Brooke Geery

General

Closer to God

If you've been to my house, then you've no doubt commented on the neighborhood eyesore, a.k.a. the Apostolic Faith church. When I was house shopping, I almost didn't come look at my house. Not because of its proximity to the church, but because it really didn't look like much in the pictures. But I figured why not, and the real estate agent brought me in from the east, so I never laid eyes on the church until after I had already toured my house and decided it was the one. Of course, when I left the house, I made it a point to drive out the opposite direction to check…
Read More

The Future is Now

I am a big fan of making web videos. Not so much of watching them, but I love to make them and post them and then watch the traffic add up. But my issue with Youtube is that whole 100 mb limit. Unless your video is 30 seconds long, it's near impossible to make it look like anything other than crap when you compress it to under 100 mb. And never fail I would export my finished video to find it was 101 mb, meaning I would have to lower the quality even more to get it to load. It was a travesty really. But everything has changed now that…
Read More

Back tracking

 I though this would be a fitting follow up to my last post, filled with useful advice as to how to bolster a career. You see, this is a good example of what NOT to do, but man, it made me laugh so hard. Perhaps I've mentioned the relaunch of YoBeat (ten times.) Well the thing about YoBeat is it is purposely brutal. Snowboarding needs a honest, independent publication, and well, I'm not always known for my positivity. Yobeat is a place to say exactly what I think and feel. As I've gotten older I've mellowed slightly, so sometimes I may try a little too hard to be edgy. Such…
Read More

“Making it”

I don’t know when it happened, but it seems I’ve become one of the people in snowboard “journalism” others look up to. When I was just starting out it was people like Dave England, Dave Carnie and yeah, even Pat Bridges for me. I still have a hard time feeling good about comparing myself to these people (and not just cause I am a girl) but it seems like are some people out there who would. One thing all these guys shared, other than being funny dudes, was that I was a little bit afraid of them. Pat used to invite me to breakfast and I would show up to…
Read More

The Aftermath

How does a bad trip get even worse? When it gets really, really expensive. Around day three things were ok, after all, it was almost over. I thought I might escape from Canada unscathed. The contest had just wrapped up and I was joyfully skipping to my car. Since wakeskaters are all 19 and can't rent cars, a few of them had asked me for a ride back to the hotel. I set my camera bag, tripod and water housing on the ground next to my car so that the teens could put their boards and bags in the trunk first, then sat in the car. I half forgot about…
Read More

Worst Trip Ever?

  I've been on a few bad trips. They all have some things in common, such as limited/poor selection in music, weird foreign places, and a bunch of assholes. I am on another trip that may go down in the anals of my vacation memories, this one to outside Toronto. I am here for a wakeskate contest, where I am pretty much the sole member of the press. Well, there are other people here but no one seems to be working that hard. I've been sitting in the hotel bar (there's no internet in our rooms) for at least six hours. Editing, writing, video, photo, etc. All I've got to…
Read More

Trifecta, Trifecta and more Trifecta

This whole YoBeat thing is sort of inconvenient, since I now have ANOTHER website to update.  But I just trained intern to update, since I am leaving for Canada tomorrow and will be in wakeskate world for the whole week. Hopefully he doesn't blow it and I will be able to delegate more of the updates to him. Either way, I actually put some effort into today's post, about the Oregon Trifecta. Meaning I edited a video. It's not my best work, but it has it's moments. You can check out the whole YoBeat post here. I also did a blog for Fuel.tv which is a lot wordier. You can…
Read More

Bad Internet Day

I was an early adopter of the internet, and like any one who's been around something for awhile, I think it's crazy how much it's changed. But one thing hasn't changed, and that's how much fun it is for some people to be anonymous assholes. I'll admit, I used to try and stir shit up in the Snowboarding Online chat rooms when I was a teen, so I understand exactly what is going through people's heads. For the most part it's harmless, but after all the intern drama on Alliancewakeskate.com, one of my contribs sent me this article and I got a little scared. I mean, I like my identity…
Read More

Holmes Would Not Approve

Another fun weekend of home improvement. In order to avoid the massive hype that would surely ensue after the launch of YoBeat, I figured it would be best to just stay home anyway. That and I had a pile of lumber and a bunch of new windows just sitting around. Now if you know me, you may know I am sort of a spazz and patience isn't one of my better qualities. Instead of waiting until I had everything and doing it all at once, I insisted on putting the french doors as soon as we got them a few weeks ago. Apparently this t-111 siding has to lock together…
Read More

Yobeat is Back!

What big news I mentioned? here is the official release: Snowboarding’s original blog, Yobeat.com, relaunched on August 8, 2008 in celebration of its 11th anniversary. Actually the relaunch had nothing to do with the date or the anniversary. That’s just when it was done. Yobeat.com started in 1997, the brainchild of Brooke Geery and Rachel Cotton. Over the past eleven years it has gone through many incarnations, ruffled feathers, been banned from major events and of course, entertained anyone doing a google search for Macho Man Randy Savage or snowboard parks. The original philosophy of Yobeat was to tell it like it is, and that remains unchanged. Sure, not everyone…
Read More

Closer to God

If you've been to my house, then you've no doubt commented on the neighborhood eyesore, a.k.a. the Apostolic Faith church. When I was house shopping, I almost didn't come look at my house. Not because of its proximity to the church, but because it really didn't look like much in the pictures. But I figured why not, and the real estate agent brought me in from the east, so I never laid eyes on the church until after I had already toured my house and decided it was the one. Of course, when I left the house, I made it a point to drive out the opposite direction to check…
Read More

The Future is Now

I am a big fan of making web videos. Not so much of watching them, but I love to make them and post them and then watch the traffic add up. But my issue with Youtube is that whole 100 mb limit. Unless your video is 30 seconds long, it's near impossible to make it look like anything other than crap when you compress it to under 100 mb. And never fail I would export my finished video to find it was 101 mb, meaning I would have to lower the quality even more to get it to load. It was a travesty really. But everything has changed now that…
Read More

Back tracking

 I though this would be a fitting follow up to my last post, filled with useful advice as to how to bolster a career. You see, this is a good example of what NOT to do, but man, it made me laugh so hard. Perhaps I've mentioned the relaunch of YoBeat (ten times.) Well the thing about YoBeat is it is purposely brutal. Snowboarding needs a honest, independent publication, and well, I'm not always known for my positivity. Yobeat is a place to say exactly what I think and feel. As I've gotten older I've mellowed slightly, so sometimes I may try a little too hard to be edgy. Such…
Read More

“Making it”

I don’t know when it happened, but it seems I’ve become one of the people in snowboard “journalism” others look up to. When I was just starting out it was people like Dave England, Dave Carnie and yeah, even Pat Bridges for me. I still have a hard time feeling good about comparing myself to these people (and not just cause I am a girl) but it seems like are some people out there who would. One thing all these guys shared, other than being funny dudes, was that I was a little bit afraid of them. Pat used to invite me to breakfast and I would show up to…
Read More

The Aftermath

How does a bad trip get even worse? When it gets really, really expensive. Around day three things were ok, after all, it was almost over. I thought I might escape from Canada unscathed. The contest had just wrapped up and I was joyfully skipping to my car. Since wakeskaters are all 19 and can't rent cars, a few of them had asked me for a ride back to the hotel. I set my camera bag, tripod and water housing on the ground next to my car so that the teens could put their boards and bags in the trunk first, then sat in the car. I half forgot about…
Read More

Worst Trip Ever?

  I've been on a few bad trips. They all have some things in common, such as limited/poor selection in music, weird foreign places, and a bunch of assholes. I am on another trip that may go down in the anals of my vacation memories, this one to outside Toronto. I am here for a wakeskate contest, where I am pretty much the sole member of the press. Well, there are other people here but no one seems to be working that hard. I've been sitting in the hotel bar (there's no internet in our rooms) for at least six hours. Editing, writing, video, photo, etc. All I've got to…
Read More

Trifecta, Trifecta and more Trifecta

This whole YoBeat thing is sort of inconvenient, since I now have ANOTHER website to update.  But I just trained intern to update, since I am leaving for Canada tomorrow and will be in wakeskate world for the whole week. Hopefully he doesn't blow it and I will be able to delegate more of the updates to him. Either way, I actually put some effort into today's post, about the Oregon Trifecta. Meaning I edited a video. It's not my best work, but it has it's moments. You can check out the whole YoBeat post here. I also did a blog for Fuel.tv which is a lot wordier. You can…
Read More

Bad Internet Day

I was an early adopter of the internet, and like any one who's been around something for awhile, I think it's crazy how much it's changed. But one thing hasn't changed, and that's how much fun it is for some people to be anonymous assholes. I'll admit, I used to try and stir shit up in the Snowboarding Online chat rooms when I was a teen, so I understand exactly what is going through people's heads. For the most part it's harmless, but after all the intern drama on Alliancewakeskate.com, one of my contribs sent me this article and I got a little scared. I mean, I like my identity…
Read More

Holmes Would Not Approve

Another fun weekend of home improvement. In order to avoid the massive hype that would surely ensue after the launch of YoBeat, I figured it would be best to just stay home anyway. That and I had a pile of lumber and a bunch of new windows just sitting around. Now if you know me, you may know I am sort of a spazz and patience isn't one of my better qualities. Instead of waiting until I had everything and doing it all at once, I insisted on putting the french doors as soon as we got them a few weeks ago. Apparently this t-111 siding has to lock together…
Read More

Yobeat is Back!

What big news I mentioned? here is the official release: Snowboarding’s original blog, Yobeat.com, relaunched on August 8, 2008 in celebration of its 11th anniversary. Actually the relaunch had nothing to do with the date or the anniversary. That’s just when it was done. Yobeat.com started in 1997, the brainchild of Brooke Geery and Rachel Cotton. Over the past eleven years it has gone through many incarnations, ruffled feathers, been banned from major events and of course, entertained anyone doing a google search for Macho Man Randy Savage or snowboard parks. The original philosophy of Yobeat was to tell it like it is, and that remains unchanged. Sure, not everyone…
Read More

Closer to God

If you've been to my house, then you've no doubt commented on the neighborhood eyesore, a.k.a. the Apostolic Faith church. When I was house shopping, I almost didn't come look at my house. Not because of its proximity to the church, but because it really didn't look like much in the pictures. But I figured why not, and the real estate agent brought me in from the east, so I never laid eyes on the church until after I had already toured my house and decided it was the one. Of course, when I left the house, I made it a point to drive out the opposite direction to check…
Read More

The Future is Now

I am a big fan of making web videos. Not so much of watching them, but I love to make them and post them and then watch the traffic add up. But my issue with Youtube is that whole 100 mb limit. Unless your video is 30 seconds long, it's near impossible to make it look like anything other than crap when you compress it to under 100 mb. And never fail I would export my finished video to find it was 101 mb, meaning I would have to lower the quality even more to get it to load. It was a travesty really. But everything has changed now that…
Read More

Back tracking

 I though this would be a fitting follow up to my last post, filled with useful advice as to how to bolster a career. You see, this is a good example of what NOT to do, but man, it made me laugh so hard. Perhaps I've mentioned the relaunch of YoBeat (ten times.) Well the thing about YoBeat is it is purposely brutal. Snowboarding needs a honest, independent publication, and well, I'm not always known for my positivity. Yobeat is a place to say exactly what I think and feel. As I've gotten older I've mellowed slightly, so sometimes I may try a little too hard to be edgy. Such…
Read More

“Making it”

I don’t know when it happened, but it seems I’ve become one of the people in snowboard “journalism” others look up to. When I was just starting out it was people like Dave England, Dave Carnie and yeah, even Pat Bridges for me. I still have a hard time feeling good about comparing myself to these people (and not just cause I am a girl) but it seems like are some people out there who would. One thing all these guys shared, other than being funny dudes, was that I was a little bit afraid of them. Pat used to invite me to breakfast and I would show up to…
Read More

The Aftermath

How does a bad trip get even worse? When it gets really, really expensive. Around day three things were ok, after all, it was almost over. I thought I might escape from Canada unscathed. The contest had just wrapped up and I was joyfully skipping to my car. Since wakeskaters are all 19 and can't rent cars, a few of them had asked me for a ride back to the hotel. I set my camera bag, tripod and water housing on the ground next to my car so that the teens could put their boards and bags in the trunk first, then sat in the car. I half forgot about…
Read More

Worst Trip Ever?

  I've been on a few bad trips. They all have some things in common, such as limited/poor selection in music, weird foreign places, and a bunch of assholes. I am on another trip that may go down in the anals of my vacation memories, this one to outside Toronto. I am here for a wakeskate contest, where I am pretty much the sole member of the press. Well, there are other people here but no one seems to be working that hard. I've been sitting in the hotel bar (there's no internet in our rooms) for at least six hours. Editing, writing, video, photo, etc. All I've got to…
Read More

Trifecta, Trifecta and more Trifecta

This whole YoBeat thing is sort of inconvenient, since I now have ANOTHER website to update.  But I just trained intern to update, since I am leaving for Canada tomorrow and will be in wakeskate world for the whole week. Hopefully he doesn't blow it and I will be able to delegate more of the updates to him. Either way, I actually put some effort into today's post, about the Oregon Trifecta. Meaning I edited a video. It's not my best work, but it has it's moments. You can check out the whole YoBeat post here. I also did a blog for Fuel.tv which is a lot wordier. You can…
Read More

Bad Internet Day

I was an early adopter of the internet, and like any one who's been around something for awhile, I think it's crazy how much it's changed. But one thing hasn't changed, and that's how much fun it is for some people to be anonymous assholes. I'll admit, I used to try and stir shit up in the Snowboarding Online chat rooms when I was a teen, so I understand exactly what is going through people's heads. For the most part it's harmless, but after all the intern drama on Alliancewakeskate.com, one of my contribs sent me this article and I got a little scared. I mean, I like my identity…
Read More

Holmes Would Not Approve

Another fun weekend of home improvement. In order to avoid the massive hype that would surely ensue after the launch of YoBeat, I figured it would be best to just stay home anyway. That and I had a pile of lumber and a bunch of new windows just sitting around. Now if you know me, you may know I am sort of a spazz and patience isn't one of my better qualities. Instead of waiting until I had everything and doing it all at once, I insisted on putting the french doors as soon as we got them a few weeks ago. Apparently this t-111 siding has to lock together…
Read More

Yobeat is Back!

What big news I mentioned? here is the official release: Snowboarding’s original blog, Yobeat.com, relaunched on August 8, 2008 in celebration of its 11th anniversary. Actually the relaunch had nothing to do with the date or the anniversary. That’s just when it was done. Yobeat.com started in 1997, the brainchild of Brooke Geery and Rachel Cotton. Over the past eleven years it has gone through many incarnations, ruffled feathers, been banned from major events and of course, entertained anyone doing a google search for Macho Man Randy Savage or snowboard parks. The original philosophy of Yobeat was to tell it like it is, and that remains unchanged. Sure, not everyone…
Read More

Closer to God

If you've been to my house, then you've no doubt commented on the neighborhood eyesore, a.k.a. the Apostolic Faith church. When I was house shopping, I almost didn't come look at my house. Not because of its proximity to the church, but because it really didn't look like much in the pictures. But I figured why not, and the real estate agent brought me in from the east, so I never laid eyes on the church until after I had already toured my house and decided it was the one. Of course, when I left the house, I made it a point to drive out the opposite direction to check…
Read More

The Future is Now

I am a big fan of making web videos. Not so much of watching them, but I love to make them and post them and then watch the traffic add up. But my issue with Youtube is that whole 100 mb limit. Unless your video is 30 seconds long, it's near impossible to make it look like anything other than crap when you compress it to under 100 mb. And never fail I would export my finished video to find it was 101 mb, meaning I would have to lower the quality even more to get it to load. It was a travesty really. But everything has changed now that…
Read More

Back tracking

 I though this would be a fitting follow up to my last post, filled with useful advice as to how to bolster a career. You see, this is a good example of what NOT to do, but man, it made me laugh so hard. Perhaps I've mentioned the relaunch of YoBeat (ten times.) Well the thing about YoBeat is it is purposely brutal. Snowboarding needs a honest, independent publication, and well, I'm not always known for my positivity. Yobeat is a place to say exactly what I think and feel. As I've gotten older I've mellowed slightly, so sometimes I may try a little too hard to be edgy. Such…
Read More

“Making it”

I don’t know when it happened, but it seems I’ve become one of the people in snowboard “journalism” others look up to. When I was just starting out it was people like Dave England, Dave Carnie and yeah, even Pat Bridges for me. I still have a hard time feeling good about comparing myself to these people (and not just cause I am a girl) but it seems like are some people out there who would. One thing all these guys shared, other than being funny dudes, was that I was a little bit afraid of them. Pat used to invite me to breakfast and I would show up to…
Read More

The Aftermath

How does a bad trip get even worse? When it gets really, really expensive. Around day three things were ok, after all, it was almost over. I thought I might escape from Canada unscathed. The contest had just wrapped up and I was joyfully skipping to my car. Since wakeskaters are all 19 and can't rent cars, a few of them had asked me for a ride back to the hotel. I set my camera bag, tripod and water housing on the ground next to my car so that the teens could put their boards and bags in the trunk first, then sat in the car. I half forgot about…
Read More

Worst Trip Ever?

  I've been on a few bad trips. They all have some things in common, such as limited/poor selection in music, weird foreign places, and a bunch of assholes. I am on another trip that may go down in the anals of my vacation memories, this one to outside Toronto. I am here for a wakeskate contest, where I am pretty much the sole member of the press. Well, there are other people here but no one seems to be working that hard. I've been sitting in the hotel bar (there's no internet in our rooms) for at least six hours. Editing, writing, video, photo, etc. All I've got to…
Read More

Trifecta, Trifecta and more Trifecta

This whole YoBeat thing is sort of inconvenient, since I now have ANOTHER website to update.  But I just trained intern to update, since I am leaving for Canada tomorrow and will be in wakeskate world for the whole week. Hopefully he doesn't blow it and I will be able to delegate more of the updates to him. Either way, I actually put some effort into today's post, about the Oregon Trifecta. Meaning I edited a video. It's not my best work, but it has it's moments. You can check out the whole YoBeat post here. I also did a blog for Fuel.tv which is a lot wordier. You can…
Read More

Bad Internet Day

I was an early adopter of the internet, and like any one who's been around something for awhile, I think it's crazy how much it's changed. But one thing hasn't changed, and that's how much fun it is for some people to be anonymous assholes. I'll admit, I used to try and stir shit up in the Snowboarding Online chat rooms when I was a teen, so I understand exactly what is going through people's heads. For the most part it's harmless, but after all the intern drama on Alliancewakeskate.com, one of my contribs sent me this article and I got a little scared. I mean, I like my identity…
Read More

Holmes Would Not Approve

Another fun weekend of home improvement. In order to avoid the massive hype that would surely ensue after the launch of YoBeat, I figured it would be best to just stay home anyway. That and I had a pile of lumber and a bunch of new windows just sitting around. Now if you know me, you may know I am sort of a spazz and patience isn't one of my better qualities. Instead of waiting until I had everything and doing it all at once, I insisted on putting the french doors as soon as we got them a few weeks ago. Apparently this t-111 siding has to lock together…
Read More

Yobeat is Back!

What big news I mentioned? here is the official release: Snowboarding’s original blog, Yobeat.com, relaunched on August 8, 2008 in celebration of its 11th anniversary. Actually the relaunch had nothing to do with the date or the anniversary. That’s just when it was done. Yobeat.com started in 1997, the brainchild of Brooke Geery and Rachel Cotton. Over the past eleven years it has gone through many incarnations, ruffled feathers, been banned from major events and of course, entertained anyone doing a google search for Macho Man Randy Savage or snowboard parks. The original philosophy of Yobeat was to tell it like it is, and that remains unchanged. Sure, not everyone…
Read More

Closer to God

If you've been to my house, then you've no doubt commented on the neighborhood eyesore, a.k.a. the Apostolic Faith church. When I was house shopping, I almost didn't come look at my house. Not because of its proximity to the church, but because it really didn't look like much in the pictures. But I figured why not, and the real estate agent brought me in from the east, so I never laid eyes on the church until after I had already toured my house and decided it was the one. Of course, when I left the house, I made it a point to drive out the opposite direction to check…
Read More

The Future is Now

I am a big fan of making web videos. Not so much of watching them, but I love to make them and post them and then watch the traffic add up. But my issue with Youtube is that whole 100 mb limit. Unless your video is 30 seconds long, it's near impossible to make it look like anything other than crap when you compress it to under 100 mb. And never fail I would export my finished video to find it was 101 mb, meaning I would have to lower the quality even more to get it to load. It was a travesty really. But everything has changed now that…
Read More

Back tracking

 I though this would be a fitting follow up to my last post, filled with useful advice as to how to bolster a career. You see, this is a good example of what NOT to do, but man, it made me laugh so hard. Perhaps I've mentioned the relaunch of YoBeat (ten times.) Well the thing about YoBeat is it is purposely brutal. Snowboarding needs a honest, independent publication, and well, I'm not always known for my positivity. Yobeat is a place to say exactly what I think and feel. As I've gotten older I've mellowed slightly, so sometimes I may try a little too hard to be edgy. Such…
Read More

“Making it”

I don’t know when it happened, but it seems I’ve become one of the people in snowboard “journalism” others look up to. When I was just starting out it was people like Dave England, Dave Carnie and yeah, even Pat Bridges for me. I still have a hard time feeling good about comparing myself to these people (and not just cause I am a girl) but it seems like are some people out there who would. One thing all these guys shared, other than being funny dudes, was that I was a little bit afraid of them. Pat used to invite me to breakfast and I would show up to…
Read More

The Aftermath

How does a bad trip get even worse? When it gets really, really expensive. Around day three things were ok, after all, it was almost over. I thought I might escape from Canada unscathed. The contest had just wrapped up and I was joyfully skipping to my car. Since wakeskaters are all 19 and can't rent cars, a few of them had asked me for a ride back to the hotel. I set my camera bag, tripod and water housing on the ground next to my car so that the teens could put their boards and bags in the trunk first, then sat in the car. I half forgot about…
Read More

Worst Trip Ever?

  I've been on a few bad trips. They all have some things in common, such as limited/poor selection in music, weird foreign places, and a bunch of assholes. I am on another trip that may go down in the anals of my vacation memories, this one to outside Toronto. I am here for a wakeskate contest, where I am pretty much the sole member of the press. Well, there are other people here but no one seems to be working that hard. I've been sitting in the hotel bar (there's no internet in our rooms) for at least six hours. Editing, writing, video, photo, etc. All I've got to…
Read More

Trifecta, Trifecta and more Trifecta

This whole YoBeat thing is sort of inconvenient, since I now have ANOTHER website to update.  But I just trained intern to update, since I am leaving for Canada tomorrow and will be in wakeskate world for the whole week. Hopefully he doesn't blow it and I will be able to delegate more of the updates to him. Either way, I actually put some effort into today's post, about the Oregon Trifecta. Meaning I edited a video. It's not my best work, but it has it's moments. You can check out the whole YoBeat post here. I also did a blog for Fuel.tv which is a lot wordier. You can…
Read More

Bad Internet Day

I was an early adopter of the internet, and like any one who's been around something for awhile, I think it's crazy how much it's changed. But one thing hasn't changed, and that's how much fun it is for some people to be anonymous assholes. I'll admit, I used to try and stir shit up in the Snowboarding Online chat rooms when I was a teen, so I understand exactly what is going through people's heads. For the most part it's harmless, but after all the intern drama on Alliancewakeskate.com, one of my contribs sent me this article and I got a little scared. I mean, I like my identity…
Read More

Holmes Would Not Approve

Another fun weekend of home improvement. In order to avoid the massive hype that would surely ensue after the launch of YoBeat, I figured it would be best to just stay home anyway. That and I had a pile of lumber and a bunch of new windows just sitting around. Now if you know me, you may know I am sort of a spazz and patience isn't one of my better qualities. Instead of waiting until I had everything and doing it all at once, I insisted on putting the french doors as soon as we got them a few weeks ago. Apparently this t-111 siding has to lock together…
Read More

Yobeat is Back!

What big news I mentioned? here is the official release: Snowboarding’s original blog, Yobeat.com, relaunched on August 8, 2008 in celebration of its 11th anniversary. Actually the relaunch had nothing to do with the date or the anniversary. That’s just when it was done. Yobeat.com started in 1997, the brainchild of Brooke Geery and Rachel Cotton. Over the past eleven years it has gone through many incarnations, ruffled feathers, been banned from major events and of course, entertained anyone doing a google search for Macho Man Randy Savage or snowboard parks. The original philosophy of Yobeat was to tell it like it is, and that remains unchanged. Sure, not everyone…
Read More

Closer to God

If you've been to my house, then you've no doubt commented on the neighborhood eyesore, a.k.a. the Apostolic Faith church. When I was house shopping, I almost didn't come look at my house. Not because of its proximity to the church, but because it really didn't look like much in the pictures. But I figured why not, and the real estate agent brought me in from the east, so I never laid eyes on the church until after I had already toured my house and decided it was the one. Of course, when I left the house, I made it a point to drive out the opposite direction to check…
Read More

The Future is Now

I am a big fan of making web videos. Not so much of watching them, but I love to make them and post them and then watch the traffic add up. But my issue with Youtube is that whole 100 mb limit. Unless your video is 30 seconds long, it's near impossible to make it look like anything other than crap when you compress it to under 100 mb. And never fail I would export my finished video to find it was 101 mb, meaning I would have to lower the quality even more to get it to load. It was a travesty really. But everything has changed now that…
Read More

Back tracking

 I though this would be a fitting follow up to my last post, filled with useful advice as to how to bolster a career. You see, this is a good example of what NOT to do, but man, it made me laugh so hard. Perhaps I've mentioned the relaunch of YoBeat (ten times.) Well the thing about YoBeat is it is purposely brutal. Snowboarding needs a honest, independent publication, and well, I'm not always known for my positivity. Yobeat is a place to say exactly what I think and feel. As I've gotten older I've mellowed slightly, so sometimes I may try a little too hard to be edgy. Such…
Read More

“Making it”

I don’t know when it happened, but it seems I’ve become one of the people in snowboard “journalism” others look up to. When I was just starting out it was people like Dave England, Dave Carnie and yeah, even Pat Bridges for me. I still have a hard time feeling good about comparing myself to these people (and not just cause I am a girl) but it seems like are some people out there who would. One thing all these guys shared, other than being funny dudes, was that I was a little bit afraid of them. Pat used to invite me to breakfast and I would show up to…
Read More

The Aftermath

How does a bad trip get even worse? When it gets really, really expensive. Around day three things were ok, after all, it was almost over. I thought I might escape from Canada unscathed. The contest had just wrapped up and I was joyfully skipping to my car. Since wakeskaters are all 19 and can't rent cars, a few of them had asked me for a ride back to the hotel. I set my camera bag, tripod and water housing on the ground next to my car so that the teens could put their boards and bags in the trunk first, then sat in the car. I half forgot about…
Read More

Worst Trip Ever?

  I've been on a few bad trips. They all have some things in common, such as limited/poor selection in music, weird foreign places, and a bunch of assholes. I am on another trip that may go down in the anals of my vacation memories, this one to outside Toronto. I am here for a wakeskate contest, where I am pretty much the sole member of the press. Well, there are other people here but no one seems to be working that hard. I've been sitting in the hotel bar (there's no internet in our rooms) for at least six hours. Editing, writing, video, photo, etc. All I've got to…
Read More

Trifecta, Trifecta and more Trifecta

This whole YoBeat thing is sort of inconvenient, since I now have ANOTHER website to update.  But I just trained intern to update, since I am leaving for Canada tomorrow and will be in wakeskate world for the whole week. Hopefully he doesn't blow it and I will be able to delegate more of the updates to him. Either way, I actually put some effort into today's post, about the Oregon Trifecta. Meaning I edited a video. It's not my best work, but it has it's moments. You can check out the whole YoBeat post here. I also did a blog for Fuel.tv which is a lot wordier. You can…
Read More

Bad Internet Day

I was an early adopter of the internet, and like any one who's been around something for awhile, I think it's crazy how much it's changed. But one thing hasn't changed, and that's how much fun it is for some people to be anonymous assholes. I'll admit, I used to try and stir shit up in the Snowboarding Online chat rooms when I was a teen, so I understand exactly what is going through people's heads. For the most part it's harmless, but after all the intern drama on Alliancewakeskate.com, one of my contribs sent me this article and I got a little scared. I mean, I like my identity…
Read More

Holmes Would Not Approve

Another fun weekend of home improvement. In order to avoid the massive hype that would surely ensue after the launch of YoBeat, I figured it would be best to just stay home anyway. That and I had a pile of lumber and a bunch of new windows just sitting around. Now if you know me, you may know I am sort of a spazz and patience isn't one of my better qualities. Instead of waiting until I had everything and doing it all at once, I insisted on putting the french doors as soon as we got them a few weeks ago. Apparently this t-111 siding has to lock together…
Read More

Yobeat is Back!

What big news I mentioned? here is the official release: Snowboarding’s original blog, Yobeat.com, relaunched on August 8, 2008 in celebration of its 11th anniversary. Actually the relaunch had nothing to do with the date or the anniversary. That’s just when it was done. Yobeat.com started in 1997, the brainchild of Brooke Geery and Rachel Cotton. Over the past eleven years it has gone through many incarnations, ruffled feathers, been banned from major events and of course, entertained anyone doing a google search for Macho Man Randy Savage or snowboard parks. The original philosophy of Yobeat was to tell it like it is, and that remains unchanged. Sure, not everyone…
Read More

Closer to God

If you've been to my house, then you've no doubt commented on the neighborhood eyesore, a.k.a. the Apostolic Faith church. When I was house shopping, I almost didn't come look at my house. Not because of its proximity to the church, but because it really didn't look like much in the pictures. But I figured why not, and the real estate agent brought me in from the east, so I never laid eyes on the church until after I had already toured my house and decided it was the one. Of course, when I left the house, I made it a point to drive out the opposite direction to check…
Read More

The Future is Now

I am a big fan of making web videos. Not so much of watching them, but I love to make them and post them and then watch the traffic add up. But my issue with Youtube is that whole 100 mb limit. Unless your video is 30 seconds long, it's near impossible to make it look like anything other than crap when you compress it to under 100 mb. And never fail I would export my finished video to find it was 101 mb, meaning I would have to lower the quality even more to get it to load. It was a travesty really. But everything has changed now that…
Read More

Back tracking

 I though this would be a fitting follow up to my last post, filled with useful advice as to how to bolster a career. You see, this is a good example of what NOT to do, but man, it made me laugh so hard. Perhaps I've mentioned the relaunch of YoBeat (ten times.) Well the thing about YoBeat is it is purposely brutal. Snowboarding needs a honest, independent publication, and well, I'm not always known for my positivity. Yobeat is a place to say exactly what I think and feel. As I've gotten older I've mellowed slightly, so sometimes I may try a little too hard to be edgy. Such…
Read More

“Making it”

I don’t know when it happened, but it seems I’ve become one of the people in snowboard “journalism” others look up to. When I was just starting out it was people like Dave England, Dave Carnie and yeah, even Pat Bridges for me. I still have a hard time feeling good about comparing myself to these people (and not just cause I am a girl) but it seems like are some people out there who would. One thing all these guys shared, other than being funny dudes, was that I was a little bit afraid of them. Pat used to invite me to breakfast and I would show up to…
Read More

The Aftermath

How does a bad trip get even worse? When it gets really, really expensive. Around day three things were ok, after all, it was almost over. I thought I might escape from Canada unscathed. The contest had just wrapped up and I was joyfully skipping to my car. Since wakeskaters are all 19 and can't rent cars, a few of them had asked me for a ride back to the hotel. I set my camera bag, tripod and water housing on the ground next to my car so that the teens could put their boards and bags in the trunk first, then sat in the car. I half forgot about…
Read More

Worst Trip Ever?

  I've been on a few bad trips. They all have some things in common, such as limited/poor selection in music, weird foreign places, and a bunch of assholes. I am on another trip that may go down in the anals of my vacation memories, this one to outside Toronto. I am here for a wakeskate contest, where I am pretty much the sole member of the press. Well, there are other people here but no one seems to be working that hard. I've been sitting in the hotel bar (there's no internet in our rooms) for at least six hours. Editing, writing, video, photo, etc. All I've got to…
Read More

Trifecta, Trifecta and more Trifecta

This whole YoBeat thing is sort of inconvenient, since I now have ANOTHER website to update.  But I just trained intern to update, since I am leaving for Canada tomorrow and will be in wakeskate world for the whole week. Hopefully he doesn't blow it and I will be able to delegate more of the updates to him. Either way, I actually put some effort into today's post, about the Oregon Trifecta. Meaning I edited a video. It's not my best work, but it has it's moments. You can check out the whole YoBeat post here. I also did a blog for Fuel.tv which is a lot wordier. You can…
Read More

Bad Internet Day

I was an early adopter of the internet, and like any one who's been around something for awhile, I think it's crazy how much it's changed. But one thing hasn't changed, and that's how much fun it is for some people to be anonymous assholes. I'll admit, I used to try and stir shit up in the Snowboarding Online chat rooms when I was a teen, so I understand exactly what is going through people's heads. For the most part it's harmless, but after all the intern drama on Alliancewakeskate.com, one of my contribs sent me this article and I got a little scared. I mean, I like my identity…
Read More

Holmes Would Not Approve

Another fun weekend of home improvement. In order to avoid the massive hype that would surely ensue after the launch of YoBeat, I figured it would be best to just stay home anyway. That and I had a pile of lumber and a bunch of new windows just sitting around. Now if you know me, you may know I am sort of a spazz and patience isn't one of my better qualities. Instead of waiting until I had everything and doing it all at once, I insisted on putting the french doors as soon as we got them a few weeks ago. Apparently this t-111 siding has to lock together…
Read More

Yobeat is Back!

What big news I mentioned? here is the official release: Snowboarding’s original blog, Yobeat.com, relaunched on August 8, 2008 in celebration of its 11th anniversary. Actually the relaunch had nothing to do with the date or the anniversary. That’s just when it was done. Yobeat.com started in 1997, the brainchild of Brooke Geery and Rachel Cotton. Over the past eleven years it has gone through many incarnations, ruffled feathers, been banned from major events and of course, entertained anyone doing a google search for Macho Man Randy Savage or snowboard parks. The original philosophy of Yobeat was to tell it like it is, and that remains unchanged. Sure, not everyone…
Read More

Closer to God

If you've been to my house, then you've no doubt commented on the neighborhood eyesore, a.k.a. the Apostolic Faith church. When I was house shopping, I almost didn't come look at my house. Not because of its proximity to the church, but because it really didn't look like much in the pictures. But I figured why not, and the real estate agent brought me in from the east, so I never laid eyes on the church until after I had already toured my house and decided it was the one. Of course, when I left the house, I made it a point to drive out the opposite direction to check…
Read More

The Future is Now

I am a big fan of making web videos. Not so much of watching them, but I love to make them and post them and then watch the traffic add up. But my issue with Youtube is that whole 100 mb limit. Unless your video is 30 seconds long, it's near impossible to make it look like anything other than crap when you compress it to under 100 mb. And never fail I would export my finished video to find it was 101 mb, meaning I would have to lower the quality even more to get it to load. It was a travesty really. But everything has changed now that…
Read More

Back tracking

 I though this would be a fitting follow up to my last post, filled with useful advice as to how to bolster a career. You see, this is a good example of what NOT to do, but man, it made me laugh so hard. Perhaps I've mentioned the relaunch of YoBeat (ten times.) Well the thing about YoBeat is it is purposely brutal. Snowboarding needs a honest, independent publication, and well, I'm not always known for my positivity. Yobeat is a place to say exactly what I think and feel. As I've gotten older I've mellowed slightly, so sometimes I may try a little too hard to be edgy. Such…
Read More

“Making it”

I don’t know when it happened, but it seems I’ve become one of the people in snowboard “journalism” others look up to. When I was just starting out it was people like Dave England, Dave Carnie and yeah, even Pat Bridges for me. I still have a hard time feeling good about comparing myself to these people (and not just cause I am a girl) but it seems like are some people out there who would. One thing all these guys shared, other than being funny dudes, was that I was a little bit afraid of them. Pat used to invite me to breakfast and I would show up to…
Read More

The Aftermath

How does a bad trip get even worse? When it gets really, really expensive. Around day three things were ok, after all, it was almost over. I thought I might escape from Canada unscathed. The contest had just wrapped up and I was joyfully skipping to my car. Since wakeskaters are all 19 and can't rent cars, a few of them had asked me for a ride back to the hotel. I set my camera bag, tripod and water housing on the ground next to my car so that the teens could put their boards and bags in the trunk first, then sat in the car. I half forgot about…
Read More

Worst Trip Ever?

  I've been on a few bad trips. They all have some things in common, such as limited/poor selection in music, weird foreign places, and a bunch of assholes. I am on another trip that may go down in the anals of my vacation memories, this one to outside Toronto. I am here for a wakeskate contest, where I am pretty much the sole member of the press. Well, there are other people here but no one seems to be working that hard. I've been sitting in the hotel bar (there's no internet in our rooms) for at least six hours. Editing, writing, video, photo, etc. All I've got to…
Read More

Trifecta, Trifecta and more Trifecta

This whole YoBeat thing is sort of inconvenient, since I now have ANOTHER website to update.  But I just trained intern to update, since I am leaving for Canada tomorrow and will be in wakeskate world for the whole week. Hopefully he doesn't blow it and I will be able to delegate more of the updates to him. Either way, I actually put some effort into today's post, about the Oregon Trifecta. Meaning I edited a video. It's not my best work, but it has it's moments. You can check out the whole YoBeat post here. I also did a blog for Fuel.tv which is a lot wordier. You can…
Read More

Bad Internet Day

I was an early adopter of the internet, and like any one who's been around something for awhile, I think it's crazy how much it's changed. But one thing hasn't changed, and that's how much fun it is for some people to be anonymous assholes. I'll admit, I used to try and stir shit up in the Snowboarding Online chat rooms when I was a teen, so I understand exactly what is going through people's heads. For the most part it's harmless, but after all the intern drama on Alliancewakeskate.com, one of my contribs sent me this article and I got a little scared. I mean, I like my identity…
Read More

Holmes Would Not Approve

Another fun weekend of home improvement. In order to avoid the massive hype that would surely ensue after the launch of YoBeat, I figured it would be best to just stay home anyway. That and I had a pile of lumber and a bunch of new windows just sitting around. Now if you know me, you may know I am sort of a spazz and patience isn't one of my better qualities. Instead of waiting until I had everything and doing it all at once, I insisted on putting the french doors as soon as we got them a few weeks ago. Apparently this t-111 siding has to lock together…
Read More

Yobeat is Back!

What big news I mentioned? here is the official release: Snowboarding’s original blog, Yobeat.com, relaunched on August 8, 2008 in celebration of its 11th anniversary. Actually the relaunch had nothing to do with the date or the anniversary. That’s just when it was done. Yobeat.com started in 1997, the brainchild of Brooke Geery and Rachel Cotton. Over the past eleven years it has gone through many incarnations, ruffled feathers, been banned from major events and of course, entertained anyone doing a google search for Macho Man Randy Savage or snowboard parks. The original philosophy of Yobeat was to tell it like it is, and that remains unchanged. Sure, not everyone…
Read More

Closer to God

If you've been to my house, then you've no doubt commented on the neighborhood eyesore, a.k.a. the Apostolic Faith church. When I was house shopping, I almost didn't come look at my house. Not because of its proximity to the church, but because it really didn't look like much in the pictures. But I figured why not, and the real estate agent brought me in from the east, so I never laid eyes on the church until after I had already toured my house and decided it was the one. Of course, when I left the house, I made it a point to drive out the opposite direction to check…
Read More

The Future is Now

I am a big fan of making web videos. Not so much of watching them, but I love to make them and post them and then watch the traffic add up. But my issue with Youtube is that whole 100 mb limit. Unless your video is 30 seconds long, it's near impossible to make it look like anything other than crap when you compress it to under 100 mb. And never fail I would export my finished video to find it was 101 mb, meaning I would have to lower the quality even more to get it to load. It was a travesty really. But everything has changed now that…
Read More

Back tracking

 I though this would be a fitting follow up to my last post, filled with useful advice as to how to bolster a career. You see, this is a good example of what NOT to do, but man, it made me laugh so hard. Perhaps I've mentioned the relaunch of YoBeat (ten times.) Well the thing about YoBeat is it is purposely brutal. Snowboarding needs a honest, independent publication, and well, I'm not always known for my positivity. Yobeat is a place to say exactly what I think and feel. As I've gotten older I've mellowed slightly, so sometimes I may try a little too hard to be edgy. Such…
Read More

“Making it”

I don’t know when it happened, but it seems I’ve become one of the people in snowboard “journalism” others look up to. When I was just starting out it was people like Dave England, Dave Carnie and yeah, even Pat Bridges for me. I still have a hard time feeling good about comparing myself to these people (and not just cause I am a girl) but it seems like are some people out there who would. One thing all these guys shared, other than being funny dudes, was that I was a little bit afraid of them. Pat used to invite me to breakfast and I would show up to…
Read More

The Aftermath

How does a bad trip get even worse? When it gets really, really expensive. Around day three things were ok, after all, it was almost over. I thought I might escape from Canada unscathed. The contest had just wrapped up and I was joyfully skipping to my car. Since wakeskaters are all 19 and can't rent cars, a few of them had asked me for a ride back to the hotel. I set my camera bag, tripod and water housing on the ground next to my car so that the teens could put their boards and bags in the trunk first, then sat in the car. I half forgot about…
Read More

Worst Trip Ever?

  I've been on a few bad trips. They all have some things in common, such as limited/poor selection in music, weird foreign places, and a bunch of assholes. I am on another trip that may go down in the anals of my vacation memories, this one to outside Toronto. I am here for a wakeskate contest, where I am pretty much the sole member of the press. Well, there are other people here but no one seems to be working that hard. I've been sitting in the hotel bar (there's no internet in our rooms) for at least six hours. Editing, writing, video, photo, etc. All I've got to…
Read More

Trifecta, Trifecta and more Trifecta

This whole YoBeat thing is sort of inconvenient, since I now have ANOTHER website to update.  But I just trained intern to update, since I am leaving for Canada tomorrow and will be in wakeskate world for the whole week. Hopefully he doesn't blow it and I will be able to delegate more of the updates to him. Either way, I actually put some effort into today's post, about the Oregon Trifecta. Meaning I edited a video. It's not my best work, but it has it's moments. You can check out the whole YoBeat post here. I also did a blog for Fuel.tv which is a lot wordier. You can…
Read More

Bad Internet Day

I was an early adopter of the internet, and like any one who's been around something for awhile, I think it's crazy how much it's changed. But one thing hasn't changed, and that's how much fun it is for some people to be anonymous assholes. I'll admit, I used to try and stir shit up in the Snowboarding Online chat rooms when I was a teen, so I understand exactly what is going through people's heads. For the most part it's harmless, but after all the intern drama on Alliancewakeskate.com, one of my contribs sent me this article and I got a little scared. I mean, I like my identity…
Read More

Holmes Would Not Approve

Another fun weekend of home improvement. In order to avoid the massive hype that would surely ensue after the launch of YoBeat, I figured it would be best to just stay home anyway. That and I had a pile of lumber and a bunch of new windows just sitting around. Now if you know me, you may know I am sort of a spazz and patience isn't one of my better qualities. Instead of waiting until I had everything and doing it all at once, I insisted on putting the french doors as soon as we got them a few weeks ago. Apparently this t-111 siding has to lock together…
Read More

Yobeat is Back!

What big news I mentioned? here is the official release: Snowboarding’s original blog, Yobeat.com, relaunched on August 8, 2008 in celebration of its 11th anniversary. Actually the relaunch had nothing to do with the date or the anniversary. That’s just when it was done. Yobeat.com started in 1997, the brainchild of Brooke Geery and Rachel Cotton. Over the past eleven years it has gone through many incarnations, ruffled feathers, been banned from major events and of course, entertained anyone doing a google search for Macho Man Randy Savage or snowboard parks. The original philosophy of Yobeat was to tell it like it is, and that remains unchanged. Sure, not everyone…
Read More

Closer to God

If you've been to my house, then you've no doubt commented on the neighborhood eyesore, a.k.a. the Apostolic Faith church. When I was house shopping, I almost didn't come look at my house. Not because of its proximity to the church, but because it really didn't look like much in the pictures. But I figured why not, and the real estate agent brought me in from the east, so I never laid eyes on the church until after I had already toured my house and decided it was the one. Of course, when I left the house, I made it a point to drive out the opposite direction to check…
Read More

The Future is Now

I am a big fan of making web videos. Not so much of watching them, but I love to make them and post them and then watch the traffic add up. But my issue with Youtube is that whole 100 mb limit. Unless your video is 30 seconds long, it's near impossible to make it look like anything other than crap when you compress it to under 100 mb. And never fail I would export my finished video to find it was 101 mb, meaning I would have to lower the quality even more to get it to load. It was a travesty really. But everything has changed now that…
Read More

Back tracking

 I though this would be a fitting follow up to my last post, filled with useful advice as to how to bolster a career. You see, this is a good example of what NOT to do, but man, it made me laugh so hard. Perhaps I've mentioned the relaunch of YoBeat (ten times.) Well the thing about YoBeat is it is purposely brutal. Snowboarding needs a honest, independent publication, and well, I'm not always known for my positivity. Yobeat is a place to say exactly what I think and feel. As I've gotten older I've mellowed slightly, so sometimes I may try a little too hard to be edgy. Such…
Read More

“Making it”

I don’t know when it happened, but it seems I’ve become one of the people in snowboard “journalism” others look up to. When I was just starting out it was people like Dave England, Dave Carnie and yeah, even Pat Bridges for me. I still have a hard time feeling good about comparing myself to these people (and not just cause I am a girl) but it seems like are some people out there who would. One thing all these guys shared, other than being funny dudes, was that I was a little bit afraid of them. Pat used to invite me to breakfast and I would show up to…
Read More

The Aftermath

How does a bad trip get even worse? When it gets really, really expensive. Around day three things were ok, after all, it was almost over. I thought I might escape from Canada unscathed. The contest had just wrapped up and I was joyfully skipping to my car. Since wakeskaters are all 19 and can't rent cars, a few of them had asked me for a ride back to the hotel. I set my camera bag, tripod and water housing on the ground next to my car so that the teens could put their boards and bags in the trunk first, then sat in the car. I half forgot about…
Read More

Worst Trip Ever?

  I've been on a few bad trips. They all have some things in common, such as limited/poor selection in music, weird foreign places, and a bunch of assholes. I am on another trip that may go down in the anals of my vacation memories, this one to outside Toronto. I am here for a wakeskate contest, where I am pretty much the sole member of the press. Well, there are other people here but no one seems to be working that hard. I've been sitting in the hotel bar (there's no internet in our rooms) for at least six hours. Editing, writing, video, photo, etc. All I've got to…
Read More

Trifecta, Trifecta and more Trifecta

This whole YoBeat thing is sort of inconvenient, since I now have ANOTHER website to update.  But I just trained intern to update, since I am leaving for Canada tomorrow and will be in wakeskate world for the whole week. Hopefully he doesn't blow it and I will be able to delegate more of the updates to him. Either way, I actually put some effort into today's post, about the Oregon Trifecta. Meaning I edited a video. It's not my best work, but it has it's moments. You can check out the whole YoBeat post here. I also did a blog for Fuel.tv which is a lot wordier. You can…
Read More

Bad Internet Day

I was an early adopter of the internet, and like any one who's been around something for awhile, I think it's crazy how much it's changed. But one thing hasn't changed, and that's how much fun it is for some people to be anonymous assholes. I'll admit, I used to try and stir shit up in the Snowboarding Online chat rooms when I was a teen, so I understand exactly what is going through people's heads. For the most part it's harmless, but after all the intern drama on Alliancewakeskate.com, one of my contribs sent me this article and I got a little scared. I mean, I like my identity…
Read More

Holmes Would Not Approve

Another fun weekend of home improvement. In order to avoid the massive hype that would surely ensue after the launch of YoBeat, I figured it would be best to just stay home anyway. That and I had a pile of lumber and a bunch of new windows just sitting around. Now if you know me, you may know I am sort of a spazz and patience isn't one of my better qualities. Instead of waiting until I had everything and doing it all at once, I insisted on putting the french doors as soon as we got them a few weeks ago. Apparently this t-111 siding has to lock together…
Read More

Yobeat is Back!

What big news I mentioned? here is the official release: Snowboarding’s original blog, Yobeat.com, relaunched on August 8, 2008 in celebration of its 11th anniversary. Actually the relaunch had nothing to do with the date or the anniversary. That’s just when it was done. Yobeat.com started in 1997, the brainchild of Brooke Geery and Rachel Cotton. Over the past eleven years it has gone through many incarnations, ruffled feathers, been banned from major events and of course, entertained anyone doing a google search for Macho Man Randy Savage or snowboard parks. The original philosophy of Yobeat was to tell it like it is, and that remains unchanged. Sure, not everyone…
Read More