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History

By Brooke Geery • Dec 6th, 2008 • Category: Old stuff

The Stuff You May Have Missed



Austin Sweetin Interview

By admin • Nov 20th, 2008 • Category: Features, Old stuff

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 [...]



Obligatory Mt. Hood Coverage 2008

By admin • Aug 1st, 2008 • Category: Features, Old stuff

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 [...]



Trade Show Season!

By admin • Sep 8th, 2007 • Category: Features, Old stuff

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 [...]



Sarah and Brooke go to Dunkin Donuts

By admin • May 8th, 2007 • Category: Features, Old stuff

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



Separated at Birth

By admin • Apr 30th, 2007 • Category: Features, Old stuff

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



How to Make a Two Foot Quarterpipe

By admin • Apr 10th, 2007 • Category: Features, Old stuff

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 [...]



The Downfall of Professional Snowboarding

By admin • Apr 10th, 2007 • Category: Features, Old stuff

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” [...]



Quit Stealing Snowboards

By admin • Mar 31st, 2007 • Category: Features, Old stuff

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 [...]



About a Son

By admin • Mar 30th, 2007 • Category: Features, Old stuff, Reviews

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 [...]



US Open 2007 Slopestyle

By admin • Mar 30th, 2007 • Category: Features, Old stuff

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 [...]



Sarah Morrison’s Best Week Ever

By admin • Mar 8th, 2007 • Category: Features, Old stuff

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, [...]



Geeks Rule! YoBeat infiltrates Winter X

By admin • Jan 29th, 2007 • Category: Features, Old stuff

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 [...]



CD Review: Menomena - Friend and Foe

By admin • Jan 2nd, 2007 • Category: Features, Old stuff

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 [...]



CD Review: Aqueduct - Or Give Me Death

By admin • Jan 2nd, 2007 • Category: Features, Old stuff

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 [...]



Aspen Extreme

By admin • Dec 5th, 2006 • Category: Features, Old stuff, Random

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 [...]



Opening Day - Better Late Than Never

By admin • Dec 2nd, 2006 • Category: Features, Old stuff, Promo Shots

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 [...]



Yo Beat’s 2007 Trend Report

By admin • Nov 29th, 2006 • Category: Features, Old stuff

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 [...]



Smell the Glove Video Premier

By admin • Nov 13th, 2006 • Category: Features, Old stuff, Random

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, [...]



Eesa World Tour: Part 2

By admin • Aug 29th, 2006 • Category: Features, Old stuff

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 [...]



Eesa World Tour: Part 1

By admin • Aug 29th, 2006 • Category: Features, Old stuff

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 [...]



CD Review: Lost Role Models - Mockingbird

By admin • Aug 9th, 2006 • Category: Features, Old stuff

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 [...]



CD Review: Cut Chemist - The Audience’s Listening

By admin • Aug 9th, 2006 • Category: Features, Old stuff

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 [...]



Total Winners

By admin • Jul 29th, 2006 • Category: Features, Old stuff

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



Ask Google What’s Up

By admin • May 13th, 2006 • Category: Features, Old stuff, Random

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 [...]



Xtreme Games ’06

By admin • Mar 13th, 2006 • Category: Features, Old stuff, Random

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 [...]



The US Open Drinking Game

By admin • Mar 13th, 2006 • Category: Features, Old stuff

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, [...]



Creager v. Haslam

By admin • Mar 12th, 2006 • Category: Features, Old stuff, Random

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 [...]



Kitchen Conversations #2: Progression vs. Regression

By admin • Mar 12th, 2006 • Category: Features, Old stuff

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 [...]



Chaotic Alcohol Consumption

By admin • Mar 6th, 2006 • Category: Features, Old stuff, Random

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 [...]



Dear YoBeat…

By admin • Mar 5th, 2006 • Category: Features, Old stuff, Random

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 2006 US Open

By admin • Mar 3rd, 2006 • Category: Features, Old stuff

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 [...]



Pick a Pack

By admin • Feb 28th, 2006 • Category: Features, Old stuff

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 [...]



Holy Oly 2006

By admin • Feb 27th, 2006 • Category: Features, Old stuff, Random

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 [...]



Hipster Bragging Rights

By admin • Feb 22nd, 2006 • Category: Features, Old stuff, Random

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.