{"id":14358,"date":"2010-07-22T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yobeat.com\/?p=14358"},"modified":"2020-11-18T15:44:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T20:44:09","slug":"free-sledding-the-next-big-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/?p=14358","title":{"rendered":"Free-Sledding: The Next Big Thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<h1>Archives<\/h1>\t\t<p><object width=\"555\" height=\"380\" data=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13182023&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13182023&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Not so long ago, snowboarding was seen as odd. People would say things such as, &#8220;how do you stop on those things?&#8221; Most other winter sports enthusiasts would ask, &#8220;why wouldn&#8217;t you just ski?&#8221; Fast forward 30 years and snowboarding is so mainstream it may actually be shrinking (have you seen how many free skiers there are these days?) So maybe it&#8217;s time for something new.<\/p>\n<p>Free sledding looks fun and here&#8217;s why: you get to sit down while doing it. Standing up is so much effort. You still get to hit rails and do flips, but from a more relaxing body position. Ok, so that&#8217;s a lie, kneeling like that looks really painful. But you have to hand it to these guys from really going for it (this is their 5th full length video!) With hardcore enthusiasts like this, Free-sledding might just have what it takes to catch on (or at least get big enough to have Todd Richards host an MTV show about it.)<\/p>\n<p>While we&#8217;re thinking about trying new things, turns out the internet is full of sports like this just waiting for someone with money to catch on to and market the hell out of! In fact, here are a couple more Internet-sports we&#8217;re thinking about taking up:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tarp Surfing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/t6-vb20srZI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/t6-vb20srZI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>All the fun of surfing, without the bother of paddling out or getting wet!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Liquid Mountaineering<\/strong>*<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"555\" height=\"320\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Oe3St1GgoHQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Oe3St1GgoHQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>*After a few million views, it turned out this is actually an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialtimes.com\/2010\/05\/liquid-mountaineers-walk-on-water-in-new-hi-tec-viral-video-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\">ad to sell those ugly-ass shoes<\/a>. Probably why it has 5 million plus views. So starting next week, YoBeat will be changing it&#8217;s focus entirely to covering Liquid Mountaineering in hopes of cashing in on the actual next big thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archives Not so long ago, snowboarding was seen as odd. People would say things such as, &#8220;how do you stop on those things?&#8221; Most other winter sports enthusiasts would ask, &#8220;why wouldn&#8217;t you just ski?&#8221; Fast forward 30 years and snowboarding is so mainstream it may actually be shrinking (have you seen how many free skiers there are these days?) So maybe it&#8217;s time for something new. Free sledding looks fun and here&#8217;s why: you get to sit down while doing it. Standing up is so much effort. You still get to hit rails and do flips, but from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2251,2194],"tags":[1729,1730,1731,1732,1733],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91714,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14358\/revisions\/91714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}