YoBeat: Making Fun of Snowboarding Since 1997

As good Americans, it’s hard not to be offended by the display put on by the snowboarders on the US team over the last few days. First example, we have Louie Vito, who was so busy rocking out to his iPod before his run, he didn’t even know it was his turn! The nerve! Luckily, [...]

For all this talk about how little we care about the Olympics and what not, we’ve really been paying pretty close attention to it. When the team was officially announced on Monday we realized that maybe we are even a little bit psyched to see how big of a junk show Vancouver 2010 really ends [...]

With the conclusion of 2009 and the first decade of the 21st century just days away Yobeat.com has decided to dedicate this week to the best of 2009. To start this week of wonder we bring you our first, our only, 2009 “You Choose” Awards Poll. Below are various polls to click n’ pick from [...]

Guess what! It’s the Holidays, or as more commonly known around these parts: The time of year you can just recap and not come up with anything new year end review time! And what better way to look back in this new media age than to take advantage of Google Analytics and data pull some [...]

It’s 100% acceptable to admit you watched this season’s Dancing With the Stars to see the tiny dancer tear up the floor. And in today’s media culture, it seems it’s also 100% acceptable to report things you read on twitter as actual news, we’re going to do just that to answer the above question. Louie [...]

Exciting stuff people, a total new comer, Shawn White took top honors at first stop of the 2009/10 Grand Prix series at Copper Mountain! Despite a similar look and style to that flying tomato guy, Shawn White is clearly a new comer, as the superstar spells his name Shaun and Zak would have never screwed [...]

Today the skies are gray, but December 12 for men’s qualifiers, shit was tight. For full coverage and photos, check out crapbyzak.blogspot.com.
Edit: Zak Shelhamer
Results are here.

Bobby “Cat Butt” Meeks, Nick “Love Boat” Lipton, Nick “Beavis” Dirks, and Sean “Cowboy” Tedore at last year’s Nemo-ween party.
Slut Day is just around the corner! Not registering? Halloween is just around the corner! Get ready to stuff your face with chocolate, puke it back up, put your foot through a pumpkin or two, and gaze [...]

After six weeks of fot-trotting, two-stepping and jitterbugging, Louie Vito’s time on Dancing With the Stars came to an end on October 27th. Really, the only emotion to sum it up is

If you’ve been paying attention to snowboarding at all, then you probably know exactly the type of rider featured in FODT/MFM Production’s Hard to Earn. Snow Gangsters, I believe they are called.
But for the sake of humor, let’s pretend to be an out-of-touch person right now. What would their reaction to this movie be? Well, [...]

When I heard a woman had given birth to Jabba the Hut Jr. I knew Todd had to be in the loop. Why? Because Todd had babies once, and he’s seen the whole birthing process. Todd didn’t think it was that funny that a woman had pushed out a monster, he was more sympathetic, but [...]

Talk to Todd Richards and he’ll tell you that he is proud of his family, career, and his tiny dancer. While Louie might not be kicking enough ass over at ABC to get his board graphic shown on national TV, he is in negotiations with Todd to get an O-Matic neck tattoo, or at least [...]

Todd says people love content. Here’s the latest on LV-DWTS in the form of a Tuesday todcast.

Oh man, when will this Louie Vito on Dancing with the Stars thing get old?! Our friends at Updown really went above and beyond our simple recap of his performance with this video of scrapped dance routines. Hey look, it turns out it got old right about now!

Louie lookin’ tough for the ABC cameras.
“Known for his double cork front ten” was Louie’s introduction to the masses watching last night’s Dancing with the Stars. I didn’t even know he had a double cork super spin, but apparently ABC is on top of their game. This game/reality crapshoot of a show is built around [...]

He’s no Jsak, but Louie Vito is the latest pro snowboarder to be cast on the mainstream stage of reality TV.  Whether you think it’s the greatest or the gayest thing you’ve ever heard, Louie is one of 16 stars on this season of Dancing with the Stars. For this Hump Day quickie, we figured [...]

Rumors had previously circulated about an appearance by none other than Louie Vito on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars. We even asked him about it on a past Hump Day. But alas, Louie had been beaten out by some gymnast and snowboarding was once again not that big of a deal. But what’s this? The [...]

Twitter: the perfect medium for the idiocy of action sporty types

Beneath the Ears

photo: Dave Lehl
For this installment of YoBeat Fight Club, we decided to pit Omatic riders Louie Vito and Josh Sherman against each other. Everyone we asked agreed, these two are well matched in height and weight, but the similarities stop there. The predictions were quite mixed. Here’s what people who know them well (and not [...]