{"id":72178,"date":"2014-12-29T19:14:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T03:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/?p=72178"},"modified":"2020-11-19T15:51:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T20:51:41","slug":"yobeats-year-in-review-january-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/?p=72178","title":{"rendered":"Yobeat&#8217;s Year in Review &#8211; January 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<h1>Archives<\/h1>\t\t<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/yobeatyear.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72188\" src=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/yobeatyear.jpg\" alt=\"yobeatyear\" width=\"455\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My, my it&#8217;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&#8217;s just us! Anyway&#8230; because we have a very short collective memory and try to stay on the pulse of what&#8217;s happening in the snowboard world, we will of course be using our old posts to\u00a0jog our memory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>January<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/82673543\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We kicked off the year with a Hump Day with <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/01\/01\/a-bonus-hump-day-with-denis-leontyev\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Denis &#8220;Bonus&#8221; Leyontev<\/a>, who is cool, for a Russian. Yobeaters fanned their hate\/love affair with <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/01\/24\/7-rules-to-survival-in-summit-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Summit County<\/a> when a questionable <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/01\/03\/bet-you-cant-keystone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bet You Can&#8217;t<\/a> came out of Keystone. We got to go to Big Sky, Montana for the <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/01\/04\/the-3rd-annual-smash-life-banked-slalom-at-big-sky\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Smash Life banked slalom<\/a>\u00a0where Stan beat me. He would also do the same\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/01\/19\/smash-life-banked-slalom-at-alpental-wa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alpental<\/a>, WA for the second stop,\u00a0and\u00a0win the media pool! BTW &#8211; Smash Life is\u00a0happening again at<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/yobeatdotcom\/photos\/pb.33526891741.-2207520000.1419904149.\/10153013680786742\/?type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Big Sky and Alpental<\/a>\u00a0this year and registration is open!<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/83939658\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The 2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/01\/07\/real-snow-2014-videos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Real Snow videos dropped<\/a>,\u00a0but <em>someone<\/em> would later <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/01\/28\/real-snow-fan-favorite-off-due-to-tampering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rig the vote<\/a>, ruining for everyone. Tim Eddy and Taylor Carlton <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/01\/16\/ultimate-splitboarding-with-tim-eddy-and-taylor-carlton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">went ultimate split boarding<\/a>\u00a0and it was really funny, but not as funny as s<a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/01\/23\/the-ultimate-skier-nut-shot-montage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">kier nut shots<\/a>\u00a0 or the the <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/01\/16\/the-long-long-road-to-sochi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lead up to the Olympics<\/a>. Forest Bailey was crowned <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/01\/17\/2013-yobeat-awards-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yobeat&#8217;s Rider of The Year<\/a>\u00a0by you, the reader. Smokin added <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/01\/20\/smokin-adds-gbp-to-its-family-of-brands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GBP Snowboards<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/01\/20\/smokin-welcomes-nial-romanek\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nial Romanek<\/a> to its program.\u00a0Ashbury tapped the Euro Market with <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/01\/20\/ashbury-welcomes-benny-urban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Benny Urban<\/a>. It was also a big month for snowboot boot brands adding\u00a0team riders.\u00a0ThirtyTwo picked up\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/01\/31\/thirtytwo-welcomes-jeremy-jones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jeremy Jones<\/a> (the other one got silently cut from the big B recently, so no need to specify), Vans kept it core with\u00a0Jake Kuyzk and Celsius grabbed<a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/01\/07\/celsius-welcomes-nick-dirks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Nick Dirks <\/a>(ironically,\u00a0while he was simultaneously getting dropped from K2.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/83007474\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The talks of snowboarding being doomed really kicked\u00a0with <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/01\/30\/snowboarding-still-doomed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this article<\/a>\u00a0on in Outside. Todd Richards bitched out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/01\/06\/todd-richards-vs-bob-costas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bob Costas<\/a>.\u00a0 Shaun White dropped his <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/01\/30\/shaun-white-russia-calling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">self-filmed documentary<\/a>.Strange Brew went to <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/01\/02\/strange-tapes-episode-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trollhaugen<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/01\/27\/strange-tapes-ep-4-yawgoo-valley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yawgoo Valley.<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0I went to <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/01\/28\/so-im-at-ispo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ISPO<\/a>\u00a0(European SIA),which I officially deemed better\u00a0than <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/01\/30\/sia-trade-show-day-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SIA <\/a>(but what isn&#8217;t better in Europe these days?) Yawgoons finally dropped their first edit of the seasonat the end of the month,\u00a0and yep,\u00a0they&#8217;re\u00a0sick.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/85315638\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Seeing as we posted A LOT of shit and I wouldn&#8217;t want any one to have to read anything too long,\u00a0I 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, <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/12\/30\/yobeats-year-in-review-february-2014\/\">here&#8217;s February<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss a damn thing\u00a0-follow us on our\u00a0social networks including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/yobeatdotcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yobeat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/yobeat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a> and Snapchat (@Yobeat.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guaranteed to only jog good memories!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2251,2900,2194],"tags":[2478,2479,2320,2480,2272,2481,2482,2040,2483],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72178"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92030,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72178\/revisions\/92030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}