can use them for promotional purposes, despite if the person has seen Yobeat or not. In the early days no one had heard of the site, but now, we occasionally get a brief [...]

Aspen, Colorado via Rutland, Vermont
by Brooke Geery
Most years the X Games are the pinnacle of televised snowboarding competition. But this is not most years. This is an Olympic year. And since Yobeat’s budget doesn’t allow us to travel to Aspen and Torino, and since we’re banned from the X Games anyway, we opted to crank [...]

Putting the Fun Back in the Open

I’LL DRINK TO THAT
For the past 20 or so years, the snowboard community has descended upon Vermont in March for a little contest called the US Open. In its glory days, the contest wasn’t about corporate sponsorship, huge prize purses and network television coverage. It was about seeing friends, [...]

A Grudge Match for the Ages in SPOT’s Kiddie Park

The Tampa Pro may be one of the biggest contests of the year, but for the skaters who don’t make it all the way, the final ends up being just a waste of time between the semis and the best trick when it’s probably not a [...]

by Brooke Geery

Yale Cousino is able to make this look good cause he only spun around a few times.
I managed to avoid most snowboard competitions in person this year, and opted to watch them on TV. I like watching snowboarding on TV because it is warm, comfortable, you can turn down the announcers when they [...]

I was once a huge Britney Spears fan. I went as her for Halloween three years in a row, had all the dolls and calendars and the entire series 1 and 2 of her sticker sets. Hell, I even auditioned for a Britney Spears fan show. But now that Britney has gone 100% trashy, I [...]

I need to check my inbox more often
first of all the creativity of snowboarding has advanced incredibly due to the new technology and better jumps hits rails etc. history of snowboarding is good and all but dont slam us kids who hang in the parks and try to get better at tricks that we can [...]

The Highlight from ’06’s Second Biggest Pipe comp (yeah, I said it)
by Brooke Geery

Shawn White powering on the last hit (ignore the AP guy GTS-ing in the foreground)
The 2006 US Open was much like every other snowboard event this year: people spun around a lot, Shaun White won, and it was cold out. So I [...]

An ‘06 DaKine Skate Pack For Everyone
You may think DaKine just makes snowboard bags, surf bags, gloves, leashes, shirts, traction pads, tools, racks, locks, wax, probes, stickers, wallets and key chains, but you would be wrong. DaKine also has a full blown skate team put together by the hottest team manager in all of the [...]

The Northwest’s annual tribute to a giant beer can

One would think that at a contest named for a giant can of beer, drinking would be slightly more important than snowboarding. And one would be right, sort of. Most of the drinking at the Holy Oly, the Summit at Snoqualmie’s annual quarterpipe-anti contest, was actually an [...]

I’m so Emo that my ironic mustache is only ironic in the degree to which it is absolutely serious. Mine is a subtly ironic serious mustache, and is far more clever than the simple and heavy-handed sarcastic irony of your shaded upper lip.