Yobeat’s Year in Review – January 2014

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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 just us! Anyway… because we have a very short collective memory and try to stay on the pulse of what’s happening in the snowboard world, we will of course be using our old posts to jog our memory.

January

We kicked off the year with a Hump Day with Denis “Bonus” Leyontev, who is cool, for a Russian. Yobeaters fanned their hate/love affair with Summit County when a questionable Bet You Can’t came out of Keystone. We got to go to Big Sky, Montana for the Smash Life banked slalom where Stan beat me. He would also do the same at Alpental, WA for the second stop, and win the media pool! BTW – Smash Life is happening again at Big Sky and Alpental this year and registration is open!

The 2014 Real Snow videos dropped, but someone would later rig the vote, ruining for everyone. Tim Eddy and Taylor Carlton went ultimate split boarding and it was really funny, but not as funny as skier nut shots  or the the lead up to the Olympics. Forest Bailey was crowned Yobeat’s Rider of The Year by you, the reader. Smokin added GBP Snowboards and Nial Romanek to its program. Ashbury tapped the Euro Market with Benny Urban. It was also a big month for snowboot boot brands adding team riders. ThirtyTwo picked up Jeremy Jones (the other one got silently cut from the big B recently, so no need to specify), Vans kept it core with Jake Kuyzk and Celsius grabbed Nick Dirks (ironically, while he was simultaneously getting dropped from K2.)

The talks of snowboarding being doomed really kicked with this article on in Outside. Todd Richards bitched out Bob Costas.  Shaun White dropped his self-filmed documentary.Strange Brew went to Trollhaugen and Yawgoo Valley.   I went to ISPO (European SIA),which I officially deemed better than SIA (but what isn’t better in Europe these days?) Yawgoons finally dropped their first edit of the seasonat the end of the month, and yep, they’re sick.

Seeing as we posted A LOT of shit and I wouldn’t want any one to have to read anything too long, I might as well spread these out a bit. Stay tuned for the rest of the year as I write them all week long! In fact, here’s February.

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  1. snatch

    this…might actually be a good series.

    maybe

  2. 666

    TRIPLE C SHRED SQUAD

  3. Serious Question

    What’s worse:
    A skier wearing burton or
    a snowboarder wearing saga

  4. Butthead

    Wait dirks got dropped from k2

  5. Trillbo Swaggins

    for real though when are the new yawgoons edits dropping

  6. kittenpuncher

    Nick Dirks is a chode gazer. Typical hipster, do yourself a favor and go ride your chopped motorcycle off of a cliff.

  7. Timwindells'ballsack

    Nick Dirks kills street year after year, go watch a park edit, you lame.

  8. kittenpuncher

    As a human being he sucks not as a snowboarder.

  9. TROOF

    MAYBES RULE.

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