YoBeat: Making Fun of Snowboarding Since 1997

This year at YoBeat we really got into the Christmas spirit. We are like a family and we have a lot to be thankful for, plus, holidays make for easy content! Our greatest achievement this holiday season, however, was our holiday card shoot. Many lucky industry types have already had the above e-card delivered directly [...]

Dear Al Gore,
Extreme Journalist Brooke Geery is a terrorist! Beaten down after a pathetic attempt to become a pro snowboader, Brooke has dedicated her life to cyber terrorism in the snowboarding industry. The woman uses her site, Yobeat.com, to expose the stupid actions of snowboard companies, create original content, and support riders who aren’t even [...]

One of Shaun White’s illustrious sponsors bought him a damn foam pit. As if having your own foam pit wasn’t cool enough, they gave him a private halfpipe as well. Back in the year 1845, when Todd Richards was a pipe superstar they didn’t have foam pits, and halfpipes sure as hell weren’t private. Let’s see what [...]

A little lady named Brooke Geery attended this year’s Burton Bash. Being the founder of Yobeat, Brooke decided to recap her experience in the form of a Yobeat article.  Apparently the big “B” wasn’t pleased with Brooke’s personal opinions and a battle involving editorial censorship, money, jobs, and even insults ensued. A Burton employee, probably a marketing [...]

No one in action sports is crushing Twitter as hard as Tony Hawk. At last count he checked it with 1,476,365 followers (impressive, but nothing compared to @yobeatdotcom’s 1201!) His Twitter hunt has been adopted by bloggers such as Shayboarder and SouthoftheNorth and even Todd Richards has been holding his own twitter trivia giveaways as [...]

There’s been some talk in the forum about if we’d actually go through with “the banning” referred to in our last poll. Well at YoBeat, we’re no pussies, and we can take the wrath of the people. So as we decided when we posted the poll, as end of the business day today, July 15, [...]

“Mad Men is not on TV because they had the season finale. It’s like asking our readers asking what happened to George W Bush….Oh wait, he’s just not president anymore!”

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 [...]

Two more photos face off. But there can only be one winner. Crush someone’s dreams here.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

As the unofficial media whore of the Blue Lodge, it’s only natural that Yo Beat would make the trip to the biggest Blue Lodge event since, well, the Blue Lodge existed. Okay, so I only lived in Plymouth for the first year of the Lodge, when it was actually a dry house and missed out [...]

January 2005
by Brooke Geery

You know that phenomenon where you are never happy where you are, but as soon as you leave, you realize it was the best place ever? Well, I do. It is the story of my life. But in January, I solved this issue by just traveling constantly, more or less avoiding reality [...]

On such fine channels as VH1, they have the liberty of waiting you know, 10 or 20 years before letting everyone know where they’re favorite Butt Rockers have ended up. We at Yo Beat don’t have the liberty because 1) doing so would require research in 10 years and 2) we will most certainly be [...]

Every year, around this time, a bunch of snowboard companies put out videos. And for some reason, some of them believe that Yobeat is a credible enough source that sending us a review copy and thus having us publish a review will actually help promote their video. So this year, I’ve compiled the ones that [...]

From time to time, companies find the time to send me things in the mail out of the goodness of their hearts. Okay, I’m not that delusional. I know things that show up in my mailbox are there because companies think that sending me stuff will result in reviews on this highly acclaimed website. Well, [...]

by Brooke Geery
At this point in time, I am absolutely positive that everyone loves to read long rambling stories about me driving around in a car and doing stuff. But thanks to my graduation from college, the cross-country trips have been cut to a minimum and well, I never do anything anymore.
But I don’t have [...]

by Brooke Geery
1. Wait until there is at least two inches of snow. Any less will not be enough, but there is no need for more, it will merely cover up the landing.
2. Pick a spot. Make sure the landing does not slope down at all. Waterbars are the perfect base for your kicker. Other [...]

by Rachel Cotton
Make sure you read this first so you understand what went on. You have? ok Go.
We are young firecrackers. We sit on second-hand couches and write on each other with markers. To drink, we play games, bend red and white cans that are later thrown at each other’s heads and binge. Destinations are [...]

by Brooke Geery
Four years ago, a strapping college lad named Monty set out with an assignment and a dream: Capture the essence of the Rutland bar scene for the legendary Yo Beat Magazine. It was decided to accomplish this, several trips, all of which documented, would commence it Rutland and the surrounding areas. Well, Monty [...]

Is pro snowboarding dying, dead, or alive and well?
Once upon a time anyone could get a free snowboard. Most people didn’t know it, but all it took was a bad sponsor me video and low standards. There were so many companies out there that if you could turn (actually, not a requirement) or grab [...]

The girls in Blue Crush are living the surf bum dream. They wake at dawn, surf killer breaks and then clean hotel rooms at an upscale joint on the beach. They can’t pay their bills, the youngest never makes it to school on time and they live in a shit hole, but damn it, they’re [...]

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The This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Three of Us Tour
The three of us.
Several cross-country trips have taught me one thing: No matter whom you go with, they are the most annoying person in the world. But I thought maybe if there were three of us things would be different. So the three of [...]

by Brooke Geery
There’s no denying it, snowboarding is expensive. Between all the equipment, clothing and lift tickets, you barely have enough left over to buy a hamburger in the lodge. This can all be rectified though if you know how to work it, that is, convince people you’re worthy of getting their product for free. [...]

August 3, 2001
8:45 am PST Bellingham WA
Picked up Jay. Jay Steger, local Bellingham superstar, (and the only person I know with nothing better to do for a week) is insurance in case no one in the Midwest knows how to skateboard. At least I’ll be able to take pictures of him.

Jay thought the Spokane pyramid [...]

by Brooke Geery
I used to be a grom. I used to go to contests, sit huddled in between the masses and giggle like a TRL fan every time a pro got within spitting distance of me. That lasted about one season, until I started writing. Then I found myself adorned with a press pass, in [...]

First I will present the evidence:
11/21/00 11:55:26 AM Pacific Standard Time: Asked, “What did you do with all the snow,” by angry Washington snowboarder.
11/21/00 12:51:44 PM Pacific Standard Time: Receive email from Vermont, “Going to the mountain tomorrow. It’s been snowing here all day.”
11/22/00 8:17:35 AM Pacific Standard Time: Receive email from New Hampshire, “Killington [...]

The Northwest United States is a pretty amazing place. Almost every town, no matter how minuscule, has their own concrete skate park. Nowhere else in the country do you see such commitment to encouraging kids to loiter somewhere other than in front of 711. It was with this in mind that I set out [...]

Judging by the credits of the Resistance and this year’s GMC catalog, as well as about 30 years of records, it’s cool to give props to those that have helped over the years. Amazingly enough, Yo Beat is still rocking, thanks to a lot of people out there, and no thanks to some others, the [...]

One of my favorite parts about this website, is the quality letters I receive from day to day. I get some good ones, but this might take the cake. I would explain farther, but I don’t think it’s even nessecary, so I put some of the highlights in bold. If your not sure what he’s [...]

by Brooke Geery
Combine a pile of mushy man made snow, the Stimilon crew to shape it into a rideable mass, Eminem, Macho Man Randy Savage, twenty or so snowboarders, and thousands of spectators, many of whom had never seen snow and you have it: The first indoor snowboard contest in the US. The event took [...]

by Brooke Geery
I’ve been claiming all day that I was going to have coverage of the downfall of Bluetorch up ASAP. It’s only right that I would, considering that I did have some ties with the company. Well, as you may, or may not know, the company did some “restructuring.” Today, the plug was pulled [...]

Once again I have been showed that people don’t like it when you make fun of them, especially not the greeks. Recently I called a group of Canadian Snowboarders a Fraternity (and not in the most positive manner), and let’s just say, they were less than stoked. However, in the words of an unnamed industry [...]