Yobeat’s Top 10 Snowboarders of All Time

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We here are Yobeat are sort of snowboard nerds (in case you weren’t sure.) We all really live for this shit. And accordingly, our ears perked right up when we heard the soothing voice of Ed from Buoloco asking TRice who his top 10 boarders are. Now the news section on this site is I feel, an unappreciated gem, and it’s frequented almost exclusively by old people such as myself (read: 30+) so the lists it has spawned reflect that. However, I wanted to bring it to the greater Yobeat population with this here feature, because it’s a heavy question and it’s very interesting to see all the different answers. Since we all know you care so much about our opinion, here are the staff of Yobeat’s picks:

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Todd Richards. Circa 2000

Brooke

Peter Line
Jamie Lynn
Travis Rice
Gigi Ruf
JP Walker
Terje
David Benedek
Kazu
Todd Richards
Craig Kelly

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Danny Kass, circa who knows when, wearing Kyle Clancy’s badge and holding an Eastern Edge.
Stan/Justin

Travis Parker
Nicolas Muller
Scotty Wittlake
Terje
Travis Rice
Jeremy Jones (rail)
Pat Moore
Chris Bradshaw
Danny Kass
Craig Kelly

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Peter Line at High Cascade circa 1999 (Taken minutes before or after Todd’s)

JPark

Peter Line
Tarquin Robbins
Craig Kelly
Jeff Anderson
Terje
Devun Walsh
Scotty Wittlake
Travis Parker
Jamie Lynn
Gigi Ruf

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Pat Moore on the Forum or Against Em Tour.

Alexa McCarty (honorable employee)

Kazu
Travis Rice
Terje Haakonseen
Danny Kass
Pat Moore
Chris Bradshaw
Jamie Lynn
Dylan Thompson
Halldor Helgason
Todd Richards

Ok, go. Or check out other people’s lists here.

Also, we should take more promo shots.

  1. wut no shaun white?

    LOL.

  2. ya right

    Scotty Wittlake rips

  3. the rail generation

    is scott stevens really not worthy?

  4. saywha?

    no atchaboi? shenanigans.

  5. Nwnick

    Salasnek
    Cardiel
    Roach
    Todd
    Craig
    Rice
    Jp
    Jaime
    Guch
    Louif

  6. Satan

    The fuck…Bjorn isn’t mentioned once? And don’t get me wrong, Bradshaw is sick, but he doesn’t deserve a spot on anybody’s list over someone like Jed or Stevens.

  7. Shreds use

    Once again the YO beat staff who can’t ride at all and just spend their time talking smack can’t put a real list together to save their lives.

    First off shaun white is def on that list whether you like him or not and guys like Pat M, Scotty W and Dylan T don’t even come close to making the list. And ummm have you ever heard of shun Palmer?

    Yobeat sucks and that’s why nobody thier garbage.

  8. Satan

    Terje
    Nicolas Muller
    Gigi
    Craig Kelly
    Bjorn Leines
    Jamie Lynn
    Travis Rice
    Jake Blauvelt
    Scott Stevens
    Jed Anderson

  9. Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad

    y’all aint got no love for Jim Rippey? Dave Downing? Todd Schlosser? TSSSSSSS!

  10. upstatemike.

    R U SHUN PALMER??

  11. Finally

    Kazu.

  12. Nwnick

    Downing! How could I forget! His part in lost in transition was so sick

  13. ESPN

    Kier Dillon.

  14. Shaun White

    I guess I’m better known for being a rock star now!

  15. Shaun White

    Make your own blog and then you can post your own fucking list. Anyway fuck Yobeat lets go practice our boot grabs.

  16. JP Walker

    Peter Line
    Xavier de La Rue
    Jeremy Jones (Backcountry)
    JP Walker (Me)
    Travis Rice
    Craig Kelly
    Gigi Ruf
    Nicolas Müller
    Jamie Lynn
    Terje Haakonseen
    Pat Moore

  17. Yo

    Gigi
    Mikkel
    Muller
    Terje
    Travis
    Kazu
    Blauvelt
    Keegan
    Furguson

  18. Kazu

    Why am I on the list, twice? Is it an inside joke? I’m confused. I’m surely not bad at snowboarding and have been fairly popular over the last decade, but I’m not worthy of being in these ranks. Did you mean to say Bryan Iguchi? Maybe you are getting us confused?

  19. upstatemike.

    I’d be curious to see what the lists would look like if you asked 10 random people at Hood this summer. From campers to old legends to whoever is passed out in the Caked RV at the time…would be interesting.

  20. pure hate

    Damn alexa did you start snowboarding yesterday? Worst list ever. Attention yobeat staff, your fucking stupid and you know nothing about snowboarding.

  21. yobeat

    you just made this article so you could make a video of the best comments didnt you

  22. Justin's bong

    Pat Moore makes it every time ass hat

  23. dave

    How about Shaun Fucking Palmer? And no Salasnek? Travis blew both of those as well.

  24. What tha fuck

    Bradshaw
    Magoon
    Magoon
    Magoon
    Magoon
    Magoon
    Magoon
    Magoon
    Kael Hill
    Deadlung

  25. WTF

    Your names rail generation, scott stevens is in the Park Bench generation.

  26. WTF

    How can you even try put Scott Stevens on this list? He films one foots on park benches, when half these dudes are badass powder hounds…Scott Stevens isn’t even top 10 today.

  27. Dylan Thompson? Really?

  28. HaterMcBaiter

    Good thing you left MFM off the list. He probably try to get you to invest in a pyramid scheme.

  29. You do understand this is a list of a single persons top 10 right? It’s going to be subjective.

  30. little dick vick

    nah son, dylan thompson got second place to denis bonus for most 540’s onto rails

  31. drunk brendon rego

    this list is in order, best in the history of snowboarding
    1.brendon rego
    2.mike ravelson
    3.ian hart
    4.dylan dragotta
    5.scott mccurdy
    6.chase chicone
    7.devon therrion
    8.dennis filteau
    9.bar dadon
    10.chrissy carelli

  32. haha

    stan u should get your ass kicked for putting (rail) jeremy jones on your list

  33. rail generation

    Patchwork Patterns son

  34. new #blackdonald

    dylan gamache

  35. any list without Peter lIne is without merit.

  36. Dr. Brule

    The fact that Halldor Helgason is on that list is fucking wack. How stupid can you be that you would think Halldor has been more influential than fucking Craig Kelly or Shaun Palmer. Educate yo self BITCH

  37. your pics of Todd Richards and Peter Line say different years, 1999 and 2000 but in the caption it says they were taken at the same time, looks like the same balcony. Just curious…. and any list should include Peter Line and Mark Frank

  38. liveaction

    guch
    palmer
    mfm
    craig kelly
    roach
    t rice
    j jones(big mntn)
    terje
    salasnek
    dimarchi

  39. Bob the Janitor

    Yobeat went full retard on this one. Jed danimals and frank april have to have a whos dick is bigger contest to see who gets the spot on my list around 8 or 9 for heavy heavy heavy style, Scott stevens (mad respect) but hell no, maybe top 50. Hate jp but he is like 5, hate shaun white but he easily makes the list so ill put him at 10, noah s, roach, peter line, muller, def not corey “sellout” smith, jamie lynn, palmer, maybe magoon post head injury, kazu for sure, idk its basically impossible to only do a list of ten, fuk yobeat haha

  40. Blaxmyonsballsack

    Really justin? No Scott Stevens? How are we sapost to rep western mass?

  41. WTF

    Yea i know. I’m just sick of people acting like scott stevens is the best in snowboarding, when he just fucks around and has fun, and doesn’t do any legit tricks anymore.

  42. oscar

    Cardiel!

  43. PRAD

    B.Leines, T. Parker, Clancy, Pat Moore, Whittlake, JP, Line, Rice, Lynn and Chad Otterstrom!

  44. third man

    pretty standard list here, but very difficult to rank only 10

    terje
    rice
    muller
    kelly
    guch
    parker
    line
    gigi
    jones (bigmtn)
    john j

  45. John

    Bode???

  46. He$h

    Ben Maki (American Jack)
    Robert Bench
    Erik Leon
    Jay Hergert
    Morgan Rose (Coonhead)
    Garret Read
    Riley Goodwin
    Bo Valencia (in a man thong)
    “Soul Shredder”
    Guy that lives in his RV in the Skibowl east lot that bought me beer when I was 16

  47. The Truth

    any list that excludes travis parker is invalid

  48. Poopsticks

    I’d be more interested to hear Shaun white’s top ten.

  49. tsm

    yoooo fuck palmer.. you all are crazy.

  50. F.O.D.T

    wheres MAGOON

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