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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 take to competitions and win free shit. we are just as inclined to go back country or nheffron@twcny.rr.com
blast from the past
You don’t have a comments section on your website so you’re getting an email. As a little grom riding at Hood, watching Mack Dawg’s Melt Down Project over and over on VHS until the tape broke, before Shawn White won any golds, when Tina and Mike Basich, Terje, Palmer, Peter Line, and KJ were my idols, and when I thought step-ins were the shit, I was in love with an Oregon local named Aurelie Sayers. Still bummed after all these years that there were only like 2 pictures ever taken of her, I still haven’t forgot my run in with her at Bachelor many years ago, and watched her on TV when Sal was hosting an extreme sports show that aired only at 2 in the morning. After some comps back in 2001, she disappeared. What ever happened to her?
TonyPortland, OR sensitivity training
I was covering the FIS Snowboard World Cup in Lake Placid, N.Y. on
Sunday March 12 and have action photos of Sweden's Jonatan Johansson
(12th in the Olympic Games in sbx) moments before he was killed in an
accident during a training run for the snowboard-cross qualifications.
Please let me know if Yo Beat would be interested in this.
Thanks.
Todd BissonettePhotographer sure, i'm convinced
hi!!!
throughout the 20th century, skateboarding have conquered the many
skate parks and street that planet earth has dealt us, however in
this 21st century the skateboarding population is reaching epidemic
proportions. the complexity of western society with technology,
fashion and m oney doing their best to dictate our lifestyles
combined with the "crowd factor" can become very stressful at times.
fortunately, as skateboarding we ahve the opportunitites to escape
the cop race and "get the hell out here" to rejuvenate our minds,
bodies and souls by venturing to undisclosed and abstract places.
places where no security and law exist, places that host technical
moves and stunts perfection. undiscovered and abstract places where
delightful yet simple things can be experienced and newfound friends
can be made.
for those of you have expeienced the sensation of skateboarding on
the extreme way, there is nothing like you can realte with especially
skating into the line up with nervous energy and anticipation,
imagining how you are going to handle your first wipe out. as you run
you are checking out the grounds and ramps. once out the back your
head is spinning at how far removed you are from your normal everyday
existence. your turn arrives and you skate into a course perfect
ramps and scence. words can't describe thta sensation only your
friends who are fortunate enough to skated with you realy relate to
your style.
maybe if you can share some the skateboard goodies and stuffs that
you have out there. please mail to to me anytime.
thank you and have fun!!!
donna sambo
Thats why they call it the "white olympics"
What Bryant Gumbel said on HBO’s Real Sports
about the Winter Olympic Games.
(originally aired February 7, 2006)
“Finally, tonight, the Winter Games. Count me among those who don’t care about them and won’t watch them. In fact, I figure that when Thomas Paine said that “these are the times that try men’s souls,” he must’ve been talking about the start of another Winter Olympics. Because they’re so trying, maybe over the next three weeks we should all try too. Like, try not to be incredulous when someone attempts to link these games to those of the ancient Greeks who never heard of skating or skiing. So try not to laugh when someone says these are the world’s greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the winter games look like a GOP convention. Try not to point out that something’s not really a sport if a pseudo-athlete waits in what’s called a kiss-and-cry area, while some panel of subjective judges decides who won. And try to blot out all logic when announcers and sportswriters pretend to care about the luge, the skeleton, the biathlon and all those other events they don’t understand and totally ignore for all but three weeks every four years. Face it — these Olympics are little more than a marketing plan to fill space and sell time during the dreary days of February. So if only to hasten the arrival of the day they’re done, when we can move on to March Madness — for God’s sake, let the games begin.”
I believe Mr. Gumbels attack on the athletes of the Winter Olympics, not only belittles all winter sports but the whole industry as well. Shouldn’t sports celebrities have some respect for athletes in all sports? Just because he isn’t making any money from the Olympic experience doesn’t give him the right to attack winter sports and those involved in them. Avoiding his racial commentary, Mr. Gumbel needs a history lesson. The Winter Games didn’t get its start until 132 years after Thomas Paine wrote “The Crisis, 1776” in which that passage was found. It was written about patriots, no Brian, not the football team, that fought and died so you could make those ludicrous statements. I would like to see, Mr. Gumbel, HBO and Time Warner get over yourselves and realize Real Sports is more than something with a ball.
Robert Fouracre
I quote "your a fucking tool"
dude what kind of shit are up on!!!!.parks are so much fun .you mean to tell me your not down with hitting, table tops,hips,boxes,rails,spines and lets not forget step downs,on a warm sunny spring day.that's bullshit!!!you deserve to get slapped imean park is not my first choice,it might not even be my second,but for fuck sake!!!! its snowboarding ,find a different jib run they are on every mountain.and if you have been snowboarding since I have been in diapers then why doesn't your ass go out and buy a sled,or stop bitchin and suck your pussy up , move up here to kicking horse in golden,British Columbia,Canada where we have no park and maybe you will be happy.bottom line parks are just some peoples thing,and with an,attitude like yours you don't deserve to snowboard and you should quit right now before you bring anybody else down with u.peace hater
chef_cleaver@hotmail.com
My first supporter!
hey i read the article on how the park jumps ruined snowboarding, and i
honestly totaly agree. the only thing i wonder, is what you think about
rails. i need some good reasons to tell my friends how rails are shitty.
well thanks later
powdercrazy@msn.com
Why do rails suck? Well, there's the metal on metal thing and the fact that people build wooden stairs underneath rails in the park. But the simple answer is to just tell your friends to get a skateboard and quit being sissies. Hope that helps.
Our head nerd is out of town
Brooke,
Why is it that your site only has Baker as a mountain in Washington? The state of Washington has a number of great spots and they are all getting hammered. At the end of the year we will be the champions of snowfall. Have fun riding flat mountains and fake snow. I've be riding pow and dropping cliffs, and will continue to until April. Good to see you crazy east coast bastards have so much pride in your mountains, and so little snow in them. Without that pride you probably wouldn't be able to stand your cute little mountains.
Seriously fix your poll. Washington rocks, especially when compared to Vermont. One of the shittiest states in the union. And don't give that, 'Baker is the only place worth riding in Washington,' shit. Only ignorant hippies say that, and they only say it because they can't afford to ride at any of the other mountains. Oh yeah fuck hippies.
Take care,
Scott Jobe
"Get a book and learn to snowboard"
dude
I dont think that who ever wrote this site could be more of a Bitch than they are... I cant even beleive that I'm writng this back, I just feel like someone if they already haven't told you, should tell you, you sound like a MORON...Times Change, buck up and shut the F___ UP... And you know I'm really sorry for even talking like this, cause its so not me but, YOU JUST SOUND SOOOOO STUPID...
Take the 3.99 that you spend a month hosting your site and buy a how to Book, on how to ride, so your bitch ass will stop complaining, and start having fun...
X
I never said I liked snowboarding
dude
just wanted to say that i've read some of your articles, and quite frankly think
youre wack. the cynicism that you attempt to embody is profoundly hypocritical
to all that you claim to believe in, be it the love you claim for snowboarding,
or youre sincere interest in journalism. why, if you do want to protray
snowboarding as a sport, respectable in this world, do you "nay-say" on
everything that you write about. if you were indeed in love with this sport
and all that it embodies, you would recognize this and protray it in a way
which does not make it out to be a bunch of assholes causing trouble. because,
maybe if the east coast still believes that that is all snowboarding is, you
should move out west for a while, and acutally learn something about
snowboarding.
have a great day.
Bitter College Freshman
Those guys still snowboard?
dude
if you think the wildcats are a bunch of frat boys who just get drunk and
don't snowboard then you're a stupid cunt. I recently met Dave Cashen and
Chris Dufficy and they were awsome people who can rock their shredsticks. I
suppose they do party often but then again how many professional sports
athletes in their 20's dont. Cashen tought me to do some wildcats and he a
duff tore it up themselves, so quit being a douche bag and let em live their
own lives.
snobordinnsfun@hotmail.com
People still read this crap?
The only reason you think parks have ruined snowboarding is because you can't ride, plain and simple. You can't ride natural backcountry kickers if you can't stick a jump in the park, enough with this natural terrain or a mogul is the shit for a jump. And yes a shity all mountain day does make a good park day, just like if its a powder day you can't ride park. Dude get your shit straight.
rmoran555@yahoo.com It's a Small World Hah!
I just
googled myself and found the comment below.. Funny stuff. This time last
year I googled myself and it was all Chatty's snowboarding capers. How
the times change.
Cheers
Jason
Chatfield
jason@jasonchatfield.com
dude just grow some frickin balls and go to a decent park these pics
your showing are from a fricken crap park so what you need to do is come
on out to Utah and try parkcitys park and if your scared to hit the
rails and jumps go do your own thing in the back part of the mountain
the park didnt ruin snow boarding it made it better its a way to find
rails and not have to worry about getting busted and if we all cant
afford a snow cat or a snow mobile then we got the jumps and dont hit
the park if you dont want to get more than 5 ft
not me so if youve got somthing send it to
wilkey_wilkey@hotmail.com
Boredom at X Games and fun uses of Google Dear YoBeatMag Editor, Who said Irony is out?
skateboarding was invented around 1990? Wow, that's so stupid I can't
believe it. It was more popular in the 70's than it is now! Invented
LONG BEFORE inline skates.
Hey, your article about the history of skateboarding starts too
late. In the Marx Brothers movie "Duck Soup" which was made in the
1930's, Harpo invents the first skate board. He is riding on a large
scale model railroad, in which the cars are all about 2 or 3 feet
long, riding on metal wheels on a scaled down RR track. He is in a
box car with 4 wheels, and the car he's in goes off the track
and breaks off the rest of the train, and the sides brake off the
car so all that's left is a flat board with 4 wheels on it. He rides
the board down the hill and makes a turn with it by leaning to one
side. There you have it, first skateboard! Probably around 1935 or
so, the first skate boarder...Harpo Marx!!
Morgan Wright
No hate here, Brooke. Awesome articles, particularly the one about not riding like a retard. Pretty much confirms all I’ve heard from my brother, though he puts it in the slightly less concise terms of ‘quit riding like a bitch” and ‘you hurt yourself because you’re riding like a bitch” Anyway, nicely done. ;) Ian C. Alpental Somebody appreciates me
Brooke,
Just wanted to say thanks for the hints&tips for retards page. I
mean, im prolly lame by definition now that I'm over 30, but I just want
to rip it up like I know how, and not do the wrong grabs. And how else
would I know the wrong grab without you? I really think it's all payback
for all the intensely cruel shit I dealt out as a bmxer long ago, making
kids cry and all just because their mom wouldn't let them take the
reflectors off their bikes, or because they were nonathletics with
a huffy and alloy mags, or they didn't know what a crossup was. And
gaddamn if the karma don't come right back. Being old is a bitch, but
this ain't no crisis y'all. Thanks again for your mag...
Jim
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