{"id":72194,"date":"2014-12-30T07:22:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T15:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/?p=72194"},"modified":"2020-11-18T15:34:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T20:34:04","slug":"yobeats-year-in-review-february-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/?p=72194","title":{"rendered":"Yobeat&#8217;s Year in Review: February 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<h1>Archives<\/h1>\t\t<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/yobeatfeb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72202\" src=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/yobeatfeb.jpg\" alt=\"yobeatfeb\" width=\"455\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we learned in<a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/12\/29\/yobeats-year-in-review-january-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\"> January<\/a>, lots of stuff happens every day, all winter long in snowboard world, and February was an especially exciting month because, Olympics! If nothing else, it gave us <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/02\/10\/al-roker-learns-the-lingo\/\" target=\"_blank\">lots of <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/02\/06\/the-getty-guide-to-snowboard-photography\/\" target=\"_blank\">competely absurd things <\/a>to post about as the <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/02\/12\/what-the-real-world-thinks-of-snowboarders\/\" target=\"_blank\">mainstream media picked apart our fair sport<\/a>. Most importantly, this video went viral!<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/85969852\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As for those Olympics&#8230; Everyone hated <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/02\/04\/everyone-hates-the-olympic-slopestyle-course\/\" target=\"_blank\">the slopestyle course<\/a>, but not as much as the halfpipe. It sucked, <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/02\/11\/we-shoulda-boycotted\/\" target=\"_blank\">really bad,<\/a> and we&#8217;re still talking about it. In the end, <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/02\/11\/shaun-white-discusses-blowing-the-big-one\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shaun White disappointed his country<\/a> and Jamie Anderson and Sage Kotsenberg became overnight celebs. Conan even came down with a case of <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/02\/24\/sage-kotsenburgs-super-chill-refi-deals\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sage fever<\/a>\u00a0and ya boi ended up <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/02\/27\/sage-kotsenburgs-wheaties-box\/\" target=\"_blank\">on a Wheaties box<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What else&#8230; Tim Eddy&#8217;s house is <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/02\/03\/take-a-tour-of-tim-eddys-cabin\/\" target=\"_blank\">really fucking cool<\/a>.\u00a0Ski ballet<a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/02\/05\/ski-ballet-the-original-freestyle-skiing\/\" target=\"_blank\"> is amazing<\/a>. Syncronized Snowboard is defintely poised to be a <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/02\/26\/synchronized-snowboarding-at-hunter\/\" target=\"_blank\">new Olympic sport<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/02\/09\/lib-techs-total-coverage-from-the-2014-lbs\/\" target=\"_blank\">legendary Banked Slalom happened<\/a> and while there was snow on the streets in Portland, there was mostly ice on Mt Baker, so we didn&#8217;t make it, but <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/02\/10\/2014-legendary-banked-slalom-official-results\/\" target=\"_blank\">lots of people did<\/a>. Don&#8217;t feel bad for me, I\u00a0got to go<a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/02\/11\/three-days-in-france\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0to France<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan became a &#8220;place to be&#8221; thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/02\/25\/bliss-the-mini-movie\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hawk Island Snowpark<\/a>. \u00a0Kas Lemmens <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/02\/26\/kas-lemmens-half-season-b-edit\/\" target=\"_blank\">became our favorite Euro <\/a>and we decided\u00a0we like <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/02\/12\/freddy-perrys-nordic-hump-day-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Freddy Perry too<\/a>.\u00a0Mark McMorris released\u00a0a <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/02\/10\/mark-mcmorriss-walmart-line-triple-cork\/\" target=\"_blank\">Walmart clothing line.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/02\/19\/big-head-boarding\/\" target=\"_blank\">Big Head Boarding<\/a>\u00a0also went viral!<\/p>\n<p>And the most interesting story of all &#8211; Inside Edition reported that skiers and snowboarders were<a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/02\/19\/stoned-on-the-slopes\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0getting STONED<\/a>, on the slopes! This later lead to the <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/02\/25\/the-explosion-of-leos-smoke-shack\/\" target=\"_blank\">explosion of Leo&#8217;s Smoke Shack<\/a>\u00a0and a pretty <a href=\"https:\/\/yobeat.com\/2014\/03\/04\/drunk-on-the-slopes\/\" target=\"_blank\">epic parody<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/82719383\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/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\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yobeat\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/yobeat\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> and Snapchat (@Yobeat.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snowboarding goes viral, gets stoned and wins gold medals. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2251,2194],"tags":[1586,2484,1401,2485,2486,2450],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72194"}],"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=72194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91537,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72194\/revisions\/91537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}