Dirksen Derby 2014 Day 1
Stan surveys the scene and is stoked I was too cheap to buy him into the race this year. Less waiting in line, nahmean. This season is off to a slow start in the Northwest. The NOAA forecast looks...
View ArticleDirksen Derby 2014 Finals
Snowboard world has been pretty slow lately, probably because of the lack of snow in many snowboard hot spots such as Utah and the Northwest. Living in Portland is only bearable in the winter because...
View ArticleKael Hill Manifests Hump Day
Kael Hill is one of the best rail riders in the world, but life can definitely get in the way of snowboarding, no matter how good you are. A wild child party animal and known fan of drugs and alcohol,...
View ArticleYobeat’s Year in Review – January 2014
My, my it’s been a crazy year here at Yobeat, as well as in the rest of Board World! There were sex scandals, exotic travel, foreigners with funny accents, a ton of dudes from the Midwest, and that’s...
View ArticleYobeat’s Year in Review: February 2014
As we learned in January, lots of stuff happens every day, all winter long in snowboard world, and February was an especially exciting month because, Olympics! If nothing else, it gave us lots of...
View ArticleYobeat’s Year In Review: March 2014
Often referred to as miraculous, the month when it’s still snowing but the casuals are starting to lose interest, March is big in board world. Here’s what happened in 2014, cause we’re sure your...
View ArticleYobeat’s Year in Review – April-May 2014
With 12 months in the year, we figured we’d better speed this process up by combining some months. So here is the conclusion of Spring 2014. First off, April Fools Day is scary on the Internet, as...
View ArticleFan Mail: Women Do Not Snowboard to be Sexually Harassed
This weekend, Frenchman and France’s third-most famous boarder Arthur Longo posted an Instagram video of himself tapping the asses of ski bunnies as he rode by. If you somehow missed it, better watch...
View ArticleA Long List of Dead Snowboard Brands
Though the snowboard internet has been pretty dead over the past few weeks, what with the holidays and all, but he History of Snowboarding group on Facebook has been a-buzz thanks to a post on dead...
View ArticleBoob Tube: Jamie Anderson on the Celebrity Apprentice S. 7 Ep 1
With the complete lack of snow in Oregon, I have had plenty of free time, with with I’ve been enjoying my other passion: Television! So imagine my excitement over a professional snowboarder being on...
View ArticleBoob Tube: Blackish Goes Boarding
Alright, so no one cares about the Celebrity Apprentice, and since Jamie Anderson was voted off in the last episode, I’ve moved on to other network television shows. Last night, I sat through ABC’s...
View ArticleThe Road to SIA 2015
The Snowsports of America Industry Trade Show kicks off today and being the diligent snowboard reporters that we are, you know we wouldn’t miss it for anything! But this year, since there’s no snow on...
View ArticleSIA 2015 Day 1 in Pictures
I was sitting here thinking, man, what can I say about SIA that I haven’t already written at least 10 times? And then I realized, the title of this post includes the words “in pictures” so I don’t have...
View ArticleThe Last Two Days of SIA 2015
SIA is over for me and man was it a medicore trip. But, if there’s one thing I’ve learned on my voyage of self discovery it’s that, it could always be worse, and drugs can definitely make things...
View ArticleStory Time with Deadlung: What is Tite?
The Tite booth was hopping all weekend at SIA. What is Tite? Short answer, it’s Deadlung’s new belt company. But for the final word on all things Tite, we caught up with Lung himself.
View ArticleSIA 2015… On Acid – Part 1
It can be hard to come up with brilliant and original concepts when covering something like a trade show for what seems like the 400th time. So, we here at Yobeat did what we always do – steal an idea...
View ArticleSnowboarding in South Dakota?
Terry Peak, South Dakota. In case you’ve been living on the East Coast, Europe and/or don’t give a shit, the US West Coast is seriously lacking snow right now. It hasn’t snowed at all in Oregon,...
View ArticleChris Mountjoy’s Determined Hump Day
Chris Mountjoy’s story in snowboarding started in the early days like so many. He discovered snowboarding on the East Coast, went pro, moved to Summit County, and spent years traveling and partying...
View ArticleKael Hill Manifests Hump Day
Kael Hill is one of the best rail riders in the world, but life can definitely get in the way of snowboarding, no matter how good you are. A wild child party animal and known fan of drugs and alcohol,...
View ArticleYobeat’s African Safari
This year, winter pretty much blew off the Northwest. I am not asking for pity, we’ll get ours soon, and shit – Oregon has glaciers and skilled snow farming teams, so don’t dispair – summer shredding...
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